WHFB and AoS, which model had the shortest life?

Maybe Necrosphinx for TKs? Never thought about it but you got my attention.

 

I remember them from the 6th edition army books, where you could take them to supplement your army (I may even have the pdfs lying around somewhere). For instance, here is the entry from the 6th edition Lizardmen book...

 

Yeah. There was a lizardmen mercenary unit comprised of skink riding Cold Ones called Tichi Huichi's raiders. They basically offer their services to their warmblooded employers in return for plaques and other long-lost treasures of the Old Ones.

There was also a time when a lizardmen army relieved a lustrian High Elf colony from the dark elves besieging it.

 

In 8th edition any army could align with any other army but the nature of that alliance (trusted, suspicious or desperate) will depend on the alignment of the two armies in question (Forces of Order, Forces of Destruction and Non-aligned Forces).

 

Yes. Yes there was. I still have the minis for that Regiment of Renown. I use them as Saurus Knights.

I kind of miss the Dogs of War. They gave them generic rules in that 'get you by' booklet that came out with the 6th Edition release, but never got anything official after that.

 

I'd say probably the Forsaken kit for Warriors of Chaos - the plastic kit was much newer than the 2011 Necrosphinx, appearing in February 2013 despite being in the army book since 7th Edition, only to be axed by GW as soon as AoS came round in 2015, one of the few axes WoC got (having a lifespan of only around 2 years). Either they were just too weird for people's liking, they were too weak or underplayed in Fantasy or they just didn't fit with AoS lore.

 

Yeah, that's a pretty strong contender. I whinge about the Dogs of War, but you could actually buy those minis through the whole of 5th and 6th edition and some were available into 7th. Those Forsaken were kind of... weird...

 

Not my cup tea. I don't have any of those in my WoC force.

 

If I recall, they were intended to be a weird kind of siege-themed unit originally, that had to be grandfathered into later rules. What they basically were was an attempt to make Possessed for Fantasy.

 

Of course! Like the Long Drong Slayer Pirates!


(not mine sadly, maybe someday)

And there were a bunch more Dogs of War, including some halflings.

Probably the shortest-run models were the old White Dwarf models that used to be in production for one-time only events or sales? They might have some of the shortest model-lives.

 

Indeed there were! They had pikemen in several different kinds of armor, crossbowmen with heavy armor and big pavise shields, several flavors of ogres, halflings, a dragon-riding elf, dark elf scouts with greatswords, dwarf pirates, skink cavalry, hobgoblin Mongol cavalry (they rocked), a werebear, twin giants, skeletons who made more skeletons whenever they killed someone (so you could end the game with a bigger unit than you started with if you went against horde armies), and... well... everything weird. They were a fun army to paint and build, but kind of tricky to actually play with.

As for those White Dwarf article minis, some of those lasted a couple of editions as well. The minis for the Albion campaign, for example, could still be bought via mail-order until late 6th edition despite being a 5th edition campaign.

 

I had Long Drongs dwarf pirates which I gave to my nephew. I still have the skink cold one riders. Much better than the GW offerings today. Saurus on cold ones just dont look right. Like a tall person on a dwarf pony. I also have the hobgoblin wolf riders. Had most of the other stuff only to find my sister threw them out when I went overseas.
Unless you bought something specific to play with your existing army, you were limited in who they aligned with. At least initially. When GW saw that the rules made it hard to align with some races and thus they didn't sell well, GW changed the rules. So they could play with any race. That sort of killed it for Dogs of War.

 

If I'd have to guess they stand out too much among the current chaos lines. There's nothing else that's anywhere near as mutated and mutilated in their line-up.The only thing that comes close are some nurgle units. Everyone else tends to have a much more uhm "healthy"? appearance. Or at least is fully mutated in the case of something like chaos spawn. These are halfway between daemon & human which you don't really see in any other unit except maybe for gutrot spume and blightkings. And especially the slaves of darkness/old warriors of chaos were relativly light on mutations and mostly appeared human, so keeping them in that list would be weird.

 

Man, so jealous. I miss my Hobgoblin Wolf Riders. They had weird rules initially, but were surprisingly kick-ass for what they were.