New Worshippers Of Slaughter Do Battle For Age Of Sigmar’s Khorne
September 19, 2015 by brennon
Games Workshop haven't forgotten the forces of Khorne when it comes to additional characters in Age of Sigmar. The latest warriors to be bathed in blood are the Slaughterpriest and the Skullgrinder who each are named quite fittingly...
Slaughter For Khorne
The Slaughterpriest is an interesting model in that it doesn't conform to the normal vision of a worshipper of the Blood God. His slightly more lanky stature gives him a strange otherworldly look and yet even with that strange frame he also is rippling with muscle.
In game he can pray to the Blood God and either boil the blood within their veins, causing mortal wounds, or force them out of position, drawing them closer to your own forces so they can be butchered. Beware the prayers however as he can hurt himself if he rolls badly when praying!
You can read more about his capabilities in the Warscroll which is available for download HERE.
Skulls For Khorne
By comparison the Skullgrinder is very much a stereotypical Khornate worshipper. With his iconic helmet and chain/hammer/flail at his disposal, on fire no less, I'm sure he has ground many of his enemies into dust.
In game he can gain benefits for slaying monsters and heroes then bestow that on his fellow Khorne warriors. He makes them Blood Blessed meaning that they cause extra damage with each attack on a 4+ to hit.
Of course he is quite a competent melee fighter to as you can see in his Warscroll HERE.
Chaos Battletomes
Following in the footsteps of the Age of Sigmar Stormcast Eternal release last week the Chaos Bloodbound have now got their Battletomes too. They come in a regular Hard Back variety and the Limited Edition one too with the art prints and such as additional content.
The Battletome, just as before, contains additional material for playing games with your Bloodbound include new Warscrolls giving you added benefits for choosing certain troops.
I would have thought by now they would have started thinking about a third or forth faction in the game. But, I suppose the fact that they have an existing line of miniatures right now lessens the usual 'only two factions' problem.
Are you waiting for the new factions and their range of models before you dive into Age of Sigmar proper?
Let me know below...
"Are you waiting for the new factions and their range of models before you dive into Age of Sigmar proper?"
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Slaughterpriest is actually rather good compared to lot of AoS models so far while Skullgrinder has that over cartoony look that most AoS models have.
I suppose we should be thankful for small mercies that these are not bedecked in golden armour. I think the Slaughterpriest is kind of interesting looking, I hate being repetitive but at £18 a pop, I think I’ll be leaving these on the shelves.
but he is wearing Power Boots!
I think the quarter master got confused, the heavy plate guy has leather boots and the guy in a loincloth and a bit of bone armour appears to only want to protect his shins
The flaming flail chappie is ridiculous. The skinny one’s actually rather good.
Come on GW. Give us some chaos that’s not red and angry!
Was almost convinced by the Slaughterpriest – that face is one of the best GW things in an age.
Alas his feet appear to be from a different scale of model entirely. So sad.
I’m becoming convinced these were test sculpts for what could have been a cool Chaos Dwarf range, upscaled slightly and a bunch of regular chaos warrior heads glued on. The skullgrinder looks very much like a converted SOC Doomseeker.
First one is fairly good but the second isn’t. Would look okay and be suitable for those who play Khorne CSM if it weren’t for the flail, but as it stands that silly weapon really drags the mini down. Yeah it’s fantasy, not reality, but fantasy works best when it has some grounding in reality and this weapon fails at that :/
I echo the sentiment above of giving some love to the other gods (especially Tzeentch and Hashut).
Even fantasy minis ought to be believable.
I really like the Slaughterpriest. He has that proper “Northern Barbarian” look about him that I expect from Chaos. I don’t even mind the boots. I think painted a dark metal colour and weathered properly they’d actually look the part.
Not a fan of the other chap at all though. To my eyes it looks like he’s skipping along with a helium filled balloon rather than swinging a weapon to kill someone…
SP is not bad apart from the stupid horn things.
@irredeemable – if he came ‘north’ he’d get the malkie!
I suspect we won’t see the new factions until book 2 for the Realmgate Wars is released. It wouldn’t surprise me if GW are holding onto that for Christmas.
As for these guys, I pre-ordered them straight away. I like them both, but like the Slaughterpriest more. Also ordered Skarr Bloodwrath, which is now a plastic model. I believe it used to be Fine/failcast.
Well we have Skarbrand next week, and then 3-4 weeks of Tau. Not sure what november holds though.
…more overly expensive minis?
That slaughterpriest is the first AoS figure I’ve liked. The other one, not so much. Hope it’s not just a fluke. And of course, the model isn’t £18 good.
Same here. And I usually despise anything Khornate (and to a lesser degree, anything Chaos).
Khorne isn’t my faction of choice, but I like the Slaughterpriest all the same. I’m still waiting to get a look at AoS Undead, which might be somewhere not too far off in the future if the upcoming audio drama Prisoners of the Black Sun (which features a well known Von Carstein vampire no less, and is about Stormcast searching for Nagash in the Realm of Shyish) is any indication.
The slaughterpriest is pretty good, I like his back with the chains embedded in his flesh. would look good with some “blood for the blood god” paint to make it more gory.
Very cool models.
Oh look more Khorne….
Yeah, I kinda just want to see the other factions at this point like the Fyreslayers and especially Sylvaneth.
I just wanna see some new Tzeentch and Slaanesh stuff. At least Nurgle got some cool new toys with the End Times. But all this Khorne stuff is just boring, everything is basically “big red angry thing with skulls”.
These two cost more than 20 something blood reavers of the same size and detail … clearly insane. The slaughter priest though i think is one of the best character minis GW have produced. By the time they have reached minimum standard of certain other big players in the industry these minis will probably cost 30 pounds.
First one is not bad. Got some nice aspects. Second is awful.
£18 is a no though.
The skull grinder is meant to swinging an anvil ffs just silly. Not a fan of either tbh. As for price its what gw charges for characters these days…
When they release clampack assassins makes the execution force game look like really good value as to get all 4 you will be looking at £64 – 72
Im not going to attempt to normalize GWs pricing, but yes that is what they charge for characters. :p
there pricing is easy to normalise:
Expensive, Really Expensive, Stupidly Expensive, Ludicrously Expensive, Forge World 😉
£12 for 2 (not very good) needle files 0_o is my pet peeve, love the way GW makes independents stock the tool range, usually next to the expo or other cheaper tool rack, £6 for a set of 12 files, of £12 for 2, depressingly kids will buy for the citadel logo…