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Contents of ISLAND OF BLOOD
Topic Started: 16th July 2010 - 01:53 PM (2,439 Views)
chiaroscuros
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Over on Dakka dakka, there are rumored sightings of the contents of the new starter set.

"GW stores now are now receiving their display sprues from Island Of Blood. Customers in my local GW store were assisting in assembling the models today. They look absolutely terrific. I've seen Swordmasters and the Griffin assembled. Great detail, poses, etc. The Skaven stuff looked good on the sprue. As rumored, 2 Rat Ogres and a Warp Fire Thrower among all the great smaller stuff."

and

"check out the burning rat on the 'thrower"

and

"Got ahold of the minis today for Island of Blood. Skaven are amazing, High Elves pretty good. Chieftain in the style of Queek, but with a back banner and halberd. 40 Clanrats, Warpfire Thrower (complete with burning rat), Posion Wind Mortar (meh, was disappointed by this, not much detail on the mortar itself), Chieftan, Warlock Engineer, 2 Rat Ogres (tiny heads) and a Pack Master.

On the High Elf side it was a Prince on a Griffon (on a flying stand, really, really, really, ugly. It was stretched out like the Dragon is though, in a "flying motion"), 5 very nice Elerian Reavers (fantastic champion in this unit), 10 Sword Masters (pretty sure they were all unique models- same pose/different style armor and whatnots), and 10 Sea Guard.

That's all I saw, and was told it's going to be $90. I'm getting 2 for my Skaven, unfortunately all the Clanrats have shields sculpted on."

and

"Clanrats are armed with hand weapons"

and

"And no slaves for the skavens? :( "


Darn shame if there are no slaves in there....
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Dingareth
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I'm the 3rd quote there, currently waiting for my Rat Ogre's bases to finish drying before going on to prime them :)

Be jealous.

But as far as I've seen, there are no Slaves or Globadiers with what I have been sent. The infantry I have are 40 rats, all with shields, 20 with hand weapons, and 20 with spears. So I guess they can still be Slaves, it's just all in the painting, as the models are almost indistinguishable from normal multi-part Clanrats.
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Swissdictator
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How easy are the clanrars to convert? Specifically, using the old 6E arms with spears, how easy would it be to cut off their arms (or hands) and give them arms (or hands) with spears?

Could we possibly get a picture?
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Spaco
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How'd you have the good fortune of coming by these models, by chance? B)


It's very possible that the slaves and globadiers are in the final box but aren't in this round of samples, so let's not lose hope just yet.

Are the shields able to be removed?

Any complaints?

Also, pretty please pics. :lol:
"Little did they know that the cannons and mortars, the bolt pallisades and chain launchers would not save them against their closest foe."
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For Trade:
New, Unassembled Queek Headtaker model
~7 plastic Plastic Plague Monks, unassembled
Plastic IoB Warlord on sprue
Looking for:
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Plastic Stormvermin models, tails, & halberds
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blader4411
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Bah, my GW Manager didn't show us the models :P
Sounds good, though I'm not liking what I've heard about the Griffon so far :(
And I doubt that there is anything that hasn't been shown, as the guy in my local GW definitely said he received all the models which are going to be in the boxed set.

-Blader
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Bobtailmaneater
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Really hoping that the slaves somehow got put on a separate sprue and just got left out. We really need these!

Looks like I will be putting the WFTs and PWM on eBay - I have more than enough of those already. Tiny heads on the Rat Ogres? Hmmmm...boy would I love to see some photos...
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Spaco
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Seems odd though, as I thought they were shooting for "Over 100 models" like they usually like to advertise, but they will fall short without the slaves and PWGs. I was most excited about bulk cheap slaves being available, so I'm hoping this isn't true.
"Little did they know that the cannons and mortars, the bolt pallisades and chain launchers would not save them against their closest foe."
Voice of the Council, American Timezone during SoC

My Eshin Army Diary


For Trade:
New, Unassembled Queek Headtaker model
~7 plastic Plastic Plague Monks, unassembled
Plastic IoB Warlord on sprue
Looking for:
Gutter Runners
Assassins
Plastic Stormvermin models, tails, & halberds
New clanrats
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Rhellion
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Dingareth
Jul 16 2010, 09:26 AM
I'm the 3rd quote there, currently waiting for my Rat Ogre's bases to finish drying before going on to prime them :)

Be jealous.

