New Warhammer Fantasy Leaks; Nurgle Spreads! [Updated!]
October 14, 2014 by brennon
It looks like the White Dwarf leaks are early this week with the appearance of both some artwork and a miniature for the mysterious Glotkin that people have been pondering over for some time...
Update: Some more images of the three different heroes that will be mounting these beasts have appeared online. See what you think of the variants...
All very cool looking and I think the beasts themselves have gone down really well with Warhammer Fantasy fans. Much like with their Blightkings the old school look of these pieces, drawing on old artwork styles from books of the past, seems to be a winner. It will be interesting to find out how each of these different Heralds of Nurgle play!
The cover of this week's White Dwarf is the first leak and shows the mighty Glotkin mounted atop a creepy beast. The miniature is said to be around the size of a Warhammer Fantasy Giant and might even be a kit that allows you to make a selection of different riders.
This is the piece of artwork that made itself known in a selection of stores over the last week or so showing Glotkin atop his beast. It certainly points to the Chaos End Times book being rather focused on the work of Nurgle.
Interesting a chat I had at Warhammer Fest revealed that three huge sections of the Old and New World are going to be utterly destroyed in the coming installment. Whether or not there is truth to that I don't know but it came from a fairly good source. My money is on Lustria, Ulthuan and Kislev biting the dust.
What do you think?
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Those riders in particular look awesome- not so sold on the thing he/it is riding, but I can see them on some Rot Flies. I’m actually kind of concerned about the world of Warhammer- I really hope nothing gets totally destroyed, but rather that ‘one minute to midnight’ status that 40k currently finds itself.
I’m in the same boat as you but I have to admit, I admire how GW have approached the whole doomsday scenario up to now. Though I’m happy to indulge in the comfortable familiarity of the fantasy fluff the idea of moving things along a bit has really caught my imagination.
I’m enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would, that’s for certain!
Meh. New Chaos warriors, or Bretonnians please.
Minuses lol. Kneejerk 40k guardians, even though I criticized nothing!
Its because people soon wise up to trolls…
Not sure how my original comment above constitutes trolling, but if you say so it must be true… because you’re so objective in your appraisal of GW products. :-). What I was going to say originally was that “these don’t look creepy, or inspire horror. They look cartoony.” But since no one wants an objective opinion, I left it out of my original commentary. But my other points are still valid: I would like to see the Chaos warriors replaced: I use them as evil knight sin some of our campaigns, and I’m still curious to see what the Bretonnians… Read more »
In @cpauls1 ‘s defense . . . it’s interesting to note that @nosebiter makes almost the exact same comment a few entries down, and yet no -4 thumbs down. Is this because @cpauls1 was first? Has the “meh” shock worn off? 🙂
Just to play Devils advocate @oriskany , is it because @cpauls1 seems to pop up in literally every post about GW products to tell us how crap they are, before telling us that only his opinions are objective and if we don’t agree it’s because we are fanboys who don’t want to hear the truth?
Um… I liked the dark elf flyer that popped up last week or the week before and said so, as you may recall. As I’ve said previously, if GW does something well I mention it, just as I recently did in regards to their artwork.
Um… Kislev is already gone. It was killed off in the Nagash book.
Ah yes you are indeed right @hash40k 😀 – in that case possibly the destruction of somewhere not so important like where the Ogres live?
BoW Ben
Well, it’s your money (how much of it anyhow?).
Since Nurgle is marching towards the Empire (and already ate Kislev on the way in the first book, before he got his own book), I’d go with huge chunks of the Empire itself.
Got to top Kislev, not go smaller.
Hard to kill off a wasteland 😛
PS: overrun and resisting – my kislevites will still ride
Man that looks underwhelming. Really meh.
Say what you want about GW (loud and often), but Nurgle imo is in a class on his own … must say ive liked whats been leaked so far … with the warriors they went back to a bit more old school nurgle, but with larger sculpts to fit todays standard.
Yet another impressive plastic kit for causing carnage in Fantasy Battle from the Great Satan at Nottingham! Nurgle isn’t my cup of tea particularly (skulls for the skull throne!) but I think this model would fit right in among Privateer Press’s Everblight stuff as well as the putrid hordes of Chaos. With a bit of conversion work the Skaven player in me sees some potential too! Strap a machinegun to the back and we’ve got some scary looking Necromunda/Cultist mutant and support weapon for 40k. Lots to like about this release, from that image. End Times is top stuff, let… Read more »
Love the mini so far, I’ll reserve better judgement until better pics and a price emerges. I can’t say I totally like/agree with deleting entire chunks of the Warhammer world though. I can’t see Lustria or Ulthuan going, that’ll literally mean no more High Elves or Lizardmen, wouldn’t it? I can see Estalia/Cathay or Tilea go. I just think GW are limiting future product expansion by wiping out chunks of lore is all and I’m not sure it’s all being done for the right reasons, it may all be due to Copyright which would be sad. I’d rather have had… Read more »
Quick, Shallyans! Fetch your sticks!
Seems promising, its almost like I have been transported back in time – I feel something I have not felt since…
Excitement for GW releases :O
I am not usually much for chaos releases, but something about this mount puts me in mind of a baby conceived between the Rancor from Starwars and John Carpenter’s Thing, and you just have to love that.
It is perhaps the single most Nurgle-y thing I have seen in a very long time. It fits the fluff of the faction perfectly.
Looks like another multi-part kit as one of the monsters in the background seems to have a head that’s vomiting with its two front arms on the ground.
Who cares about what happens in the story , all I see is a Great Unclean one Conversion coming up 🙂 just like my Chaos Imperial Knight 😛
Would make a great replacement for the forgeworld spined beast or giant spawn.
Well if it ain’t weird / strange it ain’t CHAOS ?