Warhammer Wood Elves Leave The Forest For Battle
April 26, 2014 by brennon
As you might have already gathered the Wood Elves for Warhammer Fantasy from Games Workshop have already taken to the fields around their woodland to begin the battle and reclamation of their land. See what you think of what's on offer during this first week...
First up of course we have the new Army Book (the limited edition version being the one above) and the Magic Cards for their own personal army lore. Artistically I love where they are going with the look of the Wood Elves and that cover is pretty bloody awesome I have to say. I think it beats most of the other ones up for title of best looking!
Talking of good looking models we have Araloth and Shadowdancer above which will be able to fill a few slots in the hero and lord department when you're putting together your army. I swear that I've seen the Shadowdancer model before as a regular Wardancer but I might be mistaken. Araloth is looking brilliant though and I can see him being snapped up as a role-playing Druid miniature as well as for use in Warhammer.
Then of course we go big with these awesome looking Treemen that will no doubt be towering over most peoples battlefields. Above you can see Durthu (their special character), a normal Treeman and the Treeman Ancient that will be backing up your woodland creatures with a bit of spellpower if that staff is anything to go by.
Overall we have a very, very good looking Wood Elf release here and I can't really see anything bad about the miniatures as a whole.
What do you think; worth the wait?
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That treeman kit is amazing. There’s a bit of a “Pan’s Labyrinth” vibe to it, which is a very good thing in my book.
Only took them about 9 years to get half a release~maybe 18 more and they’ll get some proper treatment? ~~at least the minis all look awesome. I’ll use some for playing Kings of War.
Treemen went Mcfarlane toys
No new Wardancers!?!
@vonjunk – First weeks releases? More next week perhaps?
Yes there is at least another weeks worth of releases to come.
There’s potentially a great model hidden under those treeman paintjobs. I’ll reserve judgement til other folks have a go. There don’t seem to be many models in this release, but the old range is so strong, this is a good thing.
I hope this release (low key, fix a few things, keep what still works) is a sign of how they’ll tackle 9th.
Really? I thought the paint jobs were pretty good, better than they often do.
It’s mainly that the colours aren’t to my taste – but the more natural looking paintjob I’d favour maybe wouldn’t look so good in a White Dwarf.
This treeman kit looks very posable compared to other kits. Thats a good thing for making them look unique if you have more than one in your army.
The shadowdancer is the wardancer lord now in FC, but it is silly pricing again the shadowdacer in FC is cheaper than Araloth in plastic?? but besides the treeman looks better than the one one. It has gone back to being more entish.Anyone know what size base it is on?
GW pricing never makes sense. I mean how much does a box of 10 GW plastic, human sized miniatures cost? Anything from £15.50 (for Empire State Troops) to £35 ( for Witch Elves).
Maybe they are now pricing appropriate to quality of the material
The new treemen are great looking models but I kinda liked the old ones /nostalgia
I have a few of the old Marauder treemen for a halfling Bloodbowl team project that never got off the ground. They’re small by today’s standards but blimey they’re lovely mnis!
Still have a few and the old fist of fury Durthu I believe somewhere. For bloodbowl I have the original bloodbowl treeman. http://www.verdensmand.com/bb/elves/elf-treeman-blood-bowl-01.jpg
Very nice models, next weeks will be good to see – vague images of stag riders, and a decent image of some new troop types. I have pre-ordered mine from flgs – only one treeman to start
Really like these models and hope next weeks releases follow this. Would like to see Treemen with a darker paint job.
The treeman is amazing, not entirely sure why a tree needs a loin cloth though, I assume it’s a demon of some sort. Not my cup of tea but a technically brilliant model. I guess at least we all know, now, that Warhammer Treemen have genitals. Araloth is perfectly fine and good as a normal command model – terrible as a named character. He barely stands out, minimal detail and character (by GW’s standards). CAD. Nothing bad about it, just GW used to produce stunning centre-piece metal/resin models and now they have this shoddy plastic offering. Shadowdancer … sure I’ve… Read more »
Finaly after all this wait there is going to be new Wood Elves. It was about time GW updated WE considering that previous book is from 6th edition. That was 9 years ago and since then game has been updated twice.
Besides of Treeman Ancient and Durthu I kinda like look of that Shadowdancer.
Yes, count me in with the rest for those that like the new treemen models. They are the first GW models in a long time that I really like.
The only issue with those is transport. If they are plastic kits might not be so bad. If they are Finecast…I see many broken treemen in the future.
Still lovely models though.
That’s true! A lot of the big Fantasy stuff are awe-inspiring .. but impossible to transport.
Oh well. Display Cabinet for eternity…
Pricing is awful. It’s been a while since they’ve priced ANYTHING correctly. Still, miiature-wise (and painting wise on some of their models) they’ve upped their game a little.
Still hit and miss though – where they used to be a lot more consistent in quality – although that could be my tastes have developed.
Fangorn in heels
Skulls
Foot on a thing pointless pose
Apart from trees in heels, plus ca change
Really like the Treeman models, I’m quite sure they are plastic, and I think the paintjob -although it could’ve been darker- is very nice.
