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2019/03/28 09:22:27
Subject: Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Blades of Khorne/Warcry
1) A shame that Fyreslayers didn't get all new models for their line, but they are getting udpated and are getting some very cool looking spells and a big bit of terrain! I think that they will certainly join Flesh Eater Courts in being a smaller line of models, a shame for fans of the line, but at the same time a new Tome on their own cements them as a secure faction for the future which is good!
2) Warcry getting 9 additional launch factions sounds a lot like they won't get unique models for those lines. It's a LOT of models if GW were to do that. My money is on them either just having rules for regular models or even porting over the Shadspire warteams. The Chaos "Pets" look great!
3) 50 Shades of Grey - well a brand new thing in the GW paint line up? Well if its not the can of Peachy and Duncan I could see GW launching their own air-gun. They did have (might still have one) head of their own but this might be them doing their own formal machine complete with compressor. GW has supported them in the past, but never in a big way, so this could be a turning point (note how in all their tutorials they stuck to brushes, if they added airsprayers that would change things up a lot).
4) Slaanesh - I'm not sure how I feel about the new Keeper. Mostly because of the head being more human and less beastial compared to the old. I'm also curious what other optional parts will appear in the box. The other big chaos lords have quite the variety of heads/weapons/parts so it will be interesting to see what else it comes with. Its looking fantastic and has a great "power" pose coming right at you! The new spells look suitably great.
My one real complaint is the new lord+herald model because my GODS that thing looks fragile as heck in plastic! A multi-headed whip held by a character hanging from spikes on the back of another - that that is going to be one model you wrap in the dark gods own velvet to transport and offer up sacrifices before any trip that it makes it to the end of the trip in one part!
Seeing the new stuff make me wish they'd re-done the deamonettes, but still a fantastic looking update for Slaanesh!
5) Forbidden power was what I expected - its Malign Sorcery 2.0! What I am interested to see is the sheer amount of Tomb King Style teasing going on with it - a boat of the dead; a freaking head of a Pharaoh etc.... It's got a very strong "this is shyesh - this is egyptian" theme going on. Which is curious because every major culture has its own ways to represent the dead worlds so that GW has latched onto that might be them just giving a nod to the past; or maybe its a hint....
Eh, the Keeper of Secrets is salvageable but the head needs to go. Master Blaster is at least unique, but not really my thing. There's no saving the Masque, not in metal, not in plastic. The mirror thing looks reasonable. I hope it's a giant laser cannon. Probably does mortal wounds because why not?
Biggest deal for me is that they showed no mortals. I'm not saying there won't be any, who knows but GW, but that's the one thing I wanted from a Slaanesh release: mortal followers on the fantasy side.
So yeah, I'm bored by this preview. GW doesn't share my idea of hedonism.
Overread wrote: 1) A shame that Fyreslayers didn't get all new models for their line, but they are getting udpated and are getting some very cool looking spells and a big bit of terrain!
SSShhhhh! Invocations! Dorfs don't spell.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
2019/03/28 10:24:49
Subject: Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Blades of Khorne/Warcry
Note that in the video they also show what I assume to be a terrian feature for Slaanesh that they've not photographed and put in the article - the large portal with a head coming through it.
I really like the new Slaanesh things, but I'm still hoping fore MORE! Call it excess, but Slaangors and/or marked marauders would see me getting some, more demons won't. The new demon characters are a vast improvement and the KoS is gorgeous, but tons of regular non-Diaz-Nettes, nah, no need. A fat Doombull, a few shredded strongman/male model-types with mumified or masked faces as 40mm base elite infantry, a sorceror made from liquid gold, insanse things of excess is what Slaanesh needs.
Warcry is still awesome looking and "I told you so" to all the people doubting that we'd see non-Chaos bands (mainly on TGA). I did not expect so many, though, and most probably won't be new models with a crusader/witch hunter/anti-Chaos theme it seems :/ That's what kitbashing is for, though, unless at least the Sigmar-ish glyph is a witch hunter band.
Fyrslyrs, ehh, if only the standard dwarfs were not such bad sculpts outisde of the helmets and weapons. The hideously expensive *and* hideous lumps of plastic vaguely resembling muscles are not very tempting to start. The magma spell will be mine if it's part of a endless spell-like box at the same price, a big fire gribbly is always useful.
PS: row, row, row yer boat
Looking for a Skaven Doomwheel banner to repair my Nurgle knights.
2019/03/28 10:35:28
Subject: Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Blades of Khorne/Warcry
First greater daemon that I've really been impressed with. But I'll echo 'where are the units?' Be they mortal or daemon, a book needs more than characters to fill it out.
Efficiency is the highest virtue.
2019/03/28 10:54:28
Subject: Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Blades of Khorne/Warcry
Binabik15 wrote: Warcry is still awesome looking and "I told you so" to all the people doubting that we'd see non-Chaos bands (mainly on TGA). I did not expect so many, though, and most probably won't be new models with a crusader/witch hunter/anti-Chaos theme it seems :/ That's what kitbashing is for, though, unless at least the Sigmar-ish glyph is a witch hunter band.
