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 AegisGrimm wrote:
Much like if I had a Fyreslayer army, if I got these guys I would definitely have the overwhelming urge both to paint some different colors of hair, and some darker brown skin tones on a couple of them. Otherwise it ends up looking like an army/warband made of clones.

I could see that with the regular fyreslayers but I'm really struggling to see the issue with this warband. Each of them has a different pose. They each have different crest on their helmets. The runes on all of them are different and in different places. They all have different bracelets on their wrists. The weapons are all different with different decorations on the blades and different handles (one is studded for example).
They all have similar hair crests and they are all naked dwarves but that is what makes them fyreslayers.

I think doing one of the dual axe guys in a darker skin tone is the easiest solution.

I did the with the Marauders to help differentiate them.

Chikout wrote:

I could see that with the regular fyreslayers but I'm really struggling to see the issue with this warband. Each of them has a different pose. They each have different crest on their helmets. The runes on all of them are different and in different places. They all have different bracelets on their wrists. The weapons are all different with different decorations on the blades and different handles (one is studded for example).
They all have similar hair crests and they are all naked dwarves but that is what makes them fyreslayers.

Normal Vulkite Dorf have all of that too : rune on torso, bracelet, choice of loincloth, choice of head, weapons bits are all different, even the supposely "mirror CAD" dorf have different Axe and bracelet on left and right hand. different rune on left and right torso side.

Yeah, I'm not seeing any issue with these personally... I was hesitant about the larger fyreslayer units in AoS but love these

*Shrugs*

I just like more variation in my warbands, especially the lower the model count goes. It's why my skirmish warband of Stormcast all have bare heads where I tried to tie their poses to the expression on the head, so they all look more like individuals, even the basic Liberators. I always thought all that skin on Fyreslayers would be great to showcase a variety of skin tones.

I've seen a lot of folks use skin tone variation in painting the Reavers too, and I think it looks awesome

About as varied as the Ork crew if you replace one of the dual axe guys with dual picks.
Looking forward to their release I'm guessing they'll be searching for UrGold and have objective bases inspiration.

GW really needs to expand the Fireslayer aesthetic and make them much more individual. Just look at the Bloodreavers warband, or even the Skavens, Skeletons or Stormcast! They all feel as individuals, but when you see Fyreslayer they are all naked dwarfs with runes and crazy helmets.

I think they look good they just need a spot color like sotek green or a teal/blue/green. Or even do an Eldar esque multi color stripe pattern on the mohawks.

Now that i've seen the daughters of khaine serpent women I can't help but hope they do a kit of those for Shadespire too. Hopefully the success of the game has allowed them to maybe consider adding in 2-4 more teams past the Stormcast vanguards/reavers. I'm still annoyed they are double dipping on the most generic two factions but if the models are good then it will be okay.

 Thargrim wrote:
I think they look good they just need a spot color like sotek green or a teal/blue/green. Or even do an Eldar esque multi color stripe pattern on the mohawks.

Now that i've seen the daughters of khaine serpent women I can't help but hope they do a kit of those for Shadespire too. Hopefully the success of the game has allowed them to maybe consider adding in 2-4 more teams past the Stormcast vanguards/reavers. I'm still annoyed they are double dipping on the most generic two factions but if the models are good then it will be okay.

We can’t say for sure but I think the name “Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire” tips us off that they wish to expand the game with more “Underworlds”, so to speak. WU: Deepgrove for a new era in Realm of Life, WU: Hammerhal etc.

SKR.HH wrote:


Leader is great... A bit unhappy about the two fireslayers with two axes each... Not that easy to dinstinguish...

those dwarves are dope. Sad that the main fyreslayers kit is so horrible, cause they have the potential to be a cool army

So we've got leaks from the WD of january:




Pre orders are up on 10th of februrary

Curious that necromunda and shadespire are both preorders 10 of february.

this leaves two weeks off February that we do not know for sure what's coming

Cool! So the Skaven have a mechanic akin to the Skellies that let's the leader bring back a model that has died previously, though in his case only the pawns. Curious to see how that works out if each of them is so weak.

