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Join The Age Of Sigmar Stormcast Heraldor & Vexillor In Battle
September 12, 2015 by brennon
There are only two big releases for Age of Sigmar this week by Games Workshop. The first of these is the Knight-Heraldor and the second the Knight-Vexillor each of whom bring a new set of abilities to the battlefield for the Stormcast Eternals.
Knight-Heraldor
Effectively what you would have called a musician in the old days of Warhammer Fantasy the Heraldor will be tooting his own horn across the battlefield and giving out some buffs and debuffs to those other Stormcast around him.
He has abilities like Onwards to Glory where he can inspire your other units to charge during a turn even if they have ran or retreated earlier. This is pretty powerful. His other ability is to shake the foundations of terrain where the Thunderblast causes D3 wounds to units within a certain distance of said terrain.
You can find out more about these abilities and his statistics on his Warscroll which you can download for free HERE.
Knight-Vexillor
The Knight-Vexillor fulfils the role that would most likely be that of a standard bearer in Warhammer Fantasy. He has a rather large icon that he hefts into battle which I think looks a little silly. It might have been nice to see this as a proper banner compared to this icon design we see here so I would choose that option.
The Vexillor can either, when in battle, use the icon to summon down a meteor from the sky to crash into the battlefield or move units around using hurricane storms. This ability picks up a unit and moves them around the battlefield then hurts enemies when they eventually land.
You can find out more about how it works HERE via his Warscroll.
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The hurricane storm effects enemy units not friendly
You are indeed right – tweaked that.
Classic foot-on-rock poses.
I didn’t think one could be less original after the rank and file ones… I was wrong. Character with foot on rock syndrome, plus banner or musical instrument, in the exact same armor as before with little to no individual variation.
The names even imply what they are : non-specific. “Heraldor” is a herald, and “Vexilor” is a standard bearer (the vexillus was the standard of the roman legions). Just like in Masters of the Universe, by the way.
And they’re at over 15 pounds a piece… That means you’ll pay over 50 pounds for those two plus another “named” hero, a unit add-on set that would have been sold in a single package for far less than that. As it is, the whole “chamber command” package of named characters is 126 pounds as a bundle on the GW site.
I liked the winged ones, to be sure, but just can’t support that kind of pricing given the largely average quality and lackluster originality of the figures…
Average and lackluster sums up my feelings on the Sigmarines.
What are they thinking with their pricing … too highly of themselves is my spontane guess. Time to wake up before this tanks hard?
FINALLY! So glad these have come out. For one it means no more Sigmarites (wallet could use a break), and two, they get some much needed support on the table. As for all this “unoriginal” talk… for crying out loud. Since when is a banner bearer or musician so radically different from the rest of the troops? These at least have things that mark them out as unique compared to similar troop types.
I like these models. They look suitable to their role and stand out nicely from the crowd. Notice that the Heraldor has the bottom part of his death mask bare so he can actually blow the horn. These are suitably comic book in style, true they aren’t “gritty” or “realistic” but I have other games for that.
As for pricing, well damn. You know what, I’m from Australia, and the prices here are ridiculous, but I still like’em. Honestly, the pricing isn’t so far off what a lot of other companies are asking for similar sized figure, I’m looking at privateer and Malifaux, both of which I play. Are there cheaper options yes, and frankly the way historicals are priced I wish it would translate into GW pricing but it doesn’t.
I’ve got to say I’m enjoying the more comic book /Scandinavian vibe of the lore (I’m thinking Marvels Thor universe such as seen in Thor II). I would, however, be keen to see more of the other races that have gone into hiding. There is only so much you can get out of Stormcast Vs Chaos. Elves in particular would be really interesting. I don’t imagine orks and dwarves changing too much, but human realms would be cool! I’m interested to see where they go with it all.
Agree, love these and don’t understand what people want them all to look different, it is a uniformed army they are supposed to look the similar, just like real armies.
I totally agree. The sigmarites look good to me, and are a blast to build and paint.
And how wonderfull it is to read something positive for a change. , and you the usual GW hate drivel.
Is it me or is the left hand of the Standard Bearer a Powerfist? I suppose Sigmarines can only go more… marine. 😉
Still not even close to tempted to spend my hard earned.
Maybe when new Dwarves or Orcs come out
Not even close. Spent a year waiting for a Bretonnian/Empire release, and got this scheit instead. Super disappointed. Just means I’ll be spending more money at Gamezone… metal cav that looks better than GW’s anyway, and for 10 euros a throw. Yes, please. Kinda puts it all in perspective for me.
Again, lots of groceries in the Age of Sigmar. Next faction, please.
The knight vexillor looks like he’s holding something else than a flag pole…
I thought he looked a bit ‘deformed.’ Now that I look at his proportions, that’s not the only thing wrong with him. His ass looks to be directly beneath his shoulder blades. Must have had it kicked hard in his previous incarnation 🙂 .
They can edit their sculpts in 3d before releasing them as models, and thats still what they went for. Good call GW. The flag bearer struck me as having very long legs as well. Even for heroic scale the proportions are waaay off.
I like these minis. Are they over the top? Undeniably, but AoS has, from the off, had a heavy metal album cover sensibility to it that I don’t think is accidental. These models, and this setting, are intended to convey a sense of mythology, of an extreme universe of gods and monsters where the gods are pretty much what they say on the tin. Not everyone will like that, naturally, but that doesn’t mean that no thought went into the decision to go in this direction. After all, what would the heralds and standard bearers of an actual god look like in the setting as described? Subtly and self-effacement would not seem likely to be high on their list of virtues.
