Ma Maegran editionalternatively known as Bifurcated Gunt edition>Previously, in the Mortal Realms>>98520309>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata, and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolshttps://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/https://lordbaconbane.github.io/aoswarscrollcreator/>4e Booksgofile.io/d/JXpc9g>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator (old):https://aosg.github.io/https://sigdex.io/>Thread Questions:1)whaddaya think of the new reveals?2)how do you feel about the range as a whole now? Have your feelings changed in this regard?
>>98528366>1)whaddaya think of the new reveals?I'm indifferent>2)how do you feel about the range as a whole now? Have your feelings changed in this regard?I don't really care one way or the other.
woke AoS can retcon all they want my gloomspite RAPE human women unspeakable things are happening to freeguild women
Here's all the new guys together for good measure.I just noticed that the arm positions seem to be quite fixed per stomper body (female, male, fat male).
>>98528366I prefer a hordey SoB (comparatively) so I'm happy
>>98528391You can maybe get a few more poses by mixing and matching the arm options on the 2 available builds.
>>98528366>>Thread Questions:>1)whaddaya think of the new reveals?>2)how do you feel about the range as a whole now? Have your feelings changed in this regard?all around goodnow they're missing just scenery and manifestation
>>98528417I do like how the SoB terrain being effectively a giant soccer ball has continued to be brought up here.
>>98528384>BETTA WATCH OUT HUMIEZ, YOU CAN CALL ME AN IRONJAW SINCE I'Z ROCKIN' MY MASSIVE 2 INCH HOG.
>SoB seem intimidating>I'll buy some Mawtribes to practice skin Okay GW got me good
>>98528137Some anons genuinely do not seem to understand the differences in design between the two systems. They think centrepiece = aos.Cathay is very clearly designed for rank and flank, and they are way too specifically chinese to be aos. Aos is usually more restricted with its cultural references (compare e.g. chinese influences on cathay vs on new mawtribes), and it likes to blend different cultures together. Classic example is ossiarch with japanese, roman, and egyptian influences. Or fyreslayers with celtic, anglo-saxon, and malaysian
>>98528366TQ:>1Way more than I expected>2They are starting to look like an army. They just need new less for megas
>>98528472I'm glad I got both, and I already got my 4 mega's and Kraggy so I can just pick up wizard lady.
>>98528473Yeah, aos would never have a human army overly inspired by one historical location
>>98528473>Expand the End Times Nagash models into an army >You wouldn't see something like this in WHFB!The idea that AoS is dodging copyright claims is overstated.
>>98528391Unfortunately yeah, though I do believe that it shouldn't be too hard to do swaps with minimal effort. It's best to have stuff be best right outside the box obviously, but it's still important to learn basic converting skills anyway if you're gonna paint your models>>98528417Kek'd. What might their scenery be? Maybe cages full of snacks (peasants) would be good. You can move to them to eat for buffs. Manifestations are a bit harder because, they have an obvious foot focus, but orks already have foot of gork. >Playing a giga gargant by just placing two footprints on the board and walking through enemy lines
>>98528491Forgetting the Cogfort? Cathay is quintessentially Ming and lacks anything so out of place with that
>>98528494As an idea, it kind of lost a lot of steam to me when they brought back fantasy with all the old names, EXCEPT Maliketh, who is the only example of a name actually changing due to copyright, since he's now called Malerion in old world as well.
>>98528496GW should sell gargant foot shaped slippers and label them as a giga gargant kit.
cathay is not an aos army simply because of the objective fact that it is sold for the old world so it cannot be a centrepiece or the consistency of inspiration is not the deciding factor it is what gw sells them as
>>98528384>>98528445>call the lore team they can't un-rape you
>>98528512GW don't want anyone to find other miniature providers when they search for their miniatures and they also don't want anyone to find alternatives when searching generally It's really just a dick move. I bet someone at Warhammer World took notice of Oathmark or something and thought it wasn't fair GW didn't get all the money
>>98528506The ming dynasty was renown for its giant hot air balloons after all, as we all know from our history classes.
>>98528506I'm not sure the Terracotta Sentinel would count as being very Ming-inspired since it's based off a much earlier dynasty and also turned massive compared to the historical examples found in Xi'an
Moonclan do not rape. They can not rape. The Gitmob however are most certainly predisposed to it. I have studied the slope of their brows and determined as much
>>98528558Almost like this isn’t a historical game
>>98528552That theory kind of runs into the same problem, though. Why not give more of TOW unique searchable names? Do they just not care about specialist games as much?
>>98528558>>98528562Sure but you wouldn't see something like that in AoS. It doesn't fit
>>98528569Then take your "point" about the cogfort invalidating the historical inspiration of cos and shove it up your ass.
>>98528579If you search for >Ironjawz Brutes GW products >Orc miniatures Competitor products They made TOW to block the second, I think. No matter what you find GW
>>98528582>you wouldn't see something like that in AoSbut why not?I'm not sure, big hot air balloon powered by a Phoenix or a magitech robot made of a mixture of terricota and and other materials wouldn't be AoS-worthy
>>98528582>you wouldn't see something like that in AoSyes, you would, if there's one thing that aos can say is that anything could go here
>>98528587Not that anon sir
>>98528603See >>98528473It's about the mix of influences.
>>98528602Interesting take, plausible enough.
>>98528603A hot air balloon would get used as a condom between gay gargants or be shot out of the sky by helsmiths or crash into a khadrons skyship or be in the way of a stormcast getting reforged.
>>98528491I mean that's a good example, CoS uses some obvious hussite design cues, but then mixes it with some other stuff. In this case less other specific historical cultures, but still stuff like the diamond motif or the trellis gate thing all the shields have going on. If whfb did a hussite-inspired army, it would be more straightforward. Again going back to the cathay/ogre example, you can immediately tell cathay is chinese. I mean that's, just what they are; fantasy chinese.Whereas ogres yeah their new stuff takes cues from bronze age chinese visual motifs, but it's not immediately obvious unless you happen to know about this (relatively) niche period and even then it's more of a "woah that's pretty cool". They're not supposed to be "ogres but chinese".>>98528494I mean yeah they're built on the morghast base, but their japanese, egyptian, roman... aesthetics come from the new stuff. Compare to their whfb equivalent tomb kings which is just fantasy egyptians. You can take one look at them and see that was the goal with the faction. It's pretty straightforward.I think both approaches have their place.
Is it possible we can have it this good? Fucking state of Maggotkin right now
>>98528638>like the diamond motifyou mean like the octagon motif of cathay?
>>98528663no
>>98528391>bodies and arms are the same I honestly think the Mancrushers have more options with their pose than all three
>>98528663Never gonna get over how ugly the new orks are and how they have comically twinky arms. I can probably get over the first point, but the second just drives me insane. Anyways yeah modularity would be nice, if even if it just isolated to the arms/weapons. If slaves really are the starter faction I could see them having some variation as opposed to undead/destruction.
>>98528667I would argue the diamond motif is stronger in CoS than the octagon one is in cathay.Besides, the octagon is a chinese motif to begin with, look up bagua. It's some feng shui shit.
>>98528701>I would argueof course you would, anything other than admitting that your gut feeling isn't just hypocrisy
>>98528663You can have it this good if you play CoS.
Holy fuck. Old world is going to be stealing khadrons overlords just like they did with beasts of chaos. https://x.com/starforged3/status/2089645822401302649?s=46
>>98528417>how do you feel about the range as a whole now?It's gone from very blasé to surprisingly robust overnight, I'm really pleased. I'm just trying to think where they could go from here. A Stonehenge-esque scenery piece would be perfect, especially now there's Ma Maegran, but what about unit wise? Maybe some kind of skirmish cavalry proxy of teenage giants who're quick on their feet since they're not completely messed up by decades of booze/gravity?
>>98528850People don't actually buy this shite, right?
