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Those archers are amazing!!

There is nothing about the floating mage that says “female” to me. Looks like a dude. And I’m guessing that given the mage is an adept sporting the mountain rune, further supports that assumption, as the qualities of the mountain are distinctly masculine.

Dread Master wrote:
There is nothing about the floating mage that says “female” to me. Looks like a dude. And I’m guessing that given the mage is an adept sporting the mountain rune, further supports that assumption, as the qualities of the mountain are distinctly masculine.

Can’t see much of the body at this angle, but the face looks female to me.

Dam, GW is basically just bragging with that mage sculpt. That is absolutely nuts.

I’m really loving these Wuxia elves. If I played AoS I’d be all over these.

BOWS! JFC REAL RANGED IN AOS!

This just sealed my AoS army. I don't care how good or bad they will be, High Elves for life!

Ugh.... apart from the armour suit guy and the cav(which are stunning) these are the ugliest concepts of elf ive ever seen... had high hopes for these to maybe get on board with AOS. Alas... nope.

anf I thought, I would make the year without buying into a new army... damn you, pretty, pointy elves!

How can GW get High Elf inspired models so wrong?

Yes the sculpting quality is the high standard that we have come to expect from GW. However, the aesthetics are just... crap. A 3 string bow? A head piece that makes even Nagash have a reflective moment?

I was looking forward to seeing how the reimagined High Elves developed. Now upon seeing them, it just makes the loss of the WFB plastic High Elf kits all the more sad.

The basic troop models are alright though, as long as they are in the same scale they will work well. It is mostly the character models that have the whacky, out there aesthetics.

Some of it is cool, but I agree, the elves themselves (for the character models I have seen) look pretty goofy.

I will see what the rest of the range looks like I suppose. I don't hate the cavalry or infantry shown so far.

Hm. Well, that's a shame. There's a lot about the Lumineth I like, but those stupid fething bows... Just no.

If that turns out to be the only awful thing in the range and it's possible to field a decent army without them, then I might still be interested. But those bows are an abomination to both aesthetics and reason.

(Incidentally, that floaty mage reads as male to me. The female Lumineth models seem to have a slightly more slender and 'curvy' cuirass. This subtle difference is actually one of the design elements I most like about the range.)

Dread Master wrote:
as the qualities of the mountain are distinctly masculine.

has to be pushed to do anything by it's mother and crumbles easily?

The models are really nice, but a bit too...extra. Too much sticking out for practical gaming tokens imo.

I hate to say it but these elves are hideous. Falconer dude is cool, but the archers look comically bad. Floaty mage is a misguided design, similar to teclis: The focus lies on a secondary feature (the terrain), not the miniature itself, horns/helmet are too big, ugly face.

Good thing I stocked up on High Elves. Still have hopes for the cavalry being in scale with the old stuff - they'd make some nice Silver Helms.

To me the floaty mage has has the face of what I'd consider a "matron". Mature, sure of herself, perhaps not as youthful of "sculpted" as one might imagine an aelf. I think its a neat and interesting design take.


Overall I really like them! Triple strings is just the kind of steam/metal punk madness that we expect from the Realms and fantasy - just like well most of the other stuff we get.




Also the DoK models look fantastic for Underworld! They do somewhat lack the individuality that some of the other warbands have shown, but they are very solid models in their own right and really great!

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Dam, GW is basically just bragging with that mage sculpt. That is absolutely nuts.

That's the vibe I'm getting as well, and not in a good way. I mean yes, having your infantry character stuck to a 20mm square for around 30 years sucked for capturing outrageous aesthetics, but there's just no moderation in the studio at all anymore. Everything's as gaudy as a golden toilet, celebrating the technological prowess of its own manufacturing process by being stuck in an elaborate, precarious, and difficult to transport pose.

Love the Floaty Mage, looks fun to paint.

Hopefully we get a full set of mages covering all the elements.

 AduroT wrote:

Dread Master wrote:
There is nothing about the floating mage that says “female” to me. Looks like a dude. And I’m guessing that given the mage is an adept sporting the mountain rune, further supports that assumption, as the qualities of the mountain are distinctly masculine.

Can’t see much of the body at this angle, but the face looks female to me.

It kind of does to me too but article said it's a he, so, yeah...

 stonehorse wrote:
How can GW get High Elf inspired models so wrong?

Yes the sculpting quality is the high standard that we have come to expect from GW. However, the aesthetics are just... crap. A 3 string bow?

Yup, bows need to have one and only one string with more complex arrangements being forbidden and breaking all suspense of disbelief:

 Irbis wrote:

 AduroT wrote:

Dread Master wrote:
There is nothing about the floating mage that says “female” to me. Looks like a dude. And I’m guessing that given the mage is an adept sporting the mountain rune, further supports that assumption, as the qualities of the mountain are distinctly masculine.

Can’t see much of the body at this angle, but the face looks female to me.

It kind of does to me too but article said it's a he, so, yeah...

 stonehorse wrote:
How can GW get High Elf inspired models so wrong?

