GW News: magic and prayers in #NewAoS

Artanis Eltherion is a pretty good model

 

In fairness, not a high bar to pass.

 

barding is questionable because they are greek themed. the ancient world, especially the greeks, did not really use barding. Some decorative furniture? sure. Full barding was used later in period by the parthians, persians, and anyone else who could afford cataphracts.

 

Cataphracts were already in use by the persians/assyrians/whatever was in power in that corner of the world from quite early on. The earliest depictions of them in art are from the 13th century BC according to wikipedia. Even if the greeks needed some time to catch on. Though in fairness, the greeks didn't use much cavalry in general, so of course they didn't invest the necesary time & resources to get heavy armoured cavalry.

So meh, I could imagine the greeks using barding like this had they actually developed proper cavalry on their own. And since we're already imagining the greeks are now elves who fight side by side with their creator who has a weird sphinx thing for a pet, armoured cavalry isn't much of a stretch anymore

 

Right, hence it being acceptable as a spiritual successor to high elves, but also meh.

I also am put off by GWs ridiculous naming habits for armies.

 

The ridiculous naming combined with the eh, "unique" designs at times so stuff is easier to copyright can be a bit weird yeah. Ossiarchs are a prime example, but here too, some of it is a tad overdone. In the case of the aelves they could've done with slightly less extreme of a helmet plume, especially for the regular spearmen (especially their captain is more plume than aelve...).

 

The Seraphon Battletome won’t be coming this week, as GW have planned to release the Ogre and Nurgle Beastsgrave warbands and the Chaos vs Death campaign book that was previewed on the New Year Open Day. Maybe next week!

 

On the subject of Elves, the original High Elves had that kind of Persian/Post-Alexander Greek look to them anyway, so them having armored cavalry isn't all that off. I miss the properly pointy helmets they used to have, but I am loving those fan-shaped plumes! They kept the scale-armor aesthetic from the old High Elf army, kept the flowing robes look they used to have, and just modernized it. I miss the older aesthetic, but I am quite happy with the new look!

Except for Teclis. I like the Sphinx - the mask is a little odd, but well in keeping with the Sphinx mythos. Teclis, however, looks like someone shoved a stick where the sun doesn't shine...

 

Merry-go-round horses

 

courtesy of The 9th Age

 

Can't see it for some reason.

 

Neither can I, it says you are ‘not authorised to view this content’ so I’m assuming you have to be an existing member

 

GW doesn't put many "make terrain from scratch" tutorials anymore; makes sense because why build your own terrain from cardboard when you can buy plastic terrain?

...that being said, I noticed this gem tucked inside an article today:

 

I've noticed that Azyr and Shyish physical copies are improperly backed up on the same geographical location

 

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Also, angry ladies:



Also brutal and kunnin' squigs.

 

kinda curious about the squig box and why they put it together. It's such a random collection with no internal cohesie.

 

So, let us take a look at the new stuff GW released today for us!:

• Lizards now come in two types with specific rules:
• The Starborne, our hard light lizard daemons we've got since this ride called AoS started, floating over Azyr.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And The Coalesced, who are now "feral" Seraphon, now made of actual organic material, and who terraformed parts of the realms to call them home and trying to recreate the lush jungles of Lustria. Huzzah! If you generated your own City a while ago, you can do it!
  
  As example, I created "Dragonberg", a nick name from dawi explorer about my Seraphon City, established in The Realm of Life, and trying to make their own Temple-City ala Old School Fantasy. If you have done something similar, now it technically counts as cannon!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Subfactions, for both, including the Thunder Lizard, that will allow us to STOMP WITH AN ARMY MADE ONLY OF A HERD OF CHUNKY STEGGIES. They will explain how later on the week.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• BUFFS! Skink Oracles are now fully-fledged WIZARDs, with +1 on casting, dispelling and unbinding, and one of Lord Kroak's spells: Comet's Call!
  
  Meanwhile, our trusty Warriors get a -1 Rend on Clubs and Ordered Cohort got buffed to 15 models per unit.
  
  
• Bound Endless Spell: We didn't got any new exclusive new endless spells, but we are still masters of magic: our predatory spells from Malign Sorcery ARE NOW ONLY MOVED BY US (EAT YOUR HEART OUT, BITZEENTCH).
  
  
• Our new scenery, Realmshaper Engine, is the reason why we can terraform in-cannon, making lush vegetation and dank ̶m̶e̶m̶e̶s̶ swamps. The model itself has double sided walls and stairs, so you can make a ziggurat either clean or with vines growing on the sides. Will make a fun magnetizing project, but, why would a Lizard player want a ziggurat without overgrowth anyway?
  
  
  
  
• In-game, they are basically a bunker for up to 20 Wounds. If you garrison a WIZARD or PRIEST inside, then:
  
  

I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW HYPED I AM RIGHT NOW. Sure, I could've liked to get a Sotek's Fangs and other flavor endless spell, but at long last we are getting new stuff. I almost feel like a moon is falling over us!

Sure it has been a whole while. We haven't got anything since our last Battletome back when AoS started, and we were the third faction to officially join the fray.

Chaossss will fall!
Warm-bloodssss will learn!
The Great Plan will be realised!