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    How would you theme an army from Hysh?

    in Age of Sigmar Discussions

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    Thanks so much, @Gitzdee and @Pizzaprez! 

    I really like the idea of emphasising a home realm, too. I think it’s one of the great things the setting has going for it. 

    My faction will be dedicated to Tzunki, Lord of the Water, from a temple-city deep under Hysh’s Girdlesea. (The attached snippet from the Seraphon battletome inspired me.)

    So obviously my head first went to lots of big aquatic lizards/sea monsters. Then I thought “that doesn’t actually speak to the realm they’re in. If anything, it seems Ghurish. How would the influence of Hysh change or influence the theme?” 

    I loved reading about the spirits of Hysh and their relationships with the Realmlords. With Tzunki being deeply associated with the water, couldn’t my faction have come into contact with such spirits, deep under the sea?

    “Long before the Arch-Mage and Celennar first communed, a different kind of spirit found cause to take a new form. Far below the bright Girdlesea’s geometric tides, Ulmor the Benthic Thought heard sounds that were not of his water realms. Echoes in the deep, of minds enlightened by Hysh and Azyr both, yet cold and old as his abyssal home. When Chaos came and the oceans sickened, he observed the rituals to which these toads clung, and when their minds found his, he too was roused. For though they were tiny compared to the vastness of his unending seas, he recognised a kindred spirit inside their offspring; the blessings of one who in times past might not have been wholly unlike him. As the shadow of entropy poisoned the waves, he rose in a shape known to the lizards, and his light banished the darkness, and the depths resounded with the hisses of their serpentine tongues: Tzunki.”

    I’m feeling really inspired by this and am working on converting the spirit (a counts-as Kroak) as we speak.

    I really love what you were saying about the fortress-laser and Luminark, @Pizzaprez. I think leaning into the geometric side of the realm would complement the Lizards really nicely, what with all their pyramids and orreries etc. It‘s giving me nods to columns of monolithic pillars (Dagon much?) and shipwrecks/flotsam floating in circular patterns, as if caught in a current moving to a particular design. Perhaps some of the units that are usually represented by beasties like the bastilodon or spawns of Chotec could actually be Old One ships/tech/pyramidal structures of some kind, activated by Hysh’s learnings?

    A light colour scheme also seems a must, @Gitzdee, and I think that’s really interesting when you consider that that ocean depths are often untouched by light. It’s a different spin on the abyssal theme, so thank you 🙏🏻 

    As you can probably tell I’m getting lots of ideas so thank you both for commenting! 

     

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    How would you theme an army from Hysh?

    in Age of Sigmar Discussions

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    I love how the realms influence the nature, the culture, the religions and the military of the factions living there. 

    I am thinking of setting my next army (Seraphon) in Hysh and am wondering how I might represent that in the miniatures. 

    It feels like quite a high-concept realm compared to, say, Life or Fire. What are your thoughts?

     

    Lets Build Heldenstone Together

    in Cities of Sigmar

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    Hey @Ejecutor 👋🏻 I wish I had something constructive to add but it really seems like you’ve already got a great thing going on here! 

    When I work on terrain, I’ve found texture is at least as important as the rest of what’s going on if you’re shooting for something more immersive. Basing is a more obvious example but the same applies to stonework, for example. When they’re painted up etc and ready to go, your walls will look much more like actual walls with some kind of growth (whatever that looks like in Chamon or Hysh! But that’s the fun part!), rain stains, perhaps a lightning scorch mark near the church, a bird’s nest in the gutters…

    All small details but they really bring scenery to life, tell little stories, and make it “yours”. 

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    The Rumour Thread

    in Age of Sigmar Discussions

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    Just now, MitGas said:

    Your scenery is always an inspiration! 👌 

    Thanks, friend. It’s my favourite part of the hobby. The temple-city board is modular so can be rearranged or swapped with other tiles. (Usually reserve the big pyramid for display purposes and swap it out with a flat tile for games.) I’ve played a few matches on it now and it’s lots of fun. Mostly I find it super immersive, which I really love. Thanks for the kind words 🙏🏻 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    8 minutes ago, pitzok said:

    I am literally on my knees for an edition based on the seas and naval-themed stuff. It could bring expansions to existing nautical factions like Idoneth and the Kharadon while also expanding for example Soulblight with vampirates and, Gloomspite with sky pirates, and give us a new fishmen faction. The only suggestion to the existence of fishmen is unfortunately in TOW Ravening Hordes book. Let us take to the seas (aetheric void) GW!!!

    Same here! I’m building an undersea board for my next project! Will play Tzunki-themed Seraphon on there, modelled to be swimming or clinging to rocks/the sea floor. Will then knock up some Idoneth/undersea Kharadron/drowned undead or the sea Sylvaneth for them to face off against. 

