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Games Workshop Unleash The Beasts Of Chaos
August 27, 2018 by dracs
Games Workshop is letting out their inner beast with a host of new announcements, starting with the new battletome for the Beasts of Chaos in Age of Sigmar.
The Beasts of Chaos represent Chaos at its most wild, a horde of mutated beings charging out of the wilderness to destroy all that is ordered.
"This Battletome deals with more than just the brayherds, it compiles many of the bestial creatures of Chaos into a single unholy tome including Bullgors, Dragon Ogors, Tzaangor and more besides. A Beasts of Chaos force represents the untamed inhuman nature of Chaos is all its glory – a single army, with powerful, overlapping allegiance abilities, magical lores, and spells."
From the look of it, there doesn't appear to be any new models for the army itself yet, which is a shame as the Beasts of Chaos have the potential to feature ever more disturbing and creative sculpts in its ranks.
However, Games Workshop has announced that there will be new faction specific terrain in the form of the Herdstone, as well as new spell effect models.
I'm very excited to see the Beastmen and their allies getting supported for Age of Sigmar. As I said, they have the potential to be one of the most vibrant and interesting armies in the game and I hope that Games Workshop capitalises on this with new miniatures in the future. I feel that some of the existing ones could definitely do with an upgrade, particularly ones like the minotaurs.
The book is set to be released at the end of September.
Warhammer Citadel Opens Its Doors
This weekend past also saw the opening of the Warhammer Citadel store and cafe in America.
The place promises to be a new hub for the hobby in America, playing host to guests such as the Games Workshop design team in the future.
To celebrate the opening, people got their first look at some new minis, starting with the latest Ork vehicle - the Boomdakka Snazzwagon.
This thing looks incredible, you can almost hear the engines roar. The poor gretchin doing the Mad Max hood ornament impression is a particularly nice touch that speaks to where they're getting their inspiration from for these.
Meanwhile, continuing with the earlier bestial theme, we find a Troggoth.
This Troggoth, who will soon be coming to Warhammer Underworlds, is a very different beasty from the previous examples of its species we have seen. Absolutely covered in sprouting fungi, you do get the feeling that this guy rarely sees the light of day.
It's a welcome update from some of the existing Troggoth models, even if I do have a soft spot for some of them.
Let us know what you think about all these announcements in the comments below.
"[Beasts of Chaos] have the potential to be one of the most vibrant and interesting armies in the game"
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It’s good to see Beastmen back. I don’t know why I was hoping Chaos Dwarves based on that bull spell effect when there is no way GW is bringing them back. That Ork vehicle looks really good. That troll is rather busy with all that detail.
I also thought about Chaos Dwarves, maybe one day we will get plastic Chaos Dwarves.
Could be a good avenue for them, the forgeworld resins were great and there’s already enough of a demand to sustain Mantic’s Abyssal Dwarf range. With the success of the Deepkin (which was waaay left field), I really do hope they take a chance on them.
Considering FW price hike possible being end of that I doubt we will see FW Chaos Dwarves.
That’s why I hope for plastic Chaos Dwarves from GW themselves, that would really be great.
GW seems to have it in for Dwarves. Chaos Dwarves and Squats are beloved yet outside of a divine act I don’t think we’ll see them again in Age of Sigmar or The new 40K respectively.
Necromunda has a squat so there may be a shimmer of hope.
Yep, I picked him up to pair up with my Van Saar. I will certainly join the wagon that Gren is an advanced scout for a larger Squat Force (or even just Kill Team) that is incoming!
I’d love to see a Squat Kill Team.
Oh @lostegg so would I ….*sobs* So would I ….. *mutters* bleeding Elf loving GW with now 4 different flavours of Eldar (5 if the whiney give us Exodites have their way … *mutters* bloody elves
Aye @ratspike I have thought the same many times myself
I’m a little conflicted about Chaos Dwarves myself. I wanted to like them, and I loved their old Sumerian look (with the big hats!) But they always looked to me like an army designed to have no weaknesses. On one hand, they’re dwarves, so they have heavy armour, toughness and guns. But on the other hand they’re Chaos so they also get magic and giant, half bull demons. Then on a third hand (which is likely best not to imagine where it came from or what it looks like) they also have cheap, disposable hobgoblin slaves! It’s like they have… Read more »
They have a weakness … they can’t move more than 12 inches from the army’s haberdashery or else they fail all saves due to lack of confidence in their headware’s integrity … and they don’t move terribly fast.
Well you have an expensive solid core but the numbers are made up by an unruly mob…maybe Hobgoblins should have animosity to help balance things out?
I hope GW don’t look at FW sales to determine if they should bring Chaos Dwarfs back. I am sure there would be a lot more people who would buy plastic CDs but who wouldn’t buy FW ones. The same for the Fimir.