Like @airborne, I definitely get the sense that Nordic (and to a lesser degree ancient Greek and some elements of Judaeo-Christian) mythology is extensively a play within AoS at least with regard to the Stormcast (the ‘God-King’ Sigmar has a strong flavour of the All Father Odin to him, casting the Celestent-Prime in the role of Thor), with the recent Marcel cinematic universe treatment of those characters also serving as an influence, and that will inevitably encourage a certain kind of artistic and modelling style.
For those who don’t like that kind of approach, there may be more bad news on the horizon; whenever Nagash is referenced in the AoS lore, it is almost always mentioned that he usurped the roles of the various gods of the dead from different cultures and is now ruler of all the Underworlds, casting him in the mould of classical death gods like Hades from the Greek pantheon or the goddess Hel from Nordic mythology. When the Undead for the AoS era are rolled out, I think it likely that we will see influences from the mythology of those cultures alongside the classic Undead from Warhammer lore that tend to have more of a central or eastern European feel (not that this will be terribly burdensome – something like a Draugr is basically a somewhat more powerful form of Wight/Revenant in any case).
Nice minis, but not worth the price if you ask me. If they were a fiver each then I’d be really tempted to pick them up; I would really like to pick up the Sigmarines to do a true-scale pre-Heresy Thousand Sons army and these guys would be nice to add some character to it, but at these prices (and the prices of the other Sigmarines) I don’t consider it feasible so it’s extremely unlikely that I’ll take the plunge and start such a project unless I find them for cheap on eBay (and even then it’s unlikely unless they’re unbuilt) :/
But as nice as they are, it would be nice to see some of the other factions get some love – constant Sigmarine releases are getting a bit stale :/
I hope that finally these Sigmarite releases are at an end, I really have had enough of these incredibly repetitive models and their absurd pricing. Aos really was an opportunity for GW do do something new. What we have is expensive fantasy space marines, with a pricing structure that even the most hardened supporter of GW would surely wince at.
These new models just don’t do it for me I was on the fence about age of sigmar. But for these two models the price is on par with other company’s starter sets or army boxes. I just cant justify it to myself.
Now days there are just too many better games out there to spend my gaming time and money on.
More medicore new models for AoS.
No. Just no.
Wait a minute… isn’t the Sigmarites supposed to be disembodied spirits animating suits of armour? How then does that hornblower get to have a face beneath his mask?
or are they actually Robocops?
To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing in the fluff that suggests that the Stormcast Eternals are disembodied suits of animated armour in the style of the Thousand Sons. It is explicitly stated that beneath their armour they are still flesh and blood, but imbued with so much celestial magic that there are as much creatures of celestial energy as corporeal beings. As a result, a Stormcast still has a physical body, and if cut will still bleed, but when they are killed their bodies transmute into celestial energy and return to Azyr to be ‘reforged’ (essentially reincarnated). This form of immotality is not without cost, since each time a Stormcast is reforged they lose a little bit more of their former humanity and individual identity – a little bit more of who they are – becoming, in the words of the fluff, ever more ‘both more and less than human’.
So, a Stormcast still has a body – including lungs, a face, and the ability to sound a horn. The masks are symbolic as much as they are wargear, representing the Stormcast sacrificing their former individual identity in order to become Sigmar’s chosen warriors so that they can be granted the strength to defend the Mortal Realms and their inhabitants. In that way at least, they share an element of the pathos of their core imagery with the Astartes – the idea of the price of the power to defend the human race being alienation from one’s own personal humanity. No Astartes ever gets to retire, to found a family or otherwise have a normal life. Their functionally immortal lives will continue as an endless hell of war and training for future wars until they are finally killed in battle. The Stormcast takes this notion a step further, since for them death is not the end – they return after death for lifetime after lifetime of unremitting warfare, with each death stealing a bit more of who they are until they are little more than flesh golems sheathed in Sigmarite.
It is all rather dark stuff if you look at it closely.
I am looking forward to models with faces with AoS. It helps with character, these are a bit too robotic for me.
and i’m out, is that a trumpet or a sound horn he is holding?
I think it’s an oversized hearing aid…
damn you beat me into it @zorg
The Vexillor looks like he’s trying to pole dance…
But he’s wearing way too much clothing for that, we can’t even see his sexeh ankle!? 🙁
Adds to the mystery i guess 😉
I think the Heraldor is downing a yard of ale!
I think they suit the faction well. Nice models. Think it’s a great faction that was very much needed to counter the OP chaos guys.
I also will not be buying any sigmarites outside of the starter set. I’m loving AoS as a vibrant dynamic game but the prices are beyond me.
Another coherent unit for the Stormcast army. Keep in mind they are from “heaven” so they must look a like 🙂
As for the guy with the trumpet. He reminds me of the granny from Alo!Alo! with this thing she used for listening. Maybe that’s what the trumpet is actually for?
I have to say that I was one of those guys who were really looking forward the new Warhammer AoS. First few weeks were really cool, but then, it became ALL about Sigmarine and Khorne guys. The fluff tells us about other races, but so far apart from some repack, NOTHING but an endless amount of clones in golden armor with different weapons!
Result: I left AoS as fast as I got into it. I’ll come back when they start expending a bit the game.
So far, great start, but boring follow up…. Maybe I became too peaky…
This is the 1st GW Game I’ve ever bought into, and I am just loving the models. I don’t know if this has anything to do with my decision to up my painting game, and these models are my chance to do it, but They really got me to pull the trigger and buy into Warhammer.