Yes the sculpting quality is the high standard that we have come to expect from GW. However, the aesthetics are just... crap. A 3 string bow?

Yup, bows need to have one and only one string with more complex arrangements being forbidden and breaking all suspense of disbelief:

The article makes no mention of the wizard’s gender one way or the other, but she’s got the larger eyes and colored lips of their female paint job.

Also there’s a distinct difference between a compound bow utilitzing one string strung thru a set of pulleys and those weird bows with two additional strings that meet the third half way down.

Having seen the artwork on the GAMA banner, it seems like the mage could have been intended to be female. But without that artwork, it’s still difficult to see for me.

I like them honestly even with the non-conventional look to them. However I gotta say I'm not a super fan of how the faces are painted.

Fortunately that is something that can be fixed by, you know, NOT painting them like that.

...And i thought i was annoyed about GW and model balance before. that mage is sending me into a bit of a fit (so the thing i dislike most about their modern model designs is a thing they are touting now? good to know). the sentinel with the bird looks nice, though.

 AduroT wrote:

 Irbis wrote:

 AduroT wrote:

Dread Master wrote:
There is nothing about the floating mage that says “female” to me. Looks like a dude. And I’m guessing that given the mage is an adept sporting the mountain rune, further supports that assumption, as the qualities of the mountain are distinctly masculine.

Can’t see much of the body at this angle, but the face looks female to me.

It kind of does to me too but article said it's a he, so, yeah...

 stonehorse wrote:
How can GW get High Elf inspired models so wrong?

Yes the sculpting quality is the high standard that we have come to expect from GW. However, the aesthetics are just... crap. A 3 string bow?

Yup, bows need to have one and only one string with more complex arrangements being forbidden and breaking all suspense of disbelief:

The article makes no mention of the wizard’s gender one way or the other, but she’s got the larger eyes and colored lips of their female paint job.

Also there’s a distinct difference between a compound bow utilitzing one string strung thru a set of pulleys and those weird bows with two additional strings that meet the third half way down.

Indeed - and as is often the case, Irbis is hoisted by his own petard...again!

The new (A)Elves look nice, but nothing here is moving the needle enough to make me want to start another AoS army...

That mage... no... just no.
This GW thing of making everything hover or fly on plastic tendrils is awful, but this mage turns it up to 11. It's horrendous. Seeing every character in AoS or 40k float or be mid leap from ruins is terrible. Please bring back a boss stood solidly on the ground.

On the other hand, those archers look designed to rank up nicely on square bases.

To me if you don't like those bow string you could easily cut off those you don't want.



Also... I am kinda expecting chariots now. For some reason.

 stonehorse wrote:
How can GW get High Elf inspired models so wrong?

Yes the sculpting quality is the high standard that we have come to expect from GW. However, the aesthetics are just... crap. A 3 string bow? A head piece that makes even Nagash have a reflective moment?

I was looking forward to seeing how the reimagined High Elves developed. Now upon seeing them, it just makes the loss of the WFB plastic High Elf kits all the more sad.

These look way better than the old goofy WFB High Elves in my opinion. The three string bow looks sick! Which head piece are you referring to?

No way these look better than the Island of Blood High Elves in my opinion. But I liked the Cavalry and basic infantry shown before and the archers would be okay with a normal bow.

 Togusa wrote:

The three string bow looks sick!

I agree, they need to be quarantined just to be sure.

 AduroT wrote:

 Irbis wrote:

 AduroT wrote:

Dread Master wrote:
There is nothing about the floating mage that says “female” to me. Looks like a dude. And I’m guessing that given the mage is an adept sporting the mountain rune, further supports that assumption, as the qualities of the mountain are distinctly masculine.

Can’t see much of the body at this angle, but the face looks female to me.

It kind of does to me too but article said it's a he, so, yeah...

 stonehorse wrote:
How can GW get High Elf inspired models so wrong?

Yes the sculpting quality is the high standard that we have come to expect from GW. However, the aesthetics are just... crap. A 3 string bow?

Yup, bows need to have one and only one string with more complex arrangements being forbidden and breaking all suspense of disbelief:

The article makes no mention of the wizard’s gender one way or the other, but she’s got the larger eyes and colored lips of their female paint job.

Also there’s a distinct difference between a compound bow utilitzing one string strung thru a set of pulleys and those weird bows with two additional strings that meet the third half way down.

The model has no bow but rather is a shaped piece of plastic, part of which represents a bow. The bow exists and functions only in the mind. It's a symbol and would make much more sense to the average person than the actual bow posted. In this regard it's a success.

Another vote of "no thanks" for both the three-stringed bows and the mage balancing on a rock while floating balancing on some rocks. Guess it's one of those cases where "they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"...

 AduroT wrote:

Dread Master wrote:
There is nothing about the floating mage that says “female” to me. Looks like a dude. And I’m guessing that given the mage is an adept sporting the mountain rune, further supports that assumption, as the qualities of the mountain are distinctly masculine.

Can’t see much of the body at this angle, but the face looks female to me.

This pic from the Age of Sigmar Facebook page says to me that the Aralith Stonemage is definitely female...