AdamR Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Just now, pforson said: Ah! You reckon she's not actually ripped and her muscles don't actually 'fill' the gaps formed by the armour? That makes sense - it's all just for show, in order to scare away the silly orcs! Maybe all Stormcast are actually like that, little weedy skinny people dressed up in shiny armour! Or big people in even bigger armour... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pforson Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I dunno. Still doesn't really explain the need for muscular armour. It's nearly as daft as when Blood Angels got nipples. Ho-hum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Changer Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 It's only sculpted in the same way that some Roman armour was sculpted. I don't see what the issue is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pforson Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Huh. That looks daft as well. You don't happen to know why they did that do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Changer Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 To be honest I think it was to show off and a display of wealth. Pretty much like walking around in a gold suit of armour.... oh wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Turragor Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 29 minutes ago, pforson said: But armour shaped exactly like a six-pack??? How's she supposed to move? Every time she flexes her muscles the armour would have to flex with her. It makes no sense... Stormcast are armoured like batman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chikout Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Stormcast are fat. Their bellies fill the armour the way jelly fills a mold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Explorator Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I am impressed, they actually managed to make a specific female armour version for Stormcast that looks right, I was really hoping they would not do a specific female version before, since I feared they would go more into the direction of Sisters of Battle/Silence and I would have prefered keeping Stormcast gender ambigous to that. Shadowspire looks like a great place for GW to dip their toes, testing out new factions and steping out of their usual bounds without massively commiting like tey have to do with full releases. This is great news, since being able to test out risks should enable them to develop their lines more boldly. I can also see this becoming a nice gateway to the larger hobby. Just buying, building and painting a three to ten model warband, which are snapfit to boot, is much less of a commitment than GW has ever required. I bet they will use this to test out where they go with Death, as it seems to be the GA they are the most unsure about (unsurprising, Undead in Warhammer never build up the strong Setting specific Identity and extensive library of unique design elements the other factions developed, so they have much less to work from). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aginor Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Meh. I prefer the other female SCEs who don't have special armor. Or in other words: I liked the SCEs not being gendered, since it really shouldn't matter IMO. But yeah, it could be worse. MUCH worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Lyons Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 2 hours ago, Thomas Lyons said: My money is on Tyrion. I'm amending my called shot. Watching the trailer again, I think we get hints to the backstory and character in the trailer, particularly here: We know that the city is a damned/cursed place caught between the Realms of Light and Shadow (both dwelling places of aelves). There is clear similarity of the crown to Nagash's as well as aelven ones (like Witch Aelves and even other ones). I think this is the iconography of the King of this city, who was cursed/influenced by Nagash, so you have the mixture of those two elements in the crown with the gold eyes (which we see the king covering his eyes in this image after seeing his skeletal self in a mirror; see above). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daedalus81 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I don't think he's seeing his skeletal self in the mirror. It looks like a kingly lich to me -- Settra. The middle is Nagash. The two on the right have me puzzled though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galas Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I think all that people in the image are different people. The one in the left looks like a woman to me. Maybe its explaining the history of the city af you said, the giant Nagash face representating the moment when he cursed the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DynamicCalories Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 2 hours ago, Aginor said: Meh. I prefer the other female SCEs who don't have special armor. Or in other words: I liked the SCEs not being gendered, since it really shouldn't matter IMO. But yeah, it could be worse. MUCH worse. It's worth looking at it from the other perspective. They may not be gendered to you but they quite clearly look, through the lens of millennia of aesthetic coding that has been tied to social construct (cheers John Berger*), like men. Angharad could have been designed slightly better, for sure (although picking at her abs when every Stormcast that doesn't have ostentatious armour covering their lower torso has totally ripped AF abs armour is stupid) but it's a concession in a hobby that aesthetically and also - but thankfully infrequently - community-wise can treat women as an other*. *i am using academic terms here, apologise if this comes across as obtuse. ALSO aware that this may be spawning a discussion that isn't fit for here in which case, as you were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysandestolpe Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 5 hours ago, pforson said: What happens if she gets a cold and misses a few gym sessions? Really? I'm reading too much into this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysandestolpe Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 3 hours ago, pforson said: Huh. That looks daft as well. You don't happen to know why they did that do you? That is bridging a connection between the heroic male nude featured in sculptures from both Greekoroman empires. They wanted to form assimilation between them and the gods featured in those sculpture. good question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teletomas Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 6 hours ago, pforson said: Why does the female Stormcast have such a defined six-pack? Or..... Why do the male storm casts have such defined six-packs? Guess everyone works out at the gym all the time and eats copious amounts of chicken... That's just how minis look when you live in a time when the male ideal is a bodybuilding teenage ****** star... Oh well... Here's to missing a natural male body... Edit: For some reason the word describing a starring role in a fleshy and overly romantic movie is too naughty for the PC filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DynamicCalories Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Now now, the natural male body is serviced well by the Nurgle miniature range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teletomas Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 6 minutes ago, DynamicCalories said: Now now, the natural male body is serviced well by the Nurgle miniature range. hahaha I'm not talking about those levels of manliness. Just a sporty fighter physique, not the bodybuilding and mirror gazing teenager who lives at home because he can't hold a job with all that flexing. I'm afraid people might have forgotten how a normal strong body looks like, seeing as the bodybuilder has become mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amysrevenge Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, DynamicCalories said: Now now, the natural male body is serviced well by the Nurgle miniature range. Also, Gutbusters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teletomas Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, amysrevenge said: Also, Gutbusters. That's true actually. A lot of the old empire models were there also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasshpit Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Idk where it started but this whole female SE ab thing is silly.... imo... How does a Dracoth ever close it's jaws around food with 4 foot lower teeth?.... How does a Gore Grunta ever do anything with that mouth!?.... Why do limbs only grow out of the right side of tree/spite revanants?.... ETc, rtc, etc.... I'm absolutely impressed we got a female stormcast that's not wearing high heels! Hoping for more as I don't want to buy 10 boxes of this game to spread them out amongst my SE ranks..... but I will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Criti Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 12 minutes ago, amysrevenge said: Also, Gutbusters. Those best reflect "Dad Bod," which is apparently surprisingly popular right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dez Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Great news so far, I'm looking forward to more KO info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauche Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Are people really having issue with a fantasy interpretation of the male figure? This is a game where demons fight dragons. I think we can let it slide. :] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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