Made To Order Warhammer Fantasy Heroes Coming Back This Week
July 10, 2018 by brennon
Games Workshop has delved back into its range of Warhammer Fantasy miniatures once again for another Made To Order haul this coming weekend. The models come from the Tomb Kings, Orc & Goblin, Vampire Count and Ogre Kingdoms ranges.
Leading the way is Settra aboard his scythed chariot. He is one of the coolest looking characters for the Tomb Kings range and whilst those skeletal horses will always look very weird indeed the mounted model on the back is stunning.
He is then matched by the return of Queen Khalida.
Whilst I never looked at the Tomb Kings as a force to consider on the tabletop I did like the Queen Khalida miniature. The mask was the thing that sold it for me and the array of jewels and more that could be spotted about her person, speaking to her royal lineage.
Vampire Counts
As well as the Tomb Kings we also saw Zacharius The Everliving for those looking to add to their Vampire Count forces.
He is a very old model, of course, featuring a lot of the old design choices that Games Workshop used on the Old World models, but he would be an interesting new stand-in for armies in Age Of Sigmar.
There's no reason you can't still work him into an older army, as many of us still have our huge armies from Warhammer Fantasy.
Orcs & Goblins
Speaking of old models, we also have Grom The Paunch here that many will remember.
This chap is quite the classic and whilst he wouldn't fit with the aesthetic of the Orruks now I think he might be something that fans of the hobby might want to paint up and give a new lease of life. I love the model design...even if the wolves pulling the chariot would do with an update.
Gorbad Ironclaw is also making himself known once more as one of the big characters from 7th and 8th Edition with his newer model below.
I remember clashing with him many times with my Dwarf army. I always liked the model as well, leaping forward to crush his foes, even if he did have a massive case of foot-on-rock-syndrome.
Ogre Kingdoms
Last but not least we have the model for Greasus Goldtooth on his luxurious flotilla of Gnoblars. Another model which truly showed off the dark comedy of the Warhammer Fantasy world which drew so many of us into the world.
Once again, it would be a big project for someone to work on for their mantlepiece perhaps. I still maintain that I can't really get my head around using so many of the 'old' models for something like Age Of Sigmar.
I think that the aesthetic clash is too much for me. Be it Freeguild, the Dispossessed or something as simple as Games Workshop using the old Orcs for the new Orruks...I just think it doesn't look right to me.
I know why they've done it, to allow them to bring people in who have some of the older models, but I hope that eventually all of those old models will be phased out to fit the new look of Age Of Sigmar.
Don't get me wrong...if I could keep getting Warhammer Fantasy Battles models I would love that; just not for Age Of Sigmar.
What do you think of these older models?
"...which truly showed off the dark comedy of the Warhammer Fantasy world which drew so many of us into the world"
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I agree that the older models do not fit the style of Age of Sigmar. I love the older models mostly because they were part of what made me like warhammer fantasy in the first place. I liked the look of the models well before I ever even played a game. I do not like the game Age of Sigmar. We played it a few times when it first came out and the odd time since after various updates. I have just never been able to embrace the setting, The models are very nicely done but I think my bitterness… Read more »
Agree with you on the fluff side of things. I still believe that nuking the Old World in favour of AoS was a mistake because it unfairly tainted AoS for many people; if it had been introduced alongside Fantasy as an additional setting I believe it would’ve gotten nowhere near the distaste and hostility that it did get. It also didn’t help that the fluff was a bit thin on the ground early on, especially compared to the amount Fantasy had amassed over its long lifetime (and let’s be fair, neither Fantasy nor 40k sprang up fully fleshed out and… Read more »
As some one who really loved WHFB world and it’s lore I have to agree. AoS world and lore just doesn’t feel enough flashed out. Sure WHFB world and lore weren’t fully original but GW had given those that own feel and identity that made those so appealing and helped to draw me in back in day. My personal preference is always towards fully flashed out worlds and lore over bare bones that I would have to fill in myself.
I’m on the other side of the fence. I’ve never been all that in love with the Old World. When Games Workshop made their lore, they started out with a pure copy of Tolkien, mixed with a few extra generic tropes. I felt that 40k broke free from its super generic roots and turned into something unique, but I never quite felt that way about the Old World. Mind, I do think it is quite a bit better than a lot of game settings, but I always felt like Chaos was their most compelling faction, and that there was too… Read more »
some are nice some are not what is with the vampire on the dragon is he falling off it?
I think he’s crouching stop it while the dragon does a little jig.
Maybe he needs a booster seat.
I think Grom could work well in a goblin army for AoS if you replaced the wolves with Fenrisian ones. Similarly, I think if you could find suitable horses (maybe order them from a bitz site when the new Black Coach is released) then Settra could be worked into a Nighthaunt army as an alternative Black Coach, or if you used counts as, you could use the rules for Arkhan and have it be Settra that has found some way to be reborn in the Mortal Realms and is seeking revenge on Nagash. Probably gonna have to skip on these,… Read more »
Beautiful pieces of art here 🙂
I am happy to see these old models back for order even if for little while.
I love older GW models, maybe not to play with, but definitely to paint.
Greasus Goldtooth is one of my favorite models from the old ranges. Always kinda liked the idea of the Ogre Kingdoms.
I agree that the old models don’t really fit with the Age of Sigmar aesthetic, which is a shame because I love the grim and gritty feel of the Empire / Freeguild in particular. I like to see the everyday people, the ones who aren’t mighty heroes yet still stand up to defend their home, and unfortunately, there isn’t really a place for that in Age of Sigmar’s hair-metal style fantasy.
while that’s true the entire Nighthaunt range do not fit with Age of Sigmar aesthetic…
How so?
Because the entire Nighthaunt range are straight from Warhammer Fantasy and it wouldn’t surprise me if these designs are actually old concepts planned for Fantasy before it was replaced. Their aesthetic is straight from the Old World setting and designed for it. They don’t gel with Age of Sigmars “high concept” fantasy of steampunk mixed with world of war craft.
Interesting enough the “haunter” model from the Dark World miniature game seems to be the original nighthaunt.
There wasn’t very much in the old. WFB range that looked like the Nighthaunts. Maybe the hexwraiths but that’s about it. These look pretty “high concept fantasy” as far as wraiths can look that way.
These are going to be great to paint. I used to have Grom, but need Settra as the last model I’m missing for a full Tomb Kings line. Gorbad Ironclaw would be really cool to have in my Greenskinz army, but I never play them anymore so a bit of a waste of money. =( Always wanted Greasus Goldtooth, too… Sigh.
I love that some classic models are being rereleased, even if only for a week. Not least because it undercuts the, at times, ridiculous prices that some of the models go for on the second hand market. I bought everything from the Dark Elf made to order and would do the same here if I could afford it (probably only getting Grom this time around). I really hope they do made to order for a lot of the models that weren’t even in WFB for a long time (such as Empire War Wagons). Don’t really care that these models don’t… Read more »
I missed out on Morathi last time (I thought they were supposed to be available for a week but she sold out in like 3 days!) and they said they’d give us another shot at her later, but not yet I guess.
I’d like to see some of the old Chaos daemons and beastmen and the 5th edn. Bloodbowl Minotaur re-released too.
Oh, and especially all the old (politically incorrect) Slaaneshi Daemonettes too
Nice 🙂 .Always had a soft spot for Grom,probably because i’ve a paunch like he does 😀 .I have to disagree about Gorbad,that’s not my definition of ” foot on rock “,not by a long way.For me,that’s a dynamic pose of him and his Warboar leaping into the heart of a melee,nowhere near the static,looking or pointing into the distance mini’s you see suffering from a real case of ” foot on rock “.