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I have the dwarf BB referee mini somewhere, seems like a perfect proxy.

Just noticed the design date on the squig boss sprue is 2021!

I showed my wife the ridiculous marine weapons, her reaction “is it meant to look like Johnny 5?” I can’t unsee it now 😂

Just caught up on the reveals, Wow! These Seraphon are amazing, I’ve never particularly wanted to start an army but the Saurus especially have me very tempted. I notice in the background of the video the electric glowy RE is a bit of Seraphon terrain. The WHU warband is a bit meh. On the warcry stuff, I like the warbands, It’s great to see more diversity in factions. I’m not too impressed with the terrain tho, I like it but it’s just more of the same again. I bought both Heart of Ghur & Sundered Fate, I’ve got enough trees now. I was thinking I’d try to buy all 4 boxes this season, but not so sure now. My hope was that by now we’d have seen some actual Seraphon ruined buildings like they’ve teased in the artwork. On the 40k stuff, is it just me or are those primaris guns a bit stupid. They look like something a child would draw.

@Bog_Goblinshared this in the rumour thread.

I decided to pass on the AoS supply drop boxes, but I’m curious as to what they contained. I notice in the rumour thread that someone received their Aelf bundle (containing an DoK & IDK vanguard box). I wondered if that was standard contents or if there’s any variation in different regions. Thought I’d start a new thread for people to share what they got, in either the Aelf, Order or Underworlds boxes (feel free to share regarding the 40k box too if that’s your jam). Help me justify passing on these or maybe kick myself for passing!

They may well have updated the list afterwards, definitely worth double checking with the store.

Store anniversary list This is the list they put up last year, but I know some of them are wrong. Watford says 10th Jan so I asked my brother to get minis early for me, he popped into the store that week to be told their anniversary is 1st of the 10th (so October!) not 10th of the 1st. Definitely worth calling the store before planning a trip.

They let you order in as many as you want. I picked up 2 gutrippas & 3 inquisitors last year.

IIRC heart of ghur was £125 RRP, think I paid around £92 from dark sphere. hopefully be able to get sundered fate for £80 something?

Any ideas on price point for sundered fate? I’d assume cheaper than heart of ghur, as less contents, no core book & dice etc?

Tempted by the Kruleboyz box, seems like an ok selection to expand my 2 dominion sets.

So glad TGA is back up! I’ve really missed it this week. Painted this a few months back, but never got round to sharing pics. Tzeentch seem to be my go to palette cleanser minis. I’ll have to get the rider done at some point. Getting there with my eldar commission, looking forward to getting back to AoS things tho.

Sad but true!

Off topic. I like the simple way AoS handles artefacts compared to the granularity of points costs for other systems......but I think a two tier artefact list would be nice, Greater Artefacts & Lesser Artefacts or something like that. For each enhancement pick, you can take either one Greater or 2 Lesser. Some artefacts rarely get used as there's a "best" pick that you'd be silly not to take. A two tier approach could give a bit more tactical flexibility and add some variety.

Has anyone actually confirmed that the Hunter is the only new model for Ogors? Or is it just an assumption based on the current state of AoS releases?

Would love to see conquistador/Estalian style CoS and Seraphon with Seraphon ship ruins!

Pardon me if I'm being ignorant but I didn't realise there was any sensitivity issue with the classic chorf design? I thought they took inspiration from ancient eastern (assyrian and/or babylonian) imagery in terms of curly beards and big noses (tho lots of dwarfs have big noses), in much the same way as Tomb Kings took inspiration from ancient Egyptian culture. Am I missing something?

