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I was hyped for this release, but theyre atrocious. The less said about these abominations the better

MegaDombro wrote:

 Crimson wrote:

MegaDombro wrote:
Wow the new undead army is silly looking. Tomb King got squatted for this?

These look about seven hundred times more interesting than the Tomb Kings.

To each their own. The more recent TK kits like Sphinx and Necropolis Knights had much more fantasy appeal. These are very mundane. If they appeal to you, happy collecting I guess.

I mean, sure I can get everyone liking them, but these look 'mundane' and 'not fantasy' enough for you... Like how the feth? If you disliked them for being too weird and not historically inspired enough I would disagree with you but get it, but mundane...

I was worried for a moment. Worried that I was going to want to add on to my tomb kings.

Having seen those models, I'm giving a hard pass. Those just don't do it for me at all.

Those skeletons look like a hybrid between a sylvaneth and a necron.

And look at the leader. That dude next to him in the black... straight up Trap-Jaw from masters of the universe.

I hate to chime in and just pile on, because, you know, we could just move on with our lives...

but wow, these are maybe the lamest range of models to come out in... I don't even know. Terrible. Not just GW, but of anyone that has ever produced models in the past decade or two

The hardest of passes

shinros wrote:

Eumerin wrote:

shinros wrote:


Yup same here, Asian styled, undead constructs? Sign me right up, also this army is for people who want an elite force from the look of things.

They're not Asian styled. That much is pretty clear now that we can actually see them.

They're not Gothic, which is a welcome change. That was getting tiresome. But they're not Asian-influenced.

Er what? The four-armed constructs with multiple faces? The helms of the riders? The mortarch himself and the attendants? The Mongolian, Samurai and perhaps hindu influences are pretty clear to me. Hell the bloody accent of the Mortarch.

This is an example of Mongolian heavy cavalry.

https://fireforge-games.com/mongol-horde/281-mongol-heavy-cavalry-command.html

Aside from the fact that some of the new miniatures have mounts and swords (that aren't styled the same), I'm not really seeing much of a similarity there. The armor really seems more like "exotic fantasy soldiers from a distant land" style, as opposed to any geographical area that matches up even loosely with the real world.

Hmmm. I feel like I am sensing disappointment that these guys are not the Tomb Kings or Tomb Khans Folks expected. Perhaps there was too much reading into the voice actor’s accent from the “Tithe” videos?

But really looking these guys up and down they MOST fit with NAGASH and the MORGHASTS. I feel like this is the culmination of His sculpt from the End Times.

I'm actually completely indifferent to Tomb Kings.

The models are goofy looking. They're buffed up skeletons with codpieces, pointy hats, and dumb grins. The Mortarch looks like a guy in a green man suit.

It looks like the sculptor took assets from other models, mashed them together, and rounded some edges to make them look "boney"

Cataphract wrote:
Hmmm. I feel like I am sensing disappointment that these guys are not the Tomb Kings or Tomb Khans Folks expected. Perhaps there was too much reading into the voice actor’s accent from the “Tithe” videos?

But really looking these guys up and down they MOST fit with NAGASH and the MORGHASTS. I feel like this is the culmination of His sculpt from the End Times.

Guilty of that, to an extent. In hindsight, knowing these guys were going to be styled after the Morghasts should have tempered my expectations quite heavily, but I suppose I was still hoping for something more akin to Deathrattle getting an expansion like Nighthaunt did. They haven't shown off the full range yet, so there might be a bit more to it that I like.

But that said, the actual sculpts are more the problem than the designs themselves. The way the troops look compared to the black samurai by the Mortarch's side. I don't think any aesthetic would salvage such a goofy appearance, Kings, Khans, or otherwise.

Firmly on the fence with these dudes. I’ll need to see a fun play style or killer rules if I even think about buying into them.

Well, the silver lining with this reveal is that Free Cities, Ogor and the Orruk book are closer!

