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The Lumineth warband highlights a major failing on the part of the design teams for WarCry and AoS both:
Not being willing to separate out the constituent components of the warbands into multiple units.

The unmasked, unarmoured Aelfs are supposed to be the "initiates". Lorewise? They haven't bonded with the aelementari temple they've chosen yet(River Temple initiates, per the lore, bind themselves with stones and jump into a river. If they drown? They drown. If they manage to bond, they can start getting air via the river's spirits), so they wouldn't have all of the benefits that the bonding brings yet.

Maybe I'll be wrong and they'll pull another Hunters of Huanchi(the only warband I can think of where they have differentiated between the components when ported over), but I dunno.

Yes the mishmash nature of warband units in AoS is incredibly off putting.

Agreed. It's the worst part about the Warcry warbands when they force them into a single unit in AoS. They don't look like a unit. They just look smashed together and it makes no sense.

The Lumineth highlight another area where GW could improve.
The poses are mirrored.
It wouldn't take that much more design time to tweak the poses.
Feels like they hit the mirror button, swapped the uniform/skin, & call it done.
It calls attention to the stiff, lifelessness of CAD designs to me.

I have a hunch that the Lumineth band will look better in person. I feel like the jumpy/leapy miniatures don't always translate well to 2D photography.

Only thing I want out of that box is the terrain piece though. Not like I need it. It figures that they'd start releasing more explicitly Seraphon terrain now that my collection is already more than big enough.

Not a fan of the double spear with the cruciform profile. It's so ugly and also not very useful. At least the alternate weapon build Kusarigama didn't look too bad.

Also suspenders? I swear someday someone gonna replace the weapons in the back with kiddy backpack.

I don't much care for either faction, but I must take my hat off to that brilliant pun of a title for the new box. Bravo.

I feel like the Lumineth are a bit overdone, giving so many of them tactical branches to leap off of puts it over the edge for me. The face sculpts also leave me liking the masked ones better.

Pyrehaunt I like more, but I'll need to see those white robed ones in person, their posing seems oddly... incomplete? I get T-pose vibes.

Terrain I love, no criticism there.

Updated FEC rules to include the Abhorrant Gorewarden, Cardinal, Decapitator, Morbheg Knights and Cryptguard

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/dw67CfS4I66AiNQ9.pdf

Neat, like the look of those.

Impressive. Most Impressive...

 DaveC wrote:
Updated FEC rules to include the Abhorrant Gorewarden, Cardinal, Decapitator, Morbheg Knights and Cryptguard

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/dw67CfS4I66AiNQ9.pdf

Now if only Seraphon would get the same treatment.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
Updated FEC rules to include the Abhorrant Gorewarden, Cardinal, Decapitator, Morbheg Knights and Cryptguard

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/dw67CfS4I66AiNQ9.pdf

Now if only Seraphon would get the same treatment.

Came here to say the same thing.

Saviors of Cinderfall rules

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/RWe6ZwU3KRocgfOD.pdf

They are short points wise so will need to be filled out with other Order of Azyr fighters - which I believe is just Hexbane's Hunters from White Dwarf 494 for now.

OBR vs Sylvaneth









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Better pictues:

The terrain is nice, the Sylvaneth band is kinda lame, more than half of the warband are already existed unit just with slightly different visual

Oof. Big misses all around here for me. I like the three new Dryads, but otherwise this Sylvaneth aesthetic does nothing for me. This would be cool as someone's personal converted army, but I do not need official miniatures like this.

The Bonereapers are such a hodge-podge. The centaur is neat, I guess, and so are the little dogs. But can we PLEASE just get a unit of archers for them already? Just a normal unit of archers?

Both sides and the terrain looks great. Especially the mini morgahsts. Hopefully the dryads are a teaser of a new kit coming and the old junk can get dumped back into old world.

Both sides look great, apart from the ... tree... but neither is a faction I'm interested in, so happily skipping a box.

AoS pets never fail to impress.

Also I'd buy 40 of those Dryads for WE in TOW if the current ones were that good.

Seconding the desire for a new Dryad kit in that vein pls. They’re the only Sylvaneth kit I don’t like.

Doggos, harpies and dryads are great, the rest is okeish.

They’re gross but I really like the sylvaneth. I wish more warbands were themed to the setting, like if Underworld warbands actually were themed around Beastgrave. I’m still hoping we get the savage Seraphon Gnarlwood lore teased

Are they the first new Dryads GW has done?

If the Ossiarch infantry looked like the two in this warband, I'd get an army of them. But they don't, and likely won't for a decade, so my wallet's safe.

 GaroRobe wrote:
They’re gross but I really like the sylvaneth. I wish more warbands were themed to the setting, like if Underworld warbands actually were themed around Beastgrave. I’m still hoping we get the savage Seraphon Gnarlwood lore teased

I like them more than a lot of people seem to. As you said, the models have a built-in narrative themed to the setting. Moreso than if they did some kind of tree-dog mini, like some of the other warbands have. And I agree that savage Seraphon would be very cool...

And dang it...another terrain piece I want. It never ends.

About time:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/31/sunday-preview-nightmares-pyres-and-gnomes/

and Kan will finally be happy

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

and Kan will finally be happy

How reliable is the source for this rumour? Seems hard to believe

Finally, plus the Ruined Spawning Pool terrain differs a bit from the original Scales of Taxalis equivalents with an added covered platform on one and the lower platform removed while the upper platform is extended on the other.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
About time:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/31/sunday-preview-nightmares-pyres-and-gnomes/

and Kan will finally be happy

I WILL SET THE HOUNDS UPON YOU!!!*

*In 2 weeks, after the preorders are delivered


On a less jokey note, it's so weird that this is the set that took so long to get split out.


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 ImAGeek wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

and Kan will finally be happy

How reliable is the source for this rumour? Seems hard to believe

You don't understand how I've been chomping at the bit for Wildercorps. I bought a Hunter and Hunted to get a set, then waited to see them split out.

Except it took way, way longer than it should have.