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Oh. Oh, wow.
I love these.

They're sneaking in some modern remakes of classic metal chaos thugs and chaos marauders. At the very least, some heavy influences (I'm pretty sure I've got the inspiration for the mace and shield guy)
The brigandines are fantastic, and honestly, overall they aren't that busy. A lot of the detail will come out great with a metallic paint and a wash or two.

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Wow, a warcry unit I actually like entirely. Im amazed. People actually in clothes and armor, a shock.

Same. Shoes for everyone! Except the guy with hooves, which is fine.

Dang it. After seeing the preview of one of these a month or two back I was really hoping these were going to be the new Marauders. As a Warcry warband they are OK but it is hard to get excited for another garbage mortal unit to fill the pages of the next STD tome. Fingers crossed that the Centaur Marshal dude will get decent rules.

Carlovonsexron wrote:

Osorios wrote:
The guy on the bottom right of the first picture looks like a Disney villain, maybe Gaston. That chin!

Quentin Tarantino

Tarintino is looking a bit beastman-ish with those hooves. That would explain his love of feet; he's jealous of what the chaos gods deprived him of

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I think it's weird they're called Chaos Legionnaires so soon after they re-branded CSMs.

The preview has them as a part of Be'lakor's army (called 'The Legion of the First Prince' in the 'Soul Wars: Everchosen' rulebook in 2020) so calling them Legionnaires is appropriate.

I really wish they came in a unit of ten. That way I could at least convert them slightly into Marauders if I wanted without having to buy multiple boxes.

Also, the leader is called a Decuriarch. A decurion is a unit of ten horsemen. It's in the name!

But they're fine, I guess. Though I'm a bit tired of the only new Slaves to Darkness units being Warcry warbands. Can we please have new Marauders already?

There’s definitely something off about them. They kind of look like non-chaos warriors with random chaos bits stuck on.

So they look like Warrior Cultists of Chaos, rather than some dudes that pick up random scrap and call themselves warrior cultists.

They look like classic chaos thugs and marauders. Particularly some of the ones that came out 'Marauder MIniatures' (the Morrisons' company that lasted from 88 to 93, before being reabsorbed by Citadel)

Some of the scale creep back in the day came from Marauder- they were just a smidge bigger than Citadel.

I actually like these guys.

Also, is the one with a spear actually a Gor? He's got horns, furry legs, and hooves but his face looks very human.

Nice, its certainly a good look.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I actually like these guys.

Also, is the one with a spear actually a Gor? He's got horns, furry legs, and hooves but his face looks very human.

It's Chaos. That's probably just what he rolled on the Random Mutations table...

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I actually like these guys.

Also, is the one with a spear actually a Gor? He's got horns, furry legs, and hooves but his face looks very human.

He's a Turnskin!

Oh man, those designs walked right out of an Ian Miller illustration. I love them.

Also, what was the last time a GW miniature wore a brigandine?

By the way did anyone notice in the war and fluff the mention of the Serephon void ship? 😳 Could this be a subtle hint of what may be finally returning to 40k?

The initial announcement for this box had the void ship.

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 KidCthulhu wrote:
I actually like these guys.

Also, is the one with a spear actually a Gor? He's got horns, furry legs, and hooves but his face looks very human.

He's a Turnskin!

I do like the inclusion of just... mutations. It's an aspect Chaos has lost a lot of and I am enjoying seeing some return to that in GWs lineup. Need more of those steps between 'whole' and 'spawn' imo.


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John D Law wrote:
By the way did anyone notice in the war and fluff the mention of the Serephon void ship? 😳 Could this be a subtle hint of what may be finally returning to 40k?

They've been a thing for all of AoS and arguably before, when they left the Old World during End Times: Thanquol. I wouldn't read too much into it.

Even if not everything GW makes for Warcry is to my tastes, or not something I would want to paint an army of.... I freaking love how much the sculptors have been exploring a multitude of aesthetics to entice a variety of players.

 NH Gunsmith wrote:
Even if not everything GW makes for Warcry is to my tastes, or not something I would want to paint an army of.... I freaking love how much the sculptors have been exploring a multitude of aesthetics to entice a variety of players.

That's a very good point.

 Scottywan82 wrote:


Also, the leader is called a Decuriarch. A decurion is a unit of ten horsemen. It's in the name!

It wasn’t though, so nothing wrong about it.
Decurion was the officer of a Turma, which was the group of cavalry.

So to me classic GW, take the leader word, make it -iarch for warhammeryness.