    Just finishing off my Old World temple-city board first but it’s next in line! It will sort of combine those aesthetics with those of my Lovecraftian Misthavn diorama (Innswich).

     

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    The Rumour Thread

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    21 minutes ago, Whitefang back me up said:

    I don’t think the dwarfs will be revealed now. I heard that they would both be shown off at the open day but obviously that didn’t happen, hopefully they’ll be soon as the release schedule is going to be very aggressive as the main factions should be released completely  over the next year. 

    Do you know if any of the other Forgeworld kits will be coming back, aside from the Troll Hag? I would love to pick up a Merwyrm and am crossing my fingers that it might drop with the High Elves, who used to have a named one in their lore. 🤞🏻 

    The Rumour Thread

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    Love that we effectively have minis for Isha, Khaine, Morai-Heg, Kurnous (if you go back far enough…), Mathlann, Ladrielle (if you ran the 6th ed. Fey Enchantress…) and Teclis as Hoeth. Someone could make quite the epic diorama! 

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    Warhammer - The Old World

    in Warhammer: The Old World

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    Gosh, I might have to pick up some classic metal trolls if they’re coming on MTO… The first model I ever “painted” as a small kid was one of the River Trolls and I’d love to pick some up again. 

    Did I miss a date from the article as to when we might expect O&G? 

    The Rumour Thread

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    2 hours ago, Gitzdee said:

    This has been on my mind too. Another possibility could be a model for a hero + tome release as the first army after the 4th edition launch to get updated. But i really hope not since the early tomes tend fall of the power scale quick.

    Another option would be that its not Nighthaunt related after all.

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    Maybe this one is also related to the same unit?

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    I’m going with Nurgle… 

    The Rumour Thread

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    I’m not in love with the Lumineth warband. They look a little clunky or cartoonish somehow. It might be their proportions or their build or maybe just the photography. 

    I AM in love with massive jade and gold frog face*. I shall order 5,000, make a shirt from them, and distribute the rest around town with pamphlets raising awareness for The Great Plan.

    *As _The Idol of the Old Ones_, could it be giving us soft confirmation that the Old Ones might have closely resembled their creation the slann themselves? Could the Old Ones actually have just been immeasurably old slann spawned elsewhere in the cosmos in aeons past? Or the very slann we know and love from the far future of the setting when chaos has all but won, gone back in time at some point to spawn themselves, lay down their plaques, and set in motion the series of events that might one day stand a chance of changing fate?

    WE WILL NEVER KNOW 🐸 

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    Warhammer - The Old World

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    Posted · Edited by The Brotherhood of Necros

    For me, it’s today’s messaging around it that’s rubbed me up the wrong way a little.

    I was definitely in the camp that up until today had been hearing “these factions won’t feature in the main story, they won’t be our focus, and they likely won’t be receiving new models, but you can still collect and play everyone and everything that was in 8th!”

    I was very excited to revisit a nostalgia project (in my case, Lizardmen). I felt included, as in “great! We’re not a part of the narrative but they’re giving us PDFs regardless and I’ll still be able to play. And maybe in a future campaign they’ll shift to a different continent, or the game will grow enough that armies going unsupported now finally get some Old World love!”

    Today, I’d say the messaging they put out was very much “those other armies? Yeah there will be a PDF but remember now, you won’t get any of the really fun stuff and actually you should really be collecting one of these new armies if you want the full experience.”

    I would have felt much happier hearing that second message from the outset. It might have helped me pick and get excited about a different faction, and it wouldn’t have left me feeling anti-climactic a literal day before all the buzz finally kicks off, after all these years.

    AoS Seraphon are fun, but they’re not Lizardmen. The Lizardmen’s whole culture has shifted from devolved jungle-dwelling ancients, eagerly re-enacting rituals they barely recall, let alone understand, hanging off the every word of bloated, batrachian mage-priests who might wake once every hundred years or so to catch a fly and bury some distant settlement beneath an earthquake before drifting off again to dream about plaques even they can barely read. They were enigmatic, cold, in many ways quite scary; a remnant of prehistoric times, clinging on in the sweltering shadows of their ruined temple-cities. 

    Seraphon are (like much of AoS) Marvel characters, dropping in from space-pyramids to launch a salvo and blow up a Silver Tower, their slann lively as they teleport around the realms, flinging around spells like a skink does javelins and generally saving the day. Their once mastery of magic, totally vanilla, even nondescript in a setting where gods pop up every other day (game). GW somehow sucked all the mystery, intrigue, and sense of the venerable out of Lord Kroak (his model is, of course, breathtaking).

    I was excited to return to the Lizardmen and the setting as I knew it, and I will still try to. 🐸 

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