Khador Send In The Outriders Soon For Warmachine
January 16, 2013 by brennon
Khador are getting some reinforcements soon in Warmachine my Privateer Press. Check out the Greylord Outriders below and tell me what you think of this upcoming release...
They are some pretty good looking models with plenty of character that's for sure. This might just apply to the riders though as the horses might have a little bit wrong with them?
I have always quite liked Khador so I hope that the Greylord Outriders are good on the battlefield!
What do you think?
They’re the exact same horses as the latest cygnar cavalry unit… The EXACT same ones.
They were crappy then, they’re crappy now.
They don’t look like horses, they just look like weird ponies, at best.
Also, for a unit of five, only three different horse heads and three different rider sculpts is very noticeable and very lazy.
I wish PP would sort themselves out !
Wow just wow. I noticed the same thing right off the bat. I find this as the cheapest form lazy around and many companies do this. We see GW do this with all sorts of box sets that are finecast. Its sad to see PP follow that bad practice.
The Khador and Cygnar cavalry units are plastic+metal hybrids, and it now seems clear that the horses are plastic and the riders are metal. This is obviously a cost-cutting measure, but the good news is that they’ve passed the savings on – the prices for these are way, way cheaper than previous all-metal cavalry units. I’m not too fussed about the horses being the same between different units – after all, these are unarmoured light cavalry. Without any faction-specific barding or anything, horses are horses. They could probably have stretched themselves to more than two poses though. As for them… Read more »
Sure, it’s “less expensive”. Why not. As opposed to what, exactly ?
It’s still a toy, for a premium price.
You don’t tend to see an awful lot of cavalry in warmachine/hordes. Part of that is because most of the cavalry units are widely seen as underpowered or only really worth taking with a handful of warcasters/warlocks; another part of it though is that the cavalry units are also quite expensive moneywise, which puts a lot of people off. All I was saying is that the shared plastic horses, and the resulting lower pricetag, are clearly a move to try to increase the takeup of these new cavalry units compared to the existing ones. Doesn’t take away from the fact… Read more »
The axes don’t look right for cavalry. Need to be either smaller axes heads or babies. Like the old gw kislev horse archers.
Riders are best part of these models as horses themselves are lacking.
Glad he pointed the horse thing out, I thought I recognized them. Recycling is not cool, premium price means premium quality, not some recirculated half-new minis. One thing that also bothers me is the fact that they are horseback, with an axe. I know they are keeping with the Khador look, but it just seems impractical to me, but that may just be my imagination.
Not to bring history into a fantasy wargame but I have read that calvary has used axes throughout history. As mentioned in this web article http://www.britishbattles.com/scottish/battle-bannockburn.htm in the uniforms and equipment section. It mentions that knights could have brought a battle axe if it was according to his taste. Although those axes and these Khador axes are very different from one another. (Khador’s being very top heavy.) So to answer you question: No axes are not impractical when mounted.
I hope this is informative.