Eumerin wrote:

shinros wrote:

Eumerin wrote:

shinros wrote:


Yup same here, Asian styled, undead constructs? Sign me right up, also this army is for people who want an elite force from the look of things.

They're not Asian styled. That much is pretty clear now that we can actually see them.

They're not Gothic, which is a welcome change. That was getting tiresome. But they're not Asian-influenced.

Er what? The four-armed constructs with multiple faces? The helms of the riders? The mortarch himself and the attendants? The Mongolian, Samurai and perhaps hindu influences are pretty clear to me. Hell the bloody accent of the Mortarch.

This is an example of Mongolian heavy cavalry.

https://fireforge-games.com/mongol-horde/281-mongol-heavy-cavalry-command.html

Aside from the fact that some of the new miniatures have mounts and swords (that aren't styled the same), I'm not really seeing much of a similarity there. The armor really seems more like "exotic fantasy soldiers from a distant land" style, as opposed to any geographical area that matches up even loosely with the real world.

I think you're reading 'styled or inspired by' as 'specifically patterned after'. These figures definitely have ancient Asian design elements too them. It's not as obvious as the Egyptian look of the Tomb Kings, the Aztec/Inca Look of Lizard men, or the American Civil war look of the Maggotkin , but it's there. The artists definitely were inspired by many different things from ancient culture, and people shouldn't be corrected for seeing that. Maybe they can't articulate specific things to what looks like what real life example, probably because the artists did a good job of blending elements together. I think the days of armies being a full take of ancient cultures are over (or 'LEGENDS', as they seem to want to call it...). Which doesn't bode well for them making more Babylonian themed chaos dwarfs.

I think they're cool. Someone mentioned they are sort of Nagash's take on Stormcast, which is pretty cool. I'm wondering if there's anything else for them that we haven't seen yet?

The finger bone's connected to the hand bone,
The hand bone's connected to the arm bone,
The arm bone's connected to the shoulder bone,
Now shake dem skeleton bones!

Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk around
Dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk around
Dem bones, dem bones, gonna walk around
Now shake dem skeleton bones!


Is all I can think of. What an awful faction design.

So that’s what happens if Tyranids manage to eat Necrons we get Nidcrons.

I’m pretty sure you can see actual nid legs on the catapult they look like a quick c&p job.

I’m having flashbacks to the story about the original Nagash model only we have a whole range this time.

They are the most “special” models GW have released since the pumbagor.

 skullking wrote:

I think you're reading 'styled or inspired by' as 'specifically patterned after'. These figures definitely have ancient Asian design elements too them. It's not as obvious as the Egyptian look of the Tomb Kings, the Aztec/Inca Look of Lizard men, or the American Civil war look of the Maggotkin , but it's there. The artists definitely were inspired by many different things from ancient culture, and people shouldn't be corrected for seeing that. Maybe they can't articulate specific things to what looks like what real life example, probably because the artists did a good job of blending elements together. I think the days of armies being a full take of ancient cultures are over (or 'LEGENDS', as they seem to want to call it...). Which doesn't bode well for them making more Babylonian themed chaos dwarfs.

With one exception, there's nothing there. Best I can figure is that the early mention of "Mongolian" as an inspiration before the unveiling has caused people to see Asian influences in it. But in response to those comments, I posted some Mongolians to show that there was no similarity. If they were influenced, then I'd expect to see some similarities. But there's nothing to work with. For that matter, the big guy in the middle of the platform looks like nothing so much as one of the Dredge characters from The Banner Saga with less clothes. And The Banner Saga wasn't an Asian-influenced game. The shields definitely aren't Mongolian or Chinese (they do look like a design I've seen and can't place, but I'm pretty sure that it's a fictional one). The helmets look like German helmets from World War 2, with impractical ornamentation added in typical GW fashion.

Now as I said, there is an exception. The guy standing on the edge of the platform is holding a sword that could pass for a katana. But that's it.

