MythicKhan

By Grombrindal's curly whiskers!

Entry I.VII.MMXXIII It is with sadness that I pen yet another entry into the Dammaz Kron for the wazzoks yet again have done nothing for the duardin..... + I know this is a salty personal opinion and I apologise but every non-40k preview I live in hope that they'll reveal some new units for fyreslayers or kharadron, or reveal Grungni and the return of the Dispossessed. I'm almost considering getting a Votann army just to get something else dwarven-adjacent at this point and that despite not yet heing thrilled by 10th. This is also what makes me leery about just trashing the older sculpts in CoS - they're the last bastion of traditional duardin with at least some variety in units. Maybe they think all dwarf fans are WHFB fans? I don't know.... Well - at least the CoS human units are quite cool for those who will collect them! Manticore especially.

Army variety is important to sustain interest and broaden a faction's appeal. Sadly some armies (e.g. KO but Fyreslayers even more so) are very one note with their unit options at present. That doesn't mean they are bad per se, but it does limit the appeal and interest I think. Especially personally when background and lore is very important it can be uninspiring to be forced into the same straitjacket. Especially when wider hooks are present in official lore for many other possibilities yet to be seen! It does occasionally appear strange that some armies are given a healthy range of options a lot faster than others, but as has been said, everyone gets their turn eventually. And rules writing recently has been ace for actually fitting established lore and models! (My preferred solution to everything is MOAR DWARVES anyway so . I need more Dispossessed, Kharadron, Fyreslayers, and even Dawi-Zharr!)

Good preview images I thought - snarlfang riders look very good for grobi and the loon knights are just funny in a good way. World Eaters look excellent, and even if this is all for now are certain to get a second wave in the future. Ash Wastes is my jam so great to see Cawdor walkers too! Totally understand why some are disappointed, but there's always a visible focus by GW on one or the other of their main games. It's easy to become overhyped by these reveal shows - which doesn't help. I find a healthy dose of dwarven azul usually sees one through. Everything comes round eventually, after all - even the Squats have returned!* Sisters before them too! I'm excited to see the future, especially for all my beloved dawi. So fingers-crossed for a big(ish) KO release ha! *In order to balance out the positivity I do have one damaz that needs noting: the fact that bloody Squats returned before any expansion of the stout ranks of Duardin in the Mortal Realms! We keep hearing in lore of the Maker's return so, by Grungni's trunnion, where are my new kits! 😀 [Insert long list of potential duardin models here]

This is totally uninformed speculation driven by the fact that I'm building my one acquisition from the Dominion box: a unit of Hobgrot Slittaz I'm wondering if the rumoured/hinted/expected chaos duardin actually... aren't. Chaos, that is. My, again this is speculation, thought is that they're going to be Destruction instead. Duardin so dismayed at the disappearance of Grungni and the fall of the old holds that they embraced a bleak view of everything. Their holds and forges are now just armouries that make destructive devices they will sell to whoever wants them... Chaos included. So less Chaos Dwarfs, more Nihilism Dwarfs! A dark mirror to the Kharadron perhaps?

Khazukan Kazakit-ha! I can see plenty duardin adding their dammaz to the idea of a duardrazhal in Age of Sigmar. While I must always display the proper level of gnoll-engrom I have to say I don't think it will be quite the kruk that people seem to expect. Time was when all the dawi WERE one people... whether they were boki, bolg, endrinkuli or drengi (or even elgram grumbaki!) The Tales of the Wanderer suggest we all have something to learn from each other. The Fyreslayers need to stop clinging to old traditions that turn them zaki, the Dispossessed need to remember that no karak is worth more than the khazukan who dwell in it, while the Kharadron need to have their fleet planted in the past to not get swept away by their own greed and end up ufdi unbaraki! Basically, by my gromthi, the duardin are all wazzocks at the moment and maybe they should work together. With fyresteel, aethershot and doughty clans we could reclaim our legacy properly - not messing around in little isolated packets like preening elgi too convinced of their own importance and self-righteousness to do some proper skrund. Well I'm ad and said my piece. Pass another bowl of drongnel, and is there any more of that grizdal or are we all out?

There is no pleasing some people. I also still fail to see how this is in any way replacing or invalidating what we already have. After all they use spears!

I think the new Stormcast are not as different scale wise as people keep assuming. Picture from WarCom at a different angle. Yes the armour is smoother aesthetically - but certainly not a dramatic difference in bulk to my eyes. New SCE are not going to invalidate previous units - not even Primaris have done that!

I think the scale is not as off with the new models as people think thanks to the photos. Look at some of the other WarCom blog pictures - the angle it's taken at makes a big difference. As others have said, Gardus was just released and he is a perfect fit for what has come before. New and different models come out all the time (for some factions more than others) - the sky is falling reactions seem a bit overblown imho. EDIT: pic attached below. Angle clearer. Shoulder pads are smoother but otherwise he looks to me just as bulky as previous Stormcast. Certainly the new paladins are!