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These look like dromeasaurs (eg, velociraptor, deinonychus, utahraptor). All feathered dinosaurs. They have the right pronation, and are magnificent. About the size of Achillobator. The other ones look like their arms were broken, but they look a little like allosaurs or other small carnosauria, though with raptor claws added. They are too small not to be feathered though. No sane scientist would depict any raptor (meaning the family of deinochus/velociraptor) without feathers. Even dilophosaurus likely had feathers (because both saurischian and ornithischian dinosaurs had feathers).

Halflings! New Chaos Familiars! New horrors from the brilliant mind that made Tzeench for Underworlds! Valaya dwarves! Morgrim's ancestor spirits! Female Fyreslayers! New Kharadron! We don't need to pass 150cm/5 foot in relative height for all sorts of awesomeness.

I'm not sure who needs it, but the tubes gsw texture rollers are stored in work well to pour water effects on 25mm bases. For the rubbery ones only, not resin. I should just make a silicone mold, but this worked in a pinch.

Man, those Tzeench models are brilliant! I hardly can wait until we can purchase them separately in a year or two.

Yeah, I shouldn't fault this army game for making boxes that fit an army. I really like boxes like SC: Skinks that give good variety, but I am not the target audience. There is no excuse for Fyreslayers though.

At the two shops I regularely frequented, they said Fyreslayers were selling awfully. One of them still hadn't run out of the initial 5 SC, and only sold one other FS box in (I think) 2022.

I do remember not buying the Votann box because I have no need for doubles, so you are correct. Which is dumb, launch boxes are the perfect time for variety. If the Seraphon launch box replaced the second skink riders with the Saurus riders or the Warcry chameleons & pterosaurs, it would have been an instant buy.

I don't play the game, so doubling would never work for me. I collect a few models though. The Vanguard only has 10 models, and while these are pretty, it has to compete with 18 from the SC. I also think the dryads are more usable in D&D like games. Gitz Vanguard gives you squigs, shooty goblins, stabby goblins, short goblins (riders from the squig hoppers) and squigs with goblins on them in two varieties, as well as trolls. That's a brilliant box.

Yeah, they took out the single model that wasn't "angry dwarf stripper", and left a set that probably sells even worse than the old SC. I also think Admech, Ogor and Sylvaneth are worse boxes for more money.

I would have thought a launch box would not double on a unit, that seems more like vanguard territory. A launch box is a perfect time to give a smorgasboard of options. That's also why I think Vanguards are on average worse than Start Collecting for, well, collectors, which includes me. Looking at you specifically, Fyreslayers.

We don't do high rend, that would be too powerful. Mortal wounds on hit are much better balanced!

Yeah, Hobgrotz are the one set of the swamp orcs I dislike, and they are in everything.

Those are some hot buns!

I love all the designs of the swamp orcs and have purchased a few of their sets. Design time here is a lot better spent than on new space marines (of any colour). Since I don't care about the rules, the only loss for me is their name.

Resin is fine, it's Forge World's (and GW in general) quality control that's the issue. My Atlantis resin minis work perfectly, my GW resin minis needed hole filler and are bent. Workability is also less of an issue with GW making all heroes monopose and single loadout. If there is no customizability either way, you're not losing it. Forgeworld is getting cheaper than mainline GW in its characters though. Or rather, infantry heroes have balloned in price past FW prices. https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NL/Lady-Annika-The-Thirsting-Blade-2021 is less complex than https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/lady-haera-13th-daughter-of-lord-helmawr-2023 which is a bit cheaper

Another price increase? At just over 100 pages, that's close to 40 cents per page. Pathfinder 2 core rulebook is €60 for 640 pages, so under 10 cents per page. The pocket is €34,50, for 5.4 cents per page. And those pages contain a lot less rehashed art and lore. They also have all their rules published online where other companies can use them for tools etc. I'm really interested in what the margin is on their books.

I probably have time for Lady Olynder, but most of what I paint now is for various roleplaying games. My GM asks for models, I need a few myself and then I keep painting random humanoids because they are always useful.

This is why I hate souping. Swamp orc models are useless in other factions. Why should their players care that a chapter they can hardly use in a book is competetive? If a skyport in Kharadron sucks, you use the same models in another one. If your Ironjaws/Boneslitters/swamp orc chapter sucks, your models cannot be used in another chapter (except big waagh, and I don't think that works for swamp orcs).

Every randomization draws winrates towards 50%. If you win as much from the double turn as you lose from it, that's a 50% winrate from games where you have a double turn. Now not every faction has as much capability to use that double turn, but still.

I really have to hand it to GW, this isn't a bad spread. Now part of the winrate is diminished by the double turn, but it's a lot closer than many other games. I still don't like their games, but can't argue with results.

Tyrranids, or a life destruction faction that evolves to the niche they need to devour more.

It looks nice! Though it has been removed from Forgeworld, so not sure how long its rules will last.

Yeah, I don't like the look of old Stormcast, but it's better than Space Marines. I think the lot of them can fit in some 5 kits (variety wise), then a few boxes for their vehicles.

My wishlist * No dwarf soup. There is no way to do that without losing the identity of at least one Dwarf faction. * New Kharadron sets. * New Fyreslayers sets with actually different looking models (not heroes). * Valaya dwarves. * Chaos dwarves. * Kurnothi as part of Sylvaneth. * New Ogres. * Halflings. * New FEC

The old ones work very well as golems for D&D/Pathfinder