But as far as I've seen, there are no Slaves or Globadiers with what I have been sent. The infantry I have are 40 rats, all with shields, 20 with hand weapons, and 20 with spears. So I guess they can still be Slaves, it's just all in the painting, as the models are almost indistinguishable from normal multi-part Clanrats.

Take a pic with your phone?
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spino
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Pics of the new Skaven figures from the starter set are up!

Rat Ogres. Great stuff... except for the one with the laughably tiny head... WTF?!?

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Warpfire Thrower & Poisoned Wind Mortar. WFT looks ok, PWM looks pretty good!
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Clanrats. Look pretty much the same as the current CR models. In fact other than the shields which are reportedly molded onto the models these CRs look identical to the current ones, even down to the arm w/weapon that you need to glue on.

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That Li'l Rat
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Rat Ogres are awesome....

I really like everything else, but the Rat Ogres as still the best.
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piperider361
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Ive seen then at my local.

I'm not too thrilled, for my tastes.

First, no slaves. Only the clanrats. The shields are molded on, which is 1 strike against using them as slaves. Also, the bodies are the armored variety. And half come with spears. So they don't make great slaves, and I have plenty of clanrats.

The rat ogres and too drastically different from the current ones to mix for my taste. And being only two that you can't really customize, you can't make units of just those two models...Maybe use them as master breds?

The positives...

The packmaster is nice. It would actually make a really nice tunneling team as well.

The warlord is good, and being plastic, will be the base of many conversions. And the plastic warlock is decent. The plastic weapon teams are OK I suppose. I personally prefer the current WFT.
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Swissdictator
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Spino: Thank you very much for posting!

That makes me very optimistic, as I want to make sure they have spears. Plus, can't you use the old spear arms (IE 6E era rats) just as well? If not, getting the bits won't be that hard. Might have to get a couple starters worth of Skaven (and a box of clanrats) to phase the new style in as clanrats and the old as slaves!

Mutate: Is it 40 or 60 clanrats?
Twisted, evil, treacherous, and diabolical rats wielding arcane technologies that are dangerous to foe and friend, that care not for their kin and are constantly plotting against each other. What more need I say about what makes Skaven cool?

My Skaven Blog Updated November 29, 2009. 7:57 PM (-6 GMT)

Have spare little rats from the old clanrats, current plague monks, corpse cart, or individual rats from the doom wheel? PM me. I want them. 30 more needed.
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piperider361
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Its 40. They are not 100% identical in the way they are assembled in that they starter set kits are snap together. If you wanted to attach spear arms from another box, you might have to drill out some sockets.

As a side note, quite a few rumors pointed towards this set having some globadiers and slaves as well which did not turn out to be the case. Don't suppose theres any chance these preview copies that everyone has seen (myself included) are missing a sprue? I mean, the points value is pretty horribly lopsided as is....
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Swissdictator
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I don't see why not, that way people are not snatching up some lucrative figures that way. Plus it keeps some level of anticipation.

I'm hoping they did hold back on one, not to just get more figures... but because plastic globadiers would be freaking awesome!

Plus if the slaves look similar enough to the clanrats, it might not be hard to convert them into more clanrats. Ok, that point is entirely about more figures.
Twisted, evil, treacherous, and diabolical rats wielding arcane technologies that are dangerous to foe and friend, that care not for their kin and are constantly plotting against each other. What more need I say about what makes Skaven cool?

My Skaven Blog Updated November 29, 2009. 7:57 PM (-6 GMT)

Have spare little rats from the old clanrats, current plague monks, corpse cart, or individual rats from the doom wheel? PM me. I want them. 30 more needed.
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Patchy
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God damn them rat ogres look freaken awesome!
I hope there is a second wave release for skaven so we get a new rat ogre box because as said they wont mix very well with our current ones. unless using them as champion models...
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