AoS N&R (BoK+KO pre-order,Terrain MTO p92, Helsmiths of Hashut p93, FEC+NH pg 93)

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**Scottywan82**

Fayric wrote:
The real problem is AoS not beeing able to convince people its basicly the same setting.
We got skaven, lizardmen, chaos warriors, nightgoblins, vampirecounts and lots of classic stuff, but in the end Its just random locations floating in a psychedelic timescape for most people.
Anything goes and nothing matter.

If they had focus on establishing a fantasy world for us to recognise instead of a desperate focus on making sigmarines feel like a cool concept, people could probably see the setting beeing similar in another way.

I completely agree with this. The biggest weakness of AoS has always been how ephemral the setting feels. It all seems like a fever dream instead of a place.

**Gallahad**

I folded and ordered the sigmarite dais. I decided it just added too much visual interest to my stormvault terrain set to pass up.

Felt pretty silly paying that much for it, but getting bent over a barrel is the GW customer experience.

**Altruizine**

CragHack wrote:
The Phazer wrote:
I do think to some extent it's unfair to compare to FW kits that don't have to worry about undercuts and being castable in steel injection moulds.

But I do think that quite a few bits of the new range have quite old fashioned looking soft musculature which used to characterise plastics fifteen - twenty years ago but don't so much any more, and I don't really know how that wasn't fixed for a big new launch line.

They just look goofy. GW can definitely put out amazing looking models in plastic, like the new 40k Raven Guard hq, but this is like a hiccup against all the other silly/goofy/just plain bad crap they keep churning out. I think it's more of a matter of sculptors, their expertise and tools being used to make those models, where in this case majority of them are interns and few pros who know their stuff

I think it's funny that you would offer the Raven Guard guy as an example of a good model right before complaining about other things being silly or goofy.

That RG model is the platonic ideal of "goofy" to me. He has every possible thing going on at all once (except for a smoke effect), in a weird pose, in a weird place.

**Alpharius**

Scottywan82 wrote:

I completely agree with this. The biggest weakness of AoS has always been how ephemral the setting feels. It all seems like a fever dream instead of a place.

I could never quite put my finger on it prior to this, but you've pretty much summed it up perfectly for me!

Gallahad wrote:I folded and ordered the sigmarite dais. I decided it just added too much visual interest to my stormvault terrain set to pass up.

Felt pretty silly paying that much for it, but getting bent over a barrel is the GW customer experience.

It really is an important part of the overall GW experience, isn't it?