A Triple Whammy Of Nurgle Infected Villains Hit Warhammer
October 18, 2014 by brennon
As the various leaks have already revealed there is a big new kit coming out of Games Workshop that makes three heralds of the plague for Warhammer Fantasy. See what you think of Orghotts Daemonspew, Morbidex Twiceborn and Bloab Rotspawned...
The full rules for this triple threat of dangerous Nurgle individuals can be found in the White Dwarf that is out today in local stores and independent retailers. The actual kits are very good looking and seem to have gone down well with pretty much everyone who has had a look at them.
I think there is still something a bit comical about the way each of the riders sit but apart from that we've got some nice plastic kits that create cool and individual looking characters for the rest of The End Times. One of the other avenues of thought that has come up surrounding these kits is that gamers will use them for their own Great Unclean One so you might see a whole host of nice looking Greater Daemons appearing from this kit too.
Will you be picking up one of these sets?
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I don’t know why, but I just think there is something off about these, nurgle has always been my chaos god of choice, but this lot doesn’t do it for me.
I’m not sure if it is just pushing the multi-use kit thing too far now, they should have stuck with one well done monster mount, or different kits for properly different ones, I think the need ot have all different things from on kit is losing something for all of them.
They’re just not very organic. That’s not good for any model of a living creature but especially so for one which is meant to be diseased. I’m also not entirely sure how the mouth is supposed to work or how it uses those teeth. I know it’s a fantasy creature, but it still needs to make some kind of biological sense.
To me, the reason they look off is related to just how flat they are. It is supposed to be a 3D multipart plastic kit, but it comes off as three flat planes of CAD modelling stuck together side by side. The first plain is the left arm, the second plain is the middle of the body and the left leg, and the final plain is the right of the main body and leg. It’s plain bad.
I guess they need to line up in ranks at some point so you can only really go fill the base and go up. I get very annoyed with my black orc units because they seem to have out grown the scale of the bases and I spend hours trying to make them rank up nicely.
I normally hate GW and think most of what they produce is pretty silly but I like these. Especially the puker ;P
credit where credit is due… that’s a pretty impressive splits he’s doing to sit on that monster 😛
Huh…who knew that Nurgle riders all have a past as disco champs?
… it’s because of that Saturday Nurgle Fever they have 😛
… it’s pretty infectious 😉
The description on a certain discount gaming store’s website says that the maggoths shoot out deadly “hooked testicles”. I know Nurgle is gross, but I’m very much hoping that’s a typo!
Hooked testicles?!? I would have thought that would be more of a Slaaneshi-type thing 😀
… ok (O , O)
… hooked testicles …
… so it shoots out male prostitutes ? (O ,o) ???
… sounds messy 😛
“Hey lady, did you order a pepperoni pizza?” Chick-a-bow-wow.
… and because it’s nurgle, you know it’s got extra cheese 😉
… greasy greasy cheeeeseeee 😛
lol. I think I may spew.
I do not have a problem with the riders but the beast reminds me too much of the early multi part plastic kits, the Rat Ogres in particular.
I will have to wait and see other peoples painting efforts before I make a final decision.
Over all I find these to be rather decent. Those might not be best what GW has produced for WHF but I have seen worse from them.
Yup, the recent wood elf release was worse… much worse.
… apart from the Tree Man Ancient 😉
that sculpt is just stunning 🙂
Especially that one lol. No comparison between that and the Creature Caster Tree Walker/Gaia figure imo. It’s part of the kickstarter that finished in May. Couldn’t get in on it, but will eventually buy one retail. Here’s the link. You have to sift through a lot of other stuff, though:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeremyglen/creature-caster-first-wave
There are also pics of a finished one floating around in the ether. I have one on my Pinterest page, but I’m up to my arse in other things right now… last minute game prep for our monthly AD&D scrum.
yep, I know that kickstarter very well 😉 I got in on that one myself for a couple of them 😉 … was a bit painful on the wallet 😛 but they are beautiful sculpts 😉 more like mantle piece figures for me, rather than gaming minis 🙂 … but anyway, I guess different people have different tastes 😛 in my case, the artist and sculptor inside me just sees that Tree Man Ancient, and marvels at the design and artistry of the sculpt 🙂 to me it feels like a cross between something from Pans Labyrinth and a Henry… Read more »
I’m afraid we’ll have to agree to disagree. But you’re correct on one count: I do like my mini’s more realistic, which makes each new GW release an exercise in frustration. The prices don’t help either, but it’s rather a moot point if I never see anything new that I’d consider buying lol.
Time to sell off all my unwanted warhammer high elves and undead. I want a Nurgle army with these stomping around.
All I see is an Awesome Great Unclean One Conversion…..Come to Papa….Nurgle that Is
Have you seen the leaked image of Glotkin floating about the web? You might to delay that decision..;)
Aaaanyway, I rather like them. The beastie looks like an undead Rancor monster. Not incredibly inspired, but quite alright. Too expensive for me, though.
Chaos is not really my faction (I prefer both flavours of Undead for villains, and the Empire, Dwarfs and Wood Elves for the forces of order), but these look good (no, that probably is not the right word for something so pestilental; perhaps aposite?) to me – they certainly convey the disgusting, diseased fecundity of jolly old Grandfather Nurgle rather well.