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Rain Down Lightning With Stormcast Judicators For Age Of Sigmar
July 25, 2015 by brennon
The Judicators are finally here for Age of Sigmar and Games Workshop has once again split the community when it comes to whether or not these units are loved or hated. See what you think of these bow-wielding Stormcast Eternal below and let us know your thoughts...
Bolt From The Blue
The boxed set of Judicators allows you to either make a unit armed with Skybolt Bows or Boltstorm Crossbows. The bow option allows you to fire a little further (twenty four inches) and has a rend value of minus one. The leader of the unit also carries a Shockbolt Bow which, when fired, can split into a hail of lighting bolts (pretty epic) which rains down on the enemy...
...by comparison the Boltstorm Crossbows (how similar a name to something else...) have a shorter range but can fire twice. They also have the added Rapid Fire rule which gives them another attack on top of their normal two for peppering the enemy with lightning energy.
The Thunderbolt Crossbow which is the special weapon within the Crossbow arrangement is used for hunting down monsters. This weapon blasts monsters and if it is able to get below the wounds of whatever creature it hits it will do D3 mortal wounds to it instead.
I was with everyone else when these first popped up online. I thought they looked a bit stupid. Now however after looking at them a bit closer I think they are awesome. The complete switch of aesthetic within Age of Sigmar was jarring at first but viewing it as an entirely different game I've come to love the huge hulking paladins waging war against Chaos on the various planes of reality. Very Diablo...
You can get a hold of the Warscroll for this unit HERE so if you want to try them out on the tabletop before you buy them you can.
Next week should see the Paladins/Retributors for the Stormcast and then Chaos soon after so we shall be waiting with baited breath...
What do you think of the Judicators?
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"The complete switch of aesthetic within Age of Sigmar was jarring at first but viewing it as an entirely different game I've come to love the huge hulking paladins waging war against Chaos on the various planes of reality. Very Diablo..."
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They just look like a 40K faction to me…
No just NO!
Full plate armor and ranged weapons is just a ridiculous combo.
You’re right. These are hilarious, probably the same guy who designed the space Viking santa. How on earth would an archer ever reach an arrow in a quiver on his back? The crossbowmen look like they’re trying to dance with a fat girl.
Yes just YES!
I am liking the ridiculous cosmic look of thee guys – must get my Hawkwind out to listen to again…
I must admit on first impression they look like cupids….(you know the song) lol
some cupids them brings a whole new meaning to the words love hurts?
Amazing that they don’t shoot hammers instead.
In AoS your units can do anything, as long as you dont shave your butt for the game and also flash your opponent with it
Can’t wait to add a unit of these heavy crossbow wielding Stormcast bad-asses, for Sigmar!
I like them.
BTW the scroll States number of models not number of wounds.
I’m still putting mine together but I do like the crossbows. Those will get added.
The “Thunderbolt Crossbow” belongs in 40K.
10 archers priced like a starter box? (Also noteworthy, In sek thats about what youd pay for the AoS box). They need to open a window and let out some of the plastic fumes .. also noticed the continued trend of absolutely no discount on bundles @ the GW website. Tack för kaffet
You do realise that these guys are bigger than Terminators, right? While this does not necessarily justify the price, I think it gives them a bit of context.
I think the models would heve been received more favourable if they had chosen something other than the golden color scheme for all the promo images and box covers (for the whole range of the Stormcast Eternals). While I like it, it is definitely a lot bling, which many people don’t like that much.
The ones armed with crossbows look like an increadibly good point to start an army of true scale Space Marines to me too.
I realize i have the free model from white dwarf and he is not worth noting to be any “bigger” than a terminator save for maybe the help of the middle spike on his helmet.
I am actually pretty ok with the sigmarites, and i like the new Khornates .. Im baffled at the prices they are running with, if in fact they are looking for new warhammer gamers/customers. But maybe thats just crazy talk.
£30 for 5 comical figures? Am I reading that right?
Anor Londo archers…..
I love the Sigmarite models, BUT, I think they all look like high level champions/Lords ect, not line armies. They comment about plate armour and archers is bang on. GW you need to sack what ever idiot has come up with this cap. Yes you’ll get a lot of young players into this briefly, but they won’t stay for long because it’s all too over the top. Where do you go when your pot washer looks like a Lord commander?
They are all champions though :/
Weird how they say the CROSSBOWS are the rapid-firing ones, and the LONGBOWS are the ones with the reload time from hell.
Is that artistic license or just ignorant?
