Warcry Heads To Ghur & Witch Hunting Warhammer Underworlds!
July 11, 2022 by brennon
Games Workshop dropped another bunch of previews for The Mortal Realms over the weekend! Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Warcry is heading to the realm of Ghur and will see two new warbands clashing against each other in a living and very hungry land.
Heart Of Ghur // Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Warcry
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Heart Of Ghur is the new boxed set that is going to be landing in the near future. Something has fallen from the skies and now a new pair of warbands are looking to scavenge it for their own means. They are going to be wandering deep into the heart of the Gnarlwood and that means some impressive new terrain.
Before we get a look at the warbands, it's worth taking a peek at the terrain. I think this looks really fun and I hope it becomes available separately from the boxed set in the near future.
Heart Of Ghur Box Set Contents // Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Warcry
I like the big bamboo bridges and walkways and the way that the creeping trees are wrapping their way around the ruins and bodies of fallen monsters. I like terrain that tells a story and I think this manages to do that. I particularly like the massive skulls of fallen monsters! I think they start to get you thinking about what strange and wonderful creatures inhabit The Mortal Realms.
When it comes to the miniatures, Games Workshop has continued to design warbands that follow the different Chaos gods, even if they don't realise it. The Rotmire Creed follows some twisted and plague-ridden entity and the name Nurgle might be very alien to them.
Rotmire Creed // Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Warcry
Still, it guides their actions and has provided us with some pretty fun miniatures. I like all of the scavenged material that makes up their arms and armour, especially the cloaks and hoods. You've also got all of the skull masks and bamboo/reeds worked into the designs too. This feels like it could make them super fun to paint although you might want to be a little careful trying to get into some of those hard-to-reach places!
Going up against the Rotmire Creed, we have the Horns Of Hashut. If you're a follower of The Old World and The World That Was then Hashut is going to be a familiar name to you.
Horns Of Hashut // Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Warcry
Well, it looks like the Chaos Duardin/Dwarfs have been busy crafting arms and armour alongside these humans in the name of their deity. Whilst we don't have any Chaos Duardin in this particular collection, you would like to think that this is going to be the way to start introducing them into the wider lore of The Mortal Realms.
I like the fellows with their horned helmets as they remind me of the Goa'uld from Stargate! I think it gives them a fearsome visage. I'm not so drawn to their unhelmeted brethren but I'm sure that as fodder they will serve a purpose when thrown against the enemy.
Witch Hunters For Warhammer Underworlds
The big winner for me from the Summer Skirmish preview was the introduction of this new Witch Hunter warband to Warhammer Underworlds! See what you reckon to Hexbane's Hunters!
Hexbane's Hunters // Warhammer Underworlds
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Sent deep into the heart of Ulgu by the Order Of Azyr, Hexbane and his band of adventurers have been tasked with bringing the "cleansing fires of justice to the abyssal heart of the Nethermaze". This means lots of guns, fire, stakes and some very good doggos!
There is a lot to like about this particular set. I think Hexbane himself looks awesome and captures that classic Witch Hunter vibe. He is also joined by some neat hirelings, especially the fellow with the bomb-based crossbow and the lady with her repeating pistol. Also, who could not like those awesome war hounds?!
Whilst these are going to be fun for Warhammer Underworlds, I think these would also be great for those looking to play Mordheim. Stick them on square bases and off you go. PLUS, you could also kitbash them with some Sci-Fi elements to turn them into an Inquisitorial warband if you preferred!
You could also use them as the basis for a Sigmarite army in Age Of Sigmar. Screw the Stormcast and instead make a wild and zealous army of Flagellants and such as the forces of Order seek to command the Realm Of Beasts.
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The hexbane hunters would be great witch hunt group. Love the undead Creed looks like fabulous figures.
I’m back into building a Mordhiem table (far too many broken buildings!) and these would have a great start to a Mordheim team.
I can see Hexbane’s Hunters in the Old World for games like Mordheim, since they have a low fantasy look. They do look strange to me in AOS since it such a high fantasy setting. I could be wrong though!
Personally I like the Hexbane hunters a lot (but not to play Underworlds). The new Warcry box not so much.
I’d say that about all the ‘classic’ old world humans in AoS : they look ‘too normal’ for such a high fantasy setting.
I think this is also in part due to GW adding skulls and a dozen finnicky details to everything, which makes these look rather plane.
(the recent swamp orks/hobgoblins also had this grim dark fantasy look&feel that was different from standard AoS as well)
Overall this makes Hexbane & co a real useful crew outside of AoS/Underworlds … so yeah, it’s on my list of things that stop me from ignoring GW completely 😀
Yeah, I agree completely.?
Hell. I’m gonna need at least 2, probably 3 of that Hexbane set. 1 for parts for 40k, 1 to buidl stock, and 1 for my Gothghull Hollow-inspired Hunters armed with revolvers & lever-action rifles. Yee, and indeed, Haw….
Rotmire Creed seems to take the elements of stilts from The Unmade and the Corvus Cabal. Overall a very interesting group. The Horns of Hashut may be Followers of Apophis adjacent but you might be able to sneak them onto a table as Easterling proxies should you go down that path for a skirmish out near Mordor @brennon.
I had thought about getting the new Warcry box whilst watching the preview on the livestream.
I like the Rotmire Creed as possible Nurgle Cultists, in either 40K or Necromunda, and the the terrain, since it is similar in concept to the Ash Wastes set.
But having a look at the price of the Warcry: red Harvest box it’s NZ$413, which is around £209. If it was below NZ$400 I would still be keen, but I don’t think so at that price.
Warcry line just keeps offering some great looking miniatures that tend to be unlike anything seen in AoS.
That Witch Hunter crew is not a million miles off being a great Mordheim crew
Hexbanes Hunters for a Soloman Kane inspired (the movie) Silver Bayonet
And I can see (and plan to use) the Hexbane band when Warcry rules come out for them.