[Music] hey guys Jay here welcome to eons battle and recently I was thinking about an
old game called Warhammer fantasy battles there's been Rumblings for like the past five years that
Warhammer fantasy battles is coming back so sort of games our shop has been barely barely teasing
that this game is going to come back to some extent and I I believe them because there's
been articles on Warhammer community that this the old world is coming back but boy does it not
feel like it's really happening Warhammer fantasy battles was games workshop's original tabletop
war game it's the one that made them what they are today sort of and it went on for nine editions so
similar to games our shops 40K now but it ended way back in 2015 and was replaced with age of
Sigmar which it was much maligned by the people who were in love with Warhammer fantasy battles
so so many people out there say that Warhammer fantasy battles was the greatest miniature
war game of all time but back in the day I only had eyes for Warhammer 40 000 because given the
option between swords and and bows and arrows and lasers and necro dermis yeah I went with the pupus
but recently I was thinking about the old models those because Warhammer fantasy battle had a whole
entire range of models that just got axed I mean the best stuff made its way into um age of Sigmar
but there were some models that I remember seeing back in the day in the game stores and on the
shelves that I was just thinking about like those were pretty darn good whatever happened to those
models so today I want to look at six of the best models from Warhammer fantasy battles at Games
Workshop no longer makes trying to keep this list mostly to Plastics into larger models that came in
beautiful boxes because there were tons and tons of great one-off single characters especially
towards the later end of fantasy where Juan Diaz was doing a lot of the sculpting work and all of
his stuff is absolutely gorgeous but you know one hero unit does not make for an entire beautiful
Army so I'm going to keep it to the bigger kids and the first kit that I want to look at is the
high elf Lord on Dragon you can definitely see the age of this miniature but there is something about
it that I really like I like this model more than the Storm Cat the new storm cast Dragon Riders and
the new stormcast Dragon Riders are excellent but the only problem is they're incredibly
boring and normal it's a normal night riding a normal Dragon a completely normal Dragon there's
no extra little sauce there's nothing that makes it really special or unique in my opinion but this
model even though it's a little frumpy in the way it's sculpted is definitely showing its age
but I like the weird wavering kind of body I mean it's a dragon because it has four limbs but it has
this weird serpent-like body the way it's kind of perched or not perched off a rock but jumping off
of a rock the grotesque disgusting mouthful of teeth the the tongue the weird snake-like tongue
sticking out the front the way it's bedazzled and Bejeweled in the high elf colors and armor there's
something about it that is really really nice and this is kind of what I think would be interesting
to see with old world because apparently it's not just going to be redoing Warhammer fantasy battles
but it's going to be a little bit more of a what 30k is to 40K old Warhammer fantasy battles with
the old style of rules so like Rank and file with movement trays but some of these models
would look really really nice I think keeping the silliness and the style but just doing them again
now and having them look really really good and crisp and clean I mean I mean a lot of these
things we've seen in what's the video game Total War Warhammer a lot of these sillier models in
Total War Warhammer have gotten kind of reskinned and updated to look a little bit better and so I
think that this model is a prime candidate to get a little bit more love and attention put
on it next up we got another Dragon the wood elves sisters of Twilight on Forest Dragon
once again it looks totally ridiculous but ridiculous in a way that's kind of fun and cool
like yes you could put two elf babes on a normal ass Dragon which is probably what games are Chef's
gonna do but the weird snakiness I mean this looks like a metal album cover it looks great it's so
weird and it's got these kind of frog demons hanging off of it and it's got tusks growing
out of its face and it's got these weird its face looks like a violin it's just got so much charm
and character and I don't love using terms like that because they don't mean anything but to me
this model the weird rope shaped to its body and the really really intense texture that's on it is
just got a little something going for it I also love that this monster of a mini is standing on
an old 40 millimeter square base and man would this just catch on everything in the world while
you're actually playing with it but there's just something I really like it reminds me a lot of
Legolas when he was battling the mummux in um in Star Wars The Phantom Menace and he's like
sliding along the trunk and he's grabbing onto the tail and hoisting himself up like
these elf ladies are probably running circles and dancing off of the weird undulating body
of this this weird awkward dragon and it just it really kind of inspires a lot of
creativity in me that's uh normal soldiers on a normal Dragon just kinda doesn't so so
um wood elves are an incredibly popular faction because of the total war games and because they're
one of the factions that didn't make its way into age of Sigmar in any meaningful way so I just I
just really like this model I get a kick out of it next up we got the brittonian knights and these
models are completely and utterly normal nights and I just made fun of the aegisigmar dragons for
being completely normal but there is some fun to be had with just medieval Renaissance and these
models are okay they're decent I love the silly heraldry and colors on these models but I'm just
thinking about what could be the cities of Sigmar are not cities in Sigmar but the britonians are
going to come back in this old world game and I think if you if they were very very faithful
in recreating the the Renaissance Era stuff but they just give it a little extra judge they just
figure out some way to add a little spice of not science fiction but just High fantasy into these
normal normal things I think that that would be really really cool and as normal and Bland and
not particularly exciting as these models are they do look like they would be fun to paint I
think they would paint up very quickly the excuse to use these bright ridiculous colors and play
along or play around with different heraldries and stuff could lead to some really really good times
and there's not that much Cavalry in modern Games Workshop games and and the Cavalry that does exist
is usually far far too big like Cavalry should be the next size up from a normal dude and it
should only be a little bit bigger but a lot of the Cavalry that exists in 40K and age of Sigmar
are monstrously big and so I think it would be really interesting to see a little bit more of a
mediums medium-sized units medium-sized units are supposed to feel like just a step up but when I
