Three New Chaos Warbands Hear The Warcry This Weekend
July 29, 2019 by brennon
Games Workshop is going to be expanding upon the bloodthirsty skirmishes of Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Warcry with three new warbands coming up for pre-order this weekend. If you weren't a fan of the Iron Golems and the Untamed Beasts you've got plenty of choices before you.
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First up we have The Unmade. Whilst a lot of people have been turned off by these miniatures, I think they look macabre and horrifying in the right way! I really like the idea of a group which is turning themselves into living weapons and instruments of torture. This is the kind of thing you would have seen in the margins of your Mordheim book or scrawled in old Realm Of Chaos tomes.
In that way, I think they are a great homage to just how twisted and frigged up the world of Age Of Sigmar and Chaos can be! I have seen some really inventive paint jobs on these models too and think they'd be a really good warband to work on, playing around with rust, blood and all sorts.
Quoth The Raven...
Next up we have the Corvus Cabal who again show off an interesting twist on the worship of Chaos within the world of Age Of Sigmar.
I do like how Warcry is taking something that we saw explored in Warhammer Fantasy Battles and taking it to a new level. If you read some of the background for the Old World you will know that the Norscan tribes all worshipped different aspects of the Chaos Gods, not just Chaos itself. There might be many tribes who followed Khorne for example, but they could have worshipped very different elements of his essence.
I really like the idea of a warband then that follows this feaster of corpses, a giant bird which may or may not be an aspect of something like Khorne. I imagine they are going to be very hard to play, being adept at swooping in and delivering a killing blow but with very little staying power.
Strike Like A Serpent
Lastly, for this weekend, we have the Splintered Fang who have the appearance of gladiators taking to the sands to slaughter their foes with vicious poisons.
Once again, I like the design and approach to the faction. They could have so easily just done the four Chaos Gods and the Horned Rat or Beastmen for a little bit of flavour but they really went all out on exploring Chaos in a different way. The bright colours mixed in with the shimmering silver here marks them out as very different from the other warbands too and alongside the Cypher Lords, I could see them being the most colourful force.
Pilfer The Stormvaults!
The Mortal Realms were, at one time, a place of peace and prosperity as Sigmar held dominion overall. However, even the mightiest empire can fall and so many of his old cities were lost or abandoned. Some held important places of power like the Stormvaults where magical weapons of incredible power were stored. So, it seems apt that your Chaos warbands might find these places interesting to delve into and fight over.
With new terrain cards, plastic options to plug together in a variety of different ways and more this seems like a nice point of difference to the desolate nature of the Chaos Wastes which your warbands have been fighting over for scraps. Here there could well be a relic of great power lying just beneath the cracked slabs, a perfect gift for Archaon and the Chaos Gods.
Will you be snapping up these new Warcry offerings next weekend?
"This is the kind of thing you would have seen in the margins of your Mordheim book..."
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All those warbands are really nice and different.
Everything listed here in the exact order I’ll be purchasing it 😀
If I was lucky enough to get a copy of the starter set, then I’m going to wait until I get it painted up before I buy anymore warbands… it might be a while!
@robert You might want to pick it up sooner rather than later if you can manage it. I have a feeling that like Shadowspear and Killteam’s starter set that this will vanish in one to three months.
Arrived yesterday, I was more worried that the store I ordered it from wouldn’t get enough stock to fulfil my order.
People don’t like The Unmade? Do they not understand what Chaos is and represents? I think they’re the epitome what a full embrace of Chaos means.
Guess they think they’re too undead looking. Btw the flayed faces they hang from their belts? They’re their own faces.
The serpents look ok, but I’m not convinced I want to buy Warcry.
Terrain is good and the rest of the stuff in the box is interesting, but the war bands themselves are a bit crappy. GW always do this… create a box game where at least 50% of the stuff doesn’t interest me.
I’d rather pick up some of the other factions, but as I’d need to spend £80+ to build a decent war band from existing boxes of minis. Hopefully they will do Order, Destruction and Death boxes at some point.
Check youtube – there’s been some cool videos showing warband builds, including AT LEAST one (the savage orruks) that literally requires you to buy ONE BOX of basic of troops.
Not an ork person, but thanks… I’ll have a look on youtube.
I’m tempted by Daughters of Khain, but unless I buy the cards for that faction I don’t know which units suit my play style best.
I did buy Warcry and it arrived yesterday. Lots of stuff to assemble and paint.
two I can look at and appreciate the models but they don’t grab me. However corvus cabal are just awesome, i dont think i’ll play warcry, but will definately pick those up and do a conversion for a ‘ratskins’ style gang for a generic futuristic squad based game.
Corvus is probably the best of the lot. I won’t be rushing to buy however as the aesthetic of all three is kinda forgettable.
Interesting set’s of figures.
I’m crazy for the Splintered Fang. I like all the warbands except the bondage-scarecrow, but I leeeeerv the Splintered Fang. So cool and different but so quintessentially Chaos as well.