Forge World Offer Up Alternative Stormcast Heads This Week
January 19, 2019 by brennon
Fed up of looking at faceless Stormcast Eternals? Well, Forge World has released two upgrade kits for your Age Of Sigmar force with both options for Male & Female Heads.
These would be great for showing off which members of a unit are the leaders, and if you're getting stuck into some skirmishing with these forces it adds a dose of personality into the affair too. There are a variety of different faces shapes and designs on offer as well giving you a wide selection of ethnic origins to pick from.
There is a good mix of the seriously grim-faced and the battle-ready amongst these sets and I could see a lot of people picking up the Female Set in particular for use with their heavily armoured warriors of Sigmar.
As you can see above the heads just plug into the bodies of the traditional Stormcast Eternals and look very much like they match up which is always a good sign. Whilst I think an entire force without their helmets on might be a bit much this does mean you can mix and match a lot more.
A lot of people like the Stormcast Eternals because you don't have to paint faces but this offers up something new for those looking to add a bit more character into their army.
With the new rules for Age Of Sigmar Skirmish out there and people wanting to make more personal forces that tell a story, I could see these being a big hit.
Will you be picking them up?
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I like the Stormcast facelessness, and I think that making whole units of helmetless Stormcast looks a bit odd, but the actual sculpts are very nice indeed. Might look good on actual marines as well.
They look good I can we female spacemarines and personalised space nun’s joining the imperial force’s.love the first males head its Thor’s father ?
Can we just accept that Female Space Marines aren’t a thing, and be glad that the Sisters of Battle are finally making their long overdue comeback. I would like to see a few of these heads for the Imperial Guard however as that could do with aligning more with the grim dark reality of worlds press-ganged into the military.
I’m not bothered either way about the Marines the sisters of battle will look great with new different heads to personalize peoples army’s more I think.
I think my issue is that it’s been established that Space Marines only come in male due to in game lore reasoning and the same for Sisters of Battle only being female. While one is supposedly genetic and the other is just because they only accepted women into their ranks, similarly to the sisters of silence.
I don’t get why we can’t just leave them as they are and just advance their story without having to open it up to everyone can be a Space Marine. Also that first head does have a slight Odin vibe to it.
If people want a female spacemarine army haho for Amazonians ?
Just give them an army of Sisters of Battle with a bunch of Ogryns on leashes.
That could work as well.
I would use those female Sigmarine heads with IG figures if those are not too large so that I could have some women among IG since unlike female Space Marines those are actually part of 40k lore. Yes, based on lore both men and women serve in IG.
Why not though? 40k’s only saving grace is the “galaxy is so huge anything can happen”. And now, with Cawl’s primarines, there’s a proof you can fiddle with spess marines, so nothing stopping you from saying a mad Machine-priest helped adjust the geneseed to work on other half of human species.
Yeah, 40k lore is designed to have enough holes that players can do absolutely anything and it fits. That’s why there are two unknown primarchs, right? If I decide that they were both women, the lore doesn’t contradict me. I’ve heard that they’ve laid the groundwork for female space marines in the lore: I heard that in one of the more recent novels, there’s a discussion (Cawl and someone else) of gender of space marines, and it is acknowledged that female marines were possible (and possibly better suited to the genetic alterations) and only reason that female subjects aren’t accepted… Read more »
While those are good I doubt those will help to make Sigmarines any less generic.
Almost $2 U.S. a head. Yikes. More Forge World silliness. You’d be better off going to a bits site like Bits World or Hoard ‘o Bits on eBay.
Oldhammer and Mordheim might’ve just gotten some interesting additions to Sigmarites/Witch hunters/Middenheimers. I’m just biding my time to see if it becomes another addition to the box set lineup. I might be completely wrong on that since AoS is the skirmish version of WHFB and Mordheim was Necromunda for that system. All in all more bits to play with and add to our hordes of stuff.
The ONE thing the Stormcast ever had was the idea that “they might not be human” and were mysterious.. and that we don’t know what is underneath those masks. That’s exciting…
But they sunk that ship from day 1 with the “oh they’re physical humans that you can see!”.
so they really are just space marines for warhammer, with slight tweaks to cover for them.
If you think of Sigmar as a Chaos God, and Stormcasts as his own Chaos Warriors and Champions, they fit in the lore much better than if you think of them as Sigmarines.
These do look kind of nice! Most of them anyways… 🙂
I wouldnt mind a couple of the male heads for my Space Wolves too
They’re not bad, but the female heads are not as cool as provided by 3rd party companies. Though I suppose they do have advantage of fitting on the towering Stormcast bodies, so there’s that. Nice to get some unique elements to further spruce up your stormhost. And I guess people wanting fem-marines will have nice fitting heads too, which is always a plus.