me_in_japan wrote:I really dont like the way GW have taken the fantasy creatures. All the storm of magic stuff, as well as these cat things and rhinox, look like cartoons, and ugly ones, at that.
job wrote:It looks more like a pre-internal combustion engine, post-apocalyptic biker gang on boar-hunting dog hybrids and half-starved mammoths rather then a "barbarian horde".
You know an OK army usually has about 30 ogre models in it right? Hardly a 'horde'. The infantry and gnoblars will be staying the same and the big things will be one or two per army in the same way as Aracknarok Spiders, Dragons and Hellpit Abominations. Given that they are based on Mongols, who used a lot of cavalry, it makes sense that they get more mounted and mobile units.
I think a lot of it has to do with the painters at GW doing this work. Some of the Storm of Magic Beasties look cool as a model, but the painter has done them in unnatural (as in 'not realistic' as opposed to 'not a real animal') colours which give them that cartoon-y vibe. In a similar way to the plastic minotaurs, I think with the right paint job these things would really come alive. However, I like the colours on the Ogre models above.
My only complaint about the above models is that the cavalry look like they are riding on something strapped to the cat's back rather than actually riding the cat, which is too small for the size of the rider anyway.
Painted Minis in 2014: 510, in 2015: 300, in 2016 :369, in 2019: 417, in 2020: 450
It looks to be a 2 part kit with the Stonehorn above in a similar vein to the new Tomb Kings Necrosphinx kit.