It’s fantasy. 😉
I bet those “crossbows” have some kinda magazine full of bolts.
Don’t ask questions that you already know the answer for 😉
Repeater crossbows are actually a thing I believe. And they have short range.
I’ve seen some crossbowmen unleash half as many bolts as bowman can shoot arrows – which is quite good (I believe it was 8 bolts per minute – and not a repeater crossbow)
Repeater Crossbows were an actual weapon. The Chinese invented them during the Han Dynasty/Three Kingdoms era and they were a short range rapid-fire weapon. In fact it was so good that it was used way up until the Opium War I believe… so a good 2,000 years of use.
Try Googling repeating crossbows and then come back to show who is ignorant.
The cross bows shoot bolts… so they’re bolters. Naturally, what else would you expect fantasy space marines to wield ?
And they are called Boltstorm Crossbows. So remember kids, Space Marines have Stormbolters and Fantasy Marines have Boltstormers! 😉
From what I have read these Siggies are not line troops as I think you might mean…they are kinda space marine elite types from the get go…angels (of sorts) incarnate.
My reaction video for each new AoS release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjfkynJ4hbI
I really like them 🙁 I don’t know why! Damn you GW.
(I know they’re not Warhammer! .. but actually they are quite akin to the last wave of Dwarf releases which seems to have been created with AoS in mind, thus why that release was so out of place….)
Yeah I think you are right. The stormcast armour is supposed to made by the Dwarf smith god and imbued with the souls? of the greatest human heros. I guess they are like a combination of dwarf golem and a 40k thousand son space marine. Fluff wise these massive lightning powered monster men are probably the mortal realms only chance to take the fight to chaos against the OP chaos imbued warriors/demons.
My kids (14 and 9) have really got into this AoS. It counts a lot going forward that they are in at the beginning of a new game (or era). I’ve tried to get them into WHF on several occasions. Three weeks in the mound of unpainted models always pulled them out. Never got a game. Then I found them playing without me……using whatever miniatures were painted up and just rolling dice to hit etc based on how cool the miniature looked and armour it was wearing etc. V similar to what AoS does now in many respects.
Later today we are having game of my 80s dwarfs vrs Island of Blood skaven then a game of Stormcast vrs Battle for skull Pass Goblins.
Fantasy has been resurrected at our house.
It’s great that your kids were playing it, when I was about 9 my Father brought me a Battle Masters – which lead me a few years later to play Warhammer Fantasy (a more mature game) though I never really appreciated the game until adulthood.
But I’m sure you can appreciate how many mature adults don’t want to play a game aimed at 9 year olds :s – I really hope some advanced rules appear. As your kids get older the chances are they’ll what a more mature game too?
It was good fun. There was all kinds of strategies being used. Every unit seemed to have special rules that made a difference especially when combined with the hero characters. Our game seemed very balanced as well ( after we limited selection to 10 warscrolls and 70 wounds and max three characters, monsters/warmachines). Square bases worked well and actually helped get guys crowded into combat.
I think we may try some RPGs soon. Then they can put as much detail into the game as they like. May have a look over the WHF 1 st edition in the shed. I think that was sold as a mass battle rpg……not entirly sure what that means….
While I admire the technical skill that did go in to making them they are not for me
The ritalin depraved 12 year old who comes up with the unit names has outdone himself yet again.
Excellent miniatures! I want!
I’m missing something, are the fantasy models behind the sigmarines, or did I click on the wrong link?
Just realized that while I may not love them as fantasy miniatures, the sit writes would make a gorgeous looking blood bowl team. Might go for many of the new AoS miniatures, as their skirmish nature makes them more dynamic miniatures. New khorne guys would make a great chaos blood bowl team.
I am already bored by all things Stormcast Eternals. Want to see what happens to the other races miniwise.
Isn’t it obvious ….
An arms race will appear to compete with the Not-Space Marines. Resulting in all factions having their own not-space marines…
Well I didnt think they could get worse, but GW proved me wrong again…
Can’t wait for this week, think they are showing some new Chaos mini’s. ANd for all the nay sayers, if you don’t like them and then don’t buy them, use old rules or your mini’s with the new King’s of War Rules. Slagging things off doesn’t get you any where, just makes you look immature.
Im fairly sure thats wrong
Everyone stop what you’re thinking or writing. The god of censorship says these are terrific!
Can you for once be original? Same tiresome comments every GW topic…..
