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Head To The Age Of Sigmar Open Day & Grab The Errant-Questor
August 6, 2016 by brennon
Next weekend Games Workshop are hosting the first Age of Sigmar Open Day at Warhammer World. If you turn up to the event you could get yourself an Errant-Questor for the Stormcast Eternals...
This is the first Stormcast model sculpted without his helmet on showing that there really is something underneath all that armour!
As well as this model being available you can become engrossed in everything Age of Sigmar with plenty of accessories on sale and of course games to get stuck into.
Will you be picking this fellow up next weekend?
"This is the first Stormcast model sculpted without his helmet on showing that there really is something underneath all that armour!"
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So basically they got rid of the helmet :p how exclusive
First Stormcaste without helm and black character. Well done GW – awesome!
I’m really disappointed that under that armour is something so prosaic as just a big bloke. Not some celestial being, not a suit animated by divine wrath. Nope, it’s just some big chap.
Kinda killed the mystique a bit. I liked the idea of something similar to (but less grim than) Rubric Marines.
To be fair, there is just a big chap under the armour… to begin with. We know that reforging does some weird things to Stormcast, so when they have only been reforged a couple of times they look like this. But what about after they have been reforged dozens of times? Or hundreds, or thousands? We know something happens, and that something includes a loss of some memories and humanity, and is feared by the Stormcast, but we don’t yet know exactly what it is that happens or how the effect progresses. Perhaps a Stormcast that has been reforged very many times might be more like a glowing figure of Celestial magic or an animated armoured suit – we don’t know yet.
I would add a space marine/Romanesque looking chap, something a little different would have been far nicer.
As to if he is big or not that bit of the armour is intact 😛
And that’s exactly what makes them more likeable in my view 😎
Great miniature!
Could always paint the skin with a glowing effect make him look ghostly.
I think being ‘reforged’ lands them (Stormcastes) some greater descriptive tone than just a big bloke…I like were being some humanity in the suit.
Well we can all agree to disagree, but to me this is where AoS has gone wrong. By not establishing the mere mortals of the mortal realms, there is nothing to contrast the superhuman or supernatural against. Thus the whole thing is diminished as its viewed through the lens created by Stormcast Eternals seeming to be the “standard” by which other things are judged.
It’s the same trap that 40k has fallen into by concentrating far to much on Space Marines, they have stopped feeling special.
Yes I totally agree.
What you mention is so true. I find it hard that both games push the image of a perfect warrior group and have them be the flagship army for both games. So much so that they will more than likely never be excluded from any beginner box.
These warriors are cast as special, elite and a minority smaller group in the literature, yet in game terms they are the majority on the table. By doing this GW has made me hate the two armies out of all the armies these games have to offer.
I would much more prefer GW have the Astra Militarum as it is mere men fighting the evils around them. It puts a familiar face, our face as in humanity on that table top. GW seems to have forgotten that without a human side to the games nobody can imagine that that is them on the table.
I agree that SM and stormcast are just meh due to the spotlight being on them for far to long. It, doesn’t help much that the the fiction that is made for them seems to remove them from being normal in anything but rather alien in motive and desires.
I totally agree @manpug . It would be far more fitting if space marines only existed in the game as HQ characters or elite units in other Imperium armies. Large armies of space marines only make sense in the Horus Heresy. Even in that setting though, the Imperial Army is sadly neglected by FW and by most players.
I don’t know enough about AoS fluff, but I do think that Stormcast Eternals ought to fill the same role, ie special elites in the forces of order.
I completely agree with you @erastus on the AoS and the Stormcaste – the lack of normal humans makes it hard to identify or empathise with anyone in the setting and hard to care about anything that’s happening.
But I don’t agree on 40K. Although the emphasis is on the marines, they remain a tiny elite in the setting. Whether or not people want to play normal humans in the game, normal humans exist – and in great numbers.
I also don’t think it matters that you see marines everywhere in games, or that people field armies of them. Hardly any 40K games are more than skirmishes, featuring more than a few tens or marines.
