GW News: SKAVEN VICTORY! #NewAoS

I do like the undead range; I have made a box of them. Nice cheap skeletons; while they are a bit on the cartoony side I was fine with that. Great way to get some undead into Mordheim.

 

For which AoS army?

 

Missed this on the first read; that sounds more like a unit of models rather than a single model.

Like how the Slann could be fought only after its temple guard were killed to the point that now the slann was in base-to-base contact with the enemy, except much more structured.

Weird

 

Some people will like these, just as they did the sigmarines, and the orks with so much armour you can barely see the faces.
They wont fit in with existing TK armies.

 

Personally I don't like any of those. But you are correct, it will align with some people's tastes.

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My thoughts exactly! They are just too different.

 

That's just weird… seems wildly inpractical and something that'l quickly swing from overpowered to underpowered depending on if a certain stage is super effective in a certain situation and how easy it can be skipped. Or even just keep him stuck in an earlier form if that's his "weakest" in this particular match-up (e.g. get it stuck in a wizard form that is terrible at combat if you have loads of unbinding)

Also the only way I can think of to make this even remotely work is with the approach as Morathi who simply can only take X wounds. But I do hope they don't go that way. That mechanic is a giant pain as it effectivly makes the model immortal if it can avoid 1-2 rounds of combat.

Imho, even for AoS these are extremely bulky. Even SCE feel less bulky.

 

I've seen those pictures too. It appears that Arkhan will be in the army aswell, you can see part of his warscroll.

 

Hopefully the regular skeletons won't be phased out, but it also begs the questions, why won't the regular skeltons be integrated into the primary skelton faction?
Deathrattle wouldn't even be hard to merge into the Ossiarch army and it would make it a much more balanced force in the process. You could even make the lore something about how the regular skeletons are from the people who wouldn't pay the bonetithe, and are forced to eternally be shattered and remade, also they are completely conscious to put in the mandatory grimdark.

 

The big and chunky Gothizzar Harvester is now here. It has an adorable face if you ask me.

 

Well, we saw the AoS version of Tyranid Warriors, now here comes the AoS Carnifex!

But then, Tyranids are one of my favourite 40K armies, so it’s all good.

Necrolith Colossus substitute anyone?

 

It also has a much more badass crocodilian head option:

Also shown are some elite versions of the Tyranid Warrior chaps, probably from the same kit as the other ones:

These would make much better Ushabti, especially if they were painted with a stone colour scheme.

And also here’s an entire Bonereaper army:

 

To be honest, it kinda feels like a stormfiend to me. Also why does he have a creepy looking guy in his crotch.

Also the article in which that thing is show-cased mentioned both order and destruction are getting battletomes, plural, in the next few weeks. I'm not sure if they just mean the cities of sigmar & greenskin tomes, but it almost sounds like there's a couple more coming. Which is interesting.

Also, the article shows yet more multi-armed skeleton things. They look even sillier. At least the previous ones wielded 4 swords, these just wield an halberd and shield but need 4 hands for that cuz reasons.

 

I can see why you thought this, but its size is more akin to a Carnifex, it has the same hunched over body shape, the claws look just like Tomb King versions of Carnifex crushing claws and its tail sticks straight out behind it like in the Carnifex kit.

Yeah, that’s probably the one thing I would have to change if I got this model. I honestly don’t know why GW did that, as surely the creature can just scoop up handfuls of bones in his massive claws?

 

That is so strange. What an unsightly model.