GW Show Off Better Images Of Warhammer Quest Silver Tower Heroes
May 11, 2016 by brennon
Games Workshop went against the grain this week by showing off proper preview photos of the heroes that you'll be getting in Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower which is going to be available in around two weeks. See what you think of them below starting with the Knight Questor...
Here we have the new icon of 'Warhammer' stepping forth to leads these folks through the Silver Tower to step a horrifying army of daemons. His allies though are looking just as good and I think a lot of people like the Darkoath Chieftain.
It's a shame that a barbarian like this is in such a neutral pose. It would have been good to see him swinging that sword around or flinging that axe about. I think its a lost opportunity to have him looking more dynamic.
The Exclesior Warpriest is joining the fight alongside his Gryph Hound. It's nice that we're now seeing some more of the humans that inhabit their new take on the Warhammer world.
I can imagine this fellow having a bit of a support role in the game and aiding his friends in combat.
Next up we're going short and angry with the Fyreslayer Doomseeker. Armed with a rather cruel looking hooked blade and that runic axe he will be getting stuck into the fighting against some of your bigger foes.
As well as that we have some Aelfs with the Mistweaver Saih who is going to be your spellcaster in the game. It looks like the influence of the Dark Elves has spread throughout this new faction in Age of Sigmar. A nice dynamic looking wizard.
Last but not least we have the glass cannon from the group with the Tenebrael Shard.
Once again we're seeing the influence of the Dark Elves throughout the model and it's interesting to see who the Knight Questor is choosing to hang out with. The same goes for the Excelsior Warpriest!
All of these heroes are going to be usable within your regular games of Age of Sigmar too so this falls into that nice 'collectors urge' that we've talked about in the past where you could potentially see rules going back and forth between Warhammer Quest allowing you to use your collection in both games.
What do you think of the heroes?
"Armed with a rather cruel looking hooked blade and that runic axe he will be getting stuck into the fighting against some of your bigger foes..."
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Amazing! NOW LET ME SEE THE BADDIES!!!
The chieftain is nicely old school. I hear the warchief is retiring tomorrow as he’s too old for this ****, just needs to clear out this one last dungeon first…
MENDOZAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyANa71gvU
*warpriest not warchief.
Those look great. Not a fan of the Dwarf’s weapon in his right hand, looks like a multi-tool rather than something dangerous. I’d probably replace it with another axe.
Sometimes treasure comes in cans and bottles rather than chests.
No one else thought to bring a can/bottle opener, did they?
I have had no interest in AoS – maybe because the new stuff looked ‘overpowered’
but these figures look awesome and have real character – especially the noble-savage barbarian and the Meroe style Warpriest
wonder will his Gryphon-hound have Scooby Doo issues 🙂
might swap-out the Fyreslayer for the madder two-axe ‘Come at me bro’ model 🙂
Still thy tongue and relieve me of the burden of my wealth
I love that excelsior priest!
he will be brilliant to paint
GW did dark skin tone tutorials for some of the old metal Catachan Jungle Fighters – but that was a long time ago…
(I think the old metal Catachan melta-gunner was inspired by the Predator film – Rescue Team)
I like most of these models besides the two Aelf models. The chieftain and the war priest are my two favorites.
The Barbarian – Dothraki is huge – is this why the rumours said Ogre hero?
I might swap out that Gold Questor for the old plastic Templar from Talisman – if the scale is good he will look awesome next to the Excelsior Priest 🙂
The chieftain, warpriest and elves are very nice. The Knight is a nice looking model but still not my cup of tea. The Fireslayer will be replaced with a classic model for sure. Still, I’m really quite excited by this release. Good on you GW.
Photos of a big new release leak online and instead of sending out C&D letters, GW respond by releasing some better photos.
Things may well be changing for the better after all 😀
That’s a bloody good point!
I know…
I remember some guy saying that before…
Think of the poor GW lawyers, no work for them 🙁
Here, here!
