GW News: Lizard preview #NewAoS

The Saurus look pretty good if you take those weird face bars off their helmets. Surely in a game where there are so few rules of conduct, allowing your Saurus to bite the enemy team would be an advantage that keeps your team alive, not a disadvantage to get them disqualified...

The Skinks have rather too large eyes, but I can see how their poses can work well when there are opposing team models for them to dodge around.

My main problem is with the Chameleon Skinks, because they look too much like actual real-life chameleons that have been trained as pets to play Blood Bowl, rather than a chameleon variant of the original Skink template. Notice the old Chameleon Skink models retain Skink bodies, they just have chameleon heads, tails and skin:


These new ones on the other hand are almost completely Chameleon with very little Skink in them. How are they going to hold blowpipes with actual Chameleon hands? I suppose it’s just me, but I have the feeling that GW didn’t think that through very well.

 

Meh, the skinks mostly suffer from being on a blank background. When dodging around enemies they look great. But on their own against a blank background they just look like they're constantly tripping over themselves.

 

Well, the Chameleon Skink models I included in my previous post have been around since 7th Edition Fantasy at least (possibly even 6th Edition), so they are about the same age as the Tehenhauin model. Don't get me wrong, I think the actual chameleon faces and tails e.t.c. are done very well on the new models, it was mainly the hands and the stooping postures that made them a little too much like actual Earth chameleons rather than Warhammer Chameleon Skinks specifically.

Didn't know that (not that much of a chameleon expert). Probably just me then.

 

Looks like a miniature Cygor, wonder how big it actually is.

 

I just wish they'd do more with those warbands than the one-off incarnations in warcry/shadespire. Chaos at this point has some of the richer and more versatile culture. It's weird.

 

It looks to me as though it's on a Carnifex-size base, so I imagine it'll be just slightly shorter than a Giant.

 

horses are more difficult to trademark I guess. More seriously though GW does seem to have a weird dislike of horses. Of the top of my head the only ones that are left are the outriders for cities of sigmar, and the various chaos knights/marauders on horse, which is one of the few faction that hasn't had a proper AoS version yet. It's kinda weird..

 

New ossiarch thing, ironically on horses. Probably the first model I don't entirely dislike. The face is still stupid, but at least the rest works as a heavily armoured warhorse in the spirit of a cataphract.

 

I prefer the first one as well, although the second has a bony Pharaoh-style false beard. Certainly the cavalry seem to be the best models so far as they don't have any of the weird Joker grin faces.

 

Slaanesh randomly gets another host out of nowhere. Though I do like they apparently feature the slaves of darkness models. Would love it if the other chaos factions got similar battalions.

 

The rules for it will be in October’s White Dwarf, which will be coming tomorrow, like Fyreslayers got the rules for Bael-Grimnir and additional Vostarg Lodge Rules in June’s issue.

 

well that's because slanesh is having a lot of trouble on the table and needed a boost
wow this guy isn't a melee monster but his spell is evil not letting people use command points is just dumb. and then he gives his guys battle shock immunity not something slanesh needed but there you go.
cool model tho

 

The Vostarg lodge was a new named character (using an existing model but can't have everything) & some battalions. Not an entire sub-allegiance like this one. It just feels a bit out of left field to suddenly give slaanesh yet another sub allegiance. I mean, they already have 3 and it's not even a proper "new" host that's being explored. To be honest, it kinda feels like they just forgot to add it in the main tome given that it's entirely based around that named character.