And while the battles they take part in would be only a tiny part of the big picture, it’s no different to historical wargames always involving the interesting stuff rather than the boring stuff. The number of special forces soldiers used in games is I’m sure a much higher proportion than they ever made or make up of the armies they represent. Just as people play armoured companies in games far more often compared with infantry companies in much greater proportions than real life. It doesn’t matter that people play what they find interesting, even if they are focussing on what, in the context of the setting, is actually the highly unusual.
Okay, that’s a fair point you make about marines. The fact remains though that space marines in the game of 40k are a world away from space marines in the fluff.
@erastus – I can’t seem to reply to your message below… I agree, the depiction of marines in the fluff doesn’t match how they play on the table. I think it could be partially solved by making one small(ish) fluff change. They should retcon marine chapters from being 1000 strong to a million strong. At that size they’d still be small (for galaxy-spanning war fighting, planet occupying organisations), but they’d have enough manpower to actually fight battles and do things.
Even if you argue that 40K battles only represent the important and interesting battles (i.e. you don’t game the far more numerous battles in which the marines massacre their opponents) you’re still currently in the situation where there just aren’t enough marines in any given Chapter to be able to make an impact fighting on the battlefield in the way that they do.
@erastus
Seconded!
*yawn*Another fantasy Space Marine model but without helmet.
^^
I agree
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The only thing GW has on the agenda that is of the slightest interest anymore is the possible return to epic. But I lost the ability to have hope/faith in anything GW does 10 years ago. So …
Meanwhile all of GWs competition (some of its license holders like FFG) are churning out better and better products and games all the time. So my lamenting of needing GW … despite not agreeing with the direction they were heading … is gone. They can go away or thrive … for all I care. I hope they continue and I hope that the people who like their new stuff(?? how or why … I can’t understand … but to each their own) get what they want.
Their prices, their products, their rules … are all far away from anything I want to be engaging in. 15MM, reasonable prices for what you get, rules that are based on decent game play not designed to force me to endlessly spend $$$$$$ per month/quarter just to keep up, etc. Just too many games, too many other hobbies, to devote that much to one system or company anymore.
Oh I forgot to say that it is nice to see them paint the model as a dark skinned man, but it would have been even better if it was sculpted as a negro as in have the hair be dreadlocks or Afro style. At this point it looks like a white man with blackface.
Baby steps. I totally agree with what you’re saying, but at least GW have realised that different skin tones exist. Still, the priest from Silver Tower is, as yet, GW’s only convincing black character so far.
Perhaps one day GW will make characters if different races? Perhaps they’ll even come round to the idea that women can be something other than elves or assassins too?
Agree with both of you @manpug and @erastus – I don’t hate the Stormcast figures, but I don’t think this one is anything special and don’t think the head is an interesting or characterful sculpt.
I hope that GW will go beyond tokenism and try to build genuine diversity into their thinking and their ranges. But they do have to start somewhere I suppose…
Good point. Give them praise for at least acknowledging other skin tones exist. Also to be fare, I do recall a comic they had made that had Terminators as indigenous looking native Americans under the armor as well as SM salamanders are depicted as dark skinned often. But if they make the model clearly African or Asian I would be very pleased.
green stuff a mullet on it and you would have an off the shelf emperor mini for 40k…
Its not to bad although the head does seem a bit small might be the angle of the photo though.
As for diversity its a shame they culled the old imperial guard line of mini’s as that had a lot of diversity in it, not just in terms of historic influence on uniform but skin tones as well. And whilst women are very under represented by GW seeing as how its only really the two factions you mention which have a notable female presence, sisters of battle were a good starting point shame they failed to progress and housse escher in necromunda were pretty good for there time in terms of sculpts and the tau are supposedly progressive enough a faction to feature fairly prominent female characters and certainly have fish women heads on various sprues….
If any thing the lack of diversity is really an issue of the painting teams direction more than anything to do with the sculpting of the mini’s
Aye, I was thinking Adeptus Custodes envoy for 40k – Inquisitor warband.
the new Deathwatch Artemis figure got me nostalgic for the old Inquisitor game 🙂
great sculpt, horrible design
I’m a bit disappointed with that head, I thought they’d look more celestial and other-worldly.