I'm liking the dwarfs a whole lot more from this angle, and their inspire condition is pretty neat, I think.

Sacrificial pawn and the no-cost ploy card can be trolltastic. Just imagine having those two, daylight robbery, the resurrection card and the dyingblow upgrade for sepulchral guard in the first turn.


"Oh so you charged and killed the champion while taking two damage? Not bad, I gain a glory point. Also, nice glory point there, let me get it. Oh, I'm bringing him back and you're dead now. What's that? 3-0 in a single combat? not bad!"

Oh yeah, it's super unlikely to happen but it's fine, just for that once in a blue moon.

Leaders:

5 move and range 2 is actually pretty good. No dice roll inspire condition is always welcome.

Chopstick wrote:
5 move and range 2 is actually pretty good. No dice roll inspire condition is always welcome.

If he gets dmg 3 as inspired I can easily see him doing some very nasty things turn 1.

Lord Kragan wrote:
So we've got leaks from the WD of january:
[img]http://i.4cdn.org/tg/1517311297278.jpg[/ig]

[img]http://i.4cdn.org/tg/1517311359786.jpg[/g]

Pre orders are up on 10th of februrary

These are not leaks, the issue has already arrived for subscribers

"Place a fighter that was taken out of action on any starting hex."

Hey Orruk player, I see you killed a Clanrat. I guess he'll be on your backfield right next to that Objective you tried to hide from me. Thanks!

Clanrats better be like 1 Wound with garbage attacks for that sort of ability to be in the game. It's gonna be so good.

Action economy is a thing. Spend all your time bringing back rats and you're not going to actually do anything with them.

 LunarSol wrote:
Action economy is a thing. Spend all your time bringing back rats and you're not going to actually do anything with them.

You don't really have to do it more than once, especially if they have an equivalent card to Restless Dead. One risen Clanrat in the back of your opponent's board after they've moved forward will split their forces and make them easier to deal with using the named characters (assuming Krrk is decent and Inspired Spiteclaw has a good attack. You don't need more than 1-2 rezzes to efficiently "swarm" the board, especially against a really low count/low move warband like Stormcast or Fyreslayers.

That seems pretty speculative, Requizen. Thus far, the warbands have been very well balanced, so I'm willing to give GW the benefit of the doubt and wait until we see the cards for the other rats.

I predict Skaven will be the hardest team to play in the game, Great speed, high risk, high reward

 EnTyme wrote:
That seems pretty speculative, Requizen. Thus far, the warbands have been very well balanced, so I'm willing to give GW the benefit of the doubt and wait until we see the cards for the other rats.

Oh, I'm not trying to say they'll be overpowered or anything, only that I expect them to dissuade the sort of "fight in the middle" games that you see out of Orruk or SCE players a lot of times. With speed and rez, they'll play very differently than any other Warband so far, is all.

What about the dwarf stats?

Movement 2 has me scratching my head... I know they're dwarfs, but how are they going to get anywhere? Maybe they become Movement 3 when Inspired?

They'll make you come to them by being based around objectives I guess

The Latchkey Grandaxe only have range 1 despite being very long. Fyreslayer basicly got free inspire which complement their defensive style and is much better than dice-roll inspire condition from SC team.

Just notice that The Rat got inspired from enemy ploy that target them, this will be very annoying.

Chopstick wrote:
The Latchkey Grandaxe only have range 1 despite being very long. Fyreslayer basicly got free inspire which complement their defensive style and is much better than dice-roll inspire condition from SC team.

Just notice that The Rat got inspired from enemy ploy that target them, this will be very annoying.

Its any player

this should be interesting.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/02/04/next-weeks-pre-orders-bold-warriors-dark-cities/

Pre-order next week,