When GW stops making the same tiresome kids’ models at the same tiresome price I’ll stop making the same tiresome comments. I’ve also been known to make positive comments when they release something worthy of them… which is rare these days. All of GW’s good artists have moved on, and are now competing successfully against them.
Makes it sound like you have nominated yourself the GW police @cpauls1
Out of curiosity what do you play and collect these days?
Not at all @warzan . I haven’t trashed a positive comment… just responded to an attack from the “pro” side.
As for what I’m collecting: I’m buying up mini’s right now that can do double duty in a historical or AD&D mass combat fantasy setting. I’ve started collecting Fireforge’s mongols, and I already have a quite a few of the crusaders. Just waiting for the infantry to show up. I’ve also bought up a lot of Hundred Years War Perry miniatures for a human fantasy force, or a historical scrum.
I’ve recently got back into sci-fi, and just bought a bunch of Eisenkern infantry, although I’m not happy with the Nazi helmets. I’m waffling between the Puppets War veteran heads, and the Anvil Industry ones. Doing some mods on dollar store armoured vehicles, for use in a Traveller campaign.
You reactions are always THE same, and GW issues are known now, you talk like you are an crusader against GW, it is becoming obsessive Your reaction about your hobby is much interesting, let people know about other stuff….. 🙂
I’m working on two articles as we speak @kooipah , highlighting some of GW’s better terrain pieces that I’ve incorporated into a larger diorama. I’ve written extensively in the forums on the RPG/mass combat games we play, and may post pics of our next major mash-up so people can see what I’m talking about.
I’m not crusading… just bitter, like many others on here. After waiting a year for a new Empire release, we get this half-assed AoS nonsense instead. I haven’t bought any GW fantasy models released in the last five years, and likely won’t (oops. I stand corrected. Bought the manticore. Nice kit). But I keep hoping they can fluke a proper release, and therefore I always pop in for a look. I’m also hoping someone from GW reads these forums, and will have the stones to do something to placate the ranks of the disgruntled aka their former customers. AoS is a step back IMO, and other companies are leaving them in the dust.
This from the man who told me my opinion was invalid because of my job.
@erastus, read these two books on mythology and western myth structure, Joseph Campbell’s “Hero with a Thousand Faces,” and Vogler’s “The Writer’s Journey”. They are literary staples, and you’ll find both on the shelf of any good Hollywood script writer. They will likely alter your opinion.
Oh so now my invalid opinion is based on ignorance too @cpauls1 ? That seems to be your assumption. If only I’d read the right books I’d agree with you?
I’ve actually read a lot of books on mythology, religion and history. That doesn’t alter my opinion that Tolkien is over rated and it doesn’t alter my opinion of you. You kick up a huge fuss about anyone criticising what you post and accuse them of trying to censor you, while telling me that my opinion is worthless. There’s a word for that … if only I wasn’t an ignorant mathematician who hadn’t read any books, I might be able to think what it was 😉
I haven’t accused you of anything… just trying to be helpful.
WTF is this shit?^^
idd a 40k homage…
i second those that suggest the bonus should be traded between bow and xbow
The bow is good it reminds saint seya but is good
the xbow…. no god please no!
I like the look of the ones with bows.
The others remind me of a space marine tactical squad not sure which 40k edition it was.
4 marines with bolters and one with a missile launcher = 4 sigmarites with crossbows and one with errŕr missile launcher.
I think the problem with these, at least for me, is a basic design error. They are simply all the same. I realise this is somewhat true of the space marines too, but they at least have scouts and terminators, tanks and so on to break up the silhouette monotony. These are all just the same guy, over and over again. And with the masks, there isnt even any facial variation. I think its just a flawed concept from the stat for an entire army.
Having said that, the ones in the starter are nicely moulded, and if its chaos next I will be interested. The chaos models in the big box are, by far, the best they have ever done.
I actually like the look of the models with the bow, might use it as a ballista in a KoW Kingdoms of Men army
thanks for the minus for saying I like a model, ta
I’\m sorry that I had a good laugh at someone minus-ing you for liking something.
Cheers.
cheers buddy
Just don’t see them as fantasy although I do wonder if sigmarines (in general) could make the basis of an “artscale” sanguinary guard much like a terminator does for most artscale Marines…
These are so boring it hurts. Technically very well done of course, but so freaking boring.
Even standard Space Marines are interesting compared to these
Anyone’s who’s shot a bow knows that’s not how it’s done. Like, a little research from the sculptor would have gone a long way!
@thalandor watch a danish bowman on youtube called Andersen, worlds fastest shot; it’s only in the last 100 years people have been firing bows across the draw. Loading and firing on the same side of the as the draw is faster and just as accurate.
