The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[MachinaMandala]

[AWu]

Heh
Duncan lives in the internet as simulacrum of himself

I quite like fish elves.
Not sure would want them but they are unique and truly trippy fantasy in style of flying whales and such.

And they create potential for underwater adventures.

There was once saying..
What it is - one hundred elves at the bottom of the sea ?
- A good start! :>

[Mason]

And they create potential for underwater adventures.

My thinking exactly.
I have been gathering bits and pieces for an underwater fantasy setting for a while now, including some of the Wrath of Kings stuff and these Deepkin beasties will be great for that idea too.

[Kommando_J]

We shall see. The recent Saint Celestia plastic kit (only plastic sisters in existence to date) may turn out to be a good example of what's to come, or it may end up fairly different. Who knows?

I'm sure we'll start seeing previews in a few months.

Both the ceelstine kit and the grey fax kit(with the boobplate) where designed quite some time ago as GW operates on a three year cycle apparently.

[Coenus Scaldingus]

Some interesting design choices on those elves - part of which look pretty great (liking the ornate armour), others positively terrible. Not a fan of the pale bald eyeless figures, nor does it seem a great idea to equip such fighters with bows - although I'm sure there is some dodgy story behind that.

Idoneth Deepkin.
The Age of Sigmar names really don't work for me. Granted, "Tomb Kings" or "Lizardmen" were hardly original, but these are just trying too hard to be new and copyrightable. They sound neither like something the people would call themselves, nor how another people might name them.


Pretty intriguing to see what's being made by GW these days under the new management though. A strange mix of fan-favourites and completely whacky stuff.

[nic-e]

Idoneth Deepkin.
The Age of Sigmar names really don't work for me. Granted, "Tomb Kings" or "Lizardmen" were hardly original, but these are just trying too hard to be new and copyrightable. They sound neither like something the people would call themselves, nor how another people might name them.

I can see it being a combo of both.

Idoneth = the name they gave themselves after being abandoned by teclis. 

Deepkin = the name others give them, either elves who view them as odd family or other races that view them as a terror from the depths.

[FramFramson]

I have to admit though... as beautiful as they are, I was rather disappointed that we got sea elves instead of fishmen. Was hoping to build a horde of Innsmouth citizens.

[Chico]

Quite liking this new Deepkin range and the Daughters before them.

Never really bothered too much with AoS before now (Kings of War was/is my Fantasy bread and butter game) but I'm tempted to give it a bash as some of the AoS Start Collecting sets are amazing value (For a GW product that is hehe).

I guess I've handed back in my Oldhammer Card then 

[nic-e]

Quite liking this new Deepkin range and the Daughters before them.

Never really bothered too much with AoS before now (Kings of War was/is my Fantasy bread and butter game) but I'm tempted to give it a bash as some of the AoS Start Collecting sets are amazing value (For a GW product that is hehe).

I guess I've handed back in my Oldhammer Card then 

Age of sigmar is full of oldhammer style insanity.

I'm curious to see what the deepkin start collecting will be. they seem to have alot of releases ,so it could be anything!

[3 fingers]

I see wonderful conversion opportunities for bio-mechanical sharks etc. ridden by ace-looking Eldar Exodites. Dunno about a flying shark in AoS, but a bio-mechanical one in the outer regions of 40k sounds alright!

Like the look of the actual sea elves too. Not overtly good- or evil-looking, whereas GW can get a bit too black-and-white on that in the past.

Flying sharks reminds me of the old Maui t shirt I had in the 90s ,native Americans riding great whites in the sky .

[3 fingers]

I’ve always wanted to Do a wet 40k Agri world where land is islands and already settled by exodites ,(probably watched moana too much with my daughter )
But I bet the turtles are not cheap .

[beefcake]

I see the Necrons are getting their "start collecting Necrons" set. I must say, I'm tempted to start collecting Necrons.

[MachinaMandala]

But they already had one.

[beefcake]

Did they? Maybe this release is for chumps like me then

[FionaWhite]

Yeah, I actually liked the earlier Start Collecting set for them since it came with the groovy spider-walker.
Had planned to get it to make up a Necron force for ITEN (and now possibly for the upcoming Kill Team too) but I'm afraid that I'm not so taken with the flying gunchair.