New Hordes Warlock… Sturm & Drang
August 20, 2011 by beerogre
You saw it premiered at Gen Con 2011, but here's the official image and blurb from Privateer Press for this new Thornfall Warlock... Sturm & Drang...
Here's what the guys at Privateer have to say about this monstrosity:
The monstrous creation called Sturm and Drang is proof of Dr. Arkadius’ mad genius. The key to this breakthrough was placing two strong wills in opposition. Psychic feedback crackles between their minds, driving them into a battle frenzy of escalating power. Engineered to dominate and subjugate, the pair have perfect command over the war hogs of the farrow and can unleash magic of mind-rending power and explosive force.
This looks like it's going to be a really interesting model to play. Hopefully there will be some sort of disruptive effect (psychic feedback) and some cool magical action.
What do you think guys?
I simply love it.
I really wish I could say something good about the sculpt, but I just don’t like it at all. The idea seems great but the execution is off.
Funny bit of useless knowladge is that there is band called Sturm und Drang. By the way word “und” means “and” in german.
I just thought of Team Fortress 2 when I saw the name – one of the things the Medic in it says is “Sturm und Drang”. The TF2 wiki had this to say when I was looking it up: “Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is “Storm and Stress”; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing, storm and drive or storm and impulse) is the name of a movement in German literature and music taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion,… Read more »
Seems a little confused as a miniature, too bunched together. Don’t think the paint job helps either.