2x20 infantry
2x10 hand/cross
16 knights (so say 3x5 and use 1 as a general until you get a better model)
20 greatswords.
If it's £55 then it isn't bad. If it's anymore than that then the battallions will be ruuubsihly priced when they all go up.
Mogsam
Will get the terrain (but paint it better) but not the Battalion as it contain knights.Well Shadowlord, does this mean that you are again considering supporting GW and start buying their products again :icon_wink:
Well Shadowlord, does this mean that you are again considering supporting GW and start buying their products again :icon_wink:`
Personally, here is how I would configure the new Battalion Box:
- 15 Greatswords w full command (use extra armoured bodies from the State Troop box, as well as both sets of champion greatsword arms).
You wouldn't even have to use state troop champion arms - the Greatsword sprue comes with about a dozen greatswords for every 5 dudes.
I was under the impression that it was one torso - one set of arms.
I intended to buy these for the arms alone from the beginning so if what you are typing is true, then they won't be as bad as I thought.
I'm so gonna scour Warseer for pics of the sprues.
This is the best pic I have found to date:
http://greenstuff.free.fr/album/GD/FR/2009/NewStuff/Minis/slides/GDFR2009%20114.html
A piece of Chaos Terrain with giant skulls! The novelty!
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.
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!
And the skulls look so similar, the only way to differentiate between fellow skull carriers is with MORE skulls!
Those are old news. Ratling snipers. Hideous models. Just like the original ratling models, which are also hideous. They really can't do ratlings.?? I think those models are awesome. Badass halflings at last! Comparing them to the old models borders on sacrilege in my opinion.
Not to mention they have skulls, which (as we all know) automatically makes every model better.Skull. Singular. :wink:
and one of 'em has snacks in his backpack.
Wait 'till Skulltaker sees this... He's going to end up a drooling, cackling manga figure with plushy hearts instead of eyes.
I began to wonder
Is the terrain prepainted?
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!
QuoteI'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?QuoteThe 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.QuoteIndeed. 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.QuoteAnd 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.
Midaski, you shit!
QuoteI'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?QuoteThe 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.QuoteIndeed. 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.QuoteAnd 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!
So I don't think that the skull temple is that bad.
You guys are moaning about the skulls on the "Temple of Skulls?"
Mogsam
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
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.
(http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2620239_99120202028_EmpireBattalion_445x319.jpg)
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.
(http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2620259_99129999007_TempleofSkulls_445x319.jpg)
I might've bought the temple - if it only had more skulls. Or at least bigger ones.
I've seen empire soldiers carrying bigger ones around their neck.
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.
I think those skull are stone. Looks okay though.Well I suppose "skulls of stone" might sound better than my "rocks carved to look like skulls". :icon_wink:
Phil
Since i already have the Stank and Goldswords, feel free to ask me, what you need to know.
Since i already have the Stank and Goldswords, feel free to ask me, what you need to know.
To be honest, the poses are a lil bit limited, some of the heads have feathers that block the swords.
To be honest, the poses are a lil bit limited, some of the heads have feathers that block the swords.
Shouldn't be too hard to chop them off though, or even use different heads?
To be honest, the poses are a lil bit limited, some of the heads have feathers that block the swords.
Shouldn't be too hard to chop them off though, or even use different heads?
...cut off... feathers?
What? :? :-o
22 Swordarms (but a few less off-hands) in 6 sprues (3 differents). To be honest, the poses are a lil bit limited, some of the heads have feathers that block the swords.
22 Swordarms (but a few less off-hands) in 6 sprues (3 differents). To be honest, the poses are a lil bit limited, some of the heads have feathers that block the swords.
Wow, that seems like a lot. Also, are some of them on the command sprue? Otherwise I can't see how you can fit 22 swords on 6 identical sprues.
it isn't completely unreasonable for someone to buy them.
That's.....quite big.I know at least a few of the guys on the forum are chefs, they could easily dispose of the bodies. :wink:
WHERE do you get skulls that size??? :icon_lol:
That's.....quite big.I know at least a few of the guys on the forum are chefs, they could easily dispose of the bodies. :wink:
WHERE do you get skulls that size??? :icon_lol:
Maybe some Tomb king army...Nah, Tomb Kings don't like Chaos much (I am referring to the quite obvious star). Besides, the thing looks decidedly non-Egyptian.
The price is so different to other plastic sets that there is clearly a 'stupidity tax' involved.
Or in my case, no boxes to build nothing. :engel:
That's.....quite big.Carved from rocks? :icon_wink:
WHERE do you get skulls that size??? :icon_lol:
And last thing i saw, Pistoliers, Chaos knights and Marauder horsemen go down in price!Really?
See thats the worst part. Marauders, chaos knights, cold ones, pistoleers, etc. cost half the price!Shhhhhhhhh!
Crazy!
Phil
Why am I suspicious that we will see a 5-man box at some stage ...........But hey, it'll only be 20€...
:engel:
Is that a random dead orc? Perhaps that's where the (otherwise inexplicable) extra £3 comes in...