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I like the models but I wish they’d be a bit less piecemeal about these things.

The models look interesting, can't say I am a fan of the tactical rocks. I really hope the new terrain has had tweaks, more importantly the trees. Curios to see what the versus warband is for these guys, could it be chaos dwarfs finally?

No, it's FEC. We already know what the warbands are by the box names and who's listed in the rulebook.

They look. . . fine.

A little disappointed that I'm not seeing any poison frogs strapped to them like on the old models.

 DaveC wrote:

The video also shows 2 new pieces of terrain - tree on the left with a hut on the upper platform and a skull? with a platform above and drying skin. There's a temple in the background but it might be a scratch build? I wonder if the set might use part of the terrain from HoG along with 2 new sprues?

If I had to guess, I'd expect a terrain setup similar to Gallowdark - mostly duplicates with a new sprue or two. I could see two Gnarloaks and bridge/ruin/palisade sprue included again, Watchtower being dropped and a new item included instead. Rib platform is rather generic and I wouldn't be surprised to see it duplicated as well. If I were GW, I would recycle Megadroth remains into one of the sets too.

Quasistellar wrote:
They look. . . fine.

A little disappointed that I'm not seeing any poison frogs strapped to them like on the old models.

The one in underworlds has one at least

I too cannot unsee the skink's oboe clipping through the floor

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I too cannot unsee the skink's oboe clipping through the floor

That one can be fixed by cutting the arm from the wrist and from the model's chin if its one piece... but yeah.. design flaws as always

Nah, he's just, um.. leaning over the river bank and drinking from a really long straw..

I would buy a box of 20 multipart Chameleons in a heartbeat!

A couple models is not enough.

Could it be they're assembled with the wrong arms on the worng bodies? The downward pointed oboe would probably be fine on the other skink.

May be a weird camera angle, afaik GW generally avoids that? Not a fan of that pose or the less-chameleon eye design. But overall I'm loving them so far, the abundance of tactical rock/jungle works for me in the context of the unit and allows them to have crouched poses without being really short. All very IMO though.

There will be a preview "hype video" soon about AoS / Warcry, anyway.

The "continuous small snipset drop" is how they operate with news since they need actual new stuff each monday now.

I just don't care anymore, the release window is way too close from the "reveals" for me to get any hype. I just take what I want when it actually releases (not pre-ordered : when it hits the shelves). If I miss something, I don't care and I move on. In the end, it's healthier that way.


That said, the new terrain sets in the video look cools to complete your Heartwood table.

Hopefully it's just the paintjob and the dark lighting in the video - but they don't look as good as the excellent Chameleon skink they just released in the Underworlds warband.

New boxset reveal:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/10/24/chameleon-skinks-hunt-jade-masked-tzeentch-cultists-in-the-new-warcry-box-sundered-fate/

Especially like the Jade Obelisks and the Terrawings

Really dig the Chaos Warband, though the Chaos Legionnaires are still my number one!

My word - both of those warbands look great! I wish the scatter terrain wasn't a repeat, but hopefully the next box will have something a little weirder/different as the action moves closer to the reamins of the Eye of Chotec

I’m actually not that impressed with the Chameleon Skinks, some of them are okay but some look a bit goofy, especially compared to the underworlds one. Also why is there one repeated? Edit- do like the pterodactyl things though!

The Tzeentch guys are really cool though. Love the masks, love the armour that isn’t classically Tzeentch and love the daemon-thing.

The Jade Obelisk guys are amazing!

Now that's a cool set and nice to see that another regular army is getting a nice warcry warband!

I like both warbands but JO are cooler.

Looks good the Jade Obelisk could use a more Tzeentch paint scheme. Looks like Shadowvault type set no rulebook and a little less terrain than HoG so possibly a £110 /£120 box set?

The Jade band is great. Eyes wide shut meets the court of owls, led by Casey Jones sans ninja turtles. Now we have the Tzeentch band to go alongside the rotmire nurglites.

I feel like some in the warband are just reskins from other warbands though. Like identical poses and proportions. Also wish that some were visibly turning to stone.

Yeah, really like the Jade band. Nice overall look, some interesting mix of weapons.

Like the Chaos guys, dislike the Skinks. Still not my kind of terrain. Wallet saved once again!

 GaroRobe wrote:
Now we have the Tzeentch band to go alongside the rotmire nurglites.

Now that you mention it, with two so themed warbands and the next box called Bloodhunt, I guess there's a real chance that Nightmare Quest has Slaaneshi cultists, huh? I may actually have something to look forward to this season.

Yikes! Is this set likely to be released this year? There's that Slaves to Darkness army box slated for November-ish and I'm assuming the customary Christmas battleforce sets which means... along with these jade and scaled lovelies there will be some difficult choices to make in Scrub household!

Do the little jade bird skulls on the JO archer and axemen solve a Rumor Engine image?

I wonder if there is another photoshop blunder in the Chameleon Skink picture as one of the models is duplicated. Great models but the lack of poisonous frogs duct taped onto them is slightly disappointing.

Looks like my prediction of recycling Gnarloaks and obstacle sprue was spot on but I didn't expect an upgrade sprue to give them larger platforms. I think I can safely sacrifice couple of ruins for basing duties now. As of now the Watchtower remains unique to Heart of Ghur.

Liking both of them, but I do grow weary of all these random chaos subcultures. We're out of the Eight Points, why are more than half of all new warbands still chaos?

It looks like FB promo picture is wrong again and there are only 9 Chameleon Skinks, not 10. One is duplicated and there are only nine shown in individual pics and box content shot.