Warhammer Quest Silver Tower

[barbaric splendor]

I thought I saw a post with this info but now can't recall where - what size are the miniatures? 

[Elbows]

Heroic 28mm, standard Games Workshop fair.  Some of the larger creatures are probably 60-80mm in height.

[maxxev]

Age of Sigmar is upscaled vs Warhammer Fantasy, so these are 30-32mm+ scaled, no longer even pretending to be 28mm now for GW.

[Elbows]

Yep, should have clarified, by "Heroic 28mm", GW is really meaning around 32mm-esque.

[barbaric splendor]

Thanks for the info - I thought I saw a picture that made the barbarian look fairly large, 32mm is fine for me though.

[Pictors Studio]

I don't know specifically about the Silver Tower stuff but the AoS stuff is the same size as the WHFB stuff.  So the blood reavers from the boxed set aren't any bigger than Chaos marauders.  They are more buff, but I guess you get that working for Khorne and swinging an axe all day.  Some of those other marauders probably worked for Slaanesh here and there.  So maybe bigger forearms and all that but not the chest size of the Khorne blokes. 

The Stormcast guys are bigger but they are supposed to be bigger guys, not out of scale with the old stuff, but almost Ogre sized armoured angels. 

[mhsellwood]

Still waiting on my copy but in a recent white dwarf there was a little bit from the model designers. They specifically said that the War Priest and the Barbarian are scaled to be large people, so they are big but it is a design decision. Can't speak to the rest but most of the things I have read suggest same scale as other releases.

[maxxev]

I don't know specifically about the Silver Tower stuff but the AoS stuff is the same size as the WHFB stuff.  So the blood reavers from the boxed set aren't any bigger than Chaos marauders.  They are more buff, but I guess you get that working for Khorne and swinging an axe all day.  Some of those other marauders probably worked for Slaanesh here and there.  So maybe bigger forearms and all that but not the chest size of the Khorne blokes. 

Ah but the point that's missed here is that the marauders are already 32mm to begin with, they are substantially bigger than old Empire state troops.

AoS is scaling the game up with new releases that are not re-releases and it's most obvious with the Orruks (still a stupid name).

[Pictors Studio]

But the marauders were released over a decade ago.  I don't remember their release date but they are in the 2004-5 catalog.  If GW is scaling the game up, it happened a long time ago and has nothing to do with AoS.

The new Orruks aren't scaled up.  They are supposed to be bigger Orcs.  The Orcs that already were are bigger than the original orcs GW made but they came out with 6th edition in 2000 or so. 

The marauders are 32mm to the bottom of their top knots, but the empire troops are 31mm to the top of their heads. 

AoS isn't scaling up the game, it is just making more over-the-top larger models for the game to be more fantasy than it was.   

[stone-cold-lead]

I thought I saw a post with this info but now can't recall where - what size are the miniatures? 

Just a few rough measurements seeing as we're all guessing.

The barbarian is a biggee at about 38mm

The priest fella (with gryphound) is about 32mm

Cultist chaps about 32mm

Beastmen a little over 32mm in some cases (hard to measure as I've not assembled them)

[Andrew Rae]

Christ, are we measuring to the eyes again?  

There's no doubt about it, the figures are big but there's no real context to say they're not just big people. Even the Acolytes aren't 'regular' humans (I'd doubt we'll ever see those in AoS). What I can say is that the Acolytes Adept stands nearly a head above the old twin hammer Warrior Priest and Mordheim Freelancer, both of which are in a similar standing pose.

Edit: just reread last weeks white dwarf article the sculptor does mention the Acolytes are 'regular' humans in size, so yeah... They're big regular guys!

[Andrew Rae]

Here's a (poor quality, sorry) comparison photo. I'm afraid the FG cultist and the guardsman have lady heads as that's all I've got assembled.



The Empire soldier is of course a stunted peasant of a man, while the Acolytes are tall, magical body builders, so I'd be happy for them to fight each other. I actually prefer the idea of using the much smaller Warrior Priest rather than the massive new War Priest as it just seems more heroic for the adventurers to be facing such massive opponents and not be massive themselves!

[Elbows]

I agree, much more heroic if the heroes are smaller/standard.  It's a bit telling they all appear to be on 32mm bases as well.

[eilif]

Christ, are we measuring to the eyes again?  

If by "again" you mean what GW and just about everyone else has been doing for the last 20 years...

...then Yes.

I'm no expert, but GW has been sizing up both 40k and AoS.  Whereas alot of stuff used to be 28mm sole-to-eye, much is now 30-32mm sometimes much bigger.  Interestingly this makes some projects easier to do.  Jan just use the AoS Storm-something-or-others  to make some impressive looking "truescale" marines.

[nic-e]

If by "again" you mean what GW and just about everyone else has been doing for the last 2 years...

...then Yes.

I'm no expert, but GW has been sizing up both 40k and AoS.  Whereas alot of stuff used to be 28mm sole-to-eye, much is now 30-32mm sometimes much bigger.  Interestingly this makes some projects easier to do.  Jan just use the AoS Storm-something-or-others  to make some impressive looking "truescale" marines.

They look like they're making fun of battle brother captain halfpint.