GW News: SKAVEN VICTORY! #NewAoS

Yep... that will hold me back from buying it for a while.

Grrr, Imrahil

 

They do look rather awesome.

 

Probably a good job given the size of your pile of shame (and I thought mine was big! )

 

Lol, so true. But perhapse my brother wants it for his army and will I be able to paint it anyway

Grrr, Imrahil

 

It's a really cool model. My main criticism is that the king is hard to differentiate from the other units. I understand that helps maintain a uniform looking army, but I kind of lose him a bit in the mix.

 

I literally make more pile of opportunity fodder.

 

That is, but the Easterlings are a particular ordened fighting army. So this fits that line pretty nice. Even the King is among the fighters.

His facecover is distinctive though, not outstanding, but distinctive

Grrr, Imrahil

 

That reminds me - have you finished painting all those regiments of Wargames Atlantic Persians yet? I'm sure you hoarded and made enough of them to recreate Xerxes' entire army at Thermopylae

 

No I have not used all of them yet however some of them have definitely gone to other projects.

 

Cool little AoS model...




Some terrain...


I wouldn't mind if they sold that Dragon-looking skeleton in the center separately...



And saving the best for last...

You can see the rest of the bloodbowl team HERE

 

Another Nighthaunt foot hero? He does look interesting, but the Nighthaunt seem to be pretty heavy on the foot heroes already. Hopefully he does something useful.

As for the terrain set, it does look nice. I wish GW terrain wasn't so expensive, otherwise I'd actually get some to use for my games. But I'm wondering if that dragon-flame-skull looking thing is a new endless spell? I'll be really interested to see what it does if it is.

Were they any announcements about new battletomes? That's what I'm really curious about

 

Some nice models but why must everything be big and swirly (and fragile)

 

Not the Beer Boar!

 

Those beer pigs are apparently going to be a positional, so that should be interesting. That Norse team is a great looking team though.

 

I would totally buy that helmetless beer pig if it was sold separately.

 

Some good news for Horus Heresy players like myself, apparently they're going to keep the game rules based on 7th Edition 40k going into 2.0.

The Horus Heresy's New Edition Revealed

This is especially noteworthy, since 8th Edition 40k benefited Horus Heresy in the same way that 4e Dungeons & Dragons benefited Pathfinder.

 

It still remains to be seen what minor updates they'll implement, mind you. I wouldn't be surprised if the Psychic Powers system gets a massive overhaul, for instance.

All in all, as a game that requires quite a bit of financial investment for just one army (especially in comparison to 9th Edition 40k), it's likely that someone at GW stopped sniffing glue to realize that they can't really afford to alienate the folks most likely to buy their more expensive models.

 

Those boars look adorable.