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The Kruelboyz Vulture is pretty snazzy! 😁

New monster article includes an alt build for the creepy troll. Less fiddly polearms will make this the more transportable build option. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/07/05/monster-slaying-101-dealing-with-monsters-in-the-new-edition/

I get the anxiety, but I do not see the new models as a Primaris style replacement. I think that after a number of years we will get updates to the older models but this is no where near as drastic an update. Simply newer armour and some new units that fill similar niches to older ones. The Primaris were a huge update of the scale and proportion of the models, as the old space marines honestly looked pretty abysmal from an anatomical point of view. The old Stormcast look fine next to the new Stormcast I am not the biggest fan of the older armour or poses but they do not look out of scale or anatomically incorrect. Space marines on the other hand needed a drastic redesign to make them fit a modern aesthetic. I found these pics online so I cannot make these comparisons in person. I only own some currently unbuilt Vindicators: Different height is largely due to posture and the base having rubble under the Vindicator's feet. If the Liberator were lifted off the ground to the same extent the heights would be pretty close. I think the posture and the width of the armour makes the liberator feel a little more squat and broad than the Vindicator. This looks like a completely different company making a different product. The proportions of these are drastically different and the posture, pose and base are not to blame. Now back to the topic at hand: Wyvern Buzzards! I hope it looks something like a vulture inspired Cockatrice/Basilisk:

I thought of a really great place to get some inspiration for some stunning colour schemes Akira Kursowa's 1985 film Ran.

Honestly my friend, no words to express how much I enjoyed seeing that. ❤️ In a similar vein to my love of Brian Froud my childhood edition of LOTR was illustrated by Alan Lee. So you are hitting all the right spots with that paint job. These capture the essence of how I imagine orcs!

Oh wow this looks absolutely fantastic, I would be interested in seeing the dracoth having a reddish brown hue, maybe a doombull brown with a highlight of Khorne red. But I actually think I prefer the related cloak and Dracoth, it gives a sense that Vandus' cloak represents his status as a drake rider. I always think the best colour schemes tell a story. However, if you run a unit of Dracoth you can give them this green colour and make Vandus' dracoth red to stand out against them. It puts my hypothetical colour scheme to shame although my scheme is actually meant to oppose my red and white chaos scheme, I am intending to use black on the pauldrons and shields both of which are both not really showcased on the Praetor image I posted. Although I am thinking of ditching the green and going black and white for the fabric to give them a priestly vibe.

I just used photoshop and found the image on google. I am not great at photoshop so there are a lot of gaffes on my part but I do really like the scheme. I am also considering trying to do a tartan style look for my Stormcast but that seems far beyond my skill set to do in an adequate fashion. Maybe I will try it on a specific hero or unit.

Thanks for the advise! I really love the Lord Castellant and his little doggo too. I think that for as cool as Stormcast are, it is often difficult for non-stormcast players to tell the difference. As much as I prefer soldiers to have helmets, I am thinking of doing all my heroes and unit champions sans helmet so that my opponent can more easily tell the difference. Furthermore, I am thinking of painting their armour to denote 'rank'. I will use Runelord Brass on the battleline troops, Leadbelcher for 'the elite' units, and Retributor Armour on the heroes. I expect many an Olympic joke at the expense of my army. 😄 However, as you said I should really take my time as I still have some ogors to build and have yet to paint any of them. I am however really excited about this project though and might build and paint them alongside my ogors. Bur I am still shooting for a rather small Stormcast force as I have limited shelf space and my Chaos army kinda got a little more horde-like than I had anticipated thanks to Warcry. This is my current mock up for my 'elite' Stormcast theme: Keep in mind that my paint job will be significantly messier and more flat. This is just a mock up or proof of concept.

Hey everyone, I am new to Stormcast jumping in with Dominion. I am really excited about this project and creating some angelic paladins to battle my forces of Chaos and Destruction. I had a Knight Incantor and five Sequitors which I purchased intending to make a Chaos Sorcerer Lord and some Chosen (originally just bought the paint set and decided to round out the unit), but I never got around to it. Then when Dominion was announced I realized they would make for a good jumping on point. I was thinking of adding a couple of ballistas and possibly a hero to round out 2000 points, but these new reveals were so cool I might hold off for a bit until the book is released and I can really plan out my list especially as the points are subject to change in fairly short order. I will say though that I really love the Vigolors and Bastian Carthalos... I might just have to find a way to include them in my list. I will be busy working on a small Beastclaw force but I will pop in here occasionally to ask dumb questions about Stormcast rules.

