Raging Heroes Lust Elves Crown Their Colossal Queen!
May 29, 2019 by cassn
Lust Elves divide their loyalties alongside their looks - a bit like high school cliques, really. Divided into separate Houses or Cults, these fractious Lust Elves are led by powerful Matriarchs which make Regina George look positively timid.
These Queens embody the spirit of their Houses, and can incarnate in various sizes. Since humans are limited in their understanding of the intricacies of this transformation, they have given three titles to the difference in size - 'Lady' for a human-sized incarnation, 'Queen' for a monstrous size, and 'Avatar' for a demonic, gigantic size.
Now, Raging Heroes have released their Avatar model of Queen Taïpahn, the matriarch of House of Venom and Slither. And, at over 9 inches tall, this cold-blooded cult leader is a tempestuous towering temptress for her clan!
Avatar Taïpahn can either be purchased individually or with a number of different fantasy sets (base not included). Head over to the Raging Heroes website now and check out this monstrous madam in her gigantic glory.
Which Lust Elf House is your favourite? Comment below!
"A tempestuous towering temptress!"
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Wait, if the Queen is 9” tall, how big’s the Avatar? ?
Also surprised Cass was given this news story to write given her recent article that sparked a lot of discussion. ?
The model is an Avatar – they just use Queen both as a size description and to describe the leader of their house (confusing, I know).
Also I’m fine to write this one – definitely no boob armor there lol!!
Yup, no boobplate, no sir. Just actual boobs with actual nipples. Complete with nipple rings and a chain.
Yup, none of which is unfeasible, impractical, or unusual for a Lust Elf (although I would imagine going through airport security is a tiresome task for her).
But is it a good example to set to young girls? is it a healthy depiction of the feminine in miniature? What would your daughter think? Is going to battle with your boobs out really practical? Is she not just a half naked female general but it’s ok because she looks cool? So many questions.
For reference I would be much more likely to show my daughter Infinity miniatures, resplendent in boobplate, than this model with her bare chest.
Boobs aren’t dangerous you know. And this is perfectly in sync with the rest of the range.
I know they aren’t dangerous and I know they are in sync with the rest of the range. That’s not really where I am approaching it from. There’s just a bit of a juxtaposition between this news article espousing the greatness of this model (I agree, it’s a superb looking model, even though it’s not my own personal cup of tea) and a recent “Roll for Insight” article decrying and calling for an end to “boobplate” (and also bikini armour, large breasts and general represenation of miniatures). Both by the same author.
Well Raging Heroes has now surely earned nick name that I have given them. That nick name being Raging Boners.
@onlyonepinman I am perfectly happy for Lust Elves to be their lusty selves! I don’t think that means that anything I have said in my previous editorial has been made moot. As other commenters have said, there is nothing dangerous about boobs and contextually, these models make sense. Diversity is absolutely fine and I have never campaigned for any sort of prudish censorship.
The editorial to which you referred simply pointed out that sometimes the context doesn’t make sense (like inefficient, theoretically dangerous, boob armour) and that can be frustrating, because then it can just become about creating a female model which is illogically sexualised.
However, I don’t think revisiting the key points of my editorial in this comments section is going to be productive. However, I will say that, despite my clearly controversal liberal feminist leanings, I am first and foremost a games journalist, and I will continue to report on boobs of all shapes and sizes with a heaving journalistic integrity 😉
Some key points from the boobplate discussion:
Going into battle in your underwear is a silly idea
Bad representation is not better than no representation
It’s hard to find female miniatures that didn’t buy armour from Ann Summers
Can’t we put women in actual clothes
We can choose not to buy a half naked general because she has a cool gun
We don’t want our daughters believing they should prioritise looking good over personal safety under fire
Having read your opinions here they definitely run contrary to the above statements; I think if you truly believed any of the above statements, this model and all of the other lust elves would have you up in arms because they’re basically a sex cult made up entirely of topless women. There’s a definite contradiction between the two articles, although I have to say I am warming more to the Cass who likes the lust Elves than the one who wrote the boobplate article. And here’s the thing, I don’t really like these miniatures, I find the whole sex-cult look to be a little crass and having no place on a battlefield (totally OK with it in RPGs, just not wargames). But you know, I do like boobplate I make no apology for it I don’t want to see it disappear. Neither of is right, neither of us is wrong we just have different preferences, lines drawn in different places about what we find acceptable and when we can and cannot suspend our disbelief. And for what it’s worth, should the opportunity ever arise, I would happily line up my army with boobplated ladies against your army of topless sex elves and would say nothing about your choice of army because there really isn’t any need, I would just enjoy whatever game ensued and hope the dice rolled well. The market really is diverse enough now that you can always find miniatures that you like and you might find them in places you might not have expected.
Also I hope you do continue to report on boobs of all shapes and sizes – even the ones in boobplate.
Considering how huge she is I don’t see her needing to go through airport security or even being able to board air plane.
If she wanted to go through airport security I reckon she could. She could just go through them like they weren’t even there. However she has wings so perhaps if she’s trying to get through airport security, ignoring any considerations about whether she would fit on a commercial passenger aircraft, it also suggests that maybe she’s just lazy.
Shame they didn’t model her cloaca too, I bet that would really inspire some conversation. 😛
I was thinking more along the lines of the lack of mammary armour being their just to, ahem, tittilate straight male wargamers. ?
Maybe it’s a distraction…
So this is basically they take on Morathi from Daughters of Khaine faction then. It’s great looking miniature.
Wow love it.
Stunning looking piece,love it.
I can’t make up my mind which size would suit my army best, so I will just have to get them all methinks.