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Loving that cannon, where it looks the entire breach is lifted out for reloading.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Loving that cannon, where it looks the entire breach is lifted out for reloading.

Yup, solid and classic design. One of the earliest “repeating” guns used square breech blocks in a similar manner. Only issue, and it’s the same one revolvers have, is wasting powder and energy out the gap between the breech and the barrel.

It fits the overall design, as without it, the crew would need to found the front of the mantlet to reload.

Also like the various other bits and bobs on show.

I see a lovely Grail Reliquary and a reimagined Bretonnian Bombard of old. Me gusta!

I dig it. Love the Arch-Knight and the Gargoylian Mascot. The big cannon looks great too!

They all look, however, like a pain in the butt to paint XD

Yet more really cool stuff!
And the Pontifex is one of those wheel worshippers, I was hoping they'd get a mini or something, what with how suitably bonkers they sounded.

GW have really taken the tactical rock to a whole new level with the Ponifex's base!

I’m really digging the Heironymous Bosch aesthetic with this army. Just the right mix of arcane and archaic, without going particularly overboard on either.

Wow GW was hiding all the coolest models. Some of these models must be converted to chaos

Though the lack of a duardin with the ironweld is very very very disappointing. The awesome arch knight helmet almost makes up for it though.

The Soul Shepherd will be the basis for a lot of Imperial preacher conversions I imagine.

The Pontifex likewise. That's a cool model.

Warscrolls are starting to pop up on r/citiesofsigmar. The cannon has 3 kinds of shot, there's 3 different battlemage warscrolls (the regular, hurricanum, and luminark), and the Pontifex gives lots of bonuses just to Humans.

Kind of dig how they gave the Whisperblade such a subtle design.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I want attention where it's needed, not just for the sake of it. You do that, you get junk like the space marine dex where it outdoes every other range by 3:1. I'd rather that stuff like Skaven and Beastmen get the full attention and then go back and revisit.

Those have vast range already. Far from most pressing need

It's about getting them up to standard. Both of those are well beyond time for a redo.

Yea. But there are multiple other ranges that need new models even more pressingly.

Whisperblade and Great Cannon are my favourites.

Mounted Marshal (from TGA)

Goddamn, they have not put a foot wrong this entire release.

I really like that mounted Marshall. Could almost be a painting.

Really really want to see them all deployed as an army, as I think they’re gonna look even better.


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Also, is it just me or is there a, well let’s call it weariness, to these models? That they’ve already been through a lot, but will stand all the same.

It may be the more muted colours at work, but I’m appreciating it. It gives a real sense that these are tireless pioneers, heading off into the wilderness to face who-knows-what.

The muted colours definitely help with that, as well as the worn, battered looking gear and armour. These look like people who have gone through and are still going through hell but are just getting on with it.

It should contrast well with Stormcast Eternals, who are of course the Sparkly Boys.

To have this drudgery and utilitarian look works for me. Spesh as you imagine them looking quite grand when clean and polished for leaving the parade ground.

I'll be interested to see when someone does a "parade ground" paintjob on these how it affects the overall look of the army.

The character models are mostly pretty cool - Arch-Knight, War Surgeon, Warforger, Marshal. Both heads for the soul shepher are pretty lame, but the rest of the model is great.

The more I see of them the more I think that the cooking pot helmets only look decent when fully enclosed.

I'm not planning to play or purchase this army, but these are brilliant models. Whichever team or individual sculpted them should be very proud.

I'm blown away by these new CoS models, when you compare them to the older models the quality is night and day.

It seems absolutely crazy to me why it took GW so long to release a new human faction for AoS

Much clearer pics up on Warhammer Community, plus some flavour text.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/08/04/cities-of-sigmar-the-entire-magnificent-range-revealed/

OMG, Plague Doctor and mounted marshal are absolutely lovely.

It used to be obvious to me which models were plastic or resin just by looking at the painted version, especially any animal or human, but if somebody had told me that these guys were resin I would have believed them*. Great work.


Edit: *except for the cloak, the creases/folds are way too angular to have been sculpted by traditional methods

Whisperblade seem to be super sinister commissar equivalents.

I went from meh to ambivalent to excited to pretty blown away throughout the whole years long reveal cycle of Cities of Sigmar.

Not sure I'll start an army on day 1, but there are definitely some mini's here that I want to put hands on and paint up.

I don't really have the money for another army, I guess I'm going to have to get busy selling 'cause I need these minis in my life

Ok, that explains why they suddenly revealed the entire range.

Yeah... that Whisperblade might be the best mini they've made in years.