>>98528850lel
>>98528701> the diamond motif is stronger in CoS than the octagon one is in cathay.>octagon on literally every modelwat
>>98528772The diamond motif was a minor example in the larger argument that CoS aren't "the hussite army" in the same way cathay are "the chinese army". They take cues, sure, but it's not at the absolute core of their identity like it is for cathay.And yes, I would argue that. The octagon is very present on cathay miniatures (which again is no surprise, it's very common in chinese shit), but not to the degree the diamond is on the cities of sigmar miniatures. Even their banners and heraldry are in the shape of diamonds. I don't think there's a single mini where it isn't clearly displayed in some form.
CoS are the Ankh-Morpork army and sucks to anyone who says different.
What ever happened to this aesthetic for CoS?
>>98528978Yes but I wish it leaned harder on it>>98529008Cringe
>>98528861How much quicker would their cavalry even be? Their basic bitch units have move 8 and have run and charge while near their heroes
>>98529008Gone with the wind.Honestly shame, doubly so that stormcast as allies system was removed instead of doubled-down on.
Destruction has been eating amazingly since Kruleboyz
>>98529106I agree. Let's just hope they did great job on updating the rules too. Their current rules are OK but Ogors had an amazing update so I'm hopeful
>>98528663rediscovered stc. Couldn't manage to find it in time for the ogre refresh
>>98528850kek they couldn't be bothered, probably won't even sell anything for AoS anyway
>>98528850
>>98529177tbf, could anyone tell me this looks out of place with dwarves?
>>98528850Kino, they know that the AoS brand is poison.
>>98528366>alternatively known as Bifurcated Gunt editionTHAS RIGHT BISH
>>98529207tophats are a jarring AoS inclusion Brokk the chad is anachronistic even for AoS
>Paint only 1 coat of skin on my Ogor Tyrant>An hour has already passedHoly fucking shit, trying to assemble and paint them all is gonna take about a month or two because work and other things I get distracted by. To those of you anons that work, how do you paint? Do you wait for the weekend or do you start painting when you get off work?
>>98529008too bad TOW just shovels old shit you'd think they'd have some AoS assets for scrapped stuff
>>98529251Wait no, not a full hour, I spent maybe 15 or 20 mins trying to apply white on the skin where the metallics already touched.
>>98529232eh. IDK. I think warhammer dwarves have odder stuff. Granted aside from the soi jacking architecutre, its mostly isolated to warhammer pre 6e stuff. Well ignoring their lore, dwarf lore can be kinda embarrassing sometimes no matter the era but thats just dwarf things I guess.
>>98529251I swapped to oils, hell of a lot faster and forgiving
>>98528663GW occasionally remembers how to do this. Ever build the Painbringers? Identical design ethos to pre-primaris marines. Ball joint waist, pauldrons, interchangeable arms, shields, heads. They just randomly remembered for a random kit and didn't bring it back. I'm convinced their design departments don't communicate at all
>>98529273I think they do have different sculptors do different things sometimes which leads to some ranges being very schizo behind their design philosophies. The reason why helsmiths were so customizable were because they had strictly two people behind them doing the work.
>>98527874> stable Gor core of the herd. Presumably, the chieftain, Bray-Shaman, and Bestigors get access to the females, since they are bestial and maliciously violent by nature. There was WHF fluff about a peasant woman being captured, caged, and repeatedly raped by the beastlord of the herd, and was freed in the night by a sympathetic doe. Her account was that it was presumed for no other reason than humiliation, so it doesn't confirm the rape baby fetish.source ? as in actual pic of the source document ?
>>98529285The one faggot behind Blightkings and Blood Hags needs to hang
>last general devolves in a dispute about the prevalence of rape in aos and wfb settings>present general is now on its way to the same fatewhy is /aos/ like this lately ? I've also seen that discussion cropping up on a few /whfb/ general threads recently; is it a single gooner who tries to derail with his fetish on these generals ? or are the majority of posters there also fixated on this issue ?
>>98529367This would be hilarious if I was unemployed
>>98529269>oils>fasterlol? I sure enjoy waiting a week for 1 coat to dry
>>98529367Just one retard
>>98529367>is it a single gooner who tries to derail with his fetish on these generals ?Yes. It is one, singular Anon claiming Goblins rape. He cites two books, claiming not to remember which one has the rape. Gloomspite and Skarsnik, to be precise. Having read both in the past year I can safely say that the Anon is a lying faggot and probably an AGP gooner.
>>98529251I usually start after I finish dinner and settle in after a bit of browsing online, but there's a reason it takes me like a month to paint a kit. That and I get easily distracted or pulled away from the paint desk.
>>98529459>It is one, singular Anon claiming Goblins rapebeastmen also and fimir which is the only one to have truly canonical (though old) lore to back up the claim
>>98528850I almost hope it happens just to watch the tard rage and doublethink from the TWW kiddies.It's already happening! >>98529210
>>98529251Everytime I sit down to paint I have something in mind that I want to paint in the given session, and what I want to paint next. If I finish the current sessions goal before time is up I start on the next to give a head start. It also helps to have an order to things. I usually do metallics last for example
>>98529348what's wrong with the nu blightkings? i haven't bought any yet but i think they look greatif it's 'the old kit was much more customizable' then i just assume any older kit will be more customizable, unless it's a monopose one, while the old blightkings were absolute kino in terms of bits, they do have a shitty cartoon vibe in a bunch of ways
>>98529913its entirely monopose, no?
>>98529995Idk, as I said I've never built it.
>>98529913Nu blightkings are in fact monopose and lack customization, personally I like the more cohesive design. I built the old blightkings and had fun mixing the bits around, but they really stood out compared to my other units. I think for the most part people dont have an issue with the design itself, its more so the lack of freedom compared to before
>>98528565Even if grots can't, their snarlfangs certainly can!And don't get me started on spiders...
>>98528920NTG but the CoS motif permeates basically every model as wellEven when there aren't actual tilted squares there are angles that invoke them all over the models in places like clothes and helmets and wood bits
>>98530154im not saying the cities guys dont have kites everywhere, but the other guy is saying the octagon theme isnt as pervasive in cathay, when it is on pretty much every model and transfer sheet in the range. its on shields, its on belt buckles, its on the statue, its on the gunner pavises, on the cannons struts, even the loader ogre has an octagon gutplate. the octagon motif is as pervasive in cathay as the diamond is in cities.
>After shading the model, just realized putting back the skin is now harder because of the amount of scars Ogors haveHow am I gonna paint lightning scars on this man?
kinogors......
>>98530336Man I still haven't figured out a scheme for my dudes yet. And they're built, and primed but I'm just trying to fucking figure it out. I DO KNOW I wanna do ice weapons but I dunno color wise for the metal or pants.
>>98529413That's the thing, you only need one coat
>>98530336Can't tell if edit or conversion
Here's an update on my Ogor Tyrant, I added the skin. I'm not the best at painting eyes still, it's way too hard for me.
>>98528366>SONS of behemat>female models
they wont go chaos - chaos. and destruction was last edition so what death faction will be in the next editions starter?
>>98530724Hope would be someone cool like FEC with new GhoulsRealistically I can see more OBR. They've gotten a lot of releases this year compared to the rest of Death, no? Good time to reintroduce them as a lore threat - and Nagash fucking hates Skaven who had this edition.
>>98530724Nighthaunt with non-Underworld Glavewraiths and Hexwraiths
>>98530578You've got this brogor. Gonna have a painted army in no time.
>>98530724bone niggas
>>98530769I wish the OBR weren't such bitches for their bone daddy Nagash
>>98530724I'm hoping ghouls, EVERY EDITION YOU HAVE THE MOUNTED HERO IN THE LAUNCH BOX! Ghouls getting a morbheg hero and a new ghoul king and like 40 crypt ghouls (like the clan rats!) would be the easiest shit in the universe to imagine.
>>98530787>EVERY EDITION YOU HAVE THE MOUNTED HERO IN THE LAUNCH BOXWho's Khorne's?
>>98530841Well silly only one side has to have the mounted hero ;) but there is always at least one.
>>98530847>Well silly only one side has to have the mounted hero ;)Agreed
>>98530192I still maintain that it's not AS prevalent or important to them as the tilted square is to CoS.
