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Good looking figures, so I guess the Codex treatment is going to be a thing, now....

The Bows are a bit of a streak, but considering that these girls are close combat stealth, I can see how the bow would be a good fit for them.

Better way to get rid of your dead then eating them, I guess...

The House of Blades or whatever is awfully underwhelming...

 Albertorius wrote:

 Mangod wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
I'm... not a fan. The zombie ladies come from nowhere, and not in a good way, and the... Katniss Everdeen wannabes? Er, I don't quite dislike them, but the bows seem like a baffling choice.

The catrats are alright, better than the resin ones we saw.

Now, to be fair, the "zombie ladies" have been a thing since they released Kria.

...huh. I obviously didn't pay enough attention (it's... something alright). Still, those minis look horrid IMHO ^^, and from what I see of her, she was "just" supposed to get resurrected? The vibe she gives me is nothing like these new ones.

I think the paint job on the Death Maidens does them a pretty big disservice - dark grey armor on dark grey skin with lots of grey-tinted accessories makes for a very grey model. Some brighter colors like they did on Kria might help.

Oh, those new hired guns on Warhammer Community look good, especially the Scrutinator-Primus Servalen!



Edited to get the picture straight from the horses mouth!

BoLS blocks the hot-linking - they want them clicks dammit!

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 jake wrote:

Spoiler:

These girls are only a skull head or headdress trim away from being some kick ass female eversores.

Or Dark Eldar Hormunclus - that Enforcer lady and her dog are also mighty fine

Oh dear, the only good thing about revisiting the Gangs yet again was that I looked forward to the new models, but these really are not very good at all. Had missed Kria's background before so it will take some time to get used to this zombie Escher concept, but unlike Kria these models have terrible poses; perhaps they may be somewhat useful as a basis for normal champions with other arms and heads.. but what a waste of sprue space.
Not-juves look alright, bows feel out of place in the warband however, and the metal arrow flights are just silly. Nice bits, just not what I'd have expected or wanted for Escher.
Cats look terrible. Can only see some use for them as weird mutated Skaven perhaps?


Copper with robodog is terrif though! Hadn't expected a new Enforcer model of all things to be the best upcoming model, but I definitely want one despite having absolutely no use of it.

So...



I started an Arbites army using old metals and new plastics and just as I finished up... GW released plastic enforcers!

I did a cyber dog unit using direwolves, just finished up and... GW releases a new cybermastiff!

Now I only want to use my powers for Good and not for Evil, so I'm getting back to my Imperial Navy shuttles and boarding parties this week.

Nulcop and Robohound.

Yeeeees. Very much yes. Lovely models.

The Death Maidens look like there COULD be a nice model, under an absolutely horrible paint job. Keep them bright coloured but with very pale skin - not actually flippin' grey - and they could be very nice.

And the banged about faceplate covering the top half of the face... not a fan. Paint it gold. Make it look like it's really heavily engraved. That's the bling it needs.

There's an alt form, could this mean plastic?

Nah this’ll be a resin special character I reckon

I wonder if you can pair the two empty hands and have the corpsegirles coming in for the most epic hugs ever.

 Siygess wrote:
especially the Scrutinator-Primus Servalen!

It's nice to see somebody at GW still remembers the early '80s.

 Thargrim wrote:
The escher models are smaller and on 25 mm bases. The phyrr cats will likely be on 32 or 40mm. These new cats look smaller. It's definitely one sprue doubled.

There is a new base size: 28.5mm, so figuring out a base size just by looking at it in a pic is going to be tough.

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 Grot 6 wrote:
Good looking figures, so I guess the Codex treatment is going to be a thing, now....

The Bows are a bit of a streak, but considering that these girls are close combat stealth, I can see how the bow would be a good fit for them.

Better way to get rid of your dead then eating them, I guess...

Happy to report the House of Chains book was far more than just a Codex. Yes it goes into Codex type depth about the origins and that of House Goliath, but also came with a decent amount of newly new for others.

Thanks to the other thread it seems no model/no rule has come to Newcromunda.

That's just fething wonderful.

I’ve managed to stay away from Necromunda because of all the rules issues I’ve heard and the cost, but a full line of Arbites (or whatever new GW calls them) May break me.

I won’t cry too much though.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Thanks to the other thread it seems no model/no rule has come to Newcromunda.

That's just fething wonderful.

What are you talking about?

