The Lizardmen Return To Age Of Sigmar With A Seraphon Battletome
October 31, 2015 by brennon
Games Workshop swing back towards Age Of Sigmar with their latest release for the end of October. Now they are focusing on the once Lizardmen, now Seraphon who have a series of re-packaged units and a new Battletome which gives you a series of new organised 'lists' for the army and scenarios to play out...
The Lizards Are Back
The Battletome, which also has a Limited Edition version, comes with some new artwork, some old, and tells the story of how the Seraphon travelled from the Old World to this new one that we find ourselves fighting over. It is interesting that we're turning to this army so quickly as the next one to get their own book.
You would have thought that with some new races in the mix they would have given us more of an idea of how they came to be rather than one of the older races. Still, I suppose this is all part of their continuing narrative arch and they made sense to bring in now.
Armies Of The Seraphon
Here are just a few of the miniature packs you can now pick up with the round bases. The Carnosaur is still around along with regular Saurus Warriors and Skinks.
"Summoned by the incredible power of the Slann Starmasters, they materialise from the energy of the stars themselves - nimble skinks, predatory saurus and hulking kroxigor, each intent on destroying the forces that have corrupted and darkened the realms almost beyond repair. Wrought of purest star-magic, the Seraphon are true beings of Azyr."
I don't think, as much as Games Workshop push them as a range, they are going to be very popular. I think sticking to tried and tested races, like the Duardin (Dwarfs) and Aelfs (Elves) could have been a sounder strategy right now to ground the game back into a reality gamers can grasp.
Maybe they will end the threat of Chaos once and for all and the Old World will be restored?
It will be interesting to see where it goes as a game...
"The Carnosaur is still around along with regular Saurus Warriors and Skinks..."
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I find it very hard not to simply be vitriolic about AoS. As you mentioned in the article, the lizard’s aren’t that popular (as much as I like them myself) and perhaps they may push back the chaos and restore the old world. Thing is, we both know that’s unlikely to happen, ‘workshop have never listened to their customer’s wants and doubly so if it means they have to admit they got it wrong. AoS isn’t Warhammer, as much as they want to pretend it is. Long Live The Empire!
I have been told by a few GW store managers that since AoS release Lizardmen have become the most popular because of the ability to take a large collection of giant beasties
I think you’re right. That carnosaur itself ought to sell the rest of the range; it’s fantastic.
what you want is an army of carnosaurs 🙂
Hmmm, do I go and build my 4th AoS army, like the look of these. Didn’t have a WH army, so I guess AoS is working for me 🙂
I’m quite tempted to have a dinosaur army that would be cool 🙂
The Skinks and the Sauruses look pretty dated. If they are going to kill off a whole game and then bring back “new” factions they should have taken the effort to at least give them new minis, especially so for units which will most likely be mainstay units.
Do a google image search for Seraphon. Guess nobody at GW thought to do that before selecting this name 😀
oooooooh that isn’t good
thats made my day
Also a vinyard, actually, but it’s not quite as funny…
Seeing those old but good Lizardmen is like fresh air after flood of all fantasy marines.
Looks like the Wacoshop model is ‘the song remains the same’!
I would have thought the lizardmen would have gotten away in their antique spaceships, and come back with important magic/technological advances and a new alien look to “wow” us… This was the perfect time to do “tabula rasa”. Alas, no redesign ! More of the same stone age crap, dinosaurs in more ways than one : sculpts and looks as old as time.
But… but… that requires effort on GW’s part! Plus do people want Fantasy Space Lizard Marines or just Fantasy Space Marines? 😉
GW could always give them heavy bolters…sorry, I meant one of them heavy cross bow cannons the Sigmarines have.
The Sigmarites get a lot of grief for their similarities to Space Marines but it seems a bit redundant as they were obviously included in the game to be just that. There’s a reason Space Marines have been in every starter set since 2nd edition. They’re the easiest army to paint. Nice simple colour schemes with minimal detailing and you have the freedom to create your own chapter (Stormhost) by painting them however you like. And for the most part you can reproduce it across your whole army. They have the most straightforward army structure. Easily defined units, squad composition,… Read more »
…me too!
I do like the Central/South American feel of them but they do look a little dated when compared to the rest of AoS.
It’s a shame they didn’t get any resculpts.
Not bothered by the lack of re-sculpts, this isn’t an army launch or a re-edition. It’s a simple update to Lizardman rules that allows players use their armies in the current game. It’s barely even got a release window, it’s been squashed in between other major releases. One of which (Plastic HH) has the potential to be absolutely huge. This is just a stop-gap to let bank balances recover. I think the quicker GW get new books out to bring each race up to date the better. If they were to re-model entire armies then some fantasy players would be… Read more »
Well said sir!