It was kind of foreseeable, at least if your outlook is a little gloomy. A focused game like Necromunda or Mordheim is for Specialist Games. GW proper wants to sell as many models to as many people as possible. Too narrow a theme gets in the way of that.
Which I approve of in this case. It's plenty good to get a wider range of Chaos models alone. The focus of the game doesn't specifically have to be about that. There are obviously advantages to a game about Chaos followers vying for the attention of the Chaos Gods, but with Age of Sigmar being such a massive punchfest, I think having other faction meddle in their little competition is just fine.
Voss wrote: First greater daemon that I've really been impressed with. But I'll echo 'where are the units?' Be they mortal or daemon, a book needs more than characters to fill it out.
While I agree, I think I lost hope of GW seeing it like that with the massive cavalcade of characters Death Guard got. I might have let it slide for Age of Sigmar releases since the game and setting were new at the time, but the direction they took 40k at the same time kind of carved it in stone for me. Narrative wise it's all about a set of heroes doing everything everywhere, too. Sign of the times, I guess.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
2019/03/28 12:53:09
Subject: Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Blades of Khorne/Warcry
As a Gloomspite player this is what I'm looking forward to. I'm hoping we see a new plastic Madcap Shaman and a plastic Loonboss on a Giant Cave Squig with this release.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2019/03/28 13:46:31
Subject: Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Blades of Khorne/Warcry
As a Gloomspite player this is what I'm looking forward to. I'm hoping we see a new plastic Madcap Shaman and a plastic Loonboss on a Giant Cave Squig with this release.
That'd be quite nice, as the old boss on squig is fairly...poor
Efficiency is the highest virtue.
2019/03/28 21:00:18
Subject: Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Hedonists of Slaanesh and Warcry
Not a chaos fan( bit tired of the recent deluge of pre-orders and little else ) but the Keeper of Secrets looks a great model to paint. Just wondering how much it might cost...
Casual gaming, mostly solo-coop these days.
2019/03/28 22:10:55
Subject: Re:Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Blades of Khorne/Warcry
Nice to see more stuff for the Fyreslayers, but, I feel like they need more units more than anything. I still think it's silly that the old school slayers can't be in their army list. That, and that the Khadorans can't take the old Gyrocopters. Still, this Forge is pretty amazing.
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I'm not sure what to think of Forbidden Power. Some more endless spells, but most don't look that cool compared to what we've seen so far (I like the boat, and that's about it). There's talk of opening sigmar's chamber, or a Stormvault or something, but I have no clue what that means? I'm not super well versed in the lore of AoS, but I knew Warhammer Fantasy, and 40k pretty well, so I feel like this info should be more obvious to even less committed fans. But, I may have just missed where that became a thing?
Great to see Slaanesh finally coming to the table (and the Keeper in plastic). I really like the look of the endless spells for them. That said... As a long time (we're talking close to 30 years since I bought my first Realm of Chaos Keeper of secrets (it was the Yak head with the eye patch )) collector/player of Slaaneshi Demons, Warriors, and EC space marines, I have to say, I'm not really excited about any of these figures. The Keeper looks nice, but not really very interesting to me. I much prefer Zara, and the Creature Caster Queen of Ecstasy and Pincer Demon. I don't feel like they did it wrong, but, I guess I just don't enjoy the current Slaanesh aesthetic that they use. The Demon Prince is underwhelming, and the new Masque is just... The rest looks fine though, and I like their Terrain piece, but, I doubt I'll get any of it, unless the Keeper has an alt build, or special character build that's just crazy awesome (totally possible!). I'm hoping Sigvaald (sp?) will make it into this edition, since it seems like some of the 'mortal' heroes from each god had made it out of the end times, but we'll see. They could do a pretty wild model of him engorged in his own reflection, which would be fun.
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2019/03/29 03:23:07
Subject: Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Hedonists of Slaanesh and Warcry
The terrain piece irks me in that it is a static structure; so they hauled it out and built it reallyreally fast before the battle? Most structures are 'summoned' but there are an increasing number that are just inexplicably there and it breaks immersion for me.
I'm hoping Warcry is a bit more than Kill Team + Shadespire, and more like N17. Well, N17 without the release schedule that took 2 years to make 6 factions.
Because those kits look way too modular and look like they have a lot of options.
Mob Rule is not a rule.
2019/03/29 05:04:00
Subject: Re:Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Hedonists of Slaanesh and Warcry
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The rest looks fine though, and I like their Terrain piece, but, I doubt I'll get any of it, unless the Keeper has an alt build, or special character build that's just crazy awesome (totally possible!). I'm hoping Sigvaald (sp?) will make it into this edition, since it seems like some of the 'mortal' heroes from each god had made it out of the end times, but we'll see. They could do a pretty wild model of him engorged in his own reflection, which would be fun.
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