First person to paint them using a Brian Froud (one of the lead designers for the Labyrinth and Dark Crystal) colour palette will have my gratitude. I grew up with his art books and they really inspired much of how I imagine fantasy worlds. ♥️

Sludgeraker and Gothizzar Harvester kit bash feels like the great start of something tombkingy... maybe using the Sludgeraker as the bas body and greenstuff bandages over it? I am not really good at kitbashing or greenstuff, sadly. @Kaleb DaarkMaybe Stormcast are to scale and this game has been about skinny duardin the whole time? 🤩

Overall: Once again in with my unsolicited and poorly thought out hot takes. It was almost the opposite of what I expected with more models revealed and no preview of upcoming faction releases. I loved the vast majority of the reveals although I am a little sad that we only got two completely new Kruel Boyz units. The hobby preshow: it was amazing seeing the various artists being showcased but I had it playing in the background so I didn’t see everything. I did catch Ash from GMG and Jack from retooling ones models and loved the shoutouts to them. I will say that I feel every non-standard Stormcast theme looks better than the blue and gold. I think that these are my favourite Orruk and Stormcast models by a long shot so I am pretty bias. Stormcast reveals: Lord Commander Bastian Carthalos— I am in love with this model and he makes the Annihilators feel less randomly huge. I am not the biggest fan of running named characters but this guy oozes epicness. Now I want a reimagined Crom the Conquror to fight him as Archaon and the Prime battle overhead. This is a dude that I would follow into battle… but only cause I think he could handle all the fighting and I could cower behind him. Knight Relictor — I love the Balthasar Gelt helmet. However, I am not super into the skulls, feels a little more Space Marine or Chaos to me. I think that an alternate colour scheme might sell me on it. Classic Warhammer but does not match my vision of Stormcast. But it will fit in really well with certain schemes and themes. Vanquishers — I like them but they suffer a little from that Stormcast monotony, I do hope they are an alt build for the multipart Vindicators kit as it would make their similar design more palatable. I do like the fabric portion and if I find an easy approach I would love to make them tartan styled kilts*. They are a really good model but I prefer the spears to swords. Vigilors — These are by far my favourite reveal alongside Bastian Carthalos. I have never loved Stormcast ranged units barring the Ballista. But these check all my boxes and will work with my intended green and brown scheme**. Despite loving them I do not know if I will be able to fit them into my army as I need to keep my Stormcast collection small. However, I might make an exception for these ones. Annihaltors — Still my least favourite of the new range but they have gotten better as they are now buddies with Lord Chadmmander Bastian Carthalos. I do really like their rules though. Kruelboyz Reveals: Mashcrawla Sloggoth— Ugh, this thing makes me so uncomfortable and that is why I love it. I will avoid fighting it out of a sense of pity. I love and hate this thing in equal measure… I think the paint scheme makes it really uncanny. It reminds me of the creepy bio-weapon from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Gutrippaz— Still cool models. My feeling towards them is more or less the same upon the initial release namely they are better orc models. Man-Skewer Boltboyz — My favourite troops for the Kruelboyz. I feel like these continue that trend for me and so I am excited to see more of them. Skumdrekk — We got our gator and it is absolutely bizarre... I feel like I still needing to wrap my head around the strange anatomy of this thing. The rider is the best looking Kruelboy so far. The variant on the other hand I absolutely love. I would take the hero from the named build and the monster for the alt build. Army Books: Glad to have it finally confirmed that the Kruel Boyz are part of the Orruk Warclans. The Stormcast cover has this little chaos fan grinning as that is the exact type of battle I want to recreate on the tabletop. Also I am glad that they are claiming that they are giving more reason to play the various unit types in Stormcast… but we will see. *anyone know a good free hand method for a poor amateur painter? **or my Tartan idea... if I could pull it off... help me!

I would love all of those reveals, however I feel like my Beastclaw Raiders are a fully realized army and I can do without further temptation 😅 Although, Gnoblar hero and plastic Yetis would be instant purchases for me. I also think Duardin will be previewed whether they follow Hashut or Grungni is the real question. 🤔

Popular Opinion: Beliman clearly has great taste! 😎 I personally think the juxtaposition of majestic body, graceful wings and terrifying face make it feel like a genuine mythological creature. I can imagine the stories being told to little Azyr children about how they should be wary of the Tauralon which looks beautiful from a distance but is terrifying up close. I also imagine that those same children seeing a Stormcast hero flying across the sky on one would be in a state of awe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now for my predictions for the day: using the Indomitus Launch Party as a base I suspect it will be a small yet overblown affair. My guess is that we will get a big centre piece model revealed for both alongside the reveal of new battle tomes and a teaser preview of some upcoming models. My heart says crocodile but my head says crocodile-like monster for Kruelboyz, Stormcast will probably get some more draconian love particularly in light of Kragnos' recent reveal. I hope that it if they get a dragon that it is a mid range option between Stardrake and Dracoth riders or at the very least a different dragon genus. However, I would be really happy if the flying cavalry rumour proved true and we got a reveal of pegasus riders to go with Yndrasta and the aforementioned Tauralon. The battletome preview will be fairly interesting but I am most interested in learning how Kruel Boyz will function alongside the other Warclans in the book which will hopefully be addressed. As for the teaser preview I think we will get flashes of models followed by a full reveal of an upcoming hero. I am hoping for a Chaos Dwarf, Kurnothi Aelf or one of Malerion's champions but I feel the smart bet will be on a new named human hero.