>>98530715Those are only granddaughters silly
>>98530715>DAUGHTERS of Khaine>male models
>>98530784thats what makes them based.let vampire cucks think they have free will.
>>98530766Tried to touch up the face some more.
>>98530724>they wont go chaos Yes, they will, them's the rumors and the rumors are correct.
>>98531080New rumour is that chaos is squated
>>98531081on your mother's face
>>98531039I gotta get mine out of the dip and redo him. I still don't know how I wanna do his armor up.
>>98528366>>98528380>>98528384>>98528391>>98531222Tick tock pay piggies :)Age of Sigmar's time is running out! Tick tock, tick tock :)
huh, must have been the wind
finally got these fucking things done, back to working on more clanrats
>>98531317very nice anon
>>98530715They bear sons
>>98529913Zero options basically, one tiny sprue >>98529413To paint not dry. You spend 20 minutes on a coat, it's 2 seconds with oil. You just feather it around, it's very quick. Look up some tutorials or somethingI use vasari. They're expensive but creamy.
>>98531302Total war got news again, so we'll have a few of these retards popping in from time to time
>>98531462Good thing they'll be /40kg/'s problem now
The entire AoS Destruction range is so fucking good
>>98531584I like the horns one, but the tusks one is meh
>>98531626They're both horns
>>98531370That game had more soul than it should have had.
>>98531626History of BCR
>>98531584Well, ALMOST the entire range
>>98531701I like them and I wish that every grot in the KB range was a Hobgrot
>>98528506Not very much Ming related with Cathay.
>>98531719it's mostly a color scheme anyway
>>98531785yeah they look a lot better with greener skin. They still look out of place as this weird halfway mark between Kruleboyz and Helsmiths, but the yellow skin does them no favors.
>>98531801GO MY MUSTARD BOYZ
>>98531725Yeah nothing Ming here at all
>>98531853I saw this in mulan
>>98528391The rock throwers are neat and seem like they could be a great way to cover a weakness the behemat army had, but the war stompers I am iffy about. They are good against heroes or target heroes, but you have so many other ways to deal with big monsters, small infantry heroes, etc that it seems a little redundant.
>>98531935Do we even know thier rules?
>>98531969Just the basic description so far on the sneak peak post. The war stompers are supposed to target heroes and commanders in some way.
>>98531974Deepstike near enemy heros (ninja conversion mandatory)
>>98531584I hope you don't like them so much you'd want to field more than one
>>98531853Ah, I hadn't seen that the gunners wear the same armor. Shame they look bad, I love the Ming and Tang periods.
How complete is a Cathay proxy for AoS?Do people count Jade Warriors as Gallants or Steelhelms
>>98532104
>>98532104>>98532411personally i would probably run jade warriors as gallants, and run spear peasants or convert some shield peasants (using peasants + left over jade warrior shields and weapon arms?) as steelhelms. steelhelms tend to be feckless goobers on the table, only good for holding objectives and screening out your guns, while jade warriors are somewhat elite, so i feel like gallants more closely fit their intended role, at least until the old world comes out with some kind of dragonguard elite infantry with an actual model (there is definitely room in the range for this, the army doesnt have a single greatweapon unit yet)
>>98532411Command corps you could probably cobble together out of the various extra guys you get in say the cannon kit or the lantern
>>98531026Half the army is literally some OBR getting assfucked by Nagash but sure, the OBR aren’t cucks. Make sense
>>98531935I think they look a little off when they're just holding the two rocks. Ideal loadout lookswise would be a rock and a club. The sling does look really good too.
>>98530571Conversion. The creator had a few alternate angles. The antlers are made of sylvaneth swords apparently
>>98531039Why do people bother with eyes? No one notices at that scale unless you give them bobble eye shit like that
>>98532985Because it’s satisfying to give that much more “life” to my models and have an easily identifiable milestone in my own personal progress that isn’t something too subtle. It’s also an extra detail to appreciate when people see my stuff and go in for a closer look.
>>98532411Pretty cool. I like the cathay models but having made an army for fantasy before, I was deterred because it's kinda boring. AOS is actually fun to play pickup games with so I might do this.
>>98533025
i've wanted to do vampire coast-themed stuff for a long while now. i have a roughly mega gargant sized necrofex colossus wip. i was kind of turned off for a bit by new cities of sigmar because of a lack of regular riflemen to use as gun zombies, but they seem to have new streltsi-likes i could use for that so that's cool. would i be better off using the necrofex as a gargant or a cogfort? idk the 4e rules particularly well
>>98533114
>>98533112Yeah? Not everyone’s gonna instantly bang out a perfect face on command. I applaud anon for trying and sticking with it.
>>98533116>mega gargant sizedcogfort
>>98533116The only question I'd have is are we just adding gundead as their own seperate faction, are they strictly gonna be pirate themed or would it be deadwalkers as a stand alone thing with the lady of flesh.
>>98533114Bloodstoker ah moffo
>>98533114The artstyle is not very fitting but the design's pretty nice
>>98533151i would be okay with them being not pirate themed as long as they did something interesting with them, but if it's a dice roll of how that theme would go i would settle for pirate theme. the vampire coast barely fits in warhammer fantasy but would be right at home in aosi even made up some gay little lore about them being in service to a giant lighthouse that moved around the realms, with a massive whirlpool of drowned ships around the lighthouse. it would be zombies and vampires in service to the god of the drowned dead, which is one nagash hasn't managed to dominate, and it would either be the lighthouse, or something within the lighthouse
>>98533114His hammer looks like it's made out of rubber
>>98533220I'd be fine with gundead being a subfaction of Soulblight or just part of a zombies faction. Primarily pirate themed probably not, but having a whole "wave" heh as pirates would be fine. It's weird because AOS has these distinctions and certainly if we just port gundead from total war it'd be easy but how well they fit in is another story.
>>98533116Wouldn't gun zombies have worked perfectly fine as fusiliers?
>>98533121Honestly the top guy is pretty cool, a fucked up incredible hulk is a neat way to show Khorne's favor on a mortal.
>>98533220I like it because the lighthouse would be cool faction terrain. Have it shine its ghostlight on a unit to increase the number of your choice: to hit, wound, or save. Could go more Old Man and the Sea/ Moby Dick style psychopathic whalers whose vendetta keeps them from staying dead. Maybe they're chasing one of those big shadows above the world from the Idoneth lore.
>>98533259They would, but no shields and it would feel a little weird to me
>>98533361they don't really need the shields anymore tbf, they're already dead
>>98533361Well yeah but you're proxying, don't need the shields. But a couple of stakes in the ground or something if you really wanna represent the fortified position rule.
does anyone even use objective markersanymore? I only ever see templates
>>98533460The templates are just better for gameplay because physical markers interfere with the total available space on an objective. The issue will likely be solved if AoS takes a page from 40K and makes terrain the objectives. No more circles and people could make their own objective markers to denote whatever they need to about that terrain piece.
>>98533479I think tournamentfags would mandate consistency so we'd see more of the same except with L shaped ruins
>>98533460They will be back in 5th ed when gw gets rid of templates like they did in 40k, the only difference will be that instead of ruins footprints it will be irregular areas either around or within pillars
Can’t they just base objectives around faction terrain instead? Maybe different terrain requires the other person to do something to it to score which lets gw give factions multiple options of faction terrain?
While we're posting ogre stuff we found, I really like this simple morga weaponswap. Some reach just improves the model imo.
>>98533602I guess she would look good with a more brutal polo mallet
>Reading Godeater>Cogforts bellow smokeBit weird Ironweld was entirely retconned, shifting from industrial horror to da vinci quirky man powered warfare Sylvaneth don't have shit to complain about anymore, really. Freeguild is 90% wood and that'll just biodegrade, it's an ecological boon depending on where it drops
>>98533668I mean the current ones still have a bigass engine
>>98533668Cogforts run on emberstone so they're not entirely mechanical. There is combustion happening there.
