ManicMan
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after seeing it in the shop and deciding, for the price i could use some scrap from it, I picked up the latest of the GW 'part-works' magazines.. £2.99 for 3 plastic figures with 6 d6s and stuff.. fair enough for painting practice and scrap..
Models... i can't say i think much of.. this is for .. erm.. 'Warhammer: Age of Sigmar- Stormbringer".. personally, i would expect high elves... what with the whole High Elfs and the Stealer of Souls, the black blade 'Stormbringer' but.. nope.. the sculpts are.. unimpressive but some bits like some fancy base stuff is useful and it's good that it comes with altarntive parts so that's good.. the 'human' one.. i guess with a new head might be useable but.. mostly for practice and some scrap parts..
Doesn't seam to advertise the fact but comes with a double sided thin card battle map.. maybe thick paper.. one side a fairly dull desert scene, the other kinda swampy with a bunch of circle.. makes that less useable but fair enough.
intresting double sided 'foldout' which is the army list in a way. gives you a list of the figures, a picture to ID them, and you can do stuff like name them, and tick boxe to say if you have them build/painted/ played with. The two armies appear to be 'The forces of Order' which seam to be.. erm.. humans with wind magic, wood elfs/Ents, and dwarfs.. with the 'Forces of Destruction' being.. Orcs and Goblins.
or more.. that is what i would say they were.. the Forces of Order cut themselves up into 'stormcast eternals', mighty warriors who were snatched at the moment of their death and infused with storm powers by Sigmar.. 'Sylvaneth' which are ancient guardians of the woods are mostly seam like wood elves if they bred with trees.. and 'Kharadron overlords' which.. despite the name, are cyborg tech air trading dwarfs.. kinda weird but might sit okay more as Squats.. I mean, one dwarf has a flamer, a binoic eye and his beard is made of brass pipes? what the hell is this?
The Destruction side.. mm 'Krruleboyz' which arer nasty more pig-ish 'Orrruks' but also some.. 'Hobgrots' cause.. goblins are now grots.. ehuh.. 'Ironjaws' which.. are pretty much the same but a bit more orc like and 'Gloomsprite Gitz' which... are just night goblins.. complete with ball and chain fanatics 'Loonsmasha fanatics' and Squigs..
some advert rubbish with a very bland poster.. and really bad photo composite jobs.. the magazine... mm.. less content, more fancy images then i would like. but that seams to be a modern style. the art isn't good but i kinda like it that the mascot character is female.. don't get that alot in western miniature gaming. how to put together the models is fair enough, the how to paint guide is.. very bad.. I've got some old citadel ones which give FAR more information and use in one page then this does (though to it's credit it does say this is only part one of the guide (it is a part work).. Base coat, Shade, and Highlight.. I simple enough guide to playing your first games which is.. one on one battle with two of the three miniatures you get. it.. seams to say my issue is missing stuff? saying the back cover of this issue has some cut out wound markers (not even old card sheets with pop out stuff).. but my back cover is just a advert for subscripting and saying what come in issues 2 and 3 (10 'gutrippaz' for issue 2, 5 'vindicators' with issue 3).
fiction?... not much, mostly dull pictures.. though now, like said, orcs are orrruks, goblins are 'grots'.. OH and if you get the 'Premium subscripion, you get 4 preimum sets with figures you can use but not in the armie in this set.. including .. river trolls which are now 'Rockgut Troggoths', some weird dragon, and 'orrruk' on some large beast. an airship and some guys on small hotair metal balloons...
So.. for the £2.99 'first issue' price?... the female 'Knight-Arcanum' might be useable with a new head (she comes with two, with and without helmet), the fancy base bit might have some use.. the 'Killaboss' and 'Stab-grot'... well.. the goblin might be okay with some work.. the orc isn't taht good.. base might be okay for something though.. 6 small D6s always come in use.
despite the 'army' side.. seams like a skirmish game.
Not too much use here but.. felt since i picked this up, doing a nice little review thing might be of use to someone.
Models... i can't say i think much of.. this is for .. erm.. 'Warhammer: Age of Sigmar- Stormbringer".. personally, i would expect high elves... what with the whole High Elfs and the Stealer of Souls, the black blade 'Stormbringer' but.. nope.. the sculpts are.. unimpressive but some bits like some fancy base stuff is useful and it's good that it comes with altarntive parts so that's good.. the 'human' one.. i guess with a new head might be useable but.. mostly for practice and some scrap parts..
Doesn't seam to advertise the fact but comes with a double sided thin card battle map.. maybe thick paper.. one side a fairly dull desert scene, the other kinda swampy with a bunch of circle.. makes that less useable but fair enough.
intresting double sided 'foldout' which is the army list in a way. gives you a list of the figures, a picture to ID them, and you can do stuff like name them, and tick boxe to say if you have them build/painted/ played with. The two armies appear to be 'The forces of Order' which seam to be.. erm.. humans with wind magic, wood elfs/Ents, and dwarfs.. with the 'Forces of Destruction' being.. Orcs and Goblins.
or more.. that is what i would say they were.. the Forces of Order cut themselves up into 'stormcast eternals', mighty warriors who were snatched at the moment of their death and infused with storm powers by Sigmar.. 'Sylvaneth' which are ancient guardians of the woods are mostly seam like wood elves if they bred with trees.. and 'Kharadron overlords' which.. despite the name, are cyborg tech air trading dwarfs.. kinda weird but might sit okay more as Squats.. I mean, one dwarf has a flamer, a binoic eye and his beard is made of brass pipes? what the hell is this?
The Destruction side.. mm 'Krruleboyz' which arer nasty more pig-ish 'Orrruks' but also some.. 'Hobgrots' cause.. goblins are now grots.. ehuh.. 'Ironjaws' which.. are pretty much the same but a bit more orc like and 'Gloomsprite Gitz' which... are just night goblins.. complete with ball and chain fanatics 'Loonsmasha fanatics' and Squigs..
some advert rubbish with a very bland poster.. and really bad photo composite jobs.. the magazine... mm.. less content, more fancy images then i would like. but that seams to be a modern style. the art isn't good but i kinda like it that the mascot character is female.. don't get that alot in western miniature gaming. how to put together the models is fair enough, the how to paint guide is.. very bad.. I've got some old citadel ones which give FAR more information and use in one page then this does (though to it's credit it does say this is only part one of the guide (it is a part work).. Base coat, Shade, and Highlight.. I simple enough guide to playing your first games which is.. one on one battle with two of the three miniatures you get. it.. seams to say my issue is missing stuff? saying the back cover of this issue has some cut out wound markers (not even old card sheets with pop out stuff).. but my back cover is just a advert for subscripting and saying what come in issues 2 and 3 (10 'gutrippaz' for issue 2, 5 'vindicators' with issue 3).
fiction?... not much, mostly dull pictures.. though now, like said, orcs are orrruks, goblins are 'grots'.. OH and if you get the 'Premium subscripion, you get 4 preimum sets with figures you can use but not in the armie in this set.. including .. river trolls which are now 'Rockgut Troggoths', some weird dragon, and 'orrruk' on some large beast. an airship and some guys on small hotair metal balloons...
So.. for the £2.99 'first issue' price?... the female 'Knight-Arcanum' might be useable with a new head (she comes with two, with and without helmet), the fancy base bit might have some use.. the 'Killaboss' and 'Stab-grot'... well.. the goblin might be okay with some work.. the orc isn't taht good.. base might be okay for something though.. 6 small D6s always come in use.
despite the 'army' side.. seams like a skirmish game.
Not too much use here but.. felt since i picked this up, doing a nice little review thing might be of use to someone.
