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Love 'em.

Initial gut reaction is they are ugly as sin.

There's one lance with a double-head - taser/shock lance?

I think they look excellent, really nice design. A great idea to make the horses look fairly "generic" seems it would be very easy to convert them to a specific regiment if you wanted to.

I really don't like the cloth on the horse. Otherwise they look decent.

 GaroRobe wrote:
Based on the tease at the end, I guess next week will reveal the lord solar model

Not the tank? It could be either but:

Join us next week for another reveal from Codex: Astra Militarum – a big one –

I reckon they'll show the tank first, then Lord Solar will be the final model reveal alongside the codex cover that he's on.

I like them, but they also make me a little bit sad, as their release kills any chances of plastic Death Korps riders in the near future.

Seem like the new Astra Militarum design philosophy is really all about variety, mixing and matching a regiment here and there, without the aspiration to cover the entire army list with one model range. Hopefully plastic Krieg troopers sold well enough so that we'll get at least a command squad at some point.

Why do they have aprons

Just stick a Krieg, Cadian/whatever head on them and job done if you want a unified look for your army.

Quite like them overall, but the chin/face covering seems a bit odd.

Not bad and they are still generic enough that they could easily be head-swapped to make a different Regiment.

Cool. Maybe this'll finally be the GSC melee unit that doesn't hit like wet paper

Wasn't expecting them to look so bland.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Just stick a Krieg, Cadian/whatever head on them and job done if you want a unified look for your army.

Krieg would require gas masks for the horses and the removal of the fur gloves

Are they showing a 3rd tip in the pictures? Is that a new type maybe. I am not familiar enough with the older kits to know.

The upper half of the riders look super janky.

The horses would be nice with the other half of their barding, and without the random bits of metal hanging off them.

On the one hand I'm glad to see Rough Riders back. On the other, Atillans were my least favourite of the 2nd ed regiments. These are a good update of those models though, and look far better than the originals.

I'm curious to see some more angles to see how easy it would be to de-Attilify them to fit in better with my Cadian army. Obviously head swaps are easy enough, but it looks like some carving would be needed to get rid of fur trim on the gloves etc.

The rough riders look great. There's seem to be 3rd kind of lance-tip in the photo, looks like a shock type thing.

I like the overall design elements but that posing is god awful. Like something sculpted 15 years ago. They just look incredibly blocky and even the heads look too square with how those chin-straps sit. Hopefully it's just how the studio team have built them and they can look a lot less static in the hands of anyone else though it looks like monoposed torso/legs combined and then probably flat joints for the arms and heads so variation might be limited without doing a bit of extra work.

The horses look great, but the riders themselves...not terribly impressed. Hopefully these will be easy to convert to Kreig Riders instead...initial thought is that a head swap and adding a truncheon on the back should do it.

a swing and a miss for me, although i'm glad they're back. I had planned to get a bunch when they showed up but probably won't bother now

the heads look bad with the rigid fur on top of a solid helmet (and those chin covers no thanks) and they've got 'gentle trotting well before an attack' torsos which don't go with the dynamic 'full speed charge attack' horses

and the horse are nice in that they've got some movement, but annoying for all the cloth and other kit which will make them trickier to repurpose

Weird models. Why do the horses wear bed sheets? I know it's Halloween soon, but I thought the models were supposed to be of use all year around.

My new favourite new IG release. Now show me the tank!

 Geifer wrote:
Weird models. Why do the horses wear bed sheets? I know it's Halloween soon, but I thought the models were supposed to be of use all year around.

Ballistic cloth barding, probably.

I love the new rough riders!

I will take 30, thank you!

Yeah, these guys are a miss for me. A significant step down from the Death Riders. I feel like you could convert better ones from the current Empire Outriders kit.

The newsletter describes them as “Mounties” - dibs on painting them scarlet and calling them Imperial Cadian Mounted Arbitrators or something.

Today when I have first seen the tiny image caption online, I thought it was Warhammer old world minis.

Not feeling these at all.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
The newsletter describes them as “Mounties” - dibs on painting them scarlet and calling them Imperial Cadian Mounted Arbitrators or something.

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