A much needed update after all these years 🙂
I’m not keen on the Araloth model, though that could just be the paintwork, but those Treemen – just wow.
Treeman is SEXEH!!! Too bad GW has priced me out of their hobby. Not that I can’t afford it, but I can’t justify buying extremely expensive metal/plastic toy soldiers.
You need only look at the Creature Caster Treewalker to realize you’re getting ripped off by another substandard sculpt at an industry leading price. The treewalker is on Kickstarter as we speak, and if the finished product is even half as good as the artwork, it will blow GW’s mismatched collection of sticks out of the water.
Or, to put it in a less juvenile way … Creature Caster is also making a tree person in their kickstarter, so you have a choice of which model you prefer. 🙂
Gotta love the community these days. Can always rely on someone countering an opinion with a personal attack. Well done.
I know. I’ve been the subject of many myself. I just sank to the level of the rest of the BoW community for a minute their. Your post did come across as; this is crap and you’re all idiots for liking it though. My reply was meant in jest however, sorry if it offended.
Apology accepted. And I don’t think people on here are idiots. What I do think is that companies need to have their feet held to the fire when they produce an inferior product, and the best way to do that is to show people what else is out there. GW won’t get the point if everyone coos over something that could have, and has been made a lot better by another company. And I’m not a GW basher. I have a lot of the GW wood elf stuff. Love the infantry and cavalry figures, and use them as rangers in… Read more »
I don’t think the treeman is an inferior product at all. In fact I think it looks stunning, and I say that as someone who has no interest in Warhammer Fantasy.
“the level of the rest of the BoW community”
Was that really nessesary?
Poor erastus … forced into a community of low lives
@warzan Was it necessary? No, but it is how I feel sometimes.
Well that was suspicious, and the second time I’ve noticed this occurrence.
The Creature Caster concept looks much better than the GW sculpts.
Not sure about the boobs, unless she is a female Goat Willow for example.
Most trees are both male and female but either way the idea of a tree suckling a sapling is rather odd. lol
You can always cover the boobies with clump foliage or lichen lol. IMO it will still look better than the compost heap above.
I am far from a GW fan boy but I think the difference is aesthetics – as a more traditional tree person then creature casters is great. As are several of the sculpts – the vulture daemon is my favourite. But I don’t think it as good as the ultraforge one
I also love the GW treeman – I think some painting choices are suspect but the model I think is a great interpretation of a wood spirit possessing and altering the tree.
Plus side we all have more options for treemen than we used to
Not a fan of the old GW treemen, and these imho are an improvement.
@cpaulsi
Was going to suggest a bark bra but don’t suppose xylomorphic boobies need any support. 😉
They’re perky enough without one, I think. Hmmm… they may be part silicone. A Tupperware Tree! Gotta firm up that saggy cellulose.
Not sure which is creepier: a female tree spirit with DuPont boobs, or the arguably male ones above wearing heels lol.
Ummmm what? Disregarding opinion on which looks better (imo the GW ones look better) the rest of this comment still doesn’t make sense. The creature caster ones are not only resin instead of plastic but are also MORE expensive (using USD the CC model is about $68 vs $61 and that is only through the kick starter, the price will increase to about $82 at retail). Also you are comparing art work to an actual model.
Apples and oranges. For the extra $7 the Creature Caster one will be made of resin i.e. better value for money (unless you’re thinking of GW and Forgeworld models. I recently binned their Skullcracker model. It wasn’t salvageable). Creature Caster creates their models with CG, and use a 3D printer, so the finished product will look like the CG render. The progression of their other models, from detailed sketches to printed 3D models, have been very true to the original concept art. For size of Creature Caster figures, and to see examples of their printed figures check out their kickstarter:… Read more »
Or if neither of those tickles your fancy you can get three metal tree warriors, 85mm tall, from Raging Heroes for about $54 US.
http://www.ragingheroes.com/collections/complete-collection/products/the-tree-warriors
Their style reminds me more of the figures above. Not great sculpts, but much better value for your money.
I make my own, from trees, plant roots, putty, and I use paste gems for eyes, and they’re perfectly serviceable. So I don’t even have a dog in this fight. Just trying to advocate for objectivity.
Hold up.. the Dryads main issue was all their prickly branch bits breaking off easily. It’s a nightmare.
So GW make a giant Dryad with exactly the same flaw of their smaller counterparts. DAMN IT.
Easily the best ‘tree creature’ model I’ve ever seen, bravo Games Workshop! Shame about the price tag but it’s something I could save my pennies for eventually, just forgo a few pints down the local to balance things out! 😛
Just occurred to me that the loincloth, might not actually be a loincloth… (shudders)
They don’t really look much like trees to me. Tree men should at least look vaguely tree-like. Without knowing their name or what they are would anyone look at them and think ‘Wow, look the trees have come alive!’
What trees look like that? Anyhow, I like the look of the other Wood Elf models, just not convinced by those particular ones as they look more like the monsters from Power Rangers…