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Offline Hammers

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #1 on: 09 February 2011, 12:47:55 PM »
Another quick browse produces this shelf decoration:



I can really see what it is supposed to be. Skaven something...

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #2 on: 09 February 2011, 12:59:49 PM »
I have to admit, I quite like the spider, doesn't fit with the look of my goblinoids but I like it.

The Skaven chaos spawn is meh.

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #3 on: 09 February 2011, 01:34:56 PM »
Another quick browse produces this shelf decoration:
I can really see what it is supposed to be. Skaven something...

Well in their defence it fits its name quite well, "hellpit abomination"


But yea, my girlfriend has been waiting for that spider ever since the rumours of it started and probably has pre-ordered it by now.
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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #4 on: 09 February 2011, 01:39:15 PM »
I don't remember that three storey tall spider from the army list, are we harkening back to the good old days when gw focused on releasing miniatures first and worrying about rules later?

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #5 on: 09 February 2011, 01:41:41 PM »
The new army book is in the same preorder list as the spider, so rules will be available the day the mini itself is.

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #6 on: 09 February 2011, 01:48:06 PM »
The new army book is in the same preorder list as the spider, so rules will be available the day the mini itself is.

A new O&G book again? This will be the third my army has had, and it's only been out on the tabletop once...

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #7 on: 09 February 2011, 01:51:27 PM »
Hey at least its not another flavour of space marines. And from what I hear on warseer the rules will be quite nice as well.

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #8 on: 09 February 2011, 01:53:04 PM »
I may get that spider and then get Kev Adams to resculpt the faces on all the goblins.  ;D

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #9 on: 09 February 2011, 02:17:14 PM »
A new O&G book again? This will be the third my army has had, and it's only been out on the tabletop once...

Then I guess you need to play more often, I believe O&G were in need of a rules update 8)

I like the spider, and the resurrection of forest goblins in general 8)
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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #10 on: 09 February 2011, 03:17:51 PM »
I really like the crab!  :)
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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #11 on: 09 February 2011, 03:35:25 PM »
Then I guess you need to play more often

Well there is that too...  ::)

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #12 on: 09 February 2011, 03:42:39 PM »
Not liking the Abomination (looks like a naked mole rat with gubbins stuck on, which I suppose it is supposed to), but it might be a reasonable basis for further conversion.

Big ol' crab-spider is OK, would love to see some more love for some of the more long-neglected armies (Tomb Kings, Wood Elves, dare I say it Chaos Dwarves) before yet another endless iteration of Dwarves/Orcs/Empire.

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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #13 on: 09 February 2011, 04:10:37 PM »
The hellpit thingi sucks big time as far as I am concerned. And the spider is... okayish at best. I hate this development of larger and weirder miniatures as a must have to play any army. Let's face it, how far is this skaven thing going to move before falling to pieces? How close to any known battlefields are they stitching it together? Skaven have so far always been an army of countless worthless runts and that's the way they should stay.

The same holds true for the spider... what does it do/eat where does it live when it's not on the battlefield? How many of these spiders exist?

If these models were severly limited in the army (one maximum per battle) and only in conjunction with certain character types at least the background would somehow seem not quite as ridiculous. Having read a battlereport in a White Dwarf about the Skaven thing I was really turned off.

Warhammer Fantasy's quality to me has always been the combination of our world with a dark fantasy part in it. These models are neither realistic nor dark but just stupid and big - like toys for 2-years-old kids... BORING!
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Re: GW really bursting at the seams with the next new thing of theirs...
« Reply #14 on: 09 February 2011, 04:19:21 PM »
I fear I have to agree with doomhippie a bit, I quite like the spider (and you wont catch me saying otherwise where the girl can hear/read it :D) But I have to say I'm a bit miffed by it. Forest goblins have pretty much been around always and you will find mention of them throughout warhammer history, the same goes for their riding spiders as far as I'm concerned. But these huge spiders are a bit out there, you know the empire might be underpopulated in the great forests but you would figure they would've known about these things for a while. I mean are they only now realising there are 3 story tall spiders in their forests?

 

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