New Lord-Castellant & Age Of Sigmar Terrain Spotted
July 15, 2015 by brennon
More stuff popped up online for Games Workshop's Age of Sigmar over the past few hours from the ever watchful eye of Lady Atia over on Twitter. The new sneaky peeks (HERE) show off another character for the Stormcast Eternals, the Lord-Castellant, and the terrain sets that are coming out called the Baleful Realmgates and Ophidian Archway...
Lording It Over Us...
The Lord-Castellant plays the role of a more supporting character on the tabletop I would imagine when compared to the Lord-Celestant that we saw last week. He certainly looks very cool and has almost an Egyptian flavour to him (maybe it's just the blue and gold?)
He also comes into battle with a faithful beast, the Gryph-Hound. I can't be the only one who wants to see Liberators riding into battle atop Demigryphs right?
New Terrain
Next to him we have new terrain. The two pieces look fantastic and remind us that Games Workshop do fantastic plastic terrain kits. I always loved what they did with Warhammer Fantasy and I think this new terrain also serves to evoke battlefields of the heavens and new realms.
I still have aspirations towards making a proper 'Outland' looking board (Warcraft reference for the win...) with floating rock formations and the like so this should set me on the right path.
What do you think of the new stuff?
"I still have aspirations towards making a proper 'Outland' looking board (Warcraft reference for the win...) with floating rock formations and the like so this should set me on the right path..."
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That hydra terrain looks great, but very limited in its use. Can only really be used for fantasy settings and that is fine as this is it’s intent.
That hydra terrain is easily most interesting of new releases.
Terrain looks cool. The Castellant is fraking embarrassing though – at least it doesn’t have hammers comin’ out its cloak. I do think GW designers are trolling their superiors, seeing if they catch on, though. “How many scrolls/blazing symbols/comets/hammers can we put on this model before someone from head office realises we’re taking the piss…”
it’s actually worse than skulls everywhe… oh, there’s even a skull !!!!
Can’t wait to get all the terrain. It looks great and it will save me tons of time making my own. I’m spending all of my hobby time painting the boxed set. 47 miniatures!
My local GW store has the terrain on the demo table for a couple of weeks now, it’s awesome!
Got to admit I have been as bigger critic of GW as anybody I got back into the hobby about 5/6 years ago with fantasy which I will always be grateful for but after investing considerable time and money in fantasy I realised how poor a game it was for various reasons this was reinforced when I started playing malifaux, DZC and infinity . So I was totally done with GW but I gotta say this AOS stuff look incredible and I will be splitting a boxed set with me mate the battle reports I have read or watched the… Read more »
+1 from me 🙂 Laughing and sneering at things takes no talent or intelligence at all. I’m totally with you on this. It’s great to see GW throw away it’s stale old same old and try something different. There is a lot of negativity about AoS on BoW, but a lot of positivity and enthusiasm too.
I prefer to think of my negativity as ‘constructive criticism’ lol. In the spirit of positivity, the terrain piece is nice.
@redben I’ve never regarded anything you’ve written as negativity. I’m all for the kind of constructive criticism you and others offer.
You and your friend are doing the smart thing and splitting the cost between a box. Hope you really enjoy you game mate 🙂
Both those terrain pieces would be pretty good for Frostgrave, too!
All looks exciting. None of it appeals to me though. Not keen on an army of soldiers that all looked like Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man.
You know I now have to watch that movie so I know what your talking about. It will negel me until I do.
So you are planning to have Tyrael fighting through Outland then Brennon? That sounds like quite the awesome mash up between both AoS and Blizzard and between two Blizzard franchises. Now I really need to see an AoS game where a converted Stormcast eternal Tyrael fights a converted Chaos version of Magtheridon or maybe Illidan… 🙂
As an aside, an Outland style board which retains the unstable and volcanic characteristics of Outland as depicted in the various Warcraft computer games would make for a great stand in for the Realm of Fire/Asqy.
Don’t do Fantasy or AoS, so no skin in the game. But loving that gate/portal a lot. This even more reinforces the Diablo III vibe I got when AoS was officially revealed. I just hope they don’t make it a limited release.
Thats some really cool looking terrain
I like the arch. Saw one at the shop the other day when I popped in for monthly Agrax Earthshade, but it was for display only. If it comes in under $25 I’ll get one. I need something like it for an upcoming game, and if I can save time by not building one, I’m all for it.
The castellant guy is, of course, laughable, in his Pilsbury Dough Boy armour.
Which arch are you talking about @cpauls1 ? The big gateway with the serpent relief is $40. The arched portals come in a box of two for $58
The portals… didn’t know there were two. Note sure I would ever need two, as they would connect different dimensions, and have different dioramas. I suppose I could always paint one with a dark basalt theme, and make the other one out of white marble or something. Thanks for the tip @erastus .
In game they allow you to “teleport’ between doorways apparently… so basically enter one, pop out the other?
@greenlumux I’ll be using them in an AD&D campaign, as a portal to one of the hells… not AoS. It will look much more dramatic than a pentagram, or could even be positioned at the center of one.
The terrain is very pretty, but might suffer from being a little too specific. While really fanciful terrain can be a great centrepiece, it’s less value for money when you can only use it in one specific system.
More concerning is how difficult it is to tell all these new guys apart. Lord Celestant and Lord Castellant… both being big bulky space marines in golden armour, and heroic poses? It’s not the most creative thing in the world.
The flipside is if GW stat this up as a very specific piece of AoS terrain then people will buy it for AoS. If it’s just generic scenery, then they risk people buying the terrain elsewhere.
A fair point, for sure. Something so abnormal that you couldn’t replace it with anything else on the market, right? I guess my initial thoughts, as they were with a lot of the old Storms of Magic terrain, were that they were lovely and interesting pieces, but with so much gorgeous terrain on the market, I could never justify buying a piece of terrain that could only play one system. When stacked up against a set of gorgeous 4Ground Norman huts that could play in Warhammer, Warmachine, Saga, etc., it feels like a bad deal. Of course it seems illogical… Read more »
I thought it was actually part of their new business master plan? And that all terrain would have special rules which would come in the box etc. And that “buy from GW only” terrain would be a key aspect of Age of Sigmar? This was the rumour and it certainly seems to be the case.
I’m sure if we think about it, the terrain can fit into other games and other game pieces could easily replace these. It’s not like it has a big AGE OF SIGMAR emboss across the front. But I do also get that feeling you were talking about, the “Buy from GW only” about all this.