The new Goliath models can take equipment that isn't in the box.

There are no Juve models and Juves are in the book.

There are allied characters with no models (yet) in the book.

I mean, you regularly give off the vibe of a guy whose entire relationship to these games is mediated through News and Rumours forums, and doesn't actually play any of them or read any rules once they're released in their final form, so that may be the case here... but I'm still really curious what, specifically, you're talking about.

 Altruizine wrote:
The new Goliath models can take equipment that isn't in the box.

No they can't. And by "box" I assume you also mean the two FW weapon sets, right?

 Altruizine wrote:
I mean, you regularly give off the vibe of a guy whose entire relationship to these games is mediated through News and Rumours forums, and doesn't actually play any of them or read any rules once they're released in their final form, so that may be the case here...

I was playing 40K a fortnight ago, so, no.

 Altruizine wrote:
... but I'm still really curious what, specifically, you're talking about.

Figure it out yourself.

They still have access to buying stuff in between games, right?

 Albertorius wrote:
They still have access to buying stuff in between games, right?

That's the issue - some are limited to only buying wargear, not weapons.

You could have a goliath with melta pistol and kroot rifle, so I'm not sure about that no-model-no-rule thing?

...you can get a kroot rifle? o_ó


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 Albertorius wrote:
They still have access to buying stuff in between games, right?

That's the issue - some are limited to only buying wargear, not weapons.

Ah, I see. It's being hard to catch up with all the changes, as of late.

 Albertorius wrote:
...you can get a kroot rifle? o_ó

It's a Black Market item from the Book of Judgement.

You can get all sorts of crazies! This is Necromunda Borderland edition, 87 bazillion guns!!! You could have thunder hammer, meltapistol, kroot rifle, storm bolter, cursed chaos bolter, power fist, razor gun, sling gun, grav gun, hellspear, neural flayer, seismic cannon and shard grenades.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Altruizine wrote:
The new Goliath models can take equipment that isn't in the box.

No they can't. And by "box" I assume you also mean the two FW weapon sets, right?

So, the Goliath Stimmer can take the twinned GLs or the axes that come in this box, or it can take a stub gun, a fighting knife, a two-handed axe, and/or a single- or paired spud-jacker(s), and the Forge-born can take a fighting knife and a stub gun, as well as the storm-welder or rocksaw that they come with.

You're just flat wrong in saying they can't take weapons that weren't in the box.

They can take any weapons they want, just the 2 weapons they gave you in the box are exclusive to them.

 Mangod wrote:

So, the Goliath Stimmer can take the twinned GLs or the axes that come in this box, or it can take a stub gun, a fighting knife, a two-handed axe, and/or a single- or paired spud-jacker(s), and the Forge-born can take a fighting knife and a stub gun, as well as the storm-welder or rocksaw that they come with.

You're just flat wrong in saying they can't take weapons that weren't in the box.

Man id love it if he were right, all those weapon options actually available, targetting scopes for all the guns, different models for each gang to show carapace armour and such. What a time that would be. Of course he is wrong and just in a sulk, otherwise my Ganger could take the chainsword that is in the FW weapon pack, but he cant unless i make him a champion. This is such a good book!

Love the escher models, people will make some great conversions with them. I had a feeling bows might come for them, they look cool and as sensible (not sensible) as majority of other weapon options, whips? yeah good luck using those in confined tangled mess of the underhive.


regarding weapon packs? Im hoping we will get more, specifically to address some of the gaps listed above (and the combi bolter-grenade launcher!).

stato wrote:
regarding weapon packs? Im hoping we will get more, specifically to address some of the gaps listed above (and the combi bolter-grenade launcher!).

Well, consider the below photo. None of the weapons match up to what appears with the Death Maidens or the Wyld Girls. I reckon there's a plastic weapon pack or some sort of extension pack in the works:

 zedmeister wrote:

stato wrote:
regarding weapon packs? Im hoping we will get more, specifically to address some of the gaps listed above (and the combi bolter-grenade launcher!).

Well, consider the below photo. None of the weapons match up to what appears with the Death Maidens or the Wyld Girls. I reckon there's a plastic weapon pack or some sort of extension pack in the works:

Spoiler:

Huh?

That model looks like a resin Forgeworld offering. The body doesn't seem to match up to any from the plastic Escher kit, so I don't know why you'd think the weapons are part of an extension pack.