The Skaven Stormfiends Bring Their Weapons To Warhammer!
January 16, 2015 by brennon
If you thought that the Skaven were lacking in heavy weapons and long range firepower then think again. The new Stormfiends are now out for pre-order through Games Workshop for Warhammer Fantasy. There's also the new Warlord and Grey Seer to check out...
The Stormfiends are looking like they come with a wide range of different weapons and are once again clad in some pretty heavy armour alongside looking significantly Skaven underneath. These are some rats that have been seriously pumped full of chemicals and warpstone.
Next up we have the Warlord and the Grey Seer that are now out in plastic. We talked about their design a lot when we first saw the leaks and while they aren't as characterful as the previous Skaven offerings they are probably a welcome addition for fans of new look Skaven. The Island of Blood made some good leaps and bounds in terms of the basic Skaven design and it's nice to see this translated along here too.
Do you think they're distinct enough to stand out amongst a regiment? If not, maybe they were designed to stand out by themselves in the midst of a skirmishing horde instead!
Will you be getting any of these new Skaven?
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spacemarine rats?
Warjack rats?
It’s Master Blaster!
Mad Max Thunderdome rats would be the most appropriate…
@brennon, nope 🙂
£13.50 … lol
Plastic.
Mono-pose … not even an extra head.
Bland.
Notice they re-released some metal (?!) Warlock Engineers. Better detail, true characterful models! (Why is Warhammer: Tomb Kings on pre-order? Updated rules?)
I love the Stormfiends …. but not as Warhammer Fantasy models. They’re a step too far, even for Skaven.
It’s interesting you mentioned the step too far as I agree. As a kit it has a blistering amount of options for weapons and look, but I don’t think its really medieval fantasy in its overall look. Nice models when you see the other colour schemes as well.
Its softback and seems to not be available on the us site yet.
Just no
Alright, maybe the Stormfiends aren’t so bad (with a bit of conversion).
None of those are particulary good. Just decent at most.
*should probably point out those silly dynamic poses will not find themselves suited to ranked units …. hmmm, then again, square base fixed to the sprue, not a round one.
So a couple of things 1) I know there are guns in warhammer, but I find chest mounted gatling guns offensive to fantasy, personally 2) I wonder if the post End Times is really about merging 40K with Fantasy – Skaven troops vs Space marines… sort of reminds me of Warmahordes 3) These look an aweful lot like mantic veer-myn troops for Warpath… could they be bringing skaven to 40k? I find this whole thing interesting because 2/3 possibilities mean that GW is starting to pay attention to what fans are interested in (aka – WMH and Mantic) and are… Read more »
If you find the chest mounted chaingun offensive, then just don’t put it on the model? I don’t really understand where people draw the line when it comes to Skaven; lightning cannons, giant hampter wheels that shoot electricity, machine gun / mortar teams, 2 man rifle teams / flame throwers / poison gas throwers / power armored sourcerers / rat ninjas. That’s all fine? All of that has been in the range for quite a while now. Mounting a chaingun in the chest? Completely far fetched and utterly ridiculous. Not in line with Skaven at all. Opinions and all that,… Read more »
The trouble with Skaven is that the minute you draw a line anywhere, some crazed Warplock Engineer or Grey Seer will be plotting a diabolical plan to go charging right over it… and probably right over a nearby cliff as well, but that is the Skaven for you – shoot for the (Warpstone) moon (literally; there’s a story in their codex about their attempts to reach Morrslieb), and wind up landing in a volcano. With that in mind, I really have no problem with the Stormfiends. They are just the sort of thing that the most manic of Clan Moulder… Read more »
one problem, among many, is that these weapons look safe to use
Tell that to the many, many clanrats who will doubtless get incincerated by the Wildly Off Target rule over the next few months… 😉
The only reason I would get these is to compliment the Veer-myn from mantic, especially the one fully clad in armour, but with the Dead zone 1.5 KS happening in the next few months mange they’ll have their own.
I like the stormfiends and what better place to put a gun when you run out of hands to carryy one, the character models are a little boring though.
No. Just no.
These are universally horrible, horrible miniatures. None of the classic skaven character about them, they barely even look to have any fur, and 4 out of those 5 models are standing on bloody rocks.
When you compare these minis to the latest offerings from GW’s competitors, it’s not hard to see why sales are dropping.
That gatling gun on the chest just floors me lol. It’s even better than that space Viking boxcar with vestigial wings… or the Santa sled.
Utter shite. What are you thinking, GW?
5 models. One skateboarding on a rock. 2 have one little ratty foot on a little rattly sized rock for no apparent reason. 1 has either not yet found a rock or just moved from one. oh, nearly forgot, 1 has his foot on a girder type bendy thing of indeterminate nature. Maybe a wah-wah pedal dropped by a Noise Marine Please designers, enough with the foot on a rock when the rock is so puny and pointless. Gone on far too long and when 2/3rds of a group suffer from this cliche it really is beyond a joke. I… Read more »
You don’t like the Splinter look 🙁
Nah Teenage Minja Newton Turtles were after my time.
Also I would prefer designers go direct to source, ie real rodents, than base their work on someone else’s
Just a tad old fashioned that way lol
Warhammer Armies: Rocks
Rocks are the new skullz
I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Skaven but these a bloody terrible. Is there any chance that someone at GW might actually start sculpting minis again because their CAD stuff seems to be stuck on the ‘bland’ setting.
Utterly ridonculous. BUT… I like them, mainly for the helbeute conversions I have in mind.
Have to say i really like them – now have to stop myself looking into a Skaven army!
You really should … it could be defunct in 6 months …
You can tell these are built on the Island of Blood rat ogres, and the warlord is based on the IoB one too… When did GW get so lazy that they want to keep re-using old sculpts, it seems to be happening a lot lately. As someone with a Skaven army I was intrigued as to whether I’d be drawn back into GW products, but nothing they’ve released in a the last 2 or 3 years now has appealed to me in the slightest. It saddens me that what got me into the hobby and which I’ve invested a lot… Read more »
So many feet on rock poses, why?!?
It just doesn’t make sense to me 😛
IMHO “The End of Times” for GW…
It´s not a Skaven, it´s another thinhg…
I don’t like it if they go to stupid bubbles and sic fi crap and if it moves to round bases Im playing 8th edition forever gw needs to be bought out by hasbro or matel so they can return it to what it was saw the ring round bases high price gouges needs to stop please die GW AND MAY YOUR IP BE BOUGHT BY A GOOD Company!!!
You are allowed to pause for breathe between sentences you know. 😉