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Actually in many cases thats why I love the starter sets of warhammer. The fact that they are monopose and in some cases push-fits means they have more freedom to make cool sculpts, with interesting poses, instead of the multi-plastic kits. (And if you combine both, you end up with more variety, like death guard plague marines)

Thats why I always try to buy all of GW's starters sets, at least once. Is like, all of the infantry grunts are as those monopose plastic HQ's that GW did in the past, as the dark elf sorcerer, etc...

Push fit just means good sculpt engineering. Sadly also means monopose, but push fit makes for a much stronger bond. Plus you can get multiple poses with a bit of trimming and modelling.

How come the Sequitors come as 8 instead of 10? for some reason this bother me alot.

 Chunkychip wrote:
How come the Sequitors come as 8 instead of 10? for some reason this bother me alot.

So they can make you buy the 3 man set they are releasing at the same time. Same for some death units im sure. Unless that's a min squad amount.

I would say think about the first starter set released where there was 3 retrubutors and they sold the pack of 2 guys to make it a full squad but that was when the game was "take whatever no points". They release now that matched play is how they will sell and grow the game so its harder to think they could give you 8 but then have in the gen handbook 2018 the squad is a 10 man. Perhaps its a way to balance the unit? They may be better then the crapo liberators.

str00dles1 wrote:

 Chunkychip wrote:
How come the Sequitors come as 8 instead of 10? for some reason this bother me alot.

So they can make you buy the 3 man set they are releasing at the same time. Same for some death units im sure. Unless that's a min squad amount.

I would say think about the first starter set released where there was 3 retrubutors and they sold the pack of 2 guys to make it a full squad but that was when the game was "take whatever no points". They release now that matched play is how they will sell and grow the game so its harder to think they could give you 8 but then have in the gen handbook 2018 the squad is a 10 man. Perhaps its a way to balance the unit? They may be better then the crapo liberators.

Then we'll prob see a 10man box later on i hope.

Alternate champion/weapon options maybe? 8+3 being 11 and all.

New night haunt stuff looks amazing.

 Chunkychip wrote:
How come the Sequitors come as 8 instead of 10? for some reason this bother me alot.

In fact, the Sequitors come in 2 units :
One with 5 Sequitors with shields, inc. 1 Sequitor-Prime, and another with 3 Sequitors with double-handed weapons, inc. a Sequitor-Prime.

But between the multi part plastic kit (see the "ghostbuster" lantern lady from Warhammer fest) and the easy-to-build kit, I guess we'll be able to create some variations of those units.

I like that the Banshees still have ghost boobs.

Is there only one female Stormcast in the Starter Box? The Lead Casitgator looks like it could be a female but that could just be its angle...

 Popsghostly wrote:
I like that the Banshees still have ghost boobs.

Why wouldn't they have ghost boobs? That's just common sense.

Is there only one female Stormcast in the Starter Box? The Lead Casitgator looks like it could be a female but that could just be its angle...

Pretty sure the lead Castigator is one. I think two of the Sequitors are too (the two with the shields facing the camera - I think it was more obvious in the earlier photos)

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Alternate champion/weapon options maybe? 8+3 being 11 and all.

That goes in line with how they did the Primaris/Death Guard easy to build kits.
The Primaris one gives you another Sergeant and two generic boltgun toting goons...but all of them have scoped rifles, allowing for someone to say that they're running Stalker Bolt-Rifles if they so choose.
The Plague Marine box gives you another Champion, a Boltgun toting goon, and a Grenade Launcher toting goon. Those 3 plus the 3 in Dark Imperium give you 2 units of 5.

It looks like there are two units of Sequitors in there, as I'm seeing two Primes. One is wielding the two handed whatevers while the other is wielding the shield and the one handed weapon. With there being 8 it makes me wonder what the hell the numbers are meant to be?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Alternate champion/weapon options maybe? 8+3 being 11 and all.

That goes in line with how they did the Primaris/Death Guard easy to build kits.
The Primaris one gives you another Sergeant and two generic boltgun toting goons...but all of them have scoped rifles, allowing for someone to say that they're running Stalker Bolt-Rifles if they so choose.
The Plague Marine box gives you another Champion, a Boltgun toting goon, and a Grenade Launcher toting goon. Those 3 plus the 3 in Dark Imperium give you 2 units of 5.

It looks like there are two units of Sequitors in there, as I'm seeing two Primes. One is wielding the two handed whatevers while the other is wielding the shield and the one handed weapon. With there being 8 it makes me wonder what the hell the numbers are meant to be?

The units seem to have two of each pose so I don’t think the numbers mean anything, other than getting a good variety of viableish units from the limited sprue space.

 Popsghostly wrote:
I like that the Banshees still have ghost boobs.

Is there only one female Stormcast in the Starter Box? The Lead Casitgator looks like it could be a female but that could just be its angle...

I didnt even notice thats a cool detail.

 Popsghostly wrote:
I like that the Banshees still have ghost boobs.

Is there only one female Stormcast in the Starter Box? The Lead Casitgator looks like it could be a female but that could just be its angle...

