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Did they need it, no. Will it sell well, you bet. Theyre great sculpts that cover a bunch of gaps in the range, plus thsy telegraph intent for the rest of the range. Core resculpts wont be far behind.

Or they do a range of character type models for each faction so they don't feel neglected, then come around and do resculpts.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Did they need it, no. Will it sell well, you bet. Theyre great sculpts that cover a bunch of gaps in the range, plus thsy telegraph intent for the rest of the range. Core resculpts wont be far behind.

No, I think they needed it. Looking at warhammer.com, the ONLY plastic characters in their range are included with monsters.

My bretts also currently don't have any plastic characters outside of the royal pegasus lord and currently no model available with either a hippogryph or on a warhorse though and I wouldn't say that my bretts have a dire need of plastic characters.

Tomb kings already had plenty character models already, albeit not on a horse; that is new. But to say that they needed these is a bit of a stretch i think.

I do think we'll get some character models with narrative arcane journals for the near future and i quite like that!

The TK models basically replace older metal models currently in their line. I see them as the first step toward steadily replacing the old models. We might see the old ones hang around or vanish when these new ones come out. Then we will hopeflully see a steady replacement of old things happening to all armies bit by bit.