Blaze A Trail With Warmachines Cygnar Tempest Blazers
December 15, 2012 by brennon
Privateer Press have yet another release on the way for Warmachine. Check out the Tempest Blazers below. These wild riders sure look awesome!
"Tempest Blazers are the cavalry of the Militant Order of the Arcane Tempest. From atop their mounts these pistol-attuned sorcerer-soldiers harry enemy formations with arcane firepower. Even at full gallop Tempest Blazers wield their magelock pistols with deadly accuracy and imbue their rune bullets with supernatural lethality to penetrate magical protections and wards."
The real question though is whether or not you think using them on the battlefield is a good idea.
Let me know if they work their way into your army lists.
Cool looking unit. Tempest gun mages are good but I guess the issue with this unit will be if the mobility is worth the extra points and the loss of numbers. I haven’t seen the stat card however.
I’ve heard a lot of complaints about the models but I like them.
As for if I will field them, I’ll need to see the rules and evaluate them but I am eager to see what they can do.
Oh, I forgot to mention this because I trust PP enough to not do it, but if they are nothing but normal gun mages on horses they will be terrible and I will certainly not be using them.
I don’t really like the look of them. I expect better from PP. They look rather chunky for light cavalry.
Keep in mind that, sometimes, PP’s photography is less-than-flattering. Could just be the photo that makes the models look off.
Personally, I’m eager to see what these things can do (if only to annoy a Menite friend of mine who *hates* gun mages >:D )
We’ve been talking about this a lot in our local meta. Lots of jokes about “light” cavalry and heavy horses. General consensus among our Cygnar players (and we have far too many of those lately) is that they want the unit, but they hate the sculpts of the horses. It’s a shame too because PP have produced some pretty good looking horses in the past. Most of the other horses have been more heavily armored than these though so maybe that’s why they had a hard time getting the sculpt right.
Hmmm. Wonder if they might wind up as an option for the Highborn Covenant at some point. Or perhaps in a future Theme List for Ashlynn (perhaps if/when she goes Epic?)
Like mpopke said, the horses do look a bit plump. The two on the far right of the picture are my favourite sculpt. Some of the others look like they might collapse if they keep that speed up.