Praise Be to Hashut!
May 24, 2011 by dracs
Last games day there was a lot of hype surrounding the appearance of some certain small yet sinister figures in Forge World's display case. Anyone who has been into Warhammer Fantasy Battles for long will remember the Chaos Dwarves, the evil cousins to the regular Dwarves. If you don't here's what they used to look like.
Despite their discontinuation by Games Workshop these evil little blighters have had a soft spot in the hearts and minds of wargamers every where. Well now the Warhammer Forge have resurrected them. Praise be to Hashut!
So far only two units have been released. Firstly there is the Infernal Guard.
These guys appear to be something of a cross between a Dwarf Iron Breaker and a Slayer. They are completely covered in armour, with helmets which cover their entire faces. The point of this is that they have shamed themselves in some way and are no longer allowed to show their faces. How a Chaos Dwarf shames himself I have no idea. Maybe he was caught helping an old lady cross the road.
The only real problem I have with these models is the eye slits of the helmets. Some of them even only have one eye! Which begs some questions about the alternative equipment you can give them.
Now they're armed with Fire Glaves, a kind of repeating rifle crossed with a halberd. How the Hell do they aim!
However, the real thing to get excited about is this little monster.
Twin steam powered canons. Do you think the Chaos Dwarves might be compensating for something?
By and large I rather like these sculpts. I have always loved the Chaos Dwarves and I'm loving seeing them make a triumphant return. What do you guys think? Any die hard Chaos Dwarf fans out there? Let us all raise our voices in praise to Hashut together by leaving a comment below.
The rules for these, along with the other products Warhammer Forge have brought out, will be included in the upcoming Tamurkhan: The Throne of Chaos book.
BoW Sam
the cannon looks bad ass
These are really fantastic minis from Forge World and its great to see them expand on a much loved race in WFB that currently gets no love from GW. I dont want to bang on about price tho coz i think thats been covered well enough by everybody but i would be more likely to go for the Mantic Games Abyssal Dwarfs. Ok then, maybe a pack of these too! Also, im personally pleased that two out of the 6 suggestions ive made to Forge World in the ‘what models would you like to see?’ section when placing orders with… Read more »
The vehicle is very nice and not quite as expensive as I thought.
The Dwarf helmets remind me of the old ‘Slaves to Darkness’ era Slaanesh Chaos Warrior helmets……. very expensive though. Reckon I’ll stick with my Mantic Abyssals, with maybe 1 or 2 of those FW vehicles to back them up!!!
dwarfs don’t need vision to shoot; they’re bad shooters anyway ;o)
They’re quite good… Expensive, but that never stopped me before. Affiliated to GW, but still, Forgeworld has always done some nice stuff.
Of course, the sad part is that they have virtually no legs…
BoW Romain
To be fair, a good dwarf should always have a beer in hand and be drunk.
Thus legless.
I prefer Mantic’s Evil dwarves. The featureless buckets these ones wear don’t do it for me. Also taking into account the difference in cost. But the Cannon looks awesome!