am i the only one who seems to be a bit miffed that the price for ten of these guys is $22. that means i am spending $44 for a regiment of twenty.... when the last ones were $35. i just dont get GW\'s prices sometimes. at times they hit it right on and other times they jack em\' up.
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I think it is a little odd it bothers me, its weird, but it just does.
And I personally don\'t see skeletons talking, they just see them being silent autonomous beings completely under the will of the vampire, and the horn just seems to ruin that for me. I think having a drum would be much more intimidating, to have it beating in time to the skeletons foot steps.
Just my thoughts, strange as they are.
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demonherald
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but they played bagpipes and pipes in Army of darkness.....
As for the price Uber it is steepish but I guess the overheads come into play I mean the machines to cut one sprue cost over £100 000 each that\'s just the machine that cuts the mould then there\'s the CAD design machines , the design development and creation , The materials cost not to mention all the people involved in each of these stages.The shipping and packing of the finished product. The wages of staff that sell them and the rents of the buildings they are all in.
.. The problem is with the scale of GW there aren\'t many cheap options I mean with people alone even an idea is costly..
I think it\'s where Smaller operations win out they can always compete on price and even quality but no-one comes close to scale and unfortunately that costs...and the only way to get that back is from us....
I\'d rather pay for the cost of a box like this with tons of options and extra bits than buy 2 packs of reaper metal ones at $26
As for the price Uber it is steepish but I guess the overheads come into play I mean the machines to cut one sprue cost over £100 000 each that\'s just the machine that cuts the mould then there\'s the CAD design machines , the design development and creation , The materials cost not to mention all the people involved in each of these stages.The shipping and packing of the finished product. The wages of staff that sell them and the rents of the buildings they are all in.
.. The problem is with the scale of GW there aren\'t many cheap options I mean with people alone even an idea is costly..
I think it\'s where Smaller operations win out they can always compete on price and even quality but no-one comes close to scale and unfortunately that costs...and the only way to get that back is from us....
I\'d rather pay for the cost of a box like this with tons of options and extra bits than buy 2 packs of reaper metal ones at $26
odinsgrandson
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I don\'t know man. I mean, they are head and shoulders above some of the older incarnations of GW plastic skeletons. But they don\'t do it for me, you know?
I agree that GW plastics are the best plastics out there, but I really don\'t think this box can compete with some of the metal minis out there. GW has slipped in the past decade or so, and they really haven\'t gotten back on the ball again.
Oh, and the musician in a skeliton unit should Totally have a fiddle!
I agree that GW plastics are the best plastics out there, but I really don\'t think this box can compete with some of the metal minis out there. GW has slipped in the past decade or so, and they really haven\'t gotten back on the ball again.
Oh, and the musician in a skeliton unit should Totally have a fiddle!
Legacy Account
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They\'re crap. Skellies are almost always crap in this scale - you just can\'t make the bones fine enough to get them to scale.
I still prefer the 80\'s plastic ones I think. At least they weren\'t covered in loads of crap detailing.
I still prefer the 80\'s plastic ones I think. At least they weren\'t covered in loads of crap detailing.
Infidel Castro
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They\'re better looking than those ridiculous Egyptian-looking crap piles they brought out a while ago. I\'m waiting for some decent lead to come through though, as the look isn\'t that bad. I may pick up that brush yet!
squig hunter
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YES! My spearhead srrived today to m LGS (so I don\'t have to pay value added tax)
Ima go collect it later
Squig
Ima go collect it later Squig
theultimateqpa
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New plastic GW bloodletters(the swords are especially nice) and skulltaker:
http://www.tabletopwelt.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=48646&d=1203438805
http://www.tabletopwelt.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=48645&d=1203438805
http://www.tabletopwelt.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=48647&d=1203438838
Infidel Castro
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Those Bloodletters aren\'t too clever to my eyes!
squig hunter
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There is a quite cool log of the new Undead here: http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128867
Squig
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The Artisan
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I have a question.
Has anyone ever notice that almost all of skeleton miniatures from the various companies are sculpted without clothing? Why is that? Do necromancers only like to raise the corpses of nudists? I know most material will decay faster than bone but still...
Gives you a different thought to undead armies now doesn\'t it? All of the skeletons were naked people when they died!
Thought for the day.
Has anyone ever notice that almost all of skeleton miniatures from the various companies are sculpted without clothing? Why is that? Do necromancers only like to raise the corpses of nudists? I know most material will decay faster than bone but still...
Gives you a different thought to undead armies now doesn\'t it? All of the skeletons were naked people when they died!
Thought for the day.
squig hunter
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Clothes rot mate and in order for them to have rotted enough to be skeletons, the clothes would have rotted long ago.
Squig
and in order for them to have rotted enough to be skeletons, the clothes would have rotted long ago.Squig
No, not really! Skin and flesh rot and decompose a lot sooner than fabrics. In fact, many ancient remains have been found with traces of clothing in abundance. It depends on where it\'s been buried.Originally posted by squig hunter
Clothes rot mate
Squig
squig hunter
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I suppose, but even so a moist festering battlefield should speed up the process
Squig
Squig
Zombies are the animated corpses of the recently deceased but Skeletons always tend to be the remains of long dead warriors. Way back when these guys were alive the armies of many cultures took to the battlefield wearing very little in the way of clothing. There do appear to be more in the way of scraps of cloth stuck to these guys than in previous incarnations, the Graveguard still have robes on.
Besides it would be quite difficult to tell that they were skellies if they were fully clothed.
Besides it would be quite difficult to tell that they were skellies if they were fully clothed.
