A Blood Soaked Bastion Coming To Age Of Sigmar This Week
August 19, 2015 by brennon
Games Workshop are going to be bowing down before the Blood God this week with some new releases for Khorne in Age of Sigmar. The Blood Warriors get their boxed set and we will be able to fight over the skullerific Skull Keep which comes with walls, a gate and more. You can see it all HERE...
I quite like the look of the Blood Warriors who have grown on me as I've been painting them up. I like the huge chunky armour plates. The new models don't seem to be as robust as the ones from the main boxed game but neat nonetheless.
The terrain on the other hand is probably going to evoke some divided opinion. I've seen a lot of people liking the look of it, a neat 'castle' to siege in Age of Sigmar but others are not liking it at all. I quite like the walls and the gate but the rest of the 'bastion' doesn't look that inspiring.
I'm undecided overall though at the moment and would have to see it in the flesh before making a stand on one side or the other.
Thanks to Tabled Podcast for the images...
What do you think?
"The new models don't seem to be as robust as the ones from the main boxed game but neat nonetheless."
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I like skulls, they are a guilty pleasure, but bloody hell, those fortress walls lol.
Most skullz needed
I know, it is like they’re going all “Skull Lite” on us.
i’d like to see all the pieces together
The Blood Warriors where the naked arm meets the torso makes them look like a posable action figure. That’s what put me of the catchans and the chaos maruaders, the arms were just to disproportionate to the rest of the figure to make a clean (or realistic looking) join.
The poses are terrible, stiff and unimaginative. As for the fortress, I learned my lesson with the
ill-fit-ion arch. That’s the last $50 AoS will get from me.
I absolutely love the terrain and will clearly be spending way too much money on it.
When will BoW get some battle report AoS videos up and some proper discussion about all things AoS – rules figures – its a huge event and BoW has not really done much about it at all yet – come on!
I think I like it.
It reminds me of the old Chaos background art.
One has a Bat’Leth! Awesome!
The models look great. As for the terrain…I’d really have to see it in person to judge. I’m sure there are much more economical ways of making terrain like this.
Terrain is again best part of AoS releases.
I like the miniatures in the AoS box – especially all the Chaos stuff – but I agree that these ‘Blood Warriors’ (I hate the names of a lot of their units these days!) are a bit disappointing. Uninteresting poses and I don’t like the naked shoulder thing, even if it is a throwback to ancient Khorne Space Marines, etc.
I can’t see any of the skull terrain clearly enough to have an opinion on it yet. I’ll keep an open mind!
So that’s where GW have been hiding all their skulls.
Blood for the blood God. Skullz for the throne/bastion of Khorne…
GW seems to be have a problem balancing between dynamic poses and customization. From the look of them the blood warriors will have a lot more options to build with then the sigmarines did in their box sets.
I love that you appear to be able to make an 8 point chaos star from the castle parts (seen on BOLS) but holy shit, how much would it cost to do it!? I guess it’s a small issue but if I can’t afford the whole castle why would I buy a couple of fragments?
I quite like Castle Greyskull (or at least what it should have looked like). Only problem with it is not enough skulls.
Wish they’d hurry up and re-do Khorne Berserkers for 40k more like those guys. Then maybe i’d get some.
Yay, we are saved 🙂 I remember the discussion on the Weekender when the guys were thinking if the new Warhammer edition will be full of skulls or not. Apparently someone in GW had been watching the episode 🙂 I like the fortress. I really do… it is so Khornish, don’t mistake with Cornish 😉
I have heard it said that Khorne gets really upset if the local tea shop doesn’t use proper clotted cream on their scones?
So… it is not a rumor then.
He also stopped Greggs from selling Khornish pasties…
So… Khorne dudes, you know the berzerker, all out attack no defense dudes get a nice big wall to hide behind? o_O
And needz moar skulls.
If you paint all of the skulls grey, then what do we call the castle?
Castle Needz More Skullz? 🙂
and if we took off the rest of the armour and added fur underwear what would we get? 😛
I think were back to a discussion about Warrens dungeon at that point
Now all we need is a sexually ambiguous HEMAN on that castle and the setting is set!
I really like the new fort not too practical for other armies
but I’m buying one for my chaos armie