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$30 per box. They're sticking with the pricing, at least for Shadespire.

Chopxsticks wrote:
Have the prices been leaked? Generally the box's have been $30, but with the price hike of the Malignant Portents its a little worrisome.

MP has had no price hike. It's just GW being as erratic as always.

Everything cept the Skaven dice is great. I was hoping for warpstone or anything but semi transparent turd dice. I'd rather buy spare white and black dice than those. I know they are going for a less distinct style than the more custom necromunda dice but...meh.

I believe the skaven team sold out on the NZ site so hopefully that is an indication that the game is doing okay.

Yeah, unfortunately Orcs stole the Skaven’s typical translucent green dice color this time around.

Cool models but those skaven paintjobs are horrid. Did the GW painters forget what Skaven actually are? Human flesh colored with basically no fur?

They literally have a Skaven art book to base their paint schemes off of. They're the same color as the dwarves! Maybe this is yet another fluff rewrite.

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 Kirasu wrote:
Cool models but those skaven paintjobs are horrid. Did the GW painters forget what Skaven actually are? Human flesh colored with basically no fur?

The minis seem to be same colour as your art picture, so... Where is the problem, again?

Only different is new rat have more exposed skin than the other.

Yeah, I went back and checked, and while I like the furry rat art, all the last models were actually bare so it's not like this gang started the trend:

 Irbis wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Cool models but those skaven paintjobs are horrid. Did the GW painters forget what Skaven actually are? Human flesh colored with basically no fur?

The minis seem to be same colour as your art picture, so... Where is the problem, again?

I think it might be because of the more flesh and less fur on the models themselves, they look a bit more naked mole rat.

Just because the fur isn't sculpted on doesn't mean it can't be painted on, though. The way they're sculpted you could paint them darker and it would still make sense, as if most of the hair on their body is fine, but you see larger, rough patches on their arms, legs, etc. (the actual sculpted-on bits).

These could be mangy and diseased specimen.

 BrookM wrote:
These could be mangy and diseased specimen.

Or naked mole rats

 Irbis wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Cool models but those skaven paintjobs are horrid. Did the GW painters forget what Skaven actually are? Human flesh colored with basically no fur?

The minis seem to be same colour as your art picture, so... Where is the problem, again?

Actually in the art only the face and hands/feet are flesh. The rest is fur brown.

 Irbis wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
Cool models but those skaven paintjobs are horrid. Did the GW painters forget what Skaven actually are? Human flesh colored with basically no fur?

The minis seem to be same colour as your art picture, so... Where is the problem, again?

You have a strange of using your eyes to view that piece of art.. There is a ton of fur except on the snout and some parts of the extremities. Skaven have only been naked mole rats lately, and the blood bowl team is perfectly in line with this apparent change in model look (which IMO is terrible.. luckily you can paint them correctly to avoid this!)

Paint job was following what depicted in the concept art. It is also not a new direction for Skaven or anything, since they was depict as both furry and naked molerat for a long time. God forbid some fantasy Rats having some variety.

Yeah they are rats who have technically almost have became people. Humans used to be hairy apes once, not as much anymore. Skaven-Rats, Humans-Apes, see the comparison.

Dakka can always find something to piss and moan about

 Kirasu wrote:
You have a strange of using your eyes to view that piece of art..

Is this supposed to be a coherent sentence?

Also, if it says what I think it is trying to, I like how you failed to read my next post directly underneath the one you replied to that addressed it already. Strange way, you say?

 Kirasu wrote:
Skaven have only been naked mole rats lately, and the blood bowl team is perfectly in line with this apparent change in model look

Except the two character models I linked are much older than BB team (predating whole Age of Sigmar and 8th edition of WF in fact) so it's not even remotely 'lately'. Yes, it's not looking that good but as Sidstyler said nothing stops people from painting them like old art so I still don't see the issue.

https://warhammerunderworlds.com/warbands/

and

https://warhammerunderworlds.com/card-library/

updated

with painting Vid, oops, look like they was unavailable.

Some card was in Spanish, for some reason.

Card database is still a bit wonky (For the Ur-Gold is in French, Fractured Shield shows the art for Fractured Key), but already going through to look at updates for my tourney decks!

Ohh that's very useful for quotes and such - thanks

Personally I'm hyped for Spiteclaw and his abillity outside of Shadespire aswell.

I think his little swarm can be a nice little bit of chaf. Besides that he's a normall warlord with Gnash-Gnaw on their bones to ad +1 attack to all models in a single Verminus unit.

It gives me enough reason to use him in AOS and learn Shadespire aswell! Yes-Yes!

I have to say, the molded bases provided with each of the warbands are great, but the new skaven ones are superbly detailed - here's hoping GW re-tool them slightly (to remove the unique model slots) and releaese a full set!

Clockpunk wrote:
I have to say, the molded bases provided with each of the warbands are great, but the new skaven ones are superbly detailed - here's hoping GW re-tool them slightly (to remove the unique model slots) and releaese a full set!

I agree completely. The rats running along under the sewer grate look awesome.
By the way, the Chosen axes were the first GW minis designed by Joe Tomaszewski of eavy metal fame. He joined the design team three years ago which shows how far ahead these guys are working and how long the training process is.

Chikout wrote:

Clockpunk wrote:
I have to say, the molded bases provided with each of the warbands are great, but the new skaven ones are superbly detailed - here's hoping GW re-tool them slightly (to remove the unique model slots) and releaese a full set!

I agree completely. The rats running along under the sewer grate look awesome.
By the way, the Chosen axes were the first GW minis designed by Joe Tomaszewski of eavy metal fame. He joined the design team three years ago which shows how far ahead these guys are working and how long the training process is.

6-12 months to hone the house style then another couple to produce the warband sounds about right actually. We already know that the minis generally come before the rules and that they aren’t necessarily released in the order they were sculpted.

And we know the miniatures were finished before Shadespire as a game concept even existed.

Given the other recent attempts by FW/GW at fur It's probably both a good job and the reason skaven are now all naked mole rats.

Either they cannot cast it or they have nobody who can sculpt it but I guess it keeps the PITA loons off there backs

SeanDrake wrote:
Given the other recent attempts by FW/GW at fur It's probably both a good job and the reason skaven are now all naked mole rats.

Either they cannot cast it or they have nobody who can sculpt it but I guess it keeps the PITA loons off there backs

Fur definitely doesn’t work well with the limitations of hips. It needs deeper lines and undercuts to look soft and less Spidey.

Vorian wrote:
And we know the miniatures were finished before Shadespire as a game concept even existed.

This is why the miniatures bases don't match up as well, (stormcast ones have vines and leaves...in shadespire..what?) And the Skaven have sewer themed bases. Their bases are not themed around the actual Shadespire tiles.