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The weird thing is that here the Hardcopy is $55 AUD while the Digital is $19.99 AUD.

Also what size bases do people think the SC! Slaanesh Seekers are on? Been waiting for this box to come out so I can rebase mine with the appropriate sized base rather than have them on the old, ugly (imo) Bike bases,

Seekers come on the smallest oval cavalry bases, this is what the recasted juan diaz seekers came on. Edit: Exalted seeker chariot was never worth bying over 2 regular chariots same price but you got a free extra large oval base with the 2 chariots.

Cool, thanks! I thought that might be the case but wasn't entirely sure enough.

Bought the Fyreslayer box straight away. Price point is crazy - from Firestorm with the Heelan coupon I got it down to £40.16 with free shipping.

Cannot wait. I'll now have a mini Fyreslayer detachment in my army - 20 Vulkites, Runefather on Magma Droth, Runeson, Runesmiter, Doom Seeker, and a Runemaster.

Oh yeah! 8-)

Shocked they actually dropped the price of the model too. Either way though I can see 3 of those boxes in my future. Now if they'd only rebox the elites to reasonable prices.

Yup, now that one box in the range is reasonably priced I have some stuff to add to my WHQ characters

 Hulksmash wrote:
Shocked they actually dropped the price of the model too. Either way though I can see 3 of those boxes in my future. Now if they'd only rebox the elites to reasonable prices.

Is the first time in GW history that the price of a model has been lowered (if I recall correctly) without being a rebox that goes up in box price but lower the price per model one. People isn't paying enough attention to this historical moment!

I wonder if the Fyreslayers tome will get a re-release in near future, or if their army rules and artifacts will just be in GHB2.

 EnTyme wrote:
I wonder if the Fyreslayers tome will get a re-release in near future, or if their army rules and artifacts will just be in GHB2.

We already know from Warhammer Community that the General's Handbook 2017 will have Allegiance Abilities for the Fyreslayers. I'll go out on a ledge and say it will have Artefacts as well.

CMLR wrote:
It does, but it doesn't say anything about being able to split the Exalted Chariot. I hope it does, given that the Seekers of Slaanesh are featured on oval bases instead insted of biker bases.

It'd like to point out that the Slaaneshi chariots pages and descriptions are better in the 40K catalog than the AoS ones. The Exalted Chariot, according to the 40K description, was meant to be available until the stock lasted, so did the Exalted Chariot sold poorly?

Why would it sell? For one, no boobies on the Daemonettes. The unit's rules weren't exactly fantastic in the past, neither in 40k nor Fantasy. Can't say about 8th ed or Age of Sigmar. Also, the army it went into, Daemons of Slaanesh, was similarly unimpressive in the rules department. Why play Slaanesh if you can have Tzeentch or Nurgle? Lastly, transporting Slaanesh stuff is bad enough, but when you add whips like that it becomes a nightmare. Who wants that?

Oh, I thought of another one. Slaanesh is the only god who does not have a new plastic greater daemon (let's assume Glottkin is a good enough stand-in for Nurgle). Sure you could use the big moo cow Beastmen have, but that's a pretty far cry from the rest of the army's style and only has the cow head and four arms going for it. Daemon Princes are similarly hard to come by. So the model situation for Slaanesh is not a positive contribution either.

Background wise, at least in Age of Sigmar, there's not much in the way of appeal because while the other gods get things done, Slaanesh is getting it on in Tyrion's torture cellar. As a fun scenario or campaign, I could see the appeal of the adult version of Finding Nemo, but as the one and only army theme you have? It lacks the agenda other gods have.

New, pretty mortal Slaanesh units are not easy to come by either. So not much appeal to a combined mortal(daemon force.

I don't think Slaanesh is faring any better in 40k either. Without Hellstriders, Slaanesh doesn't have any modern mortal models at all.

Honestly I see no reason why that kit should have sold well, ever. Now I know they sold at least one of them ( ) but even then I got mine more because I figured those would make cool destroyer blade for a Rhino than making the kit into what it's supposed to be.

