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tneva82 wrote:
Unless gw increases discount %(hah!) this hence costs more than vanguard. So not return to start collect style.

A man can dream.

Is the assumption Vanguard boxes are going the way of the dodo then? It's a bit weird they'd double dip on main range discount sets, even if Spearheads are slightly differentiated with a Warscroll Battalion for the contents (I'd thought Vanguards still had those? Shows how much attention I've been paying)

 Tim the Biovore wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Unless gw increases discount %(hah!) this hence costs more than vanguard. So not return to start collect style.

A man can dream.

Is the assumption Vanguard boxes are going the way of the dodo then? It's a bit weird they'd double dip on main range discount sets, even if Spearheads are slightly differentiated with a Warscroll Battalion for the contents (I'd thought Vanguards still had those? Shows how much attention I've been paying)

Either vanguard goes away replaced by these more expensive ones or these are end of edition limited print run discount boxes.

(vanguards don't btw have warscroll battalions anymore)

Either way there won't be 2 stock discount boxes for 1 army. One is going away.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/J1mCJoyiEAkudjdr.pdf

This was a very good read into the madness and Ushoran's character:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/12/dawnbringer-chronicles-xvi-the-summercourt/?utm_source=Social+Media&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=AoS&utm_content=Dawnbringers&fbclid=IwAR1MEtV0Fvn1maN0B2VvCaD_LQ9wbwd-GEapG2uYG3SIVPL9v1A6vCbIvLY

came here to post it. Loved the story and the exposition on the relationship between the various characters and factions, etc.

The AoS writers really hit it out of the park with the FEC narrative. What seems to have started as a joke has become easily the most compelling storyline and background material not just in AoS but warhammer as a broader whole. Its really a shame that there isn't a FEC novel series, as it strikes me as the kind of thing that could potentially appeal to broader fantasy audiences in general.

Agreed with both of you. Very good read, and FEC novel would be really great to have. Even if I despise most of AOS lore, FEC are trully amazing part of it that could easily make a fun read for any fantasy fan.

Yes, that was probably the best of these little stories so far.
Poor Gormayne, not only is he a sane ghoul, he forces himself to be sane because someone has to be.

Although now I'm really curious to know just what Ushoran sees when he looks at "Lord" Ouboroth.

Technically Ouboroth is an ex-god creature. Potentially Ushoran might see more of the intelligence behind such a creature, manifest as a person.


But yeah the Flesh Eaters have a lore that is just so different to everything else and its amazing how popular its become! It's also amazing because for the longest time it was a lore almost totally detached from the models


Also Ghoul Slayer has some fun Flesheaters fighting against the hellish monster that is Gotrek

I imagine one of the reasons it took so long was that it must be incredibly hard to portray something as..fluid as madness in mini form.

Eh to be fair a lot of AoS armies need updates in various forms so there's a bit of a "wait your turn" thing going on.

I think that overall its fairly easy to reflect the madness, they just need to have adornments and weapons and poses that suggest they are doing things that they aren't. So a cannibal handling a long sword and polishing it becomes one holding a huge bloody meat cleaver and rubbing it with a flayed skin and so forth.

Although GW might have experimented with a few different designs and approaches toward how they want to display the army and the style of madness

$220!! Ionus Cryptborn must be a lot bigger than I thought.

 Rolsheen wrote:
$220!! Ionus Cryptborn must be a lot bigger than I thought.

He's definitely big, but he gives an illusion of small because he's much more compact compared to regular drakes.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
He's definitely big, but he gives an illusion of small because he's much more compact compared to regular drakes.

Yes and no. His dragon is slightly bigger than the dragons being ridden by the Stromdrake Riders but it's still physically smaller than the Corpsevulture for Kruleboyz even if it wasn't in the pouncing cat pose.

Ionus is a beautiful sculpt.
I dont like stormcast, and thus live in denial that I collect them, so I will most certainly get him for my not-collection of stormcast, you know, the guys I just happen to have lying around.

But I must also try to get my hands on Belthanos for my actual Sylvaneth collection.

Did I mention I dont even play AoS?

I knew I had subscribed to Stormbringer, but every delivery is a welcome surprise.

Just got the Exclusive Gutrippa Boss, a Lord Imperatant with Gryph-hound, Swampcalla Shaman and Xandire’s Truthseekers, which are some of my favorite SCE models after Neave Blacktalon and her cohort.

Also, some paints and a neat binder to sort the magazine issues.

Let's get these in here. Krethusa is by far the standout reveal to me, she's stunning.

Yeah Krethusa is great. I also really like both Warcry warbands, and the Warcry terrain is really putting Kill Team to shame.

Yeah, some great reveals.
Love the Callis & Toll set, and that's a much better zombie team than the last one for Underworlds.

Raven witch is nice, not Harlies are okeish, fire spooks do nothing to me, book characters could not exist. The real stars are the Underworlds undead.

I feel the opposite. We've had necromantic bands before and these don't really do anything special. I'd rather have had something more unique personally.

I've said it elsewhere, but whilst GW is doing awesome with Soulblight, the Zombies just keep being a miss for me. Their Warcry Warbands even more so as they seem to reach out to different zombie backgrounds and such and just not knitting together into a modern Soulblight army.


I think in part its because old Vampires always had that feel of just turning up in a random city or region and raising an army as they went. So they'd just raise everything in the graveyards - zombies, skeletons and all for a motley army that marched as they went like a tidal force.

Modern Soulblight do that too, but because they aren't in hiding they give me more of an organised army feel. That comes through with their skeletons, beasts and monsters and even the undead Dire Wolves. But the zombies just feel out of place now. Slow, lumbering, not really martial or organised or such. I might just be that I'm not the biggest fan of their designs in general; and that things like the corpse cart feel old world rather than AoS in design; but eh the zombies have yet to grab my attention.




New DoK hero though is awesome and I love the use of feathered wings! I like to think that everyone who stuck Dark Eldar feathered wings on their Khinerai helped inspire someone at GW to do that same thing!

Nice of them to sneak two Mordheim gangs in there. And the Crone lady is superb of course.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Nice of them to sneak two Mordheim gangs in there. And the Crone lady is superb of course.

yeah, they look very much like being planned for Cursed City than anything else

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/19/dawnbringer-chronicles-xvii-the-lady-arcane/

Nice little read. I enjoyed the flashback into childhood Astreia.


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 nels1031 wrote:
I knew I had subscribed to Stormbringer, but every delivery is a welcome surprise.

Just got the Exclusive Gutrippa Boss, a Lord Imperatant with Gryph-hound, Swampcalla Shaman and Xandire’s Truthseekers, which are some of my favorite SCE models after Neave Blacktalon and her cohort.

Also, some paints and a neat binder to sort the magazine issues.

It's a good little mag. I just got three Nexus Syphons come in yesterday.

So, who gifted the witch hunter cat lady the seeing glove? Is it supposed to be reference to existing AoS character I can't think of or new plot thread?

Would've preferred the Callus and Toll bundle to have come with a new Lord-Veritant variant depicting the White Reaper of the Knights Excelsior instead of a new (another!) Hammers of Sigmar character.

Granted, the White Reaper may be truly dead per the last narrative event, but he has history with Callus and Toll(as well as the Ven Denst duo).

The only thing I don't absolutely love about the Crone is that she's a DoK model, where she should really be the herald of Malekith's faction.

 His Master's Voice wrote:
The only thing I don't absolutely love about the Crone is that she's a DoK model, where she should really be the herald of Malekith's faction.

I don't quite get it, the lore says DoK hate her and she's super serious about aiding the forces of Order, but looks like her box will come with DoK models.