The lead castigator is indeed female as seen in pic related:



Also, two of the sequitors are also female. (the two most to the right)

All I know is that female Stormcast with the mace over her shoulder is going to make a pretty sweet SoB canoness.

Great two more female Stormcasts that I didn’t realize.
Damn the weekend of the 23rd and 24th will be sweet. I’ll have my new AOS starter, the new general’s book and I’ll be seeing Jurassic Park 5. I think I’ll bring my Slann and Old Blood with me to the theater.

Lord Kragan wrote:

 Popsghostly wrote:
I like that the Banshees still have ghost boobs.

Is there only one female Stormcast in the Starter Box? The Lead Casitgator looks like it could be a female but that could just be its angle...

The lead castigator is indeed female as seen in pic related:



Also, two of the sequitors are also female. (the two most to the right)

 Irbis wrote:



First look at new Mortarch?

Yep it's them alright.

 Popsghostly wrote:
Damn the weekend of the 23rd and 24th will be sweet.

It's a two week pre-order. They'll be out on the 30th.

I like the content of the box, the Stormcasts look a bit different and not as samey as the initial ones (when AOS was released), undead are also really nice. I don't mind modern push fit as they are more like nice single pose models (and I prefer those to multi-part models with oddly cramped poses). There are no big monsters, there seem to be rules for different scales of battle, and a magic expansion. AOS—after a few years—actually has me a bit interested even if I know nothing of the lore/world anymore.

I separated the chainrasps to see how the breakup comes up. Looks like 11 designs 9 of which repeat, and 2 of which are unique. (Forgive MP quality editing)

Suppose it doesn't make much of a difference as they are just skulls with capes and smoke. By swapping out weapons and tombstones one can quickly make all of these feel unique.



Really loving the Nighthaunt stuff. This is gonna get me into AOS finally.

I could easily see nighthaunt becoming the most popular non stormcast army in the game. Which makes me not want to play them, despite liking them quite a bit.

I'm still hoping they get real multi part kits, same with the new stormcast chamber. The push fit models are nice but when you expand it's nice to have a kit you can at least personalize to some degree.

Trivial observation, The AoS teaser seems to use Total War: Warhammer music, this one is High Elf flavoured. I've played so much of it that it's going to be a bit embarrassing, if it's not so.

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
I separated the chainrasps to see how the breakup comes up. Looks like 11 designs 9 of which repeat, and 2 of which are unique. (Forgive MP quality editing)

Suppose it doesn't make much of a difference as they are just skulls with capes and smoke. By swapping out weapons and tombstones one can quickly make all of these feel unique.



Really loving the Nighthaunt stuff. This is gonna get me into AOS finally.

Wasn't #10 the wizards, so they'll probably just shown only one 11 but will include 2 of them

 Thargrim wrote:
I could easily see nighthaunt becoming the most popular non stormcast army in the game. Which makes me not want to play them, despite liking them quite a bit.

I'm still hoping they get real multi part kits, same with the new stormcast chamber. The push fit models are nice but when you expand it's nice to have a kit you can at least personalize to some degree.

On Facebook they mentioned, that multipart kits are coming later. I think it's a safe bet to assume they are doing the same as with Dark Imperium. Release starter set, release multi part kits and some easy to build ones.

 Knight wrote:
Trivial observation, The AoS teaser seems to use Total War: Warhammer music, this one is High Elf flavoured. I've played so much of it that it's going to be a bit embarrassing, if it's not so.

Yeah, they tend to use the music from various Warhammer games. They used a lot from the Warhammer 40000 Space Marine game.

Ugggh, they should at least change the Grenade Launcher into something different.

But they definitely get multipart kit, they showed quite a lot of them at WH fest.

I'm hoping there is an option to give the wraiths with the scythes swords instead, we know that's an option for the unit but the starter set could limit that.

I'm all about the banshees, there is something New Londo about them

Oh my Emperor I am so hyped for this and the coming Nighthaunt releases, seem to be getting a lot of goodies.

Absolutely can't wait to see that undead bride looking creature, amazing design.

From that video though, what creature is the Stormcast riding? Is it just that Gryphon thing? The horns and face resemble a goat to me or am I just seeing things? Hopefully that's a new model, wouldn't mind a goat like mount.

Looks like a Demigryph to me. Just with horns for some reason (they could be feather ‘horns’ like a Horned Owl I suppose). Not much goat there.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Oh my Emperor I am so hyped for this and the coming Nighthaunt releases, seem to be getting a lot of goodies.

Absolutely can't wait to see that undead bride looking creature, amazing design.

From that video though, what creature is the Stormcast riding? Is it just that Gryphon thing? The horns and face resemble a goat to me or am I just seeing things? Hopefully that's a new model, wouldn't mind a goat like mount.

GW doesn't make art without models much anymore, the Nighthaunt things on the opposite side are both models so it's very nearly 100% that the griffon thing will be a model.

I think it will probably be a special character on a chimaera style mount, just based on that the new chamber looks woefully short on new models compared to the Nighthaunts (I doubt it would be 3 named characters vs 0)