 Galas wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
Shocked they actually dropped the price of the model too. Either way though I can see 3 of those boxes in my future. Now if they'd only rebox the elites to reasonable prices.

Is the first time in GW history that the price of a model has been lowered (if I recall correctly) without being a rebox that goes up in box price but lower the price per model one. People isn't paying enough attention to this historical moment!

I'm not shy to criticize GW if they deserve it, but it is pretty damning praise to note the historical nature of GW realizing paying 20€ more for the privilege of getting the Magmadroth without the extra dwarves in the start collecting box.

Just saying.

The chariot discussion is moot since it's based on the blind assumption that the exalted chariot is a separate kit. It isn't.

What's moot about wondering whether two oval bases are supplied to build the other assembly options?

When that chariot kit came out, Slaanesh had more plastic unit options than every other chaos god, since he and khorne got updated first. The reason the exalted kit sells badly is because 2 regular chariot kits are the exact same price except you get an extra large oval base.

2012 (Daemon 5th edition rules pamphlet) From memory could be wrong.

Khorne - Bloodletters, Bloodcrushers (2 kits)
Tzeentch - Flamers, Screamers (2 kits)
Nurgle - Plaguebearers, Nurglings (2 kits)
Slaanesh - Daemonettes, Seekers, Seeker chariots, Exalted Seeker chariot, Hellflayer (3 kits)

I just wanted a Magmadroth for painting purposes, but was unwilling to drop that money on a single model that's just going to live on my shelf.

Until now...

So for some reason they say you can only use the SC: Daemons of slaanesh in AoS.

Anybody else find that strange?

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
So for some reason they say you can only use the SC: Daemons of slaanesh in AoS.

Anybody else find that strange?

No?

The Start Collecting sets come with formations.
8th edition 40k has no formations.

 NivlacSupreme wrote:
So for some reason they say you can only use the SC: Daemons of slaanesh in AoS.

Anybody else find that strange?

The same was true for the Khorne and Nurgle Daemon sets because they were shipped with Battalion Scrolls rather than a Formation scroll.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Edit: I'm so used to calling the hellflayer a hellmower I typed that without thinking...

Fluff-wise Hellflayer is a typo for Hellmower.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
The new start collectings are up on the NZ site. And the Fyrelsayers one is exactly as thought. Be picking up two or three of those i believe. Kind of amusing seeing the Magmadroth listed at the same price directly below it. No one's ever buying that seperately again.

It was not believed then, it was leaked. And 4 might be the number if you want to run a Grand Fyrd, since it will allow you to bring all those Magmadroths (and at min size it costs something around 2540-2560 points).

And literally no one will buy them individually ever again. They are now SC! exclusives.

You can't buy them individually anymore, if you buy the individual entry they will send you the SC box.

 Mymearan wrote:
You can't buy them individually anymore, if you buy the individual entry they will send you the SC box.

Uhh, what? I just did that and nothing special happened.

The description for the Magmadroth in the web store says if you buy the kit, they will send you the start collecting box instead.

Well done, GW. Your own models are now to expensive for your own models...

Gimme a similarly priced skirmish box, and I'm game. I want some Fyrelayers, but my full army days are over for a while, with kids and a new house.

Path to Glory is a bit more than a start collecting box. Think of it as filling the 500-1000 point army size, bringing players up to the level where they can play AoS proper.

I wonder what that means...?

Could be a tie-in novel or maybe some sort of expansion pack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBHOmZRwYz4

So this is amazing.

 Not-not-kenny wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBHOmZRwYz4

So this is amazing.

the video is realy cool and we finaly have some more information on when the ghb arrives

Ally rules! Oh ma lawd. Finally!

Come on Azyrheim Ogors! Death Knight Chaos lords for Death! Spirits of light fighting for Sigmar. Bring on the Tzeentch corrupted Sylvaneth.

Really hope there are a lot of possibilities.

This video speaks to me.