GW News: BIG N' SMALL WAAAGH! COMIN'

And Dwarfs, High Elves and Beastmen!

 

I fear all those releases will arrive before the Wood Elves.

 

I'm not bothered about that

 

Today it seems GW are after @WildColonial Boy's heart:




Blood Bowl Gnomes! I never thought they'd consider bringing Gnomes back into Warhammer Fantasy canon, but here they are! I think these are quite fun, and the animals of course are particularly lovable.

 

No, I don't imagine that you would be.

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com...d-leads-the-oathbound-into-the-mortal-realms/

 

Bone Dragon 100 USD

 

All in all, pretty good models. Gunnar looks really cool. However, the stances of the guy with the hammer and the woman with the spear are too similar.

 

Interesting business strategy by GW:

• Remove old kits from the market.
• Prices of the discontinued kits skyrocket in the secondary market
• Re-release old kits at prices that are better than the inflated secondary market prices, but much more than what they could have sold them for if they had not discontinued them in the first place

The only question that remains is whether or not this will hurt TOW in the long run. I can see it going either way. I guess we'll see.

 

£60 here, not that bad compared to a lot of other GW monster models, particularly a lot of the ones released for AoS which regularly reach £100.

It's strange, because the Chariots and Skeletons are vastly overpriced at £47.50 (particularly the Chariots which didn't even get a double box to warrant the big price rise), yet you also have the occasional model like the 8th Edition Necrotect and Liche Priest sculpts selling at pretty much the same much cheaper character model price they were in the 8th era - a mere £9 (probably because you need less of them ). The Horsemen are much more what I expected, a little over double price for a double box.

I'm certainly grateful that the nearest shop that I can call a FLGS gives really good discounts (around £10 on the box sets) for all this...

 

It's the faces that get me. Both the sculpting and the paint jobs.

 

You're right, they are very similarly posed... tactical rock and all!

 

Indeed. I like the models, but each of the 3 main barbarians are "ready stance" with weight on one leg (or up on a rock), generally arms down and holding weapons, and is looking to the right (the female is a bit more straight ahead). I'm sure their sculpted digitally. Just flip a model. Lol.

 

Fair points. Can't argue with any of it. Overall, I still really like the kit though.

 

Grrr, !mrahil

 

Agreed, the others are just more generic barbarian-types as we have seen in Warcry warbands and so on, but this one is particularly unusual and can be used for all sorts of conversions - a Bray-Shaman, a Chaos Sorcerer, a Genestealer Magus, a Necromancer, the list goes on. Just add a bit of imagination and it can be pretty much any creepy character model you can think of.

 

This is the way!

That's definitely the most unique one of the bunch. While I like that one, I think I like these two a bit better...