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The Mega Gargants - 1 kit makes all 3 versions

Warstomper, Kraken Eater, Gatebreaker

My god they look fantastic! Look at the veins on his hands! The skin wrinkles! The faces!!

This is a Scinari Cathallar,* and she plays a vital role in Lumineth society. All Lumineth use aetherquartz, the realmstone of Hysh, which gives them enlightenment of mind, body and spirit. But this has a price, and the Aelves pay by siphoning their turbulent emotions into the aetherquartz. In battle, Scinari Cathallars weaponise this emotion, drawing it from their allies and turning it against their enemies. Foes are rendered helpless by the overwhelming rush of despair and darkness.

I think we can finally put to rest that those 3 images are not Endless spells now. x)

I really hope her feet are messed up by the paintjob, otherwise she will forever be our lady of the sausage toes

Love the giants (I wonder how close in size to an action man they are?)

They really should do models for these guys

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I really hope her feet are messed up by the paintjob, otherwise she will forever be our lady of the sausage toes

Love the giants (I wonder how close in size to an action man they are?)

According to Twitch stream from what they said the Mega-Gargants are about on same level as Archaon size wise.

 Mr Morden wrote:
They really should do models for these guys

Spoiler:

They kinda do.
The human is the guy from the current giant kit. Johann?
And I want to see the stormcast were meant to represent one of the snapfit sets. I forget which one, but I think they were shown off that way.

GenRifDrake wrote:

Spoiler:

That face!

I can't even figure in theory how that's painted.

From what they were saying, it's sculpted to facilitate it.

GenRifDrake wrote:

Spoiler:

This is a Scinari Cathallar,* and she plays a vital role in Lumineth society. All Lumineth use aetherquartz, the realmstone of Hysh, which gives them enlightenment of mind, body and spirit. But this has a price, and the Aelves pay by siphoning their turbulent emotions into the aetherquartz. In battle, Scinari Cathallars weaponise this emotion, drawing it from their allies and turning it against their enemies. Foes are rendered helpless by the overwhelming rush of despair and darkness.

I think we can finally put to rest that those 3 images are not Endless spells now. x)

That reveal held a special sort of vindication in my heart - people were getting way too lost in hyper-analyzing every word rather than just understanding it's a turn of phrase. Same with all the people who were "sure" that the giant release was Hysh related because they said something like "we have more big news and armies to bring to light" at the bottom of a community article.

Everything looks pretty great though - I'm happier with the mega-gargants than I thought I would be!

The last gargant’s face is a little cartoony, but it’s not tooooo bad... now the real question are whether they’ll give us loads of extra bits so not everyone has the same three Gargants running around.

Man I am keen on those Gargants!

Liking how they’re not just Massive Hoomins, but a body shaped all their own. Very satisfying.

I hope they come with a cyclops type head. Or would need to sculpt it. Should be a cool 2 headed cyclops with a bunch of conversion/resculpting.

I hope they have a giant thing that size with a muscular body. I need something to modify for a titan for d&d.

Sanjay

Those giants might be the best Eavy Metal paintjobs for large models. That hooded one is fire.

I dread the price of the kit, though.

That face!

I can't even figure in theory how that's painted.

There is a good tutorial at cmon for how to do wet/sheer clothing.

Essentially you paint it like normal but you subdue it with the colours of the thin/sheer clothes. There's more to it, but that's the idea.

Sanjay

The models look great, but I'm not too thrilled about them being available to any faction. I suppose in on respect it was inevitable due since they'll be taking the role of AoS' Knights (big expensive kit anyone can grab) but it definitely robs Destruction of some well-needed character.

 Arbitrator wrote:
The models look great, but I'm not too thrilled about them being available to any faction. I suppose in on respect it was inevitable due since they'll be taking the role of AoS' Knights (big expensive kit anyone can grab) but it definitely robs Destruction of some well-needed character.

This way people will actually use them. And ogres should be able to ally to order armies as mercenaries too. Restricting how people build their armies is just dumb.

I like the idea of them being able to ally onto other factions, for the converters out there its absolute dream material, bone gargants, chaotic versions, hideous sea beasts, armour clad defenders of the Free Cities, its going to lead to some impressive counts as.

