Grand Warriors, Dracolines & More Shadowy Ghosts For Age Of Sigmar This Weekend
August 1, 2018 by brennon
Games Workshop continues to add to their range of Age Of Sigmar releases this weekend with more for the Stormcast Eternals and the Nighthaunt. We'll start with the Stormcast Eternals who get a new Lord Ordinator with Astral Grandhammer.
He will be one of of those support heroes who will make all of your artillery pieces that little more dangerous. With a hammer as big as that he will also be very dangerous when it comes to a straight up fight too.
Additionally you also have some new cavalry on the way in the form of the Evocators On Dracolines.
I'm not a massive fan of the silly helmet for the leader there at the front both otherwise these look awesome. I love the over-the-top Fantasy beasts that Games Workshop are including within the world for Age Of Sigmar beyond the standard horde and these have lots of dynamism to them.
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As well as support for the Stormcast Eternals we also have a new character for the Nighthaunt in the shape of the Executioner.
This grim deliverer of death with that utterly amazing axe is then joined by two new units. You have the Revenants...
...and the Harridans which offer up two new designs for you to paint and more tactical options for you in game. The Nighthaunt really are an intriguing force and I think it's fantastic that we're seeing such a huge update to the undead range from Games Workshop, something which was sorely needed after the end of Warhammer Fantasy.
The Harridans are a little strange to me but I do like the overall idea and the banshee element woven into their unit. I'm not entirely sure the scything talons are for me though and I would have maybe preferred to see them with grasping clawed fingers.
What do you make of the new releases coming your way?
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I generally like the Night haunts but as soon as you mentioned the Harridans would be better with clawed hands instead of scythes Ben I can’t help but agree. WTH is with the scythe hands???
I really do like the direction GW have gone with the Nighthaunts, they provide an amazing ghostly look to an Undead army.
Like always from those Nighthaunts are easily best models while Sigmarines are meh.
The best thing about the sigmarines are their monsters. I wish I could just get them.
Just hate Sigmarines so I refused to buy the boxed sets for plasics I would never use nor wish to. So bit by bit I am collecting the Nighthaunt. Problem is every time I think that this is the last release for a while and place an order they post more to come! I think the only bit they have not released yet is the keeper of souls mage but I stand to be corrected. I would love to know if these are the last releases or if they will yet again put something on the list after I get… Read more »
I love the look of the new dead army a wall of spectral form’s coming at you with Nagash standing at the back like a mad conductor.
WHY did they go for the “Edward Scissorhands” looks for the Harridans? If they had just done normal hands they would have been soo much better (someone needs to lower the sugar intake for the concept artists) 😀
The fluff for them is that they’re healers/medicine women/etc who’ve been punished by having their hands replaced with blades so they’re only able to cause harm for the rest of eternity, but the execution is lacking; to me they look more like Nagash put some undead tyranids in dresses and wigs. They’d look far better with the blades parallel to the firearms or with Edward Scissorhands hands.
They just look like they have elf shoes stuck on their hands.
the “fluff” (if you can call it that) is written after the fact, i.e. after the models were designed 🙁
May pick up a box of the Nighthaunts for D&D. Doesn’t matter which one, as they all look the same… but definitely not the Harridans lol. I guess they’ll be beating that floaty Nighthaunt aesthetic to death, as they have with Sigmarines.
I think its hilarious.
Everyone keeps telling me how the Nighthaunts are the best GW minis in a long time. They are simply the most upcomplicated and uncluttered miniatures GW has turned out in forever. I mean really, how could these be the best GW minis. There are barely any skulls on them.
Really like the Nightgaunts except the Scissorhand Banshees and i quite like that first Stormcast dude.
I really hope Shadespire gets a Nightgaunt warband.
Really appreciating the nighthaunts, need to get current batch painted before picking up some revenants
Once upon a time when GW produced better plastic kits (i.e. KITS, rather than these solo models), you’ve have got a duel boxed-set for the Harridans/Tomb Banshees, and a Revenants/Reapers (wraiths) duel boxed-set too. All would come with a variety of heads.
Contrast these gaunt releases with the cheaper Necromunda gang boxes. It’s not like GW is unaware of this.