>>98533668soulbound was never canon
>>98533748That is so much cooler than what we got
>>98533026if you use round bases and get a hold of some slotted trays you could play both. thats what im doing
>>98531403>vasariJesus, isn't that ridiculously pricey? Pics?
>>98533279What would Orks/Orruks/Greenskins think of the Incredible Hulk if they met him ?
>>98533395>>98533416That's fair. But don't they have a new unit with guns and a flamer? I haven't closely examined
>>98533748Always thought this looks like shit I'm glad the actual cogfort looks nothing like this
>>98533668>>98533748>newfags don't know "cogfort" is ahwole class of machines and not 1 deviceSome of those things are described to be the size of whole castles while others are even smaller than what we got. It's not all one thing
>>98533801the grenadiers? I mean kinda, the flamethrower guy is basically just a token from what I remember wherein you can shoot people in cover or do extra d3 damage on objectives or something stupid.>>98533602a bit more imposing but still could stand to be a bit more fancy. (Which they've also done by adding the bits of shields and meat from the stonehorn kit I spose)
>>98533815soulbound, black library, and old battletomes aren't canon they're standardised in current fluff, that's kind of Freeguild's whole thing
>>98533801Yeah, they do. They're pretty damn good in melee too. Hybrid unit.
>>98533602Better
Not mine, but thots?
>>98532985I know most people won't care outside of "huh neat" at most irl, but it's just satisfying when you finish up and admire your work. Especially as you improve at painting faces over time.
>>98533932>Birth of a Free City
>>98533932Someone likes Dr.Doom
>>98531655I feel like a lot of it comes form shit they had to cut, yet traces remained. The secret 3rd Stromcast character, random chance of getting a named Lord Executioner unit otherwise identical to the generic. At some point you're playing to see what bizzare nonsens is still hidden from you.Oh and because Nurgle campaign on Hard is pure masochism and i did it like a weird Sudoku
>>98533955I just like my glowy eyes or playing death so I don't have to actively deal with it.
>>98533932Looks kinda gay honestly
>>98533955>Especially as you improve at painting faces over time.That’s one of the best parts.
>>98532985I have 4 armies and can get away with this in all of them
>>98531317Real smooth on the vortexes
>>98533796>green, yells, fightsDis git is literally me
>>98533932Missing a lot of belts and straps
>>98533932why do this instead of getting bretonnian knights?
>>98534116lmao
>>98533932>HELL ANSWERS TO ME! FOR I....AM....DOOM!
>>98533932greenstuffslopfags should spend more than five seconds looking at cloaks for reference
>>98534163Those look gay.
>>98531785Not at all. Hobs are noticably bigger
>>98534238>5’10 vs 5’11
>>98533479>The templates are just better for gameplay because physical markers interfere with the total available space on an objectiveAt the cost of making tables look like total shit.
>>98534282I don’t hate them but it’s so much nicer if they happen to blend into the table.What really makes the table look like total shit is the current terrain rules encouraging the use of flat “terrain” patches because of the 1” height rule on unstable terrain, especially the damn empty wyldwood bases.
>>98534238What shocks me is the size difference between the two regular grots
>>98534322Organic grass-fed vs gmo shrooms
>>98534238I don't see a problem, of course you would keep the weedier ones as your closest underlings instead of the ones who could get an idea about backstabbing you.
>>98534322The one on the right is in a lunging posture, so if it stood fully erect the pair would likely be closer in height.
I go through spells of not paying attention to tabletop stuff, and tend to sift through what I missed. I didn't realize they'd brought chorfs back, I quite like them. >ThoughI wish they all had beards. I don't care if there are women, just give the women beards. Beards on dwarfs are kino.
>>98534127I’m really curious what you mean by that. You mean to hold the cloth down?
>>98534485>I wish they all had beards. I don't care if there are women, just give the women beards. Beards on dwarfs are kino.They should give them big braids instead. They can fulfill the same role beards though both visually and thematically.
>>98534485I rather like the box they came form in general, both bands hit it just right for me. >>98534669For how common this is in fiction, you'd think GW of all corpos would with dwarfs.
Have there been any newer battletome pdfs added since the COS one a few weeks ago?
>>98534696The kharadron woman that this board keeps seething about had one of them, I think it looked pretty good. Way better than all the female heads with just a ponytail or something. Could've been a bit thicker though, again to emulate the beard on male models. Same thing goes for the chorf, the big ringlet style would've worked pretty well on braids too.
>>98534781Yeah, but KO never really leans into it. KO Dwarf women are just kinda normal women with dwarf proportions. Ah well.
>>98534781What kharadron woman is that?Unlike some /pol/niggers I know that even in old lore, chorfs had warrior women, granted it was the result of their society favouring male inheritance but still. Sorcerer-prophets had all female bodyguards to avoid the problem of being backstabbed for stealing. Sort of akin to having eunuch guards. I dig the braid idea, I'm not sure how well it would show on the models thoughGeneral question, are the arms on new chorfs interchangable? Like, if I get the infernal cohort can the arms go with any of them. GW design philosophies are bizarre nowadays
>>98534114thanks anon, i had to do several passes of drybrushing and touchups but i like the end result well enough
What is said of Underguts in the battletome?
>>98534781>The kharadron woman that this board keeps seething aboutIt's such a shame because her mini is really cool but the splash art does her no favors.
>>98534223No lies detected
>>98534238>>98534322yeah this is kind of a bad comparison, the little grot on the right is from grinkraks looncourt and he is deliberately smaller than all the other grots, even within his own squad he's half the height of grinkrak himself
>>98530192>>98530154this is a dumb thing to care about.>>98529515>>98528850Thunderbarge
>>98529367Rape is based
>>98531081darkoath and slaves to darkness add nothing to age of sigmar and age of works better with devoted GOD armies.
>>98533932>pay out the ass for GW models>cover 90% of it in bedsheet
>>98534238>>98531701These guys+the Hobgrots in the Helsmiths+slittaboss+snarlpacks for the Hobgrot horde.
Dwarf women should only be fat in old age when they're young they should look like sexy mexican shortstacks built for human cock.
>>98534918>Unlike some /pol/niggers I know that even in old lore, chorfs had warrior women, granted it was the result of their society favouring male inheritance but still. Sorcerer-prophets had all female bodyguards to avoid the problem of being backstabbed for stealing. Sort of akin to having eunuch guards. I dig the braid idea, I'm not sure how well it would show on the models thoughThe HarridansThere was some more obscure lore about Chaos Dwarfs being grimdark and breeding being restricted to honoured warriors, helsmiths, warlords, sorcerors and guys who forced their way up the rungs of Zharr-Naggrund society one way or another, females were mostly kept in harems and given as favors to loyal chorfs. The low population and possibility of mutants like Bull Centaurs being born (and would usually kill the mother in birth) meant they wanted to keep them skavenesque constantly pregnant to replenish their numbers. But those who lived past their version of menopause found currency as Harridans, the warrior nuns of Hashut, chosen as bodyguards for the Sorceror-Prophets because otherwise female chorfs who could no longer have children were just slaves.
Of course writing EVIL factions as morally reprehensible would be bad/decried as gooner fetishes now so the chorfs now would just have warrior nuns of Hashut because they just do.
>>98535710they're not fatits all muscle.
>>98535733They still enslave people and worship a god of tyranny. Is 'there can be evil women' really such a bad choice?
>>98535762It is the worst of all listed evils.
>>98535762No it's>enslave the women as prizes to be won by warriors in the ziggurat of power, with the worthless ones being thrown in the pits as shamed and honorless slaves, even if that's not rational since there are only a few thousand of themIronically of course the warriors being incels who die alone if they fail is a lesser evil but whatever.Anyway in the New Acceptably Evil society there are evil women with evil husbands instead.
Everything I got painted up in one pic. I can make a full 2k list with painted models now too. It’s such a good feeling bros
>>98535807Hell yeah, anon. Good stuff. It's a great feeling, isn't it?
Can gargant breast milk straight from the tap satiate a full-grown man?
>>98535889whale milk is 50% fat. do with that information what you will, anon.
