Elves, Machines & The Undead Get Warmachine Updates!
October 14, 2013 by brennon
Privateer Press have a whole load of surprise additions to your Warmachine forces. This lot all popped up over the weekend and there is something for Retribution, Convergence of Cyriss and Cryx.
First up we have the additions for Retribution in the Houseguard Thane and the big unit of Houseguard Riflemen too. I have to say that this is actually a unit of Elves that I could very happily pick up and get painting! I haven't liked much of the Retribution line but I like this lot with their rifles and although once again there are a whole bunch of duplicate sculpts the ones that are there aren't bad.
Convergence are learning that E is the letter of the day thanks to the Elimination Servitors and the Eradicators swinging their awesome shields around with those hidden blades within them. They remind me so much of the Golden Army from Hellboy and I think they would look amazing painted up in that way too!
Rounding things off we have these deadly looking Bane Thralls that have been bought to us in plastic. Cryx has always been a source of much fear for me thanks to one of their warcasters (the name escapes me!) doing some horrible stuff to my Khador list not long ago. Either way this should be a welcome addition to any Cryx force and the models have a very neat ethereal quality to them.
What will you be adding?
It’ll be interesting to see what that Thane does for the Household units. Halberdiers are a perfectly fine unit, especially once you start adding their UA to the mix, but the Riflemen are an ok unit that happens to be in the same book as the MHSF. Hopefully the Thane makes the latter unit a tad more appealing. The sculpts for the Rifleman unit are nice; as said it’s not really an issue for this unit that you get repeat sculpts. The Thane looks a bit odd in the picture attached to this article, it seems to be leaning forward… Read more »
Those aren’t bad at all (even the units with repeated sculpts, for once)… I really like the Cyriss add-ons. Much better than some of the previous ones !
The Eradicators look super strong and much better than the standard trooper.
rather like all this and i know my local Cryx players will be relieved there’s finally plastic bane thralls
My local Cryx will likely be upset, he recently got the old ones. But hey, the old ones are metal and definitely better for repainting, so who knows…
They just keep cranking out those servitors, eh? Anybody else think that maybe those could have all been combined into a modular plastic kit? Sure, this helps them stagger the releases, but a couple years from now, new Cyriss players are going to be pretty pissed at having to buy a half-dozen different varieties of “little metal ball on acrylic flight stand” separately.