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Lumineth Realm-lords New Box + Mighty Gargants For Age Of Sigmar
April 6, 2020 by brennon
Games Workshop continued the previews this week for Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar too. Leading the way was the news that we're going to see a special boxed release to celebrate the Lumineth Realm-lords coming to the Mortal Realms.
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In the quirky video above you can see that they are going to be bundling a book (with special cover), dice, tokens and of course miniatures together for Aelf fans. When it comes to miniatures, the set will contain ten Auralan Wardens and five Vanari Dawnriders, plus The Light of Eltharion which is one of the best looking models I've seen in a while.
Say what you will about the wider range and offerings from Games Workshop for the Lumineth Realm-lords but the regular infantry and cavalry options are really nice. I love their style and I think the cavalry look great. Also, it seems apt to have another look at that awesome model for The Light of Eltharion who is no doubt pissed that Teclis didn't at least work on giving him a full body.
It will be interesting to see just how armies look for Lumineth players in the future. I could see a lot of conversion work being done to bring the army more in line with the classic look of the High Elves from Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Perhaps we'll even see people taking some of the characters and working them into Aeldari forces too.
The Sons Of Behemat
In addition to the Lumineth Realm-lords release, we also had a teaser for what's coming in the future for the forces of Destruction.
The Aleguzzler Gargants have been stomping over battlefields for a long time already but it seems like the godbeast known as Behemat has birthed a new range of children to stomp across the battlefields of the Mortal Realms.
Godbeasts are very cool in the Mortal Realms if you've not heard of them before. They are, more often than not, continent-sized monsters which are absolutely apocalyptic in scale and always end up finding themselves in-between mighty armies. A lot of them are often fought over in hopes that they can be twisted and turned to fight for the Chaos Gods and the like.
It was a shame that we didn't get much more than a few teaser peeks at these new models but I would imagine we're going to see whole armies of Gargants on the tabletop soon. At least this army is only going to have a handful of miniatures to paint right? Well, they are going to be huge...but it's still not entirely regiments of troops!
If you're a fan of Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar then you've got some fun bits and bobs in the works.
What do you make of these new teasers?
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I think I have to get that Lumineth box and the Sons of Behemath look interesting.
I liked the coneheadelves better XD
An army of gargants? Okay, NOW i have to see this! Especially given the whole AoS fairy tale vibe of the teaser.
(And snarky comments about the gargants having big hats or being oversized Stormcast from the WHFB fanbase in 3…2…1…)
The miniature contents of the new elf set look pretty uncontroversial – knights and spearmen, the ‘classic’ core of a high elf army and with some nice models too, plus the new and very interesting ghost armour.
My concern is that two core units and a character are being described as an ‘army’ box rather than a ‘get started’ box. How much are these guys going to cost?
Great looking armoured Elves.
Very nice looking elves. A bit Spartan looking with the spears.
I must admit, it’s pretty tempting. For Fantasy Saga or Oathmark!
I’ll be adding the Lumineth to my ever growing list of AoS armies I currently own (think maybe I’m at six now). I also remember the good times I had with my High Elves back when Warhammer had square bases and we all used to moan about the price of blisters 🙂
Do think though that anything above £85 RRP is a tough sell considering it’s a Battletome, 2 units and a hero. Would have preferred another ten spearmen to the warscroll cards, dice, ruler etc.
Similar products sell for 130-135 US. But those are with out the misc extras. So I would add roughly another 20 US for those products.
Just guessing, As I expect some discount but I dont think they will just include the extras for free.
I could be wrong, and it would make the box even more appealing.
While thematically I love the idea of an entire army of giants. This just doesn’t seem like its a good idea, and GW has already tried this once and failed. How so? Look at 40k and imperial knights. Virtually no different then giants of fantasy. They are also virtually no fun to play against. GW failed to get them right, and most players I know refuse to play against entire Imperial Knight armies. So, there is going to be a huge uphill climb for GW on this one. Can they do it? Sure, its completely possible they can. However there… Read more »
One huge difference : they were never designed for the scale used by 40k.
Unlike the Giants which have always been available.
I’d need to know more about their possible allies.
Besides … I don’t expect GW to get the balance right on anything.
They do miniatures first / lore second / rules third
So, what is your point… cause that’s just gibberish.
I’ve read it three times and still gibberish.
Well his last point is that GW view themselves as a miniature company. In that sense they would view the Knight kit as one of their biggest successes as gamers and painters alike bought them by the truckload. In terms of Allies, that can add a lot of complexity to balance. If you go back to the Knight example, they didn’t just need to be balanced themselves, they had to tie in with every Imperial army list (there must be over 50 when you take in specific Chapters, Forge Worlds etc.) That’s a balancing nightmare. Personally, I don’t see the… Read more »
One thing to bear in mind is that in 40K there is (or was) more of a divide between vehicles and infantry. Anti tank weapons were generally pretty rubbish / overcosted when used vs infantry and anti-infantry weapons were useless / overcosted vs. vehicles. That’s needn’t normaly be a problem if army lists and the logic of the army building lead players to use mixed armies, but that must break down a bit if you’re up against an army entirely of vehicles. In fantasy (old Warhammer or newer Age of Sigmar), all units / creatures are in theory operating on… Read more »
That elven hero is a little too derivative of Alan Lee’s design for the Fountain Guard of Minas Tirith for me, but the Elves as a whole aren’t bad. Where I think the miniature misfires is that while in the artwork it is a luminous being; a beam of solid light around which armour has been formed… The miniature itself has no light or substance, so it ends up looking almost evil, or at least dark and ominous. It doesn’t give me the impression of a creature of light at all. I’m shocked they didn’t even paint some kind of… Read more »
One of those minis I think the painting community will do better justice to. Can’t wait to see what some of the pros come up with.
Oh yea, that Italian painter on YouTube (I’ve unfortunately forgotten his name) who painted that god-tier OSL Gotrek will probably make this miniature sing.