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That's because they're just the hangover of the Old World. AOS is culturally vastly more informed by a variety of cultural archetypes than OW ever was (at least, in a sense which was not grossly culturally insensitive). There's actually a lot of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the Lumineth too, just drawing more from the religious and mythic imagery of the era whereas Cathay is a bit more historical.

Yeah could be a new box like Catacombs, think that was about this time last year in fact

There's already a few chaos dwarfs in Warcry factions, the Golems and Spire Tyrants My guess for Warcry is a few more cool big guys like the Ogroid and Sphinx. I'd be surprised if they did a new edition of Warcry outside the big summer window.

I know this dosent exactly make me a particularly compelling Kruelboy candidate but I can't really bring myself to paint any sort of beast that looks abused, which all of the new models do. Apart from the vulture, but at that price I think it would make me a victim of abuse if I bought it.

Looks like the mystery Kruleboy with vulture is just part of the general Gutrippaz kit. That's exciting from a hobby perspective as it means you can likely build multiple command options from one box. The absence of warscrolls pretty much confirms what I was saying about + being a means of gatekeeping playing AOS without it though. We all know the books and warscrolls become obsolete with each FAQ.

It's a hobby. You do what you want within the confines of respecting other peoples right to do the same. You dont owe "the community" nor does it owe you. You engage with it as much or little as you like. Posting insta pics and pouring over conversions is as much a part of being in the community as playing games and spending as little time as possible on making it look presentable. The hobby as is would be a very different beast without one or other.

Duncan Rhodes new paint range While I have personally reduced my paint range from over 100 to about 12 (learn to mix, you'll paint better!), all power to Duncan for valuing himself where GW manifestly didnt and a hearty lol that as a consequence of GW's miserly approach to their talent, they now have to contend with an entire rival paint range

**Troll** These minis are a delightful homage to one of my favourite minis of all time, the Stone Troll. When I first saw the original as a kid I was enchanted. This piece of artwork in particular: I didnt think too much about the colours because these guys just *are* blue, that's non-negotiable with my childhood. I considered alternatives but I couldnt pass up the chance to paint Stone Trolls properly. Cold colours are obviously the antithesis of my warm palette, but the blue greens of the Alan Lee backdrop made me reason that as these guys were pretty much the only exception to my otherwise established palette, the contrast in hues would actually enhance both sides of the army scheme. I remembered as well that my good friend Throgg canonically is red and blue, so he was reassuring on that front. The multiple tones on his skin in this piece were also quite inspiring, I tried to being an element of that in. Nonetheless I brought in some warmth with the red eye and yellowish wood, just to try and create a little cohesion. It is another GW example where unnecessary details jeopardise the general silhouette, that rock on his shoulder being the perfect example of something detracting from the lines of the model, so I stuck to my established technique of paying very little attention to the bits I dont think matter. Simplest paint job on those to allow the good bits to really stand out. I was aware last night while painting this that I havent actually posted any WIPS which isnt great for a log about the painting process. This is mainly owing to the nature of how I paint- unlike layering there arent really stages. The exception to this though is the first 5 minutes or so, when my paint is at its thickest and wettest . Basically I establish the Midtones and separate shapes and shades areas very quickly, then pull all that paint together. This takes about 5 minutes with wet blending, it would take about 40 minutes with layers. The other advantage is that it establishes organic transitions which means glazes etc tend to sit better. A glaze over a single colour is more striking and monolithic looking than a glaze over a few shared tones. In instances where I want a really strong glaze, like the nose, I leave it as a single colour for that exact reason.

GW is the spectacle, for me. That's the selling point. It's also their own selling point, it's in their mission statement. Said mission statement says nothing about developing games or rules, interestingly. GW rules simply arent fun or good enough to be without a sense of spectacle. I will cheerfully play games of any system which are good enough to not require that sense of spectacle or beauty. Bit I think its integral to the DNA of model soldiers, honestly. Its there to create a beautiful vision as much as it is to play out a challenge. Otherwise why not just play with tokens or cut outs? It's the genesis of Warhammer. It evolved from a way to play out RPGs and narratives with toy soldiers that people already owned. There was never any intent of creating a sport out of it. Principally it was an act of collaboration and community, not an antagonistic system. I think Warhammer at it's best is still that. The best battle reports to watch are when people are playing out the battle together and informing each other of outcomes. Now as I say, maybe one day the rules will develop the sort of elegance and robustness to make play for it's own sake the main appeal. But in my opinion GW games have always been, with a few exceptions, appallingly poor on that front. People can spend time how they like, but three hours to fumble over faqs, forgotten rules, passive aggression and spending about an hour of it counting dice pips recreating a battle waged by absurdly expensive non descript grey blobs of plastic? That ain't it for me. Or most people. GW markets itself on painted miniatures and it's why most people get into it. That and the lore/fiction. So again- recreation of drama and colour. As I say- not saying others can't do or enjoy otherwise. But its pretty clear to my why the 3 colours expectation exists. Itsdrawing from the entire history of wargames as at least in part, a matter of spectacle. A playground for hardnosed tactitians looking for well designed competitive games that truly test their ability to master complex competitive systems , GW is not.

1 down, 2 to go

Just reading between the lines here, preview says 37 cards for OWC: 29 in Generals Hand book, inc units from Dominon. Confirmed by GW: Sludgeraker X 2, Killabow, 2 Vultures, Underworlds, Mirebrute, Troll with Howdah thing 37 in total. No more stuff for KB, although I thought as much a while ago.

And there was much rejoicing Meh. Any hype I had is well and truly spent. Gone right off the Mirebrute. Not interested in buying any new rules while the current ones are FUBAR.

