The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Mammoth miniatures]

New warcry set announce ld and I really like the two warbands - stormcasts Vs ghouls (knights Vs zombie cannibals sounds fun on a bun) but I am really not enjoying the terrain of this latest warcry setting - it all looks like aquarium scenery to me.

[zemjw]

A couple of preview sculpts for Tomb King and Bretonnian - link

[Cubs]

So ... it's just Age of Sigmar then. Same over-the-top aesthetics where the character has to dangle every damn thing they own off themselves to go out fighting. If they want to attract collectors from the Oldhammer market, they should really think about why Oldhammer (or Middlehammer or whatever) is still so popular.

[Elbows]

Well, that ain't no 20mm base, .  Those are very "modern" looking GW sculpts.   Busy...just super-duper-mega-busy.

[zemjw]

On the bright side, neither of them is standing on/jumping off/making out with a rock, which seems like progress

But yeah, those are not 28mm figures

[Mammoth miniatures]

If they want to attract collectors from the Oldhammer market...

They don't.

 they want to attract people who got into Warhammer fantasy in the early 2000's and are now at just the right point in the 20 year nostalgia loop to be drained of disposable income.
They want people who got into fantasy as kids during 6th and 7th edition and have fond rose coloured memories of what to them seems to have been the golden age of warhammer, a golden age that just so happened to coincide with their discovery of it.

[Elbows]

On the bright side, neither of them is standing on/jumping off/making out with a rock, which seems like progress

But yeah, those are not 28mm figures

They got you covered with another AoS model though:

[Storm Wolf]

They got you covered with another AoS model though:

Good god, that is a really pants Slayer , I so miss the charm of the models of yesteryear.........

[Fitz]

They got you covered with another AoS model though:

Yikes — that one would be right at home in a Brazilian Carnivale or a Croyden bondage bar.

[Vanvlak]

Good god, that is a really pants Slayer , I so miss the charm of the models of yesteryear.........

I don't see any pants there ....

[Spinal Tap]

One of my regular Frostgrave partners is into Warhammer Fantasy Battles and has quite a collection which still get use, and I was quite taken with the aesthetic of the Old World.

My interest has grown over the past few months, especially after seeing all Padrissimus's Tilean Campaign in the Fantasy forum, perusing Warhammer Army Project books and other source materials for the old game.

I was excited by the announcements about a return to the Old World but these new releases leave me cold.

If my other, admittedly limited, experience with GW stuff is anything to go by then pretty much everyone will jump on the new miniatures and all the older stuff will be abandoned in the blink of an eye.

Consequently I think I will be filing The Old World under .interesting but no'.

[Cubs]

They don't.

 they want to attract people who got into Warhammer fantasy in the early 2000's and are now at just the right point in the 20 year nostalgia loop to be drained of disposable income.
They want people who got into fantasy as kids during 6th and 7th edition and have fond rose coloured memories of what to them seems to have been the golden age of warhammer, a golden age that just so happened to coincide with their discovery of it.

It's such a shame, because they obviously have talented sculptors and great production on their side - that Bretonnian looks like it was a lovely model about halfway through the process - but then it's like someone is constantly yelling "Needs more cowbell!" until the models end up looking like ... well, that. There were some very pretty models being made in the 90's/early 00's as well.

[Belligerentparrot]

It'll be interesting to see the sprue of the knight - could be you can just leave off quite a few gubbins if you don't want them.

[TWD]

It'll be interesting to see the sprue of the knight - could be you can just leave off quite a few gubbins if you don't want them.

That doesn't seem to be how they do their sculpts these days though.
I'm thinking that's a single model on a small frame that goes together one way only. Maybe a choice of helmet, but other than that everything sculpted on.

Which makes it a "no" for me too.

[Gibby]

Snipping off that stupid lantern would be fairly easy. The ork head/forced scenery on the other hand...

Another consideration is that it doesn't really seem to just be GW forcing this OTT aesthetic, but just them tapping into a large audience who seem to think "more detail = more better". The aesthetics of most modern fantasy media, from modern D&D to every last fantasy boardgame Kickstarter seems to be big, bombastic, World of Warcrafty type stuff.