Just ordered the Spearhead, I'm going all in on trees
>>98535807>red orruksyep, i'm thinking kino
>>98536163hoti wish there was more monstergirl (or boy i'm not picky) aos art/cheesecake stuff. or at least that it was uploaded to boorus/actual art gallery sites, because social media is fucking gay for art
>>98536180i'm working on a shitty skaven girl, does that count
>>98536218holy kinoyes she counts. good stuff anonnice feet as well
>>98536180
>>98536230you understandbut yeah, still not 100% sure on the colors when i get around to the line art and coloring/shading, but red is a pretty common color with skaven so fuck it, we ball
>>98535807I need to buy more hored guys to make army pictures look good like this, but monsters are a lot more fun to paint...
>>98535691Watch your tongue buddy, my mother was a bedsheet
>>98536462I left the best part of you as a stain on her/
>>98534970That's true, by far the worst KO cover art. I also don't really like the new vongrim in general, their balloon just kind of looks like an oversized backpack, whereas the endrinriggers actually look like they're being carried by the balloons.
I think steampunk dwarves are lame.
>>98536539Aos is like that, the factions are more polarizing. In whfb it's mostly just classic fantasy tropes (which in fairness it did help standardize in some cases, like e.g. green orcs) so if you'll like the one chances are you'll like most others almost by default. There's a couple that are more out there (e.g. skaven, and on the other end of the spectrum bretonnia) but on the whole it's mostly the same "vibe" as the kids say.In aos meanwhile the factions are more out there, like has been discussed earlier in this thread they're usually mixes of different inspirations. It seems like this results in more types of armies with aesthetics that some people really love and some people really hate. Idoneth are another classic example (I personally love em), as are bonereapers (I hate em).
>>98536565Kharadron just feel out of place. They feel too specifically modern DnD than dark fantasy. Fyreslayers... well at least I can look at them & they still feel like dwarves. Maybe if the Kharadron had more like dieselpunk instead of steampunk I'd like them more. Less flash & more function.Personally while the Idoneth are ugly, the lore & aesthetics are interesting. The Bonereapers I see as a more interesting undead faction than just mindless skeleton soldiers. They make more sense to me than Nagash dragging out vampires to serve him again when he knows they're useless backstabbers.
>>98536579they're not any more modern than skavens warp galvanism tesla coils and gattling guns
>>98536607It's the aesthetics. Nautical sky divers doesn't do it for me. The Skaven work because they're demented mad scientists using magic warp crack science.
It's actually fucked up that there's no chaos dragon in StD.
>>98536664Belakor has 6 limbs. That's a dragon
>>98536664>>98536672the new chaos dragon model fits on a 100mm wide rectangle base, so presumably it should fit on a 100mm round and you could use it as a proxy for belakor
>>98536664Dorghar erasure.
>>98536664i am surprised they dont have a chaos version of the stormdrake guard
>>98536684Dorghar is a horse (which technically makes him eligible for the UmaMusume crossover)
>>98536664use the new tow chaos dragon as archaon, it's not like you should want to field more than one
>>98536721You can already field Archaon as Archaon retard. You're adding nothing
>>98536727why would you want archaon's ugly miniature?
>>98536766Well you clearly want ugly minis
>>98536777No, quite the opposite
>>98536782>pig doesn't realize it's covered in shit
>>98536664Genuinely wait like 5 months. There's one coming. No it doesn't make any sense to make two giant centrepiece dragon models for effectively the same faction in two different systems, I know, but they're still doing it.
>>98536825don't be that harsh on yourself
>>98536843A bunch of 3rd graders called, they want their insults back
>>98536851meant for >>98536851
>>98536721ToW selling so bad ToWfags gave to beg AoSchads to buy their shit as proxies
Saw this
>>98536903Biutiful
>>98536903Squignos flashbacks
>>98536903Based
>>98537072Thought it was a custom model for a second
>>98537095Thought it was a WoW asset myself
>>98536903now this is epic quirkchungus this is why I heckin love age of sigmar
>>98537105lmao seethe more
>>98536721I do not like either of these models desu
>>98536664Dragons being rare and not being spammed out of the ass like in fb is something I can appreciate.
>>98536579>They feel too specifically modern DnD than dark fantasy.This is such a retarded take holy shit. Nautical, greed hungry dwarves who journey through unknown horrors and have to deal with anomalies that rivals stuff in the stalker series is far more engaging,
You know how 40k gets free detachments uploaded to warcom every now and then? The AoS team should do the same but with AoR rules.
>>98537187How often do they get that? Didn't we get some in WD?
>>98537249>How often do they get that?I believe it's on a quarterly basis accompanying points changes and FAQs. About a handful get added at a time.
>>98537279Yeah, that would be good. Or maybe new battle formations
>>98537187>>98537279How is that meaningfuly different from GHB every 2 quarters?
>>98537332I'm not sure I understand the question. It reads like you're asking what the difference is between getting new AoR rules on a quarterly basis, available to download for free, and twice per year getting a new GHB which does not include AoR rules. I'm guessing you didn't mean to ask for an explanation of what makes apples different from pears, but then I don't know what you're trying to say.
>>98537303if only
>>98537423Canon Marakarr ain't that far behind
>>98537249I wish we had more of these, but AoR in general need >a universal enhancements table >permission to use RoR Idk why they're nuking flavour. No battle trait is so broken you should abandon your fun hobby projects
Strictly speaking not AoS, but it's adjacent and might be fun for the anons anticipating the duardin relaunch. It's a fresh orchestral track with Khazalid lyrics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxEfy55PQCw
>>98537485I would say that not every AoR should accept every RoR available to that faction but true. I was shocked when CoS got melting pot AoR and they can't take RoRs from that factions
>>98533860good job not reading that guy's post and not understanding what he said
>>98537096Same. It’s got that model viewer lighting.
>>98535588>this is a dumb thing to care about.Aesthetics? It's dumb to care about aesthetics in a miniature-painting hobby? I think it matters. For example, the overabundance of hexagonal motifs in Helsmiths ruined the range for me.
>>98533748This type of cogfort was also shown in Hammer and Bolter, it's still cannon
>>98528912Based chinaman
>>98532673OBR are aware of and accept their role in Nagash's scheme.Vampires rail against it and delude themselves into thinking they have control, which Nagash tolerates as it helps his plans, but when he pulls on the leash, they all have to give
>>98533460Nope just cuck circles because AoS is a serious tournament only game ok????
>>98533932Looks horrible
>>98537705Except based Ushoran who Nagash couldn't control before his madness and still can't control after his madness.
>>98537618the battletome trumps older sources
>>98537756>retarded autist can only repeat the same thing over and over while not understanding a simple conceptthis meme was made for you
>>98537763I wouldn't consider older stuff canon. GW retcons stuff and it's that simple
>>98533460I’ve got three I need to prime and paint but desu I just don’t see the point to having them anymore
>>98537568Yeah that one was kind of baffling.
>>98537641>zee motifs, zhey bozher me!Yes it is a dumb thing to care about.
>>98537756Does it explicitely say that the new cogfort style is the only one though? If not we're in a bit of a grey area
>>98538009Why is he German?
>>98537756it doesn't they would have to state that it isn't true. wanderers exist but have not been mentioned for half a decade
>>98537429>>98537303I like both honestly
>>98536579I wasn’t too fond of them at first but if any faction has to be the most technologically advanced one it makes sense for it to be them>>98535710Based
>>98528384wait what did I miss something
>>98538208Anon spends the 2n or 3rd thread trying to tell people gitz raped someone in a book, but whenever he says a title someone who actually read that book says it didn't happen.TLDR;Masturbate before positng
>>98537303Vgh...Malign portents... home...
>>98538213it IS implied in the skarsnik novel, but its a single line and its something along the lines of 'when it came to the women the goblins knew exactly how to cause the most torment' or some vague shit like that
>>98538386That could be killing their children or ruining their looks, or cutting off their breasts, scalping their hair. Tons of options, not just defaulting to drooling and gooning while saying it is rape. Retard.