Until last Thursday I was actually considering starting a Forgeworld Chaos Dwarf army but why should I pay 38% for an army on Thursday than I would have paid on Wednesday … particularly when it is the same models stored in the same place and I am paying transportation !!! and people in the UK who buy the same models from the same place are paying the same price as always, it ain’t right!!
@beardragon14 Sadly all that is so true. Whole FW price hike for everyone not in UK is messed up.
Gotta get that herdstone, never played beastmen but that looks cool. Who knows, if they do a Start Collecting box I’ll probably dive in.
Yes the herdstone is great, I also like that flaming bull.
It’s impossible to pivk but over the past two years new army books for the year have usually got start collecting boxes around Christmas
So here’s hoping.
I like the monolith thing even though the face looks like a parrot to me. Seems to my eyes the beastmen are turning into Viking types
or an evil looking budgie
I speak for all Chaos Dwarf players when I say we’re disapointed that the bull wasn’t for us. ?
Not a fan of the troll, just looks too silly for me. The shrooms are just too ridiculous looking for my taste; if they’d been a few small clusters it’d have looked better.
Aye @lordofuzkulak I weep with you brother
Was at the Citadel opening. It was hot, but that’s Texas. Looks like they got a good crew there and I’m looking forward to any events they have. The “Prospero Peach Tea” in the cafe was very good!
The Herdstone is sweet, I’d grab that. I like the flaming bull spell effect, not really sure what a “flying goat horn of doom” is supposed to do, but ok. It’d look cool as a terrain piece I think. The Ork vehicle is immeadiately my favourite of these new ork buggies shown so far: it actually looks like it could traverse terrain slightly less smooth than newly laid ashphalt. The two shown previously looked like they’d flip if they hit a stubborn rock. They need a wheels and suspension like this model. The Troggoth looks like something from Skylanders. I… Read more »
Their new miniatures are quite pretty, but I can’t help but feel that the Mad Max-mobile and the Guillermo Del Toro Troll are starting to dangerously toe the line between inspiration and imitation.
Super-stoked about Beastmen, though!
Good news, but man the cap in the fire of the horn model and in the wings/body joins of the bird things is baaaaaaad.
I love the mad max reference on the front barrier of the car, hahaha
hopefully they don’t charge a hundred bucks a vehicle kit, cause Im very interested in buying all the ork vehicles.
But if they are so expensive that I can literally buy an entire other game system for the price of a few a vehicles… then I will have to continue to pass on GW
love the big four armed giant.
Getting very hyped for the ork stuff, love everything so far, and a racing game to break back into the army is really cool.
Beastmen tempts me to rebase and keep mine, I like the new editions.
The troll I like a lot of the bits, but not sold on the whole. Hopefully it indicates grots are incoming
The Troll shows so much potential, but it seems like they are trying to add in to much of the goblin mage that was really popular.
To many mushrooms for sure. Takes away from the character underneath.
The beast men look good. Not overly busy. Will never by an army but a few for the Warhammer fantasy roleplay game could be a good shout.
Interesting to compare the old and new Troll models as well as the new bs old war buggy. The old ones were much simpler. Just the fact that they were smaller says a lot. It is like they didn’t need that much fanfare to stand out and be menacing. Recently GW has gone for a ‘‘more is more’ design approach which is cool and from a technical perspective they are amazing. But that come across as loud and excessive (in a bad way). They are like the insecure person who needs to be loud and wear loud and scary clothes… Read more »
Totally agree. I was looking at the Fireforge Fantasy Plastics and they interest me much more than GW for that very reason. If you make everything uber then nothing is.
Of course its all a matter of personal taste but as someone who has supported the company for 30 years its a shame that the artistic direction they have taken has changed so much.
I think what we’re seeing is technical limitations. Old metal monsters were always smaller due to simple weight/integrity issues. Of course there’s also the fact that AoS is happily embracing High Fantasy style, while old trolls were designed for potato-sack aesthetic of WFB.
The Herd have not gone, they’ve just been sleeping while the ‘GW gods’ waste their time on wannabe SpaceMarines! Time for one of the original manifestation of the forces of Chaos to awake and show these new imposters what’s for! (As long as you’re not shooty and don’t break my armies before they get anywhere near you)
I hope this means the beasts crawl out of the GW webstore exclusive section and move to round bases. That’ll make it easier to collect them….or, well, at least cheaper.
Whew, sooooo stoked about the Beastmen announcement. I want it all. Can’t wait to get my paws on that Herdstone and the bull effect thingy will be great for my Chaos Dwarves.
Yes, I too demand the triumphant and glorious return of the Chaos Dwarves to GW!!
Dunno if it’s just me, but on mobile I can only see an image of an old troll model, the new one is missing