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Kragnos looks great, will make a nice centre piece for a Saga Lords of the Wild army.

 Red Corsair wrote:
I can't be the only guy that thinks Kragnos face looks VERY similar to Beastman from Masters of The Universe, right?

LOL, I'm watching that right now on Film4.

I want Naughty Aslan

SamusDrake wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:
I can't be the only guy that thinks Kragnos face looks VERY similar to Beastman from Masters of The Universe, right?

LOL, I'm watching that right now on Film4.

A fine use of ones time!

small lizard rumor engine solved (on Kragnos' base)

The Ork looks great. Easily my favorite of the new releases. He's got that Mad Max style that the Snagga sculpts have really lacked. Really like the Bucket helmet.

Nice model, but AOS already has like loads of centaur types and he doesn't really have his own aesthetic and that army with him in looks a bit hodgepodge tbh.

Kragnos is very generic

God, these Vamptaurs are hideous. The upper halves are solid but they just look tacked onto the lower part. It just doesn't work at all.

Kragnos, on the other hand, is a believable centaur. Nothing super exciting, but solid and without any silly design twists, which is a lot to ask for these days.

People are going to need bigger hobby rooms for so many nice gigantic miniatures. Most god level characters are cool but I kind of prefer the little guys.

Vamp stuff is great apart from the Centaur-Vampire thing. I just can’t get over how stupid it must look when flying I like the rest a lot though.

Kragnos? Meh. Looks more like a Chaos model and nothing else in the Destruction alliance looks like it goes with him. I know that’s kinda the point but he just doesn’t do much for me.

Edit: That’s it? Huh…

 BertBert wrote:
God, these Vamptaurs are hideous. The upper halves are solid but they just look tacked onto the lower part. It just doesn't work at all.

Agreed. I really like the top halves, but I don't need a legless vampire with a giant bat monster stuck up their bum.

 The Phazer wrote:
Nice model, but AOS already has like loads of centaur types and he doesn't really have his own aesthetic and that army with him in looks a bit hodgepodge tbh.

Doesn't help that everything else in focus are all older sculpts, and none with updated paintjobs to make them more coherent as his followers.

That said, he definitely looks like he belongs more with the Beasts of Chaos, like a new warlord that unlocks Centigors as Battleline.

 BertBert wrote:
God, these Vamptaurs are hideous. The upper halves are solid but they just look tacked onto the lower part. It just doesn't work at all.

Kragnos, on the other hand, is a believable centaur. Nothing super exciting, but solid and without any silly design twists, which is a lot to ask for these days.

I honestly have a hard time imagining the Centaur-Bat-Vampire-thing in flight mode without its extremities constantly getting in its own way.

We at least the dire wolves look good. The rest look like lazy kitbashes of normal vampire models cut in half and glued on top of werebat models where their heads should be.

Edit: Oh Kragnos does look very nice. Good job there GW.

I really like Kragnos, they screw up so many big minis, so it's nice to see one they didn't.

I don't know that the new vampire models are all that great, but I do like the overall new faction design. The Cossack vampires and their undead minions as an idea and look works well.

Kind of hoped for more on the Age of Sigmar front, new General's Handbook, maybe an entire army to see?

Kinda meh.

 Tim the Biovore wrote:

 The Phazer wrote:
Nice model, but AOS already has like loads of centaur types and he doesn't really have his own aesthetic and that army with him in looks a bit hodgepodge tbh.

Doesn't help that everything else in focus are all older sculpts, and none with updated paintjobs to make them more coherent as his followers.

That said, he definitely looks like he belongs more with the Beasts of Chaos, like a new warlord that unlocks Centigors as Battleline.

Centigors surprisingly didn't go the way of the Tomb Kings as metal/resin models.

Yep, that was it.

Not really surprised, actually. Next will be the sisters.

At least, the new Dire Wolves are gorgeous.

I laughed at the comments when they revealed the mobile game. "Do you guys not have phones ?" Ah, that was pure gold. Good thing they swiftly moved to the next video afterwards. And honestly, the reaction was completely deserved here. A fething mobile game that smells of predatory microtransactions..."auto-battlers", ugh.

I think Kragnos will be like Nagash. He (and his Morghasts) looked unlike anything from the Grand Alliance Death back when he was released, and a couple of years later he got his own faction in his image with the Ossiarch Bonereapers.

In that army shot for Soulblight it looked like there were some new skeletons in the upper right of the picture, up on the ridge. Could be an alternate build of the new kit maybe? It was only on the screen pretty quickly.

Also: The Dire Wolves are great and will find a home in my Mordheim band.

 Esmer wrote:

 BertBert wrote:
God, these Vamptaurs are hideous. The upper halves are solid but they just look tacked onto the lower part. It just doesn't work at all.

Kragnos, on the other hand, is a believable centaur. Nothing super exciting, but solid and without any silly design twists, which is a lot to ask for these days.

I honestly have a hard time imagining the Centaur-Bat-Vampire-thing in flight mode without its extremities constantly getting in its own way.

Hmmm... Warcraft 3 did it first:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/3/36/Destroyer.gif/revision/latest/smart/width/250/height/250?cb=20061207225157

 Sabotage! wrote:
In that army shot for Soulblight it looked like there were some new skeletons in the upper right of the picture, up on the ridge. Could be an alternate build of the new kit maybe? It was only on the screen pretty quickly.

I think they are just Grave Guard as the old kit carries over. The Corpse cart, Zombie dragon and Vargheists are up there too.

Spoiler alert for Cursed City, I guess.

Haven't even lifted an eyebrow so far.
Kragnos - AoS's "wants to be everything, yet fails everywhere miserably" incarnation. Trash looking model.
Vampires - yeah, cool. Until I saw their lower halves. The other ones are quite ok, I guess? Though I'd like to see them not tie so hardly to this pseudo vampire/Kislev thing.
Dire Volves - Crow is nice. Definitely wins the show.
Soul Arena - yet another example why GW must not handle their IP to everyone.

 DaveC wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
In that army shot for Soulblight it looked like there were some new skeletons in the upper right of the picture, up on the ridge. Could be an alternate build of the new kit maybe? It was only on the screen pretty quickly.

I think they are just Grave Guard as the old kit carries over. The Corpse cart, Zombie dragon and Vargheists are up there too.

Could be, though they looked a little different than what I am used to. Maybe a kit bash.


Edit: Looking at it a little closer I have no idea what they are. They are two infantry miniatures on the cliff above the corpse cart.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/05/03/warhammer-fest-online-day-1-warhammer-age-of-sigmar/

Looks like they have most of the broken links fixed...

They said we've seen all the new kits for Soulblight Gravelords as of today, so I wouldn't speculate about there being some unseen skellie kit or something.

This feels like it gives credence to the announcement on Saturday perhaps being AoS 3.0

 stahly wrote:
I think Kragnos will be like Nagash. He (and his Morghasts) looked unlike anything from the Grand Alliance Death back when he was released, and a couple of years later he got his own faction in his image with the Ossiarch Bonereapers.

Yeah, had a similar impression. He also looks related to the Chaos Ogroids, who apparently were formerly Destruction before getting kicked out? Would fit with him having 'lost his people' etc. during his imprisonment. Didn't follow the twitch talk though, just checking out the videos on the new website + reading lore tidbits on the web.