>>98538403i agree with you anon, all im saying is it COULD be being implied. also im pretty sure the men are forced to watch, though that's still vague
>>98538386Yeah but also in the Skarsnik novel he's born from a fucking fungal pod, so they don't reproduced via sex ya dummy they're mushrooms.
>>98537172Too bad they look so lame then. They're not even nautical when they're in the sky.
>>98538213>>98538403>>98538413that is the line. do with that what you will
>>98538414You look lame.
>>98538425I read the book and there is not even a hint of anything rape related in it. Or in Gloomspite, for that matter. Gloomspite is incredibly dark and filled with body horror, but no rape. Skarsnik has plenty of torture and violence, but not a hint of rape.
Motion to add “rape fetishist” to the bingo.
>>98538425I mean they could do any number of things to them, this was post retcon for goblins and orcs being fungal creatures with no genitals. I figure any number of torture to your wife would fuck you up as a guy.>>98538438We really need to get a good list going at some point.
>>98538433That's beside the point.
>>98538435>Gloomspite is incredibly dark and filled with body horrorI’m curious. What were some of the worst stuff?
>>98538454He's overexaggerating, mind you I really really hated Gloomspite I thought it was mediocre as fuck.Primarily just people turning into mushrooms, one guy explodes like a puffball, lotta people being eaten alive or enslaved, I remember a trogg just kinda stomps a guy like it was nothing.
>>98538435not a HINT is a bit strong, I literally posted the one line that does have a HINT. but you're right about gloomspite, there is nothing i recall in gloomspite that could even come close to implying sexual violence
>>98538454A lot of depictions of fungal growth and insects slowly killing people alive. The fungal zombies made me uncomfortable, but the entire book had sections that just were pure body horror. Regular depictions of flesh sprouting mycillium and fungal growths under the night of the Bad Moon, the Kharadron being fungal'd from the inside out by the Loonking.
>>98538467I think what bugged me about that book is the same thing I bitch about every time we discuss black library. I just wanted a book from the goblins perspective like Skarsnik, I do not give a shit about the random civvies and people getting killed by them.
>>98538462It is the vaguest line possible, not a HINT of rape but more the narrator telling the listener/reader that Goblins excel at psychologically breaking their victims. The entire book goes into great detail on the sadistic tendencies of goblins. Look at what they did the the Halfling, or the prisoners in Skarsnik's dungeon.
>>98538454gloomspite isn't that bad, its nothing as dark as the skarsnik stuff. I don't think any AoS novels have depicted torture as graphically as the skarsnik novel did. that book also came out 13 years ago so it was from a grittier less sanitized time
>>98538474I liked the civilian stuff a bit more because it showed a lot of stuff normally not talked about in Warhammer settings. The alcoholic seer and his suicide from despair. The Watchman who was divorced and took out his anger on the drunks at the bar while power tripping. The leader of the city being such a zealot that he expects Sigmar to make things right. The entire Lantern cult and their end.
>>98538497>I liked the civilian stuff a bit more because it showed a lot of stuff normally not talked about in Warhammer settingsYou're not wrong, I wouldn't mind more civilian life in the mortal realms if it was more in depth and kind of seeing a city that functions as opposed to just watching one implode. I dunno, Gloomspite for whatever reason just really didn't do it for me I think it's because a few bits felt much more like... "BUY OUR MODEL!" than other stuff I've read from Black Library. The gobbapalooza being there for like 2 pages just for the sake of saying "LOOK AT HOW COOL THESE GUYS ARE!" then "Oh dear god look those Boingrot Bouncers © COMING RIGHT AT US!" I tend to like when there's more weird bullshit that doesn't really have a model or equivalent.
>>98538510>felt much more like... "BUY OUR MODEL!"this is modern black library's primary problem in general imo
>>98538518You can tell when the author is doing their own thing versus when they're just like "Ah yes, of course... Thankfully the Stormcast Eternal Liberators are here to save us with their Sigmarite Warhammers and in the 5 of them there was 1 wielding the mighty Sigmarite Grandhammer." I think there are times the authors get a bit too out there with shit, best example being the weird... alien psychic preying mantis thing at the end of Orcslayer where it just felt like it fit nowhere and was stupid. But I'd appreciate if they were at least a bit more out there with shit, like if they wanted a gobapalooza they would have snuck in references to odd wizards with swirling eyes and strange staves, the clank and clatter of bottles, or other shit.
>>98538553>where it just felt like it fit nowhere and was stupid.it had to be there, because the moment you write a warhammer novel with a mysterious mastermind behind everything your usual reader who's already well versed in warhammer will call out all of the options from the already existing fluff, so you need to add something from out of the left field
>>98538574You're not wrong, it was more weird that the book was called Orcslayer at that point.
>>98538574See that sorta makes sense but at the same time there's nothing wrong with having a predictable villain.
>>98538553>alien psychic preying mantis thing at the end of OrcslayerNgl that sounds kino. Then again I'm a sucker for this kind of shit.Was it badly written?
>>98538553>alien psychic preying mantis thingQrd? Reminds me of the strange unidentified alien thing from the void that Sigmar had to fight and seal away
>>98538609>Was it badly written?I really haven't been the biggest fan of the Nathan Long Gotrek and Felix books so I might be a bad person to ask. It's cool(?) in the sense of it being very ailen and strange, but it's pretty generic in that it's your standard "Blargh, I'm actually part of an ancient super intelligent race that was replaced by you surface dwellers who are all stupid!" >>98538639 What I said above, it's not attached to anything before, I think there was some implication it had some association with Chaos but not directly in how you'd imagine. The main shtick was the dorfs dug too deep, and the hold and the invading orcs got mind controlled, it had a bunch of eggs and was going to infest the world until Gotrek did the Gotrek thing and obliterated it and all the eggs.
>>98538425A very big stretch to think this MUST imply rape. It can be interpreted as such, but we know greenskins aren't a sexual race so that's already pushing it. There's plenty of non-rapey ways to torture people that would be too difficult for victims to recount in detail without reliving the trauma, thus noting it in passing and then moving on.
What are the easiest spearheads/factions to paint for a noob? I plan on going to my local Warhammer store to get started.
>>98538776Nighthaunt
>>98538767The author wisely knows that insinuating vaguely makes the reader imagine the worst thing they possibly can for the situation, leaving the writing ambiguous and the potential misdeed only limited by imagination. Sadly the Rapeposter is fixated on rape and that is the limit for their gooning addled mind.
>>98538803Speaking of insinuations, has GW ever actually stated that Drukhari torture involves sexual violence in even vague implications? Or is that purely a fan interpretation of "worst torment possible"?
>>98538803I'm so glad, I'M JUST SO GLAD WE SOMEHOW WOUND UP WITH SOMEONE CALLED "RAPEPOSTER"
>>98538839As a Dark Eldar player and collector since 3e, not to my knowledge. Read plenty of BL books and codexes and it mostly is the more Hellraiser style exquisite torture to prolongue and fuel the Dark Eldar.
>>98538803>>98538860They should bring the Beastmen back proper for real raping hours.
>>98538889That's kind of what I expected. It's annoying how often people lazily just refer to them as Rape Elves everywhere.
>>98538776not >>98538795nighthaunt are a noob trap. obscene gaps, fiddly fits and gaps, breakable models, and all those big smooth bed sheets are perfect canvases to expose a lack of painting technique in even coat coverage. they have some very difficult to reach internal spaces on the insides of the sheets, and the army itself on the table is hard as fuck to play at a basic level because it revolves around rule bending shenanigans and some very unintuitive and non obvious playstyles to get anything done. i actually recommend nighthaunt only as a labor of love, because that army is going to fight you tooth and nail the whole time you are collecting it and playing it. also its main cavalry unit which you want multiples of is a 20 year old kit that looks like ass and doesnt fit next to the modern sculpts.actual beginner armies? here's one for every grand alliancechaos: slaves to darkness. easy to build, easy to paint, easy to play, very straightforward and intuitive playstyle, requires zero combos to play at a casual levelDestruction: ogres. brand new models, organic textures and metallics means a simple base coat and shade can do a lot of heavy lifting for you. nice big features are easy to paint, models are simple to build and sturdy, and low model count means you wont be bogged down forever painting them. also very easy point and smash playstyle.order: seraphon. assembly is quick and easy for saurus and kroxigor units, and all the scale textures take any color and work well, and a simple shade and drybrush and you're 90% of the way done. forgiving of mistakes, all natural textures. gameplay has also been streamlined so they are a pretty beginner friendly armydeath: bonereapers. one of the easiest armies to build and paint in the game, you can practically do the whole thing one color and a wash if you want, and the models natural bone texture will do all the work for you. moderately easy to play too, and low model count so the army paints and plays fast
>>98538913In the heart of every man thing is the desire to rape and be raped. To suppress the desire in one way is to bring it forth in another. It is the way of our people.It's best that the rapeposter fixates his dark gaze on grim dark tales rather than his friends and loved ones.
