Double Misfire

I see you stole my shieldbear(ers) pun. Awesome looking plog, can't wait to see what you come up with for AoS.

Does anyone with the GHB on the AoS app know if gryph-hounds points have changed? Furiously painting a pair for an event in a couple of weeks time.

I didn't know that, so new Bloodbound/Khorne battletome ala the Stormcast and Tzeentch ones coming soon then, nice. Here's hoping the allegiance ability stuff is similar to the Blood Tithe Khorne Daemonkin get in 40k!

So this chap just got a price and rules: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Mazarall-The-Butcher-Daemon-Prince https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/PDF/fw_warscrolls/Mazarall-The-Butcher.pdf

Bunkering down for the night, let's see how I get on!

Sorry if I seemed a little harsh in my original post! I agree that GrimDark is a subjective term (there should really be a line before it becomes GrimDerp) and with @Ben's point about GrimDark and the project as a whole evolving it's own independent feel over time.

They are Marauder Miniatures Dark Elf Warhounds from the early 90s. The barrels round their necks are accessories from the 2000 Dwarf warrior/crossbowman regiment set

Hey dude, welcome to the forum. Your best bet for AoS civies/normies right now is probably City of Secrets, the recently released Black Library novel about a Freeguild soldier, Witch Hunter and duardin fighting Tzeentchian corruption in one of the newly-established free cities of the Mortal Realms. I'm currently about halfway through and it's pretty good: http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/city-of-secrets.html

Good point. I'll never get bored of explaining to people why GW spell "dwarfs" with an "f" Also: Greywater Fastness 5!

Awesome thread! I was chatting with a friend yesterday about an AoS equivalent to the Inq28 scene and it looks like you beat me to it by a whisker. (I'd never have done anything this productive anyway, I'm very lazy) My only two quibbles are: The name being uninspired and superfluous: Inq28 is called Inq28 because it's Inquisitor, played with 28mm models instead of the 54mm ones the game was originally released with - an Age of Sigmar narrative warband skirmish game would be played with standard Age of Sigmar models (pretty sure our friend scale creep has ensured 'ordinary' humans like Blood Reavers and Karic Acolytes would have to squat to reach the 28mm mark anyway), with the exception of a couple of truly terrible staff Christmas gifts about 10 years ago no WFB or AoS models have ever been sculpted in 54mm scale. If you want the project's name to evoke Inquisitor, why not just call it "AoS: Witch Hunter"? Better still come up with a totally unique name so it can exist and develop on it's own merit and not as Inquisitor with magic wands instead of guns. My second quibble's one purely of personal preference, but the emphasis on GrimDark made my stomach churn. The 40k universe has cornered the marked for GrimDark(!) already, and does it better than any other setting going (with the possible exception of the one we live in). Instead of existing permanently in the shadow of a setting that's always going to have more skulls, barbed wire, weird flying babies and gargoyles, with the added bonuses of faux-Catholicism and automatic weapons, why not play to the strengths of other areas of GW's IPs over the years? John Blanche is an obscenely gifted artist who's drawn way more than skull-faced kneecaps over the years, take a look at some of the more fantastical artwork he and the other GW artists turned in for the earlier editions of Warhammer in eons past for a source of inspiration: Anywho, ramble aside, I'm not at home at the moment, so I can't post pics of all the appropriately warband-y type minis I've got lying around, but here are a few I've already got photographed: Adventurer-y type journeyman Runelord I'd imagine leading a small force of duardin out of Azyr and into the depths of abandoned Karaks across the mortal realms, their treasures sealed away during the Age of Chaos. Heavily mutated Unforged prospector. Captured by skaven, this guy had warpstone hammered into his flesh by master moulders attempting to recreate the magic harnessed in the Ur-gold runes of the Fyreslayers; when the experiment proved a failure he was sold to a Bloodbound fighting pit, only to eventually fight his way out, slaughtering his entire tribe of captors. Now quite mad, the warpstone infused in his blood allows him to smell the taint of chaos on the winds of the Mortal Realms, leading the armies of Order to the doorstep of wherever the Dark Gods' forces might dwell. Severed daemon head I painted up to use as a matched play objective marker. Could be a cool oracle, stranded in the spot it was beheaded a hundred years prior, offering advice and prophecies to passing adventurers and warlords in twisted riddles. Also has a magic sword sticking out of the back with previous owner's hand still attached. Gross! Gunmaster conversion I threw together a while ago and am currently painting up. My Dispossessed/Freeguild force is from Greywater Fastness, so I'd originally converted him up to represent Valius Maliti, before the Disciples of Tzeentch book came out and revealed he'd been the Changeling all along. Beer dogs. These guys are trained by the Warden-Kings' rangers to sniff out duardin who've got lost exploring the mortal realms, and lure them back to civilisation using the beer barrels around their necks. I'll photograph more when I get a chance. Amazed by all the awesome models posted in the thread so far!

I'm already paid up for this, but Rob Brunton is currently stranded in the far reaches of Plymouth and asked me to get you to put his name down.

Sounds exciting, got a link to the facebook post?

Oh neat, I just found a readable picture of the two Warrior Chamber battalions. Commence arguments over whether red or grey space marines are the best:

Couple of tidbits I hadn't seen here yet: (^looks like we might have an idea what a the stormcast allegiance battle trait is)

Valaya's dead Jim.

Looks great Bottle, can't wait to sit down and have a proper readthrough when I get a free moment!

Preferd the original tbh

No feedback to give apart from that they're perfect! Keep up the amazing work.

I haven't been paying attention, what is N'kari supposed to be up to these days?

I'll aim to get some shots up towards the end of the coming week. I'm currently beavering away on a couple of converted gyrocopters and a unit of miners for the Triumph and Treachery event at Warhammer World in March and beyond that would love to catch a narrative event sometime this year.

The new guys incorporate more fantasy (lower case 'f') elements than any Eldar models we've seen to date + the Mistweaver could pass for a Farseer at a glance and if you told me the Tenerbral Shard was a Dark Eldar model I'd believe you.

Don't like how blurred the line between Eldar and what we've seen so far of AoS elves has become tbh.

Looks like it wasn't aelves all along: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/01/22/gathering-storm-ii-first-look/