Well, this week there are no actual rumors for AoS, aside the ever persistent Stampunk Dwarfs release, so today I'm just gonna share two things with you:
First, How to paint Beastclaw Raiders - Thundertusk
Warhammer TV always have great tutorials, and this one is no exception, not only Duncan shows us how to paint white fur, but it also shows you good tips for painting tusks and leather, which are always welcomed.
Then, this week GW released the five new Start Collecting! boxes of which I posted the last week, and I'll do some pesky math for you, so you can see the savings from them.
- Stormcast Eternals: or Lighting' Ladz, this guys are the reason for why I didn't did the estimates last week, do the Liberators (base Sigmarines) are the new push-fit models? no, they aren't, they are from the 5 man boxes already on stores, so you can equip them with two weapons or a two handed weapon, either swords or hammers, yet the Retributors (bigger Sigmarines) are indeed the ones from the new Easy to Build sprue.
This box saves you 45 pounds, 90% of its actual price, which is the highest savings from a single SC! box of AoS at this moment.
- Sylvaneth, the new expanded army that its still selling well, gives you a 52% discount; the Treelord and Branchwych already costs 51 pounds, and get a Dryad box for free, pretty good.
- Khorne Bloodbounds: You get half of the Skullcrushers box and the new Slaughterpriest at 48 pounds, and the 10 Blood Warriors costs 37.50, you save 35.50 pounds, 71% in savings.
- Flesh-Eater Courts: You get half of the Ghouls box (12.5 pounds), a full Crypt monster box (29) and a giant, flying zombie monster (36). You save 27.5 pounds, saving 55% .
Now, we can compare it to the King Vlagorescu's Ghoulish Host, the bundle already launched with the re-release of the models that now forms the faction: a Terrorgheist/Dragon Zombie, 20 Crypt Ghouls, 6 Crypt Horrors and 3 Crypt Flayers (same box anyway) and a Varghulf Courtier: it should costs costs 170.5 pounds, but the bundle costs 135; you save 35.5 pounds, 26.29% in savings.
The choice between this boxes and how many of them buy is quite significant. Should you want one of each configuration of the Crypt monsters and giant zombies (both of them have 5), you are better up buying 5 SC! boxes: you will get a massive horde of 50 Ghouls, 15 Crypt monsters and 5 giant zombies, meanwhile if you buy two Ghoulish Hosts boxes, you will get 40 Ghouls, 12 Crypt monsters, 2 giants zombies and 2 Varghulfs, costing you 270 pounds, 20 more than 5 SC! boxes.
- Ironjawz: this is almost the only way you will buy Gore-gruntas at a reasonable price. They costs 48 pounds, quite overpriced, yet you get an Warchanter, costing 18.50 alone, and 10 'Ardboys (the separate box actually comes with 15 at 32) at 21.33. You save up to 37.83 pounds, an having a nice total of 75.66666667%.
And even while is not out of pre-orders until this August 6th, I'd like to check the new Beastclaw Raiders' Icewind Assault box: this box contains two Stonehorn/Thundertusk boses (36 pounds each), a 4-man Mournfang Pack (which now comes in packages of 4 instead of two at 40 GBP), one Icebrow Hunter (22.50), three Icefall Yhetees (30, used to be 31.50) and four Frost Sabres (two boxes, each at 10).
This bundle costs 135 pounds, while buying the models separately costs 184.5 pounds, saving you 49.5 pounds, almost enough to afford a Start Collecting! box. That's great, yet, shoul dyou buy it now? maybe, but seeing what happened to the Ghoulsh Hosts, you might consider to wait until November or December, just in case that there is a new Start Collecting! Beastclaw Raiders on the way. Yet, this box is quite good, personally I see it even better than the Flesh-Eater Courts one; it has more diverse models, and you always have massive beasts as your front line: there is only one of those in the other box (Crypt monster and Varghulfs are medium sized for me), and that's why I'd preffer to buy multiple Flesh-Eater Courts rather than two Ghoulish Hosts.
Just before end this post, I'd like to point out the cavalry since we've got the reboxing: Chaos Horsemen Marauders and Knights are currently on boxes of 10, instead 5 like it was on WHFB, Skullcrushers are now in packages of 6 instead 3, and althought I can't remember their prices before, they are now at 60 pounds, each one costing 10, and I'm quite sure that the box used to cost between 40 and 50, then we've got the Savage Orcs/Bonesplitterz, they got their unit models doubled too, and its prices increased at least 30%. And now, Mourfangs comes in boxes of 4 instead 2, and even while the box now costs 40 pounds, the models themselves are actually 1.5 pounds more cheap. It's good to see that GW is finally decreasing the prices of their older models, hopefully we'll see the Demigryphs getting the same treatment in some time.
If there are any news related to AoS, I will come to share them with you as soon as I can. Have a great one!