>>98538951>>98538776HOWEVER!!!nothing in this game is so difficult to paint or play that you shouldnt collect it if its what your heart is really leaning towards. so if there is something that just absolutely catches your eye, dont stress about how difficult it may be, get it and have fun. and also know that there are products which can safely paint strip plastic models, so if you do get something and do a rough job on it and want to take another swing at it later once you've improved, that is definitely possible.
>>98538957>man thingRat hands types this
>>98538951Thanks anon, very good advice.Are there any that should be a hard no for noobs? I was looking earlier at Helsmiths of Hashut (dig the lore), however they looked like they might be hard to paint.
>>98538913I mean considering their influence of the Cenobites it’s not out of the question that some of them do that
Sorry to disturb whatever the fuck this is, but an interesting tidbit from TGA. Apparently, a while ago, boole conversed privately with some of the users there sharing the following (copypasted) info.Tldr umbraneth army was ready a while ago but oddly he hadn't seen malerion mentioned much in whatever source he had on TLW. Since then, of course, there has been that other rumour which included something about malerion being manipulated by / turning to slaanesh. Make of all that what you will.(This is nothing new, but now there's confirmation that this actually comes from boole, where earlier it was only (heavily) implied.)
>>98538986Masturbate before posting. Please. Seek help.
>>98538776HOT TAKES ANON SINCE I'VE PAINTED JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING (thanks underworlds)here's my opinion on everything starting with orderStormcast Eternals: Both easy and hard, you can be as lazy or go as crazy as you want. They're not space marines but I think they're pretty easy to just slap some metal, leather, and a wash on to call a day or if you wanna go crazy there's options. Cities: Lots of little greebles and bullshit, but realistically if you get a good flow going they're not the WORST but I wouldn't say good for people new to this. Lots of trim, small details, and faces. Lumineth: Fuck these guys.Sylvaneth: Basically just painting trees and ghosts, super easy, can contrast and it'll look nice or go in with lots of shading and other stuff. Very easy and usually look nice no matter what you pick scheme wise.DoK: Lotta skin, lotta spindly shitty little fiddly bits, but the snake ladies are easy to paint. If you wanna do 'em good though it's kinda like cities, LOTS of faces and if you really care about that it'll look rough.IDK: Not too bad but I feel like if you wanna do them you gotta do it good, ya know? I wouldn't wanna pop into this faction half cocked. Lots of the same colors but I think they're worth being better at.Fyreslayer: Easy, just paint naked men and beards, slap some metal colors on the runes and call it a day. KO: Opposite of fyreslayers but worse than Stormcast, lots of spindly bits and designs. You can do them simply but I feel like with IDK I don't wanna do them unless I'm feeling like going all out. Probably not good for new people.Seraphon: Not too bad, lots of scales means contrast and drybrushing work really well to make 'em look good. Big dinos are simple and the schemes are easy to steal from other stuff. I like 'em but dunno if I could stand a full army.
>>98539016I feel like LRL have been much easier to paint than IDK.
>>98538979See>>98538974NTA, but you shouldn't sweat something being "too hard".You can always paint over mistakes or strip the paint off to give it another try. You don't learn without fucking up first anyway.
>>98539016Chaos:Skaven: if you can stand the 40 requisite clan rats you'll need (and know every model has like: leather, cloth, metal, skin, and fur) you can do it. They aren't too bad but I was not the biggest fan as a new painter.Khorne: lotta skin, lotta trim, but not quite as bad as STD. They're not very elegant but I think they're not too bad to paint as someone new. they're very CHUNKY which I think helps with this kind of thing.Slaanesh: Lots of spindly fiddly bits, straps and skin are like my least favorite shit to deal with. Not as bad as say cities but deffo not easy.Nurgle: Lotta skin and boils, you have room to make things not look perfect since if you fuck up a bit Nurgle already looks fucked up so it's not AS BAD. The old blight kings were rough because you're painting a full hero but the new ones are basically just half naked fat guys in togas. If you like painting gross shit they're fun.Tzeentch: FUCK THESE GUYS. Horrors are easy, fuck anything with that stupid gold spindly shit.STD: you have such a wide range but at the same time it's gonna be lots of trim work. The trim gets worse as the models get stronger so uh, take that into account. But I'd say it's not too bad for someone new, you'll learn a lot and have lots of fun options.Chorfs: I lied, I haven't gotten a chance at these guys yet. But the plating looks like it'd be kinda like Nagash so I can't imagine they're too bad?
>>98539016IDK and KO really do feel like the prestige painting factions. You can definitely paint them basic but they almost feel like you wouldn't want to collect them unless you also had serious ambitions to paint them. LRL lends itself to gorgeous painting projects too but people also collect the range just to play more often it seems.
>>98538979helsmiths are somewhat easy to paint. they're small, but the segmenting on their armor and shields means they work well with washes and metallics, and they arent covered in trim and jangles like khorne or slaanesh. hardest part of them to paint will probably be all the smoke effects. on the table they are both easy and hard to play. easy because every unit is easy to understand, but hard because their army mechanic requires controlling territory to generate power to enhance your units, which requires careful planning not to overextend yourself but still grab enough board presence that you get the demonic power you need. the units themselves are very straightforward point and shoot units though. if helsmiths looks good to you, they are perfectly achievable for a new player, and their spearhead is well rounded, that would be a great start to the game. if i had to rate which ones are the hardest for a beginner, probably slaanesh, gloomspite, cities of sigmar, and soulblight would be the worst offenders. slaanesh and cities have some very detailed very tricky models and some quite complex gameplay, while gloomspite and soulblight are not individually hard to paint or play but are both horde armies requiring painting 100+ models easily which is expensive to collect and exhausting to both paint and play on the table
>>98539038DEATH (my favorite grand alliance)Nighthaunt: Kinda mix of what the other guy said, I do think they're beginner friendly in that GW clearly did design them with contrast in mind. I think they are a faction where you have room to learn lots of techniques and they're not too bad. A FEW MODELS have some bits that annoy me (looking at you olynder and THAT ONE SPECIFIC CHAINRASP WHO'S HAND BREAKS OFF EVERY TIME) but I think they're a solid place to learn.FEC: Probably not the best starter faction BUT lots of fun options kinda like nurgle if you like painting gross shit. Lots of guts, gore, and SKIN SO MUCH SKIN. They're very samey model wise so if you do something good on one it's gonna apply to literally ALL of them.SBGL: Wide variety kinda like STD, I think they're some of the best painting you'll find. Stuff for people new and old, vamps have some annoying filigree that I hate, BUT the skeletons are easy since it's just bones and no eyes or faces to be concerned with, zombies have room for gross bits, and you get a bit of everything. Very fun!OBR: Unfortunately probably my least favorite for death, they kinda feel like KO to me in that I can't quite wrap my head around what the fuck colors go where at times and the models are very strange. You can go in with a basic bitch paint job as someone new but I don't know how well it's gonna work, they feel like another faction dedicated to folks who know what they're doing. YOU'D FIGURE EASY BECAUSE SKELETONS, but you'd be wrong unfortunately.Bonus: Nagash, you can use him with everyone and he's a treat to paint. Love that fucker like you wouldn't believe.