Aka AOS 3.0

I'd place a lot of money on that KB being just a champion. Vulture apart hes just a raggedy guy with a shield and spear. The bosses/characters are all more egregious in their bossishness. Maybe hes part of another kit as just another kruelboy but that's all he looks like- a grunt with a pet. FWIW while its a cool model in isolation I think the KB closed helmets are very confused aesthetically. I would happily have that guy as a lovne champion among 9 other dudes with obvious orc faces, but this thing of closed helmets and masks removes an awful lot of their racial identity. Paint that guy with human skin and he would just look like a human warrior with a cool shield. The number 1 reason though I think hes part of a kit we've already seen is GW dont show new units without milking them for all their worth as hype content beforehand

No it's not. Hope that helps 😉

Thanks, I got bored waiting for the new stuff so it's sort of become a redux of classic orcs and goblins at this point, am just painting stuff that "fits" By the same token I got bored of waiting for the mirebrute troggoth and vulture so looks like I'm adding some rockgut troggoth and a mega gargant now 🤷🏼‍♂️

Excited to see other the other guys to hopefully add to my little warband. The guy above however looks like a bin bag with a nose.

Context is required, absolutley Not just from a perspective of how well GW has done, that's frankly small potatoes. Given where we started with it all last yeas, its astonishing that a lot of us still have jobs and money to pay for more GW stuff we absolutley don't need. Theres a not small amount of people who last March would have been excited about their toy soldiers who are no longer with us and gone well before their time. People have enough toy soldiers to wait a few months for more.

Lol 10. Not the fantastic resource I envisioned Thanks for letting me know though 🙂

That tenner voucher is going to make them money. It's basically an ince give to get loads of people to buy stuff who otherwise wouldn't, because nobody who gets one is going to spend less than £20 when they use it. For me it's not an incentive for precisley that reason- if I'm buying from GW and not second hand or FLGS, I'm already spending over the odds no matter what it is I'm buying. Anybody know how far back the WD archive goes? Thats my only interest at present Also how are they managing a cut off for the models? Do you only get one if you pay upfront, or can you pay month by month and still get it after 12?

**Wolf Riders** One of the pleasures of getting immersed into a project is noticing miniatures which you previously didn't have justification for or interest in at the time. These sculpts are just divine. Their steppe aesthetic is very in keeping with the Hobgrots. I struck a midpoint between the Gutrippaz and Hobgrots with colours, the Orange is there as the unifying colour but without the more brutal red accents of the GR's, but I figured I would give the Wolf Boyz a more saturated green and Pink than than the Hobgrotz, to highlight their more Independent, rogue like nature. I mixed purple into the brown on the wolf, to keep the palette warm in spite of the cold greys and white. I'm increasingly thinking of this little project in terms of a Mercenary Company, made up from all different retinues, essentially treating each unit as a Dogs of War regiment. Very happy with how they turned out, but they are a testament to experimentation and patience. I did the Dogs in Oils and I was being far too subtle with the transitions and after an hours work I just ended up with something that could have been base coated brown in a matter of minutes. I basically decided I had messed up and that these would have to be an experiment because I couldnt work out what to do at all. With that decision made though I started doing all sorts of far less subtle and more experimental stuff. I looked up how to paint wolves on canvas and the principles there really helped, the advice was to ignore the fur and focus on the form, and as soon as I started to do that with lots of stippling it all came into shape. After that it was really fun, just dabbling the brush pretty much as I liked until it looked right. My number one takeaway from this project is try stuff. You can take paint off. 9/10 where I have applied paint nervously, it has worked better than I could have hoped. The Riders are a bit more yellow skinned than I intended but the whole army has a deliberately diverse approach to skin tone so it dosent really matter. The sculpts are so fluid but they do have a lot of superfluous junk, little bones and charms and stuff, so I deliberately kept the shields and their adorable little coats bold and uniform in tone, to make sure the lines and dynamism of the models don't get lost

Ive been avoiding joining because I doubted my capacity to actually paint something once a month, but since Dominion I'm on a roll Painted these yesterday

They did do that in the past, wasnt unusual, but we're talking like 10+ years ago

I I didn't say I thought it was ok, or right. Far from it. As I said, I'm not excusing it, or saying it's fair or anything of the sort. But Its precisley because I know the nature of GW that I base my *expectations* of them on their *actions* and not the principles of a moral compass which I'm well aware they dont adhere to. If you dont have high expectations or emotional investment in someone or something which has demonstrated it dosent care about your feelings, it has far less power of you. In fact it's the most empowering, self respecting thing you can do in that instance. I don't repeatedly post that GW dont care about us as anything other than customers as some sort of nihilistic dogma- I do it to speak truth to power and to encourage people not to let GW have an undeserved place in their emotions. *Especially this year* life is too short to let GW burn people's crucial energy and optimism. I'm massively invested in the KB and eagerly awaiting them. But I'm not getting them when I hoped, I've sort of expected that the past week or so as I said above. Ok. Theres literally nothing I can do about it. So I'm building Rippas Snarlfangs just now instead. I'm using time and energy for me and my hobby and looking forward to that. Note I'm not censoring anyone or saying people arent entitled to their opinion. I'm just offering mine.

Meh- the context for this is a two month window (when the first announcement was made re August) in which the world is still experiencing massive logistical dysfunction. A lot of supermarkets have been experiencing difficulty getting *food* in that window. I'm not surprised, put it that way. I doubt anybody who has that degree of strength of feeling over it- like moral offence at how a corporation might not be being entirely transparent with them or accurate with Information (like corporations always are, of course) - would feel sated by any explanation. The number of people who wont buy KB or SC stuff because of this will be utterly minuscule, if at all. So GW dont care. That's why I dont feel offended or hurt by anything GW does re stuff like this- because I know they dont care about me, or you, or anyone, as anything more than siphons of our money in the first place.