Topic: Battalion Box and new Chaos Terrain

[Toro_Blanco]

Quite the opposite, I'm dying of laughter over here.

Midaski, you shit!   

[Shadowwolf]

Wait 'till Skulltaker sees this... He's going to end up a drooling, cackling manga figure with plushy hearts instead of eyes.

And then he'll spend a century dragging each of the skulls back to his master. Problem solved.

Shadowwolf

[Gneisenau]

Wait 'till Skulltaker sees this... He's going to end up a drooling, cackling manga figure with plushy hearts instead of eyes.

Now all he needs are the plushy hearts...

[wissenlander]

I began to wonder

Is the terrain prepainted?

I'd be quite surprised if this was the case.

[patsy02]

I'm really starting to lose it here. What is this supposed to be, a friggin' charnel house? Do GW sculptors get paid by the number of skulls they can model? Did they get their job description wrong and read "skullptors" instead? Grim darkness of darkest dark is all good and well, but folks, what are you smoking that all you can think of are stupid f**** SKULLS?

The sculptors are just trying to be realistic. If you've ever been in a real combat situation, you know that there are skulls EVERYWHERE. Most modern soldiers carry around one or two skulls for good luck or to show how badass they are. If you don't, people start to wonder if your some kind of nancy boy. I assume it has been like this throughout history.

Indeed.  People die in war, and dead people leave skulls behind.  Ergo, any soldier worth his salt is going to be positively festooned with skulls.

It's science.

And you really can't disprove such hard nail biting scientific fact like that with historical anecdotes can you.


Fact is considering everyone in the empire world is so similar in looks the only real way to differentiate between people is with your skullz!

This thread is a sig gold mine.

[Merrick]

I'm really starting to lose it here. What is this supposed to be, a friggin' charnel house? Do GW sculptors get paid by the number of skulls they can model? Did they get their job description wrong and read "skullptors" instead? Grim darkness of darkest dark is all good and well, but folks, what are you smoking that all you can think of are stupid f**** SKULLS?

The sculptors are just trying to be realistic. If you've ever been in a real combat situation, you know that there are skulls EVERYWHERE. Most modern soldiers carry around one or two skulls for good luck or to show how badass they are. If you don't, people start to wonder if your some kind of nancy boy. I assume it has been like this throughout history.

Indeed.  People die in war, and dead people leave skulls behind.  Ergo, any soldier worth his salt is going to be positively festooned with skulls.

It's science.

And you really can't disprove such hard nail biting scientific fact like that with historical anecdotes can you.


Fact is considering everyone in the empire world is so similar in looks the only real way to differentiate between people is with your skullz!

This thread is a sig gold mine.

Without forgetting this little gem....

Midaski, you shit!

[Toro_Blanco]

I'm really starting to lose it here. What is this supposed to be, a friggin' charnel house? Do GW sculptors get paid by the number of skulls they can model? Did they get their job description wrong and read "skullptors" instead? Grim darkness of darkest dark is all good and well, but folks, what are you smoking that all you can think of are stupid f**** SKULLS?

The sculptors are just trying to be realistic. If you've ever been in a real combat situation, you know that there are skulls EVERYWHERE. Most modern soldiers carry around one or two skulls for good luck or to show how badass they are. If you don't, people start to wonder if your some kind of nancy boy. I assume it has been like this throughout history.

Indeed.  People die in war, and dead people leave skulls behind.  Ergo, any soldier worth his salt is going to be positively festooned with skulls.

It's science.

And you really can't disprove such hard nail biting scientific fact like that with historical anecdotes can you.


Fact is considering everyone in the empire world is so similar in looks the only real way to differentiate between people is with your skullz!

This thread is a sig gold mine.

Without forgetting this little gem....

Midaski, you shit!

I am always honored to be sigged, and await someone to dig in this alleged gold mine.  I'd start with someone else's, but I just claimed one already from Eigh...er, whatever he is now.

[Fandir Nightshade]

I can´t believe noone quoted anything on the giant feather....on the left of the sprue....it is so.....grand I need two for my Arch Lector so he feels more pimp.

[Shadowwolf]

I did comment on it.

My comment was: 

Shadowwolf

[Mathi Alfblut]

Now, your "Headmaster" fully deserves some real "pimp", Shadowwolf.
Now be a good lad and buy the box and give Griffon feathers to your leader.

[MrDWhitey]

Buy two boxes so he has spares. 

[phillyt]

So I don't think that the skull temple is that bad.  If anything deserves to have giant stone skulls, it would be a temple of Khorne.  But go on, making fun of the skulls is a time honored tradition.  At least they aren't passing it off as a temple of Sigmar... that would require giant hammers or something.

Phil

[Shadowlord]

So I don't think that the skull temple is that bad. 

I'll agree.

I will fit perfectly as my new Temple of Sigmar...

Seriously, I'll get this as well für mein demonen.

BTW Phil, how's the terrain project going?

[Mogsam]

You guys are moaning about the skulls on the "Temple of Skulls?"

Mogsam

[Toro_Blanco]

You guys are moaning about the skulls on the "Temple of Skulls?"

Mogsam

Absolutely; the ending was trash, if you ask me.  Who asked Lucas to...

::rereads Mogsam's post::

Oh!  Um, never mind.  Yes, it's ugly.

[MrDWhitey]

So I don't think that the skull temple is that bad.  If anything deserves to have giant stone skulls, it would be a temple of Khorne.  But go on, making fun of the skulls is a time honored tradition.  At least they aren't passing it off as a temple of Sigmar... that would require giant hammers or something.

Phil

Giant hammers made out of skulls, clearly.

[HoreTore]

Getting two boxes.

Add in two cannon boxes, 1 general box, 1 box of pistoliers, one helstorm, one box of wizards and a warrior priest, and I'll have a very nice Reiklander detachment for my old 6th edition Altdorf army...

[Lord Etharion]

Hmm, I'd actually consider getting this box, although I've got all the knights I really need.

Is the price likely to go up or down once they stop being preorder? I'm probably not going to be buying any minis until next year.

[Captain Lyanel]

its really annoying that the new battalion box has no price listed for the U.S  Has anyone had any luck finding out the price in $ for the new battalion, i have sent an e-mail to games workshop but have gotten no response. I just hope its going to be $95-$100 still making it a real good deal, especially with those goldswords in there.

[GamesPoet]

Here is a picture of the Battalion we have been hearing about:

Hmmm ... giving someone only 10 greatswords might cause them to purchase another box, yet at the same time, with the price, there might be folks to don't even make them nor take them ... or they convert them.  Ah well, some day I'll likely get some anyway.

And a picture of some new Chaos Terrain:

Another hmmm ... I can understand having skulls with a WFB Chaos feature, but these just look a bit large.  It actually looks like a ruined temple.  Maybe it could even be kitbashed in to something really evil looking, with or with out the rocks carved to look like skulls.

Oh if I only had more time, and probably ability, too, but time first, because abilility can be created.

[phillyt]

I think those skull are stone.  Looks okay though.

Phil

[Nicholas Bies]

hehe i was quoted for the sig goldmine! woot.

[Hagen_von_Loewenstein]

I might've bought the temple - if it only had more skulls. Or at least bigger ones.

[Nicholas Bies]

I might've bought the temple - if it only had more skulls. Or at least bigger ones.

A shame they only had a few medium sized ones isn't it.

[Hagen_von_Loewenstein]

I've seen empire soldiers carrying bigger ones around their neck.