Author Topic: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread (Read 1739375 times)

Brummie · « **Reply #4395 on:** January 04, 2016, 08:32:08 PM »

Hrmmmmmm they're not bad.

I'll wait until more comes out on them, but I was equally skeptical of the Sigmarines until I saw them in the flesh/alternate painting schemes.

Humorous_Conclusion · « **Reply #4396 on:** January 04, 2016, 09:55:09 PM »

I like them because I think I could use one as the basis of a decent Ungrim Ironfist conversion.

beefcake · « **Reply #4397 on:** January 04, 2016, 09:59:41 PM »

That bloodbowl preview looks quite cool. I'll be waiting for necromunda and mordheim before I get excited though.

Hupp n at em · « **Reply #4398 on:** January 04, 2016, 10:02:27 PM »

Quote from: Elbows on January 04, 2016, 07:55:06 PM

I love Dwarfs. If I played fantasy (ever) it would have been Dwarfs. However, slayers have always been a bit "meh" to me, and the over-done AoS styled new ones look pretty terrible. I'm sure they're marvelous figures/plastics etc...but they look absolute crap.

Really dislike the Slayer aesthetic/trope (can it be considered a trope at this point?) I also dislike the comically disproportionate bodies that Warhammer dwarves seem to have; I would pay good money for 28mm dwarves that look more like short, slightly (SLIGHTLY I SAID) stockier humans, rather than the bowling balls with cabbage patch kids' limbs attached.

Rhoderic · « **Reply #4399 on:** January 04, 2016, 11:04:37 PM »

Quote from: Elbows on January 04, 2016, 07:55:06 PM

However, slayers have always been a bit "meh" to me, and the over-done AoS styled new ones look pretty terrible.

Quote from: Hupp n at em on January 04, 2016, 10:02:27 PM

Really dislike the Slayer aesthetic/trope (can it be considered a trope at this point?)

I think Slayers were quite decent at first (admittedly before my time) when they reflected the pseudo-punk stylings of early GW.

By the time I got into Warhammer, they were much more cartoonish, and Gotrek and Felix were already an established phenomenon. I've read some of the Gotrek and Felix novels, and I can honestly say that Gotrek is the most daft, naff, one-dimensional gimmick protagonist I've ever encountered in fantasy literature.

As for the Fyreslayers, I dunno... I suppose I might think of them as one of those "I don't personally like them, but I appreciate the fact that they exist" kind of things. But they also make me wonder how many more rounds of iterative stylistic ante-upping GW can go through. How much more extreme can a Slayer become by this point? Is there something even more OTT in store for when AoS 2nd Edition rolls around?

Elbows · « **Reply #4400 on:** January 04, 2016, 11:25:04 PM »

I picked up the Gotrek and Felix books for free...couldn't get past one of them, much for the reasons you listed. Never took a shine to them. I don't "hate" slayers from older game generations but the new ones look comically daft.

Hupp n at em · « **Reply #4401 on:** January 05, 2016, 04:25:38 AM »

You're right, the context matters: it's still not my cup of tea necessarily, but the chainmail wearing slayer looks very natural on that cover. Helps that his mohawk is a reasonable height.

Too Bo Coo · « **Reply #4402 on:** January 05, 2016, 05:44:38 AM »

Quote from: Hupp n at em on January 04, 2016, 10:02:27 PM

Really dislike the Slayer aesthetic/trope (can it be considered a trope at this point?) I also dislike the comically disproportionate bodies that Warhammer dwarves seem to have; I would pay good money for 28mm dwarves that look more like short, slightly (SLIGHTLY I SAID) stockier humans, rather than the bowling balls with cabbage patch kids' limbs attached.

Hear hear!

Too Bo Coo · « **Reply #4403 on:** January 05, 2016, 05:47:10 AM »

The new stuff, in total, just looks awful.....

beefcake · « **Reply #4404 on:** January 05, 2016, 06:17:23 AM »

My favourite dwarfs are the old asgard ones.
http://www.thevikingforge.net/25mm-fantasy-dwarves.html

3 fingers · « **Reply #4405 on:** January 05, 2016, 07:00:44 AM »

Is it me or are they in a 300/troy style ?
Either way think they look pants tbh

Those Asgard ones look nice.

Pijlie · « **Reply #4406 on:** January 05, 2016, 07:10:39 AM »

Awful figures. That punk/fetish image really doesn't work without the humor.

zemjw · « **Reply #4407 on:** January 05, 2016, 09:05:46 AM »

Looks like some people still object to the change, and are willing to take a stand for what they believe - link

Nord · « **Reply #4408 on:** January 05, 2016, 09:08:02 AM »

Those Asgard figures look like dwarf babies - huge heads on small bodies. The GW figures are nicer to my eye, though they are no better than the Avatars of War plastics for me.

Irony number 1. GW moved to round bases to allow greater freedom and dynamism in the models. Check out the poses of the guys with shields.

Irony number 2. GW have "lost" Slaanesh in a concession to their 12 year old demograph, then release chain obsessed half-naked marauders followed by leather underpanted/naked dwarfs waving around some of the biggest phallic symbols this side of Sparta.

Irony number 3. The new accessible game has models priced at... ah what's the point?

The tiniest plus thing I could find was the nice detail on the helmets. Never been a fan of slayers so difficult to make unbiased comments, but hey, who else does that?

Mason · « **Reply #4409 on:** January 05, 2016, 09:37:51 AM »

Quote from: beefcake on January 05, 2016, 06:17:23 AM

My favourite dwarfs are the old asgard ones.
http://www.thevikingforge.net/25mm-fantasy-dwarves.html

Mine too.
I have managed to acquire a set (far too long ago...) and really should get some paint on them.
They are still the best to my old eyes.

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