Tzaangors? Anyone? Please buy our birdmen!

[dave]

New Sigmar battlebox time, and it's tzeentch and lumineth this time.

New heroes are alright. The luminth characters have all kind of blended together for me at this point, but it definitely appears to be a wizard.

Cursling is cool. Glad he got a resculpt. But I have to wonder. Did he really need to show up with more bird boys? The arcanites are there too, so some variety I guess. But between recent holiday battleforces, 2 army boxes in AoS and 40k, and the new thousand sons start collecting, how many people still need tzaangors?

At what point did GW accidentally leave the machines running over the christmas holiday, only to return to an entire warehouse full of mutant bird people that they have been struggling to shift ever since?

I could maybe use some more enlightened though...

[artonas]

It’s insane that every box that is tzeentch based 40k or AoS Includes these guys. I love the sculpt and own waaaaaay too many. Have 30 on sprue but in every game they aren’t good. They are somewhat decent in Disciples but still better in BoC.

Their warscroll is a nightmare to use as well with so many options. I built 10 a couple months ago, and out of the 10, only 3 are normal guys. 1 twistbray, 2 mutants, 2 with great blades,1 musician, 1 banner bearer and 3 normal guys. Different rules for a lot of these. Whyyy.

I just hope that if this box is coming out they’ll buff the bird boys so I can run a pure tzaangor army and not be rolled with them. They don’t even get any fancy faction bonuses as everything is daemon or acolyte based.

[dave]

I feel that pain. Fortunately for me, I am running them in BoC, but can't bring myself to run more than 20 because of the royal PITA that is their warscroll. I also prefer shields. So on top of the mutant, leader, 2 hander, 1 hand weapon attack profiles, I also have to deal with the fact that the 4 in 10 shield dudes must be pulled first when taking casualties, so I better not position them in such a way that I break coherency and lose even more.

Love the sculpts. But sooo damn fiddly and time consuming to actually play. Kind of how I felt about painting them too.

But not great aside, there just has to be a time when GW realizes that they've saturated the market beyond all reason? Maybe? Are we going to see primaris tzaangors soon?

[artonas]

Primaris Tzaangors? you mean Tzeentch Bullgors?

But it does look like theyll be updated this fall which gives me time to paint 20 of them for the new missions.

[Jack Shrapnel]

Those lumineth have some nice sculpts in that box.

www.warhammer-community.com/2022/06/27/magical-might-comes-to-the-fore-in-the-latest-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-battlebox/

[mrmanstory]

The lumieth stuff is also all stuff that's gotten better with the new GH. This is finally a battle box I'm interested in.