To be frank, the thing that most comes to mind when I look at the gear on these guys is the Scorpion Harness from Final Fantasy XI. And while that game is made by a Japanese company, the gear was Western in appearance and style (with exceptions for the explicitly Japanese-inspired jobs of Samurai and Ninja).

I'll also note that the more I look at the face of the foot soldier at the bottom of the very first picture, the more I'm reminded of the very very old goofy Chaos Androids that GW had waaaaaaaay back during the Rogue Trader era. I know it's not really a good fit. But I can't shake the image.

Eumerin wrote:

 skullking wrote:

I think you're reading 'styled or inspired by' as 'specifically patterned after'. These figures definitely have ancient Asian design elements too them. It's not as obvious as the Egyptian look of the Tomb Kings, the Aztec/Inca Look of Lizard men, or the American Civil war look of the Maggotkin , but it's there. The artists definitely were inspired by many different things from ancient culture, and people shouldn't be corrected for seeing that. Maybe they can't articulate specific things to what looks like what real life example, probably because the artists did a good job of blending elements together. I think the days of armies being a full take of ancient cultures are over (or 'LEGENDS', as they seem to want to call it...). Which doesn't bode well for them making more Babylonian themed chaos dwarfs.

With one exception, there's nothing there. Best I can figure is that the early mention of "Mongolian" as an inspiration before the unveiling has caused people to see Asian influences in it. But in response to those comments, I posted some Mongolians to show that there was no similarity. If they were influenced, then I'd expect to see some similarities. But there's nothing to work with. For that matter, the big guy in the middle of the platform looks like nothing so much as one of the Dredge characters from The Banner Saga with less clothes. And The Banner Saga wasn't an Asian-influenced game. The shields definitely aren't Mongolian or Chinese (they do look like a design I've seen and can't place, but I'm pretty sure that it's a fictional one). The helmets look like German helmets from World War 2, with impractical ornamentation added in typical GW fashion.

Now as I said, there is an exception. The guy standing on the edge of the platform is holding a sword that could pass for a katana. But that's it.

To be frank, the thing that most comes to mind when I look at the gear on these guys is the Scorpion Harness from Final Fantasy XI. And while that game is made by a Japanese company, the gear was Western in appearance and style (with exceptions for the explicitly Japanese-inspired jobs of Samurai and Ninja).

I'll also note that the more I look at the face of the foot soldier at the bottom of the very first picture, the more I'm reminded of the very very old goofy Chaos Androids that GW had waaaaaaaay back during the Rogue Trader era. I know it's not really a good fit. But I can't shake the image.

The guy with the Katana is very Samurai in general, not just his sword.

Eumerin wrote:

 skullking wrote:

I think you're reading 'styled or inspired by' as 'specifically patterned after'. These figures definitely have ancient Asian design elements too them. It's not as obvious as the Egyptian look of the Tomb Kings, the Aztec/Inca Look of Lizard men, or the American Civil war look of the Maggotkin , but it's there. The artists definitely were inspired by many different things from ancient culture, and people shouldn't be corrected for seeing that. Maybe they can't articulate specific things to what looks like what real life example, probably because the artists did a good job of blending elements together. I think the days of armies being a full take of ancient cultures are over (or 'LEGENDS', as they seem to want to call it...). Which doesn't bode well for them making more Babylonian themed chaos dwarfs.

With one exception, there's nothing there. Best I can figure is that the early mention of "Mongolian" as an inspiration before the unveiling has caused people to see Asian influences in it. But in response to those comments, I posted some Mongolians to show that there was no similarity.

You're right, not Mongolian but clearly more Japanese on the Calvary can't really say anything else is overly Asian outside of the 3 headed design which is a common in various eastern cultures mythology. Skullking is right. GW wants to move away from direct ancient civ copies in their game and come up with things that are more visually unique as they're more copyrightable (duh) but also make them stand out from all the more generic fantasy stuff out there as well as the armies indented to copy old WFB stuff. Pretty much both of those were the big points of AoS reason for existing.