But that is why I find their monsters so relatable. 😢

Hey Warhammer Community finally remembered that tomorrow is Crocodile day! https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/07/02/5-ways-to-celebrate-the-new-editions-arrival-in-true-mortal-realms-style/ I like to add pics to these posts and this one was fantastic, plus furthers my hopes that the DOK will adopt Corsairs for real one day.

So if I am reading this correctly a Tzeentch marked shrine granting a unit of 20 chaos warriors will still only have plus one to their save for the sake of dice rolls, but if they were hit by a rend -1 attack they would negate the rend.

I am curious does the chaos warrior unit size and war-shrine ability stack? If so Tzeentch Warriors may become practically unkillable.

As someone that loves this game for the freedom of expression and joy of creating a fun paint scheme, I feel like they have this backwards. If my opponent is so hung up on things like that they don't have permission to play against me, even if my scheme fits their narrow view of a faction. 😛 Furthermore, this clearly a blatant attempt to get folks to purchase multiple versions of the same armies and paint them in each colour. It clearly works on space marine players so I think they are hoping that their AOS poster boys will get the same Malibu Stacy in a new hat love. Having just purchased Dominion and waiting for it to arrive I developed a scheme with black pauldrons and earthy tones such green and brown for their fabrics. I do not think that any stormhost or chamber use those exact colours? My Chaos warriors wear crimson armour with white cloaks and I do not intend to run them as Khrone... they worship Santa undivided! Finally, I am building my Ogres and want to forgo human skin tones and make the ogres look more like frost elementals and really love the blue hues I have seen people use in similar projects. Also I am always upfront with which mark or subfaction I am using and no one has ever been confused. This fact would not change if I used a Games Workshop paint scheme.

Is the preview confirmed to be a live preview? Maybe the lack of promotion is that it will be a simple article expressing thanks for purchasing Dominion along with further hype that it is selling fast and a self congratulatory pat on the back that they produced more copies, followed by a few pictures of whats to come? I am still hoping for a crocodile and some pegasus knights.

Either this proves the Crocodile exists and will hype itself. Or that the crocodile doesn't exist and they know we will be terribly disappointed so they are trying to mitigate the damage by acting like it isn't happening. 🤔

I am with you on this one hundred percent, the old battalion system did not work for me. It often felt very forced and extremely unbalanced. I do wish there was a little more variety in the current battalions. I mentioned in a previous post how I wish there was more varied icons for example to allow for cavalry focused battalions or flying focused battalions. But simply giving different armies the same tool box to build around is a great step forward. I also think not limiting battalions to points is always great as I would much rather have my 2000 points represent my hard work and chosen units rather than a special rules tax for taking certain units and wanting to dictate the first turn. My Slaves to Darkness army can run extremely varied battalions but my Beast Claw Raiders are much more limited in what I can build for them. But this feels actually really appropriate as my BCR army is much smaller and dedicated to a specific play style in contrast to my more generalist S2D force. I am going to build a Stormcast army using Dominion as a base and I am thinking of adding two Celestar Ballista just to open up a different battalion for them and to develop a more shooting focused army that is not quite at the level of the notorious 'shootcast' builds. But this is how battalions should function as a fun theme for building an army but not as a strictly limiting element of a game that often already has enough 'taxes' for building a list.

I am probably projecting as it is my favourite faction, but I really feel like GW was really trying to develop a concrete narrative and aesthetic for all the main God factions before focusing back on the Undivided side of Chaos. Slaanesh somewhat broke from this by having the split release, but otherwise GW did a really good job of creating a basis for the God specific factions before working on Slaves to Darkness, and S2D got a fantastic release with great models and ostensibly kick started a great game system in Warcry. Now we are hopefully going to see that love spread to our bestial and rodent brethren. As well as the rumblings of a possible Chaos Dwarf release, I feel Chaos is second only to Death in terms of having a coherent range of minis and dedicated set of rules. I feel Destruction is getting close, whereas Order feels like it will need to make a few more soups and possibly strain a few others to strike a more reasonable balance...

I am hoping for a mid sized hero option for a dragon. I would love a more magical winged wyrm inspired drake as a unique clade of the Stardrakes. But even just a midpoint between Stardrakes and Dracoth's would be appreciated. This mainly is because some people have suggested a pegasus mounted flying unit and I am really excited about that prospect. I think they could pair really well aesthetically with Yndrasta. Kruel Boyz are going to have a tough match up against Skaven.

I love the gator speculation but I hadn't realized they were legit rumours? That is really exciting 😄 I am greatly looking forward to the weekend to have so many of my hopes dashed.