Selective memory, my arse. Changing a few names and making a boring, 2D, undynamic game is hardly creating the Venus de Milo!
They destroyed a universe that has been built upon for thirty years and replaced it with a game for children. Then we can move on to the ‘limited edition’ rip-offs before commenting on the prices. Did my selective memory miss anything?
The main point of my post actually. I wasn’t commenting on whether replacing Fantasy with AoS was a good idea or not. Or if it worked. But the move (good or bad) was still huge. And they’ve coupled it with a tonne of new products. With the exception of a handful of Chaos models the months of releases for the two starting factions we’ve seen have been entirely new ranges. We’ve also had a whole new range of scenery hit the shelves, and not just a few cobbled-together walls and barricades, but the largest terrain sections GW have ever released.… Read more »
To clarify, I am not castigating them for “lack of change”. If I wanted to do that, I would have said something about the lack of originality of their “new” Sigmarines and their “new” chaos range… No, I am castigating them for wasting an amazing opportunity to renew one of the VERY few races/tropes that would have actually benefitted from the change to AoS. And now that they have committed to basically keeping them stone age magical constructs (in spite of the very spacey background previously done for them) it’ll be all the more difficult to come up with something… Read more »
…could someone please throw me a fifth ball!
This is pretty lame.
Without new models GW surely wont reignite interest in their fantasy system, so here is hoping they will show something new soon.
To quote Journey – “don’t stop believing…”
I liked a lot of the old miniatures, even if they were a bit too ‘high fantasy’ for my tastes (I preferred a grim and dark Old World set in and around the Empire). But bringing them back in this way, while obviously just a way to enable people to use their old models (which is a good thing) seems a bit flat. The new setting seems much higher fantasy even than the old WFB became, and the Lizardmen now look a bit out of place. Not that I’d have expected a redesign, but I think that they need space/magic… Read more »
I love my Lizardmen, always have, always will, but I have to say that as they are I do not think they fit in well with the setting of AoS. You can go on about them being made of star magic, but they’re Aztec lizards in a universe that centres around space marine sigmarites that aren’t space marines. Also, it replaces a well developed race and society, with its own mythology and societal structure, with something far less interesting by making them magical constructs.
A bit of appeasement to be sure. Or maybe the reason they aren’t doing remakes of certain models is because they no longer have the ability to turn out better replacements, as evidenced by all the AoS stuff that’s come out so far. I’ve only seen one model out of all of them that’s come close to their old standard (a Chaos single not worth the price). They seem to be falling further behind the rest of the industry all the time. Perhaps the plan is to focus on books, which people are willing to replace every six months. Makes… Read more »
I was actually at the local GW yesterday for my monthly allotment of Agrax Earthshade, and was informed that the store was no longer a “one man band,” and that there were now two employees. They are going to be open seven days a week now. Is this trend universal, or limited to a few stores? Funny… now there are two guys not selling AoS stuff. I noticed there was five of everything AoS on the shelf, but almost none of the old models. Apparently people have been buying up the old kits out of fear lol. The only AoS… Read more »
GW Antwerp is now open on mondays too.
They’ve hired a third minion for the occation..
Seems like a missed opportunity to give them a model update. Was hoping for magical aztec space pyramids and weapons, rather than just simple reboxings with round bases.
I thought bases didn’t matter?
They don’t.
why they try so desperatly to shove the same repacked, renamed, rebased, repriced (upwards ofcourse) kits down peoples throaths is beyond me.
I believe the whole Seraphon thing is a joke. The whole AoS game is nothing more than a new way how to pull out the money/ in the best possible way/ from the pocket of the modern days’ silicon children. Buy this */#* because its soooo cool with a lot of modern, fierce, brutal and bloodthirsty kroxigors, predators and with their buddies. The story? Well… it doesn’t matter anymore. We killed the boring, stupid, outdated Old World.. with all of their cliches. That was sooo old-school….
I see what a lot of people are saying here and wish they added some more wild an interesting stuff.
That said I have no problem with them sticking with the old models as I am scared to see what they would have charged for the kits. The Blood Warriors price is really on the ridiculous side. Besides a good paint job cane really make the old lizzie models look really cool.
More overpriced plastic for their new and improved game….
I like the miniatures allright and I’d buy them too if they weren’t so ridiculously expencive.
They would look stunning as a Salamander army for Kings of War.