>>98539057>if i had to rate which ones are the hardest for a beginner, probably slaanesh, gloomspite, cities of sigmar, and soulblight would be the worst offendersNo lies here. I’d even throw Kruleboyz on there because damn those fuckers are piled on with little trophies and textures.
>>98538993… What? I’m not saying that’s a reasonable term for them but they’re literally *the* race of assholes it would be kind of silly if at least some of them didn’t think of it
>>98539064I feel like the OBR would be annoying just to get the bone color right.
>>98539070yeah KB are a fucking nightmare to learn to play on the table too. probably the most unforgiving army in the game. sons of behemat probably arent great for beginners either just because that army requires painting several $200 foot tall models, and thats just a huge task for someone just picking up a paintbrush for the first time
>>98539064And last but not least, Destro: Gloomspite: Super fucking fun to paint, very new painter friendly. Troggs have that kind of skin that is the same as Lizardmen, Night Gobbos are basically robes and a small green face and some hands, I think the most elabroate pain in the ass models would be Gobbapalooza and Skragrot but even then they're fine. (Just some weird bits to paint here and there) Honestly a very solid place to start if the army was actively hated by GW. Lots of room for color and fun.Ogors: With the new refresh, FANTASTIC. The textured skin has helped so god damn much in making them look more interesting than just half naked fat men. They're big, chunky, easy to paint with not so many crazy details and since they're super elite you'll have half to 1/3rd of the shit to paint. GOOD SHIT.Ironjawz: Same bit with Ogors but more metal to paint, they're just orks nothing too crazy. Lots of bulky details, big chunky weapons, ezpz.SOB: suprisingly not new guy friendly, yeah you only need 4 models (or 3 and kragnos) BUT the models are overly greebled to shit. 2 million little fucking different bits and while you don't need to do that many a single gargant would take me ages to get right. Wouldn't recommend as a starting point unless you just want to spend a lot of time on the 4 dudes. (new medium gargs and new garg lady do look sick though.)Kruleboyz: surprisingly easier than you'd think but less than you'd hope., a lot of weird greebles and trophies and other bits... You can keep them basic as fuck and I think they look fine, the proportions are also kinda weird, with bits and lots of weird little nails poking out randomly but otherwise I think they're not too bad. Anything with a cage can fuckoff though, and Gobbsprakk's little spice rack has so many different bits and bobs. Cool but I'd say... Nowhere near as easy as the easiest, but it's probably somewhere in the middle. SHIT, that's all of em.
>>98538898beastmen are busy raping across the old world
>>98538609>>98538639https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sleeper
>>98538009So what is one allowed to dislike in a model design? You sound insane.
Okay now that I got that shit out of the way>>98539023I dunno, they're so clean and perfect in lore I can't stand any imperfections ya know? Having a shitty painted LRL faction feels like a sin.>>98539039That's what I'm saying, it's hard for me to want factions like that since YEAH I could do 'em and I could probably half ass it but I just don't have that mindset. If I'm painting something I have an idea in my head and with those guys they deserve better than I am at the level of.>>98539079It's funny since they don't even need bone colors to look good but for whatever reason I can't just wrap my head around what would look good with them. I used to have all Death armys but I wound up trading away my bonereapers. (Still kept my Katakros though, he's a project I wanna try at some point)>>98539092>sons of behemat probably arent great for beginners either just because that army requires painting several $200 foot tall models, and thats just a huge task for someone just picking up a paintbrush for the first timeUnironically what I was thinking, because everytime I have to paint a mega I'm screaming at all the shit I have to do, AND THEN REDO, and then touch up. Shit I still remember an anon saying my brodd looked like shit.
>>98539064>THAT ONE SPECIFIC CHAINRASP WHO'S HAND BREAKS OFF EVERY TIMEi know which one you mean
>>98538776Stormcast are all metal. They are THE newbie army.
>>98538425this is indisputably rape I can picture it while reading
>>98539131I think of them on the level of Space Marines. Lots of wide, plain surfaces with well defined and simply shaped trim. Less “greebles” than people make them out to have. Most sculpts have a single trinket and a most of the things that hang off are tassels. The real pain point of hobbying with LRL is how their sprues are cut up. They way some of the assembly is design is straight up infuriating in how stupidly it prevents a convenient subassembly.
>>98539039KO are acutally quite easy to paint, but the basing problem takes that army from like a 4/10 difficulty to an 8/10the models themselves though you can do like 2 metallics and some blue jeans, a coat of earthshade and they're done, its all mechanical detail which is just metallic+wash unless you're trying to get fancy with the weathering
>>98538446Birthing hole == the hole he emerged fromThe dead mushroom is the the shroom that spawned a root seed to birth him It's not like goblins are futanari with a birthing hole on their person alongside a mushroom
>>98539104To add to Ironjawz; I felt annoyed painting the new ardboyz, and the gore gruntaz were ass because their greebles aren’t well defined on the sculpt. Maw krusha and big pigs are fun though to paint
>>98539168You’re thinking of a hermaphrodite (I think)
>>98539179I think Destro unrionically is probably some of the best for new folks just because everythings big and chunky. Except for how annoying it is painting megas and some of the gitz stuff.
>>98539179>>98539216>>98539104I'm not big on orks & gobs lorewise but they really do look the most fun to paint. Especially the pigs & cabbage dragon.
guys, I think somethings wrong with the new ogors
>>98539274He who eats cauliflower becomes cauliflower
Do people unironically worship the Dark Gods in real life? I've been larping for a long time (tattoos, sacrificing bugs, the usual larp shit), yet I feel the pull to go further. Been searching facebook without any luck, maybe an anon here can help me out?
>>98539338You need therapy if you're larping worshiping made up emotion demons created by a buncha old british dudes.
>>98539338...what?
>>98539353therapy can do nothing in the face of daemons. he needs rabbinic care
>>98539338That’s not a thing no
>>98539338You need Jesus man
>>98539338many warhammer players openly worship nurgle
>>98539338i dont think people ironically worship the dark gods anon. here's your (you)
>>98539338Just convert to worshipping Stolas, he'll grant you success with women just like he has with Styx.
>>98539274When you’ve been wearing headphones for too long
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>>98539338what the fuck is going on this week
>>98539121>mememememe you're INSANEno, you're just one of the seemingly endless number of 99 IQ redditors that set up shop here without ever lurking and cry about your dumb feelings being hurt because you are a retard adn this is a retarded thing to care about.
>>98538386>Skarsnik you fiend! How dare you ask her to take accountability for her own actions!
oh no no beastbros, the 40chuds are saying we are rapists again!
>>98539615>40kbeastmen in 40k aren't rapey!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>98536766archaon's dragon is cooler, except the three heads. kind of want to 3d print an alternative
>>98539615Nah that's fine beastmen are gone.
so i know the urak taar kit has spare riders. does it actually give you enough bits to build a whole extra guy on foot or is it just like a head and arm swap or someething?
>>98539338>Do people unironically worship the Dark Gods in real life?yes demon worship very much is rael
>>98539755No it's a whole extra body. Obviously posed looking down though so you'll have to make a little tactical rock if you don't want them looking like a sperg staring at the ground to avoid eye contact
>>98539755The latter I believe, and I think maybe an extra cape? Though if you got creative with an extra generic dorf I don't see why not.
>>98529345Wtf
>>98533796Probably want to fight him.
>>98536097why do you know that
>>98536241>>98536218>>98536234more like this please zooweemama!!!!
>>98539809nta, but I too know of other animal milks
>>98536180art's expensive, and I dunno if perverts are big in the AOS community and want to fuck things from AOS. LIKE you could, but you'd need an OC and it'd have to be an OC you'd both want to fuck and probably model etc etc.There was an anon who said he'd hit up one of my artist buddies who I think said he was supposedly looking for commissions to do for AOS but that never went through.
>>98539147Because you want to
>>98539913>>98539913
>>98539845do you get paid for that
>>98539849What’s happening here
>>98537105Fag
>>98537429I'm not generally a step on me mommy kinda girl, but...