Andersen…That guys been debunked by a lot of different sites and people. He’s a trick shot archer and a superb one. But his arrows are shot for speed not power and he makes some pretty huge assumptions based on some works of art combined with a weird bit of slapstick around trying to get an arrow from quiver. Skilled archer and terrible scholar.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, @hollowpointdude , but do you have a reference for that? Other than a youtube video? Seems awkward to me.
I like the Stormcast units released thus far, and the Judicators continue that trend for me personally. Yes they are a little ridiculous if you compare them to any real world soldiery, but that is true of most tabletop minis and especially those from avowedly fantastical settings. To me they look like they have just stepped out of a piece of the more out there heavy metal album cover art, and that strikes me as being very appropriate for Warhammer which has always been a setting that has lent towards self consciously over the top imagery.
A case in point is the Thunderbolt Crossbow – it is of course ludicrously impractical and would never actually see any kind of battlefield use even if something like it could somehow be built, most probably by Leonardo da Vinci on crack. It is all that, and gloriously so, at least from my perspective.
I actually like the Stormcast Eternals because they remind a lot of the models as the High Heavens Angels from Diablo, i wish GW went even more into that direction
Maybe if they were faceless as the ones on the High Heavens rather than does human bronze faces or the skull one.
A little conversion work could readily allow for hooded and faceless Stormcast in a Diablo style. Indeed, Brennon, myself and a few other people are already considering doing Host of the High Heavens themed Stormcast armies with just that type of conversion work in them, though I am not sure how I am going to do Tyrael’s energy tendril wing things.
I have even thought about doing house rules for a Stormcast Archangel that has rules and stats akin to the monsters from other AoS armies, with a fairly large compliment of wounds and its abilities being effected by how many wounds it has remaining.
LIVING TRANSPARENT WORMS!!!!! 😀 Nah i’m joking… i just that i saw today the first two chapters of The Strain and i’m flooded with worms in my brain ( o.o )
There is a lot i can be done and Diablo definetely deserves a miniatures game of some sort… Prodos ? CMoN? Mantic?!?!
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I bought the box game today for AoS. I agree with many that the Sigmar models are not attractive, while being well crafted, though the gaudy paint scheme has a lot to do with it. There are painted examples in background book and recent white dwarfs that are less goldy and look much better. Also, the new Chaos models are quite excellent. The rules are quite good it seems as well.
Contiued harping by folks about price makes no sense. At this point the market is what is. GW is BMW of gaming. Everything they do is going to be the top of market. They always have been. 20 years ago when I started gaming it was 60 for a boxed game. That was a lot to me then. And their game was the most expensive in the hobby store. It would seem like a great deal now, but 20 years have gone by.
Price is what you or the market is willing to pay for it. You can go Rols Royce and price you self out of the mass market, or you go Yogo and swamp the market with cheap s**t. But you really want to be at the BMW, and have a premium yet affordable product.
While I won’t be investing in any of the models above, when they come to the reimagated Orcs I pay attention – or the Elfs. But then again even before the End Times and AoS my interest had moved on, which I guess is why I don’t feel as bitter as some whom have invested 1000s of hours and pounds in their warhammer fantasy projects.
I wish AoS all the succes in the world, as a community we will be worse off if it fail and the biggest most recognised recruiting platform in the UK where only pushing 40K. Out side of the UK, the issue would be less as there are fewer GW stores any way.
I’m personally not that certain that GW will be successful with their reimagination of WHFB. Just look at GW historically and how they’ve squandered and lost great game systems. They’ve only managed to keep 40k rolling because they succeeded with space marines. If that single factions popularity dwindles then even 40k would be in danger. No, considering how GW is inept at keeping their games (all except 40K by now…) alive and supported I don’t feel confident in them at all. And for the record, I have never played WHFB and quite 40k many years ago. Today I play other games and I’m happy with my miniature games situation. But man, I sure do miss Epic still.
Sigmarites remind me of the old Firstborn minis from Chronopia
I like the stormcast releases to date, these included – they’ve actually got my fantasy juices flowing again
I think they look better than space marines. I’d field them as blood angels if I had the cash.
Hey! Didn’t I run into you guys in Dark Souls!?
This might have to be scooped up in the future for my Kingdom Death campaigns.
anor londo?
Been knocked off that walkway more times than I care to recall. lol!
Oh man…the memories from Anor Londo just came back…*cries in a corner*
why?