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 GaroRobe wrote:
GW, please give us a dwarf or duardin ranger unit like Drolf

Didn’t there used to be one? Prospecters or rangers or something?

 Nevelon wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
GW, please give us a dwarf or duardin ranger unit like Drolf

Didn’t there used to be one? Prospecters or rangers or something?

There were Miners, who've returned to TOW, and Bugman's Rangers.

 GaroRobe wrote:
GW, please give us a dwarf or duardin ranger unit like Drolf

Rumours are there's going to be a mixed book coming of Fyreslayers and Dispossessed with nine new kits minimum. This guy is a sneak peak.

 Nevelon wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
GW, please give us a dwarf or duardin ranger unit like Drolf

Didn’t there used to be one? Prospecters or rangers or something?

Fantasy has miners and rangers but the latter only ever had bugmans rangers clad in chainmail and double handed axes. I want axes and crossbows and hoods lol

I like the simplicity of this model and I agree that it needs a different paintjob.

It reminds me of quite a few reaper dwarf hero miniatures.

But that nose, woof. Its face looks horrible. It might be the paint but the whole face looks wrong.

 Hellebore wrote:
It reminds me of quite a few reaper dwarf hero miniatures.

But that nose, woof. Its face looks horrible. It might be the paint but the whole face looks wrong.

The nose is cool. Paint it slightly red and you have the epitome of a dwarf!

It might be the way the paint is done between the nose and the brow, it looks very flat and merged together, like he hit a brick wall face first :p

Certainly the fyreslayers have far narrower noses with more differentiation from the brow. His nostrils are sitting right next to the corners of his eyes. the art looks good, but the model doesn't really match it all.

I suspect that it is indeed down to the paintjob. I don't think the sculpt is too dissimilar from the artwork, but the model doesn't have the darker tone of the shadows and the placement of the highlights is significantly different.

I like him and I hate him.
The pose, choice of details - all pretty cool
But… ugh, CAD design with low poly execution at it again.Very-very doughy
And yeah, the paint job doesn’t help.

Well that's a boring mini...

Seems to me that they're trying for a mass-market fantasy game suitable for the widest "Barnes & Noble" audience, who aren't necessarily familiar with Warhammer.

They appear to be sticking with well-worn fantasy tropes.

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:
I like him and I hate him.
The pose, choice of details - all pretty cool
But… ugh, CAD design with low poly execution at it again.Very-very doughy
And yeah, the paint job doesn’t help.

It's clearly not low poly, whatever you might think of the design. There are no visible edges or vertices, and it's just not something GW would ever need or choose to do. There might be all sorts of reasons a design doesn't work for you; that's not one of them.

In the video reveal there seem to be a couple of bits of small furniture - some jars and a wooden table (or chair) - it's hard to make out. Fingers crossed there are some tiny scenery bits to make the maps less "flat".

I should be super-excited for this being Warhammer Quest, but so far it's just a bunch of WHFB characters and Nurgle chaps. Nothing wrong with that but it's not what I got into AoS for, and so that leaves the environment and the game itself.

That side of things might be worth the purchase, but at this point I'm thinking that they should have just revived the 90s Warhammer Quest instead.

Greenfield wrote:

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:
I like him and I hate him.
The pose, choice of details - all pretty cool
But… ugh, CAD design with low poly execution at it again.Very-very doughy
And yeah, the paint job doesn’t help.

It's clearly not low poly, whatever you might think of the design. There are no visible edges or vertices, and it's just not something GW would ever need or choose to do. There might be all sorts of reasons a design doesn't work for you; that's not one of them.

I didn’t mean “low poly” literally. I meant the sharpness of detail being dull as if the “detail” bar setting has been dragged to “low” (annd expanded on the thought by describing the sculpt as “doughy”). I know it’s not made out of dough either

I think people are being too harsh on the little guy. He's a dwarf ranger, he looks like a dwarf ranger, and one from the "Warhammer world" to use the term very loosely. The box art was signal enough that they toned down the wackier AOS elements, whether because of the venues they want to sell it in, the people they want to sell it to, or just because they no longer believe the wackier AOS aesthetic is popular.

I'd expect another very self contained game, where some heroes go into the sewers to fight the same groups of Nurgle monsters. I'm not expecting anything great in terms of lite RPG or story narrative, even though I think should lean heavily into that. They're more into models and dice and I think that's what we'll get here, models and dice.

Imho the dwarf ranger looks awesome. I like him more than the CoS knight. Less bling bling.