Whether they meant to or not, Games Workshop have stayed entirely on brand this month by releasing their Soulblight Gravelords - why I hear you ask? Well, it's just been Mothers Day, and the internet is alive with calling Resident Evil 5's Lady Dimistrecu a Vampire Mommy, Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead is due out on May 21st AND there's a Super Blood Moon on May 26th. Coincidence? We think not...
The release of new vampires is really exciting. An iconic fantasy horror character, the vampire adds some old school cool to the world of Age of $igmar. All the new fluff and rules are of course in the Soulblight Gravelords Battletome, which comes in Let Me Suck Your Blood Limited Edition or Gothic Horror Standard Edition. The Soulblight Gravelords have a particular look of taking that traditional vampire look and adding a monstrous element to it - nothing typifies that more than the Vengorian Lord/ Lauka Vai, Mother of Nightmares combi-kit. An amazing looking kit, even though it's a little hard to work out the actual size. There's also the deceptively simple Vampire Lord who will be a kitbasher's wet dream for everything from Imperial Inquisitors, Dark Elf to Drukhari armies. A must-have! Needing a definite update were the venerable Blood Knights, and though the red palette is questionable, these are faithful updates to a classic kit. The Soulblight Gravelords also sees two more much needed updates - a new multi-part multi-pose skeleton kit, the Deathrattle Skeletons and FINALLY a new zombie kit - the Deadwalker Zombies. If you like flappy-flappy vampires, then the Fell Bats are right up your alley! Of course there's the Soulblight Gravelords Warscroll Cards and a Soulblight Gravelords Dice Set, which frankly could have been a little more orifginal than black. What about clear red? That would have been cool...
Games Workshop have also done a large update to their brush range. In the past they have gone with a combination of some acrylic and some animal fur. Now if you don't support the fur industry (where the GW and other manufacturer brushes come from) then that's an ethical conundrum. But now GW have brought out a line of acrylic brushes, which then bring those hobbyists back into the fold. The range is quite wide; Layer Brushes in STC S and STC M, Shade Brushes in STC M and STC L, Base Brushes in STC S, STC M, STC L and STC XL, Dry Brushes in STC S, STC M and STC L and a Glaze Brush.
There's also some books coming - A Dynasty of Monsters in Hardback, the Undeath Ascendant: A Vampire Counts Omnibus with 3 novellas and 3 short stories in it, the Hardback of Gitslayer and White Dwarf 464.
Games Workshop have also done a large update to their brush range. In the past they have gone with a combination of some acrylic and some animal fur. Now if you don't support the fur industry (where the GW and other manufacturer brushes come from) then that's an ethical conundrum. But now GW have brought out a line of acrylic brushes, which then bring those hobbyists back into the fold. The range is quite wide; Layer Brushes in STC S and STC M, Shade Brushes in STC M and STC L, Base Brushes in STC S, STC M, STC L and STC XL, Dry Brushes in STC S, STC M and STC L and a Glaze Brush.
There's also some books coming - A Dynasty of Monsters in Hardback, the Undeath Ascendant: A Vampire Counts Omnibus with 3 novellas and 3 short stories in it, the Hardback of Gitslayer and White Dwarf 464.
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