Just a note don't forget these Giants are likely 400+ points EACH to take (at a pure guess). So chances are if you take one its your entire alliance point allocation for a 2K army. They might even have a special rule like Gotrek has if they go over the 400 point value - ergo allowing them to be taken in a 2K army even though they cost way more than normal for the allowance of allies at that point level.


It also makes sense from a business and practicalities side. By having them as mercenaries/allies in general it encourages more people to buy one for their army; then perhaps another for another army - now you're half way to a Giants army so getting the Giants Battletome and a few more isn't a huge outlay.

Meanwhile if you could only use them on their own then you've likely got to spend more than a getting started sets worth of money to get one model that is jsut the start of your giants army. So whilst its small footprint in models its still a big cost its just in fewer models so it feels more expensive to get started.

warl0rdb0b wrote:
I like the idea of them being able to ally onto other factions, for the converters out there its absolute dream material, bone gargants, chaotic versions, hideous sea beasts, armour clad defenders of the Free Cities, its going to lead to some impressive counts as.

Yep. I'm already thinking conversion bits. I wonder if Dracoth chest armour would make a good shoulder plate?

Biggest suprise to me is that all three Gargants stem from the same kit... I was honestly expecting three kits. Even during the reveal I didn't realize the similarities they shared (most noticable the stance).

Those are great!

 Crimson wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:
The models look great, but I'm not too thrilled about them being available to any faction. I suppose in on respect it was inevitable due since they'll be taking the role of AoS' Knights (big expensive kit anyone can grab) but it definitely robs Destruction of some well-needed character.

This way people will actually use them. And ogres should be able to ally to order armies as mercenaries too. Restricting how people build their armies is just dumb.

And fyreslayers.


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SKR.HH wrote:
Biggest suprise to me is that all three Gargants stem from the same kit... I was honestly expecting three kits. Even during the reveal I didn't realize the similarities they shared (most noticable the stance).

Those are great!

Yeah, I was hoping they would look more different from one another. That said, they all look great and I am certainly not complaining. Plus it means more extra bits and conversion opportunity.

I honestly don’t get the issue with other armies being able to use them.
Giants have pretty much always been that way.
Even the bonegrinder can go to multiple factions.

Yea, it will boost sales, but for once I don’t think that was actually the reasoning for it.
Just feels to me that they’ve kept them to how giants are.

The only downside for me (more of a nitpick) is that the cannons aren’t useable.
We know the sky titans used huge cannons so I was half expecting to see a ranged giant.

love that dead sailor
might need to get one of these then loads of gobbos on hoppers as back-up!

If you look at the 3 versions, other than the thighs, it appears there are 2 or 3 feet, arms, chest, head. I wonder if it would be possible to make 2 giants or close to, with a bit of sculpting, from one box.

Unless all the ropes and decorations on the arms etc are attachments and not presculpted into the body parts.

Sanjay

It is sort of interesting that the Giants all appear to still be chasing around and gobbling up citizens of the Empire from classic WHFB.
I'm surprised they didn't tie them more closely to AOS. Are those guys they are holding/eating the very first regular old humans we've seen in an AOS kit?
It seems like it would have been more appropriate to have them snacking on stormcast or fyreslayers or khinerai, etc. Even all the shields sculpted on them etc. all look like regular old renaissance human stuff. Shouldn't they be wearing busted sky dwarf metal balloons or flying turtle shells or whatever?

Huh? Just the first guy has shields from two different warcry bands, a chunk of leviadon shell, a stormcast shield, and we have not even seen the full 360 yet

So, pretty much a fantasy twist on the Imperial Knights. I'm loving it, but I can already see the price.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Huh? Just the first guy has shields from two different warcry bands, a chunk of leviadon shell, a stormcast shield, and we have not even seen the full 360 yet

Could you point out where the Stormcast shield is? The two on his loincloth are an old chaos warrior design and the old woodelf eternal guard.
Good point on Leviadon shell, I thought it was dragon skin, but I'm unfamiliar with the kit.
Is the shield with the sun (?) on his belly from warcry? I originally thought it was the old 6th Ed state trooper lion shield but I think I was wrong.
Is the shield on his arm with the Celtic knot thing from Warcry? I'm not familiar with all the kits, but I'm pretty positive it isn't the Iron Golem shield.

Do you know if these are the first regular humans we've seen?

Figure the cost will be around the same as Imp Knights. So around $150/model? At least the cost of a greater daemon ($140).