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Warhammer End Times! The Skaven Are Up Next!
December 26, 2014 by brennon
The Warhammer End Times are hotting up at the beginning of the new year with the Skaven being next up from Games Workshop. With that in mind some new images of the Vermin Lord have appeared and while we can't show you them we'll have a chat about them and discuss the actual rules!
Much like the old Vermin Lord the new one (in plastic one assumes) is holding a rather large glaive like weapon although this one is now double ended more like a voulge. In his other hand he's clutching an orb. Standing atop his own weapon the new Vermin Lord looks a lot more lithe than his predecessors and that's echoed by his curled horns and whipping tail drawn around him at the base of the miniature.
It's certainly a monstrous beast and it's weapon is very much like the Forge World one you can see above, just more dainty (if dainty is the right word). Now let's have a chat about some of the rules...
- The Vermin Lord is a Level 4 Wizard
- He counts as a Demon with his magical attacks and 5+ Ward Save
- He is 'Wrapped in Shadow' meaning there is a -1 modifier to shooting him
- One of his weapons has both armour piercing and poisoned attacks while he also has a thrown weapon (probably the globe) that does the same. There is also another special rule that means he does a number of attacks equal to the models in the front rank he is fighting.
Away from that this is just one of five versions of The Vermin Lord that can be built from the plastic kit according to the rumours. It will be very interesting to see how this all works out on the tabletop and I know there are quite a few Skaven fans who will be excited by this news.
After the damp squib of new releases for Khaine I'm glad the Skaven are getting themselves something big and nasty!
What do you think to it so far?
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That’s interesting. I have high hopes for new Vermin Lord model.
The pics of it that are out there looks amazing. And there is apparently 5 different build options/types of vermin lord. One for each of the clans.
And it is the height of Nagash, so really big.
There will be an ascended Thanquol riding bonerippee model and a unit of armored rat ogres too.
Cant wait to see them, skaven are amazingly entertaining.
sorry if i get you in trouble by posting the pics on your facebook page guys, i see that they are removed.
More evidence that GW really hates Elves of any denomination.
@watercolours – Using Khaine magic rules, EVERY big block of End Times elves can have a 3+ Ward Save using the over powered High Elf lore attribute. Google search the SkavenAZ battle report against the combined Elves list. If that’s not GW love, I don’t know what is. As a Skaven player, I can say that the rules for this Vermin Lord are supremely Meh. He loses in EVERY category to EVERY other monstrous End Times character that’s been released so far. No armor, no multiple wounds with his weapon, no negative modifiers to hit him in combat. A unit… Read more »
It’s not about rules: no new models with the book (one and only case of that so far) and the merging of the three races is the most idiotic thing in the history of Warhammer. Throwing thirty years of background in the trash means only “We just want to reduce our range and this is the race we don’t care about”.
Everything else is just to sugar the pill a little bit, it can be of someinterest to tournament players, but to anyone who plays for the love of the background means absolutely nothing
yes cause having pictures leaked will sell less stuff
I think the appropriate response for an excited Skaven fan (such as myself) is *squee*
The image on the front of the White Dwarf mag is horrendous, doesn’t look like it should be in a skaven army and more of a slaanesh one.
Horns/spikes are obviously the new skulls. Why all the horns on the head??? The old classic is much better.
Will have to see the other builds is can make.
Dang I cant find the bloody beast on the interwebs 🙁
OK I just found it and it has loads of horns. That being the magic version Warpseer its rather cool looking. Like to see the other 4 versions that it mentions in the description. Wonder how they will get around the foot on glave if the weapon changes.
It now makes sense why there was no real new models for the WE if they joined with the others they got all theeir big models. But anyway the leaked pics of the vermin lord look interesting shame you can only make one from the kit everyone is going to have a huge pile of spares