I feel like these painted up to look like they were made of wood might make them really cool. Otherwise I can see a few useful bits and bops here or there for conversions, but not much otherwise that interests me.

SeanDrake wrote:
So that’s what happens if Tyranids manage to eat Necrons we get Nidcrons.

I’m pretty sure you can see actual nid legs on the catapult they look like a quick c&p job.

I’m having flashbacks to the story about the original Nagash model only we have a whole range this time.

They are the most “special” models GW have released since the pumbagor.

Necrons + Nids was eactly what I thought when I saw the reveal.

Now we know why Tyranids avoid Necron Tomb Worlds..............

… Somehow I think I both dislike and like these new models. At the very least, it is an "elite" undead faction.

At the very least these ain't going to replace existing skeletons.

I’m loving them.

Some cues taken from Tomb Kings, and I love the concept of a Construct Army.

The overall aesthetic screams Harryhausen to me, and I really like that.

More to be shown off as well, but as to what and when? They didn’t say.

Sotahullu wrote:
… Somehow I think I both dislike and like these new models.

I find myself being of the exact same mind. It's quite perplexing.

My dislike for them outweighs my liking though and I can't see myself collecting them.

Love the catapult. Thankfully don't like the rest. Should be safe until they reimagine Tyrion and Teclis' forces.

Had expected.. better.
Skeletons enclosed in bone-armour that's not really made from individual bones, but a bone-type material?
Skulls that look angry...
And I really don't even want to imagine how Katakros is a sensible, practical model with a pricetag any mortal will be willing to spend.
Ah well. All money that can be spent on other things instead. Preciously little of which is produced under the AoS banner...
Poor Tomb Kings. To be replaced by this. Even with a unit called Necropolis Stalkers. Just waiting for Sepulchral Knights now.

Ok, aside from the guy on the left here. He's looking good. Shame the rest of the range doesn't match.
It's not that I wanted or expected them all to be undead samurai, it's just that that's a design that works so much better than what they've gone for.

Love em, don't like the paint scheme. Samurai dude has a nice scheme.

I guess there are "fine" but nothing exciting. Literally bone versions of stormcast eternals in both fluff and sculpts.

4 armed dudes look like the first plastic Tyranid Warriors.

Nope. I'm not feeling theses. They look like the should be descending Snake Mountain to attack Castle Grayskull. It might just be the color palette though. They look very 1980's Saturday morning cartoons to me.

Solid yuck. These guys look goofy as hell. A poster in another thread (Stonehorse?) said they reminded him He-man and now all I can think of is Skeletor when I look at them......they are that silly. They look like they belong in Mummies Alive! not AoS.

Which is a shame, as I was expecting some awesome skeletons with a unique aesthetic and bone constructs that are actually made of bones......not chitin posing as bones? Or some bone composite that isn't actually a bone?

A shame because a few parts of the range show promise (The Samurai is first that comes to mind).

At least GW tried something unique?

I like them. They went for something more interesting than just more reanimated skellies, and while some of it, like the heads on the basic troops,look a little goofy, so does any skeleton head, they can't help smiling.

Anyway, looking forward to these, unless they play like pants ofc.

Love the catapult and the Mortarch - although I would agree it would be cool for the courtiers to be able to used on their own - but it does not look like they have bases.....

I do quite like Nagash's Stormcast.

Interested to read how the other Mortarchs react to them......

Having spent a few hundred on the recentnot tomb kings kickstarter - these should mix nicely (and the latter are good proxies for those who don;t like 'em )

An absolute load of absolute trash.
Absolutely.
No need to say more as it's already been said.
Complete fail.

Given how much hype GW tried to put into their release, this whole reveal feels very underwhelming. I wasn't expecting Tomb Kings - anyone who was is just delusional - but I wasn't expecting this either.

Not impressed.