Khorne Takes Over As The Next Warhammer End Times Book Approaches
February 9, 2015 by brennon
The Warhammer End Times from Games Workshop is set to hit again with a massive attack from the North as Archaon himself leads the forces of Chaos to invade the Empire. Not only does this bring us a new Bloodthirster but also some new units called (reportedly) Skullreapers and Wrathmongers. See them HERE...
The new Bloodthirster is quite the sight to behold and a massive improvement over the one we've been lumbered with for an age. It's presented jumping through the air with its axe held in two hands in front of it. The wings are huge and it looks like an absolute beast. The new Bloodthirster has also passed on the red skin and now has coal black skin in the official images. An interesting new challenge for painters!
The new units are also seen alongside Archaon himself as he attacks. These Skullreapers and Wrathmongers are large infantry, a little bit like the Blightkings that we saw for Nurgle I would imagine, and come with a variety of interesting weapons. They effectively look a lot like what Chosen SHOULD be for their faction in the game.
Chains, hammers, mutations and more are present on these warriors that could well be more at home in Warhammer 40,000 than on the Warhammer battlefield. An interesting mix of aesthetics.
See what you think of them!
"The new Bloodthirster is quite the sight to behold"
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wing looks over strech or melting so ya me do not like
That new Bloodthirster reminds me of myself, large and impressive.
I will resist making any of the obvious humorous replies. This is a family website, afterall…
Nay blue for kids lad, nay blue for kids.
Not total hit but not total miss either.
So, plastic Greater Daemons – it has finally happened. Congrats to all the Khorne players out there, and here’s hoping that all you other chaos types get your new Greater Daemon sculpts soon. Whatever faults one might believe the new kit has, I think it is almost universally accepted that it is a huge improvement over its predecessor. For myself, I like the model. It conveys the rage fueled violence of its patron chaos god, and the head (and in particular the toothy jaw) looks like it is inspired by various eighties practical effects horror movies (in the same vein… Read more »
I have found a couple more partial images of other builds for the Bloodthirster. I don’t know what the black bars on the pictures are about – I thought all that was more Slaanesh’s thing… 😉
We seem to be getting two axe and whip combo varients – perhaps one is a standard Bloosthirster with that armament, and the other (probably the top image with the more ornate axe and chain lash) is a named character version like Skarbrand.
http://eltallerdeyila.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/dos-nuevas-imagenes-del-devorador-del.html?m=1
Your googlefu is strong – ooooh the classic helmeted dog face head as an option is really rather nice as far as I can tell from the pics. That first axe also screams 80s metal album cover art – we may have a winner 🙂
My sensei will be pleased you noticed. 😉
The helmeted face is a nice call back as you say, and I also agree that the first, more ornate axe is a bit on the epic side and really does have that album cover feel, though even so I am pretty sure that Bloodthirster couldn’t play a solo on it.
I like the new blood thirster but I hate the head so hopefully it comes with an alternative. I’m sad no more harlequin releases this week
Having just finished reading Thanquol, these new models have diminished my hope of an Empire comeback during the End Times. Has anyone else read it yet?
Still working my way through, just not grabbing me – skaven fiction is normally strong this feels a bit flat. Struggling, could be 9th rumours have dented my enthusiam
Given they’ve destroyed everything that made Warhammer Fantasy awesome, I’m still holding out for a:
“… and Karl Franz woke up, and it was all a dream.”
@poosh is this you secretly wanting a Karl Franz shower scene? a’la dynasty? Remember they can change the rules, they can change the setting but they can never take your hobby from you.
hahaha yes actually it is, they’ve already done it once with Storm of Chaos technically …
I am worried about the Old World’s chances too, but if you find the Incarnate marching to War image, on another site(ahem), things may be looking up! If you consider Nagash and Grimgor, you know, to be someones you actually WANT on your side-“Hey guys, if we beat Chaos, I can make you all into zombies, am I right? Anyone? Thanks Krell. Everyone listen to Krell!” But, I am pretty sure that Morrislebb, the Chaos Moon, is still falling on the planet right? So that is probably bad. Win or lose for the defenders the landscape has and will be… Read more »
It is ironic that GW who has been protecting their IPs fiercly is now taking a nice long p*ss on one of its coolest ones. It didnt need story progression, it needed better streamlined rules and sanely priced models. The bloodthirsters head looks insanely poor from the look of that picture, but we shall see
Can’t really tell much from these photos to be honest, but from this dodgy pics it seems to look like a breathtaking model, could be mistaken for a resin model. It *looks* as if the detail is very high … can’t make out the head really though. So we shall see.
Most of the End Times models have been outstanding mind you, not entirely sure they’ve stepped a foot wrong with them.
not sure i agree .. thought they overdid the skaven and Nagash was an oversized floating joke imo, skulls and details do not make a model great by auto. The verminlord just had to be supported by a bit of masonry. Just my opinion. The nurgle stuff ive liked though, those guys can take over done features and still look cool.
Nagash is a great model though perhaps overdone with the skulls but that’s standard now. I did forget about the Skaven actually, but they are mostly good enough – the nurgle ones I was thinking of, more, were the real treats.
I’ve got all the OLD bloodletters I need… about 72 of them I think. Use them as line troops in a devilish army the characters battle every now and again. So, happily, I’ve beat GW to the punch, and it doesn’t matter what the latest Fisher-Price nonsense looks like.
I’ll still have a look, like people who slow down to take in a car accident, but I’m not optimistic… just mildly curious.
In the very bottom left of the image, is their a dude with a scorpian tail?
he may be on a scorpion that is the tail of one?
not sure about this one.
Seems like someone out there has managed to snag a few pictures of the next Endtimes book. Lots of interesting stuff here with a heavy focus on Chaos and in particular Khorne, a council of Incarnates that sees all kinds of weird alliances of convenience going on, Grimgor as Incarnate of Beasts, Isabella Von Carstein becoming the apparently Chaos aligned Isabella the Accursed. The Namless also goes over to Chaos. Balthesar Gelt seems to have gotten better after that unfortunate sabattical as a Necromancer and is now the Incarmnate of Metal. Everything is getting a bit crazy. http://lkhero.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/huge-end-times-reveal.html http://inahidingplace.tumblr.com/post/110545486441/rules-d http://inahidingplace.tumblr.com/post/110545298166/rillietann-dem-plot-twists-crazy-stuff… Read more »
Great links friend. The pics look a bit more clear even though they are smaller. Bloodthister looks mean and imposing especially with the alt head with the armor and dual classic weapons. Wrathmongers look impressive, very much like the art work of the “chaos heavy infantry” that was pictured way back in Forge World’s Darkness Rising book for storm of chaos. Skullreapers look a little stolen off the doom reavers from Privateer’s Kador but that’s a small pic so hard to say. Art works is great, Archaon looks awesome, its about time we got a proper destruction of the world… Read more »
I’m glad you found the links useful, though all I did was read an article of Nafka’s over on his blog and copy and paste a few links. I must admit that, like you, my favourite of the new Bloodthirster varients is the one with the helmeted head, the heavier armour, the barbed whip and the more ornate axe. I think its some kind of named character build, but I can’t glean much from the images we have. It is also interesting to note that the Skullreapers are described as actually being Khorne’s version of the Chosen, but there are… Read more »