Alright boys, we’ll clear out Tzeentch’s Silver Tower and then we’ll hit the gym. But first, let’s hit the gym.
a) The Conan ‘Wheel of Pain’ workout
b) Swigging Heroquest ‘Potions of Strength’ – “You find a small purple flask. You can drink this strange smelling liquid at any time…”
I’ve never been a fan of the barbarian look (love me some Conan but that’s my limit) but I will say that the Chieftain looks pretty good, if a little boring. The standout is the Warrior Priest though (strangely enough, one of my favourite characters from my old Empire army!). Not a fan of any of the others though. They seem to have that modern GW too-much-detail-but-not-a-lot-of-soul vibe. Still, fair play to GW for the previews. Now they just need to give people a little more notice than two weeks when products are coming out. My local store was placed… Read more »
Having liked exactly two AoS minis before this: I like em. I actually like em.
Shiny – Hope the gameplay matches it!
As you say the Chieftain is too static and a missed opportunity but rest look good
yeah, how can he Leeroy Jenkins?
Really hoping some forms of the old Roleplay book is present in some forms, though the tzeentch focus doesn’t fill me with hope that we’ll get masses of tables for generating higher level encounters
I could see GW releasing a book like that at some point, they seem to love their books these days.
The Exclesior Warpriest is the one that I would be interested in painting
Liking this, Stormcast still boring but the other stuff looks great
Looks more like the influence of Dark Eldar than Dark Elves…
the most important part about this is not the mini’s but the fact that GW have actually done something we didn’t expect and are actually engaging with the outside world to the extent of showing off previews of a new product early. that’s the real story here.
i’m really liking the new GW that is starting to appear!!!
Nice heroes, but it will depend a lot on the enemy miniatures, too.
From those Chieftain is only one that I like. Others don’t have any appeal to me.
Meh – 50/50. The Questor is far and away the worst “fantasy” figure I have seen. I was hoping this would be my one GW purchase (since about three years ago), but they really seem to have blown it already. Maybe the “evil” figures will turn it around, but honestly, underwhelmed is not even close to how I feel. Looks like I’ll have to shell out 3 or 4 times the cost to get the original game. . . .
He’s a Sigmarine, no worse than the rest of his kind.
Which yes, means that he is a really bad mini.
The worst fantasy figure you’ve ever seen. Really? Worst one ever? Worse than this?
http://members.tripod.com/~Troll_Slayer/pics/minmin.jpg
I guess you must have played a different version of Warhammer Quest to me. I have some fond memories of Warhammer Quest but many of the actual miniatures were terrible, especially the monsters.
He is a standard golden thingy – not a look I like but they have gone AoS so that is what your going to get aesthetically.
I was playing Quest last year – using a mix of original and newer minis. They were “of their time” – I think that’s the best way to put it. Having said that, I still prefer the characters – maybe that’s a nostalgia thing. Some of the monsters do look *really* dated now though. My original plan was to possibly replace the characters with the Dungeon Saga Legendary heroes (which strangely I do like) – but this new release has mixed the lineup somewhat making that more problematic – but still an option to a degree – although the Darkoath… Read more »
I just googled the original Warhammer Quest characters – it’s definitely nostalgia!
the metal Chaos Warrior had a giant cartoon axe for hooking the sleeves of players reaching across the table
he fell over all the time 🙁
the model was like a lead fishing weight 🙂
Here is a video for those suffering from Hero Quest nostalgia 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx8sl2uC46A
yeah, it will be interesting to see what heroes get swapped into the game by different players –
Talisman had dozens of Warhammer Heroes – i would swap that Sigmarine for a forgeworld chaos dwarf
I would certainly use the Noble. Or the pit fighter. I have both (every couple of years we have a campaign for a few months). I also have the chaos Warrior – no falling issues for me – but certainly does have a rather large axe. Still, it could be worse – he could be in power armour . . . .
Darkoath was in mad max two I think.
We’ll have to wait for the 360 view. If he has the ass cut out of his pants he was definitely in mad max 2 🙂