I like them. I prefer the modern Chaos Warrior look for armored Chaos worshippers and half naked barbarians for regular Joes, but these guys are cool, too.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:
There’s definitely something off about them. They kind of look like non-chaos warriors with random chaos bits stuck on.

Perhaps you see the non-Chaos part because they could be seen as a blend of Tilean mercenaries, Brettonian men at arms and samurai. The latter could easily absorb some of the horns, so there isn't necessarily much in the way of chaotic design elements left.

But as has been mentioned, they do seem to draw on a look of Chaos worshippers that hasn't been in use for thirty years. The historical armor with leering faces thing made its way into a few illustrations in Realms of Chaos.

Danny wrote:

It wasn’t though, so nothing wrong about it.
Decurion was the officer of a Turma, which was the group of cavalry.

To me that makes it even worse lol.

Although to be fair. There were three decurion in a unit of thirty. It’s meaning was there, but they didn’t actually split into tens or anything.

My point being it was the leaders not the unit called it.

But yeah it’s still classic GWness


On the warband itself, yeah they look ok, but not amazing enough for me to want to jump into Warcry yet..

A good box with two good warbands, is what I need for me to get a set.
As usual I maybe like one but not both sides in these boxes, enough to pull the trigger anyway.
But if a good solo warband box comes out like this that I like, maybe..

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I do like the inclusion of just... mutations. It's an aspect Chaos has lost a lot of and I am enjoying seeing some return to that in GWs lineup. Need more of those steps between 'whole' and 'spawn' imo.

Unfortunately, since he'll be a 'fixed' warband member option, every Legionnaire mob will have some bloke with goat legs.

When Warcry was first announced, I had foolishly hoped that it would be a return to some Realms of Chaos 'get random gifts' campaign where you got to add/remove limbs from your dudes on the whims of the dice. Having the fixed roster of options for each faction just makes the Chaos too ordered for my tastes, even if each of the flavours they've gone for has been awesome individually.

It's only fixed for the AoS version, where it all blends together in one unit anyways. In Warcry only the leader can't be taken in multiples.

I do wish there was some chaos mutation action though.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
It's only fixed for the AoS version, where it all blends together in one unit anyways. In Warcry only the leader can't be taken in multiples.

Sorry, I mean 'fixed' as in: you want a mutant? It's Fleshrend Goatlegs or nobody, buddy. No choice of what mutant you want to take (outside of hacking some limbs off yourself, of course... )

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
So they look like Warrior Cultists of Chaos, rather than some dudes that pick up random scrap and call themselves warrior cultists.

Warriors who became cultists rather than cultists who became a warband?

 His Master's Voice wrote:
Oh man, those designs walked right out of an Ian Miller illustration. I love them.

You know I read this and literally my opinion of them totally shifted. I see it now. I think I’ve gone from “I’m really not sure” to “totally love them”. I’d just need to figure out how to paint them to look like Ian Miller’s art. Lots of contrast probably (and I don’t mean the paint brand).

Voss wrote:

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Wow, a warcry unit I actually like entirely. Im amazed. People actually in clothes and armor, a shock.

Same. Shoes for everyone! Except the guy with hooves, which is fine.

Do we get a good enough angle to confirm he doesn't have shoes attached to his hooves?

Oh man, the legionnairs look great!

I was really dissapointed by the rotmire guys and horns of hashut, so Im really glad war cry get back on track. (well, this is just my opinion. From reading the posts here, I realise most people have the exact opposite taste )

By the way Decurion comes from Deca, meaning 10 just like Centurion comes from Centum, meaning 100, its basicly just the roman way of structuring the military forces in fixed numbers. Calling them Legionnaires obviously draw from the same type of military organisation, so it makes sense to me calling the unit leader a Decuriarch, because it just imply he is incharge of a unit of 10 guys.

I love those cultists, and wish more models had brigandines.

 Fayric wrote:
Oh man, the legionnairs look great!

I was really dissapointed by the rotmire guys and horns of hashut, so Im really glad war cry get back on track. (well, this is just my opinion. From reading the posts here, I realise most people have the exact opposite taste )

By the way Decurion comes from Deca, meaning 10 just like Centurion comes from Centum, meaning 100, its basicly just the roman way of structuring the military forces in fixed numbers. Calling them Legionnaires obviously draw from the same type of military organisation, so it makes sense to me calling the unit leader a Decuriarch, because it just imply he is incharge of a unit of 10 guys.

Romans were not exactly literalists for this either, for a large chunk of time a typical century contained ~80 legionaries, not 100.