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This is probably why the "squated" the High Elves with the release of the Cities of Sigmar book, the models were essentially being redone.

Infantry, cav, and Witch King Eltharion look great. The weird grafting of Teclis onto the sphinx is poor. Feels like after both models were designed, the sculptor was told to put the two together.

Given that is only two units and two characters, expect more in the near future. Tyrion is supposed to around also, but they haven't shown any hint of him. The new fluff had it he is blind, but can see through Teclis' eyes. He might be the sphinx.

Those Aelves are fantastic.

Eltharion is amazing.

Not sold on Teclis and his lil doggo/cat/bird.

 silent25 wrote:
This is probably why the "squated" the High Elves with the release of the Cities of Sigmar book, the models were essentially being redone.

Infantry, cav, and Witch King Eltharion look great. The weird grafting of Teclis onto the sphinx is poor. Feels like after both models were designed, the sculptor was told to put the two together.

Given that is only two units and two characters, expect more in the near future. Tyrion is supposed to around also, but they haven't shown any hint of him. The new fluff had it he is blind, but can see through Teclis' eyes. He might be the sphinx.

The 'sphinx' is named, and is apparently the Spirit of Hysh. Whatever. The rest of the release is amazing (bar the names), but yeah, pass on ridiculously constipated special character and his flying V jump off the wing of a masked cat-bird.

Roll on, Pointy Elf Wardens, Dawnriders and Ghost armor!


Edit: though some of the horses look a little off and stiff. Freeze-frame modeling of running horses always looks a little odd.

Interestingly, the Warden shields remind me more of classic dark elf shield than high elf shields.

I’m a bit disappointed it seems there won’t be any new Seraphon models. That cover art is excellent though.

 nels1031 wrote:
Those Aelves are fantastic.

Eltharion is amazing.

Not sold on Teclis and his lil doggo/cat/bird.

I'm actually warming up to Teclis as I look at him more. (Rewatching the video)

I do think the body and limbs of the sphinx are well done. Its just thrown off by the floating necklace, the mask (mostly the horns) and teclis. By itself it would be a nice kit.

shinros wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Those Aelves are fantastic.

Eltharion is amazing.

Not sold on Teclis and his lil doggo/cat/bird.

I'm actually warming up to Teclis as I look at him more. (Rewatching the video)

Yeah, the closeup of him in the video is much better.

no new dinos it sounds like :(

love the hollow armour

Sanjay

Oh also in the Zoat video they name dropped the Sons of Behemat.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Oh also in the Zoat video they name dropped the Sons of Behemat.

That's a myth!

The lack of parachute pants hurts.
Hoping there are other units not shown & spells.

Where’s tyrion? Wish he was thing winged beast for lulz

Tyrion will appear with his angelic host at some point.

Not pointy enough.

The infantry and cavalry look pretty nice. I can see myself snatching those riders up as a proxy for Silver helms, if they don't turn out too big.

Eltharion is ok, but not great IMO.

Teclis is just weird. The Sphynx is nice and all, but they really should be detached from eachother. The pose in his artwork would have been much more interesting as well. Let's see what else they have in store ...

Would love to see classic Dwarfs reimagined in a similar fashion to these Elves.

I don't think those are gonna rank up on 20mm square bases :(

Horses might work for Silver Helms on regular 25x50mm bases, possibly. They look REALLY similar to the old Confrontation Lions of Allahan cavalry

Eltharion is awesome. I kinda want to pull apart some cotton balls and make whispy smoke coming out of the empty armor to form the ghost limbs, maybe use some bright teal & blue cotton to make it look like arcane energy binding the armor together

Wow ... Tyrion and Teclis brought me to the world of Warhammer over 20 years ago. But boy is this new Teclis model underwhelming. All my fears also adding some fantasy stuff on my paintlist have disappeared after this reveal. Eltharion is a cool idea but is not convincing me either.

While I'm not a fan of Teclis, I don't think he's that bad. The picture makes it worse than the 360° shot in the video.

I honestly think a lot if not all the "big hero centerpieces" GW did in the last few years were horrible, maybe with the exception of the avatar of Mathlann for Idoneth. This one is no exception, dumb pose, impossible to transport, and Teclis himself looks like he needs some laxatives. Everything else in the range seems great, he looks like they handed him to a trainee.

Could have just go with the pose in the concept art...


"Hey look! He's doing the "praise the sun" pose! lolol le epic meme GW!"

Also that monster is probably of the most boring and unoriginal thing I have ever seen, look like some scuffed Kingdom Death monster.

I was kind of relieved that I didn't care for any of these new aelves. The helmets look a bit too spartan esque, a kind of tired approach. The conical tall helms are what I liked, and I know some people disliked those. But to me these seem a bit uninteresting. Hugely relieved though, saved me some money.

Chopstick wrote:

Also that monster is probably of the most boring and unoriginal thing I have ever seen, look like some scuffed Kingdom Death monster.

Didn't know KD has the copyright on sphinxes locked down.

Apparently, all the Elf-factions in AoS are Greek-themed in general. The Deepkin have it, the DoS and now the Light Aelves too.

I would like to see more of ye olde WHFB "Babylonian/Egyptian/Viking/etc" elements worked into the setting instead of the generic cartoon aesthetics of some factions.

Looking forward to more, hopefully there will be chariots and swordmasters.

 Esmer wrote:
Apparently, all the Elf-factions in AoS are Greek-themed in general. The Deepkin have it, the DoS and now the Light Aelves too.

I would like to see more of ye olde WHFB "Babylonian/Egyptian/Viking/etc" elements worked into the setting instead of the generic cartoon aesthetics of some factions.

Well, it makes sense. Deepkin were also created by Teclis, so sure, they share similarities. DoK always kinda had that theme.

But wanting back WHFB mega-generic elements instead of semi-original elements of AoS???

 Esmer wrote:
Apparently, all the Elf-factions in AoS are Greek-themed in general. The Deepkin have it, the DoS and now the Light Aelves too.

I would like to see more of ye olde WHFB "Babylonian/Egyptian/Viking/etc" elements worked into the setting instead of the generic cartoon aesthetics of some factions.

I do agree. Personally, the DoK offer a slightly more "Egyptian" theme if painted in a proper theme: I have gone with tan skin, deep blue and stark white clothes, and plenty of gold, bronze and turquoise.

These are a bit too "generic" personally. The only one standing out is the hollow armor, while the troops look like third party versions of warhammer elves...

These new elves are superior to the previous high elves in every respect.

These are a bit too "generic" personally

That's what HE always were. The only thing they're missing is the silly heart ornament that 5th ed HE had, and suppository helmets.

At first glance I thought cool - Teclis has two forms like Morathi - oh well

Rest look good.

Aww yiiiis

Pointy Elves...

Got a nice Greek/Atlantean theme going.