I have been working on things, just not sharing that regularly. I did this quick test mini for KO. Whilst I had custom schemes floating around my head when I got the paints out nothing quite came out as I’d envisioned so I ended up going full Barack Thryng! I love the idea that they keep the ancestor symbols clean as a mark of respect. Taking that idea further I’ve purposefully done heavy weathering on everything else. I’m pretty happy with him, though I might try some different techniques like AK striking grime/rust or oil washes on future minis. In other news, whilst I haven’t been painting or collecting 40k for quite some time, the buyer of my old eldar army got in touch asking if I could paint some extra units so I’ve been having fun with them too. Thanks for looking

Part of the issue of Warcry for me is the warbands. I know you can use pretty much any AoS models but with the main box releases on the whole the warbands don’t do it for me. I know 40k is meant to be more popular anyway but the KT releases seem much more appealing with much wider appeal. New plastic Ork commandos! New plastics DKoK! Corsairs! New Kroot! I’m not into 40k any more (for the last five years or so have only been collecting AoS stuff) but these were so tempting to me. If they did similar with Warcry and updated usable AoS units for more varied grand alliances and factions I think it would do so much better. There are so many units that could be updated as others have mentioned. New maneaters, spider riders, fellwater troggoths, jezzails, acolytes, Seraphon etc etc. I think GW are missing a trick with the over abundance of chaos warbands that are not particularly usable in AoS. I know they have warscrolls but to my knowledge none of them are great picks for AoS and they mostly get used as counts as marauders. I know the necromunda gangs aren’t generally usable in 40k, but necromunda has a long established history and player base. I think GW are trying to make warcry like necromunda with random gangs that flesh out a smaller scale world, but I don’t think this approach is really working. The aesthetic for necromunda was strong in terms of gang identity that 25 years on there is a lot to draw on and develop. The way they are now able flesh out ideas that only appeared in the Gang War magazine like Squat prospectors and Ash Wastes is very cool. I converted a Squat gang back in the day and am very tempted to pick up a gang. I could be wrong but I doubt that in 25 years time we will be saying, “Oh, wow they’re bringing out an updated Cypher Lords or Iron Golems kit! I’m so hyped!” To be honest I think the Warcry warbands are quite forgettable and I’m not sure they will stand the test of time. Just adding more and more of the same seems weird especially when these releases take up design/production space that could be used for truly awesome releases that people are really wanting. Wishlist time…. if they did an “homage to Mordheim” Warcry box with new Eshin/gutter runners and Cities/Crusades updated mercenaries or freeguild sculpts along with generic ruined fantasy building terrain I feel pretty certain that it would sell like crazy.

I generally find the warcry boxes don't have quite enough to make them insta-buy for me. This latest one, I love the Hashut warband, but not too bothered on the terrain and the Rotmire. Red Harvest I loved the terrain, but wasn't fussed on the warbands. Catacombs I quite liked the Shadowstalkers but the terrain felt like bad value especially when compared to the first Warcry box. With hindsight I probably should've picked up the first Warcry box. Was the best value by a mile and I liked both warbands and terrain and extra monsters. Oh well 🤷‍♂️

I guess you're right RAW, good job GW 🤣

Have GW specifically said that the Skaven rules from Broken Realms can be used? I would've thought that the BR books are in the approved list only for the armies that haven't had a new tome yet. Like KO, Lumineth, Cities etc. Surely once an army has a new tome you can't use an older version of the rules?

I painted this Murknob in similar colours, over a wraithbone base, used plaguebearer flesh, then highlighted with Ogryn Camo, then final highlight with Ogryn Camo plus a bit of wraithbone (probably 3:1 wish ratio). Lip was washed with Aethermatic Blue. The Gutrippa I sprayed black, then zenithal with Wraithbone. Then Plaguebearer Flesh. The shadows and transitions were quite harsh so I did a layer of Elysian Green to feather it in. Then same as above. On this one I think I did too much highlighting with Ogryn Camo, so glazed it with watered Plaguebearer Flesh again to bring it back to the sickly green colour. Hope this helps!

I have a Fatemaster conversion in my head, using the leader min from the Cypher Lords Warcry warband. Just haven't got round to executing it yet.