paint the games workshops medium units it's like okay I painted I can paint you know 10 guys in
five hours or whatever but if I'm gonna paint the next size up it's we're talking an entire evening
for one model so I I just like the form factor in the style of these guys and I do even though I the
bretonians don't blow my hair back I appreciate what other people see in them because I see it too
it just doesn't Jimmy my jams it doesn't flame my flames but speaking of britonians and that little
extra fantasy judge that Games Workshop could do I want to look at King Leon Leon color this model
is dripping with that judge I was talking about a completely normal King Arthur's Knights of the
realm on a griffin like it's that is brilliant bring all of these Fantastical historical things
back into the world and the juxtaposition between the fictional creature and then the normal Knight
standing on it with the heraldry attached to it like you can tell that this is a world a lot like
ours but all of these mythical creatures that were proposed to exist actually really did this model
is beautiful and lovely and ah the coat of arms with the Fleur de lease on this whatever that's
called the setup that is the rioter uses to attach it to the mount the framing the little tiny horse
hoof Talons of this Griffin absolutely beautiful and lovely I just want this model because I want
to paint it and look at it on the shelf and if britonians were a lot more like this and a
lot less how they were which was 95 normal ass dudes with a couple of little fun things here
and there and if it was mostly fun things and five percent normal ass dudes I would be really really
interested in the bretonian faction this model is absolutely lovely and phenomenal beautifully
sculpted I I want one and that I think is a mark of a good model in my opinion next up we have the
High Elves Dragon princes of calidor not to be confused with galador that horrible Lego
system that they created in the 90s that nobody knows what I'm talking about these elves are
something else holy cow I mean they're called the dragon princess and it definitely looks that way
man are they ever silly and silly in my opinion is perfectly acceptable if not what I prefer look
at the weird armor Slash costumes that are on those horses and those elves it looks weird and
silly but also is still pretty darn cool and also keeps the form factor that I like in Cavalry where
they're just a little bit bigger than normal dudes they're just really really nice I think
that they would be a really really fun painting challenge I just like the way that these are I I
mean I can't I can imagine that the creation process was fueled by cocaine they're just
silly nobody said no to any ideas when they were coming up with these models because they're so
ridiculously over the top and that's what's great about them I can I can I feel like I'm dumping on
Games Workshop for things that they actually didn't do but I can imagine games are trapped
recreating these models today and they would tone down the spikes and the antlers and the
weird fishy Frills and all of these things to make them much more boring and normal
but I like the silliness and if these models were to make their way back into Old Worlds I
would want it pushed further I would want more fishy fins and weird Frills and weird little
armors and this ridiculous ridiculous paint style I think I think that that is one thing that would
actually set them apart really nicely from a lot of the more modern Fantasy games like kings of
War Conquest last argument of Kings A Song of Ice and Fire strategy battle game like those games are
um they're fantasy but they're like slight fantasy or Grim Dark Fantasy and I know that
um that Warhammer fantasy battles was Grim dark but it really wasn't like it if you
if you read any of the lore or the novels yes it was incredibly Grim dark and people really
appreciated the Grim dark about it but look at these models look at these models they are
absolutely the furthest thing from Grim dark and I really like that it's pure silliness it's pure
fantasy and I think that is what I really like and finally one of the greatest models that Games
Workshop has ever made one of the most beautiful models that I have ever seen in my entire life I
remember fondly staring at this box longingly when I was at the game store the necros Sphinx
this model is beauty this model is Grace this model will stab you in the face it
is Top Notch it is amazing tomb Kings got a lot of models towards the end of Warhammer
fantasy battles and they're almost all bad except for the necros things and a couple
of other things like the Anubis Warriors or the uh the Viper snake thingies but
Games Workshop couldn't figure out how to make a skeleton to save their lives they have since
gotten very good at skeletons with things like the soul blight gravelords and the uh I guess just
sold by gravelords but they back then every single skeleton looked like it was from a Scooby-Doo
cartoon and it was just kind of a product of the times a lot of the models were hand sculpted a
lot of the models had they had to make a lot of caveats to how we're actually going to physically
make these into plastic Miniatures that people can assemble but they didn't have those problems with
a lot of the larger units for Tomb Kings like the necros fangs and it is beautiful it's so
evocative the second you look at this model you understand what's going on we are doing fantasy
Egypt like it's beautiful the the weird Jade skin all of the gold the angles the death masks on the
face of this thing it is an absolutely incredible model and it's I think the only reason that Games
Workshop dropped it from the range because almost all of the really really good stuff from Warhammer
fantasy battles is available in age of Sigmar a lot of the seraphon stuff a lot of the other
death factions but most of the really cool stuff ended up in cities of Sigmar but there was really
no room for the Egyptian tomb King stuff and so they didn't make the cut and they didn't get to
jump into aegisigmar but the necro Sphinx is such a beautiful model I have seen so many
um zinc demon princes and different 40K units that have been kit bash and converted from the
tomb King's necros fangs it really is a beautiful Majestic awesome awesome large plastic model and
when Games Workshop ever does come out with old world I would be shocked if they don't just bring
the tomb key the the necro Sphinx back exactly as it existed when it disappeared from the range
because it is a in my opinion perfect miniature I mean this is a miniature that like you can
show to your mom to like help her understand what it is that you do all day like oh it's
it's fantasy it's fantasy it's a conflict it's a war setting in a fantasy universe and that is
exactly what this miniature is Warhammer fantasy battle was a really cool game that lots and lots
and lots of people have very very fond memories of and I totally understand the outrage and the
frustration when game zirchap decided to just end the game and it'll be interesting to see
what Games Workshop does with it moving forward I really like the sound of it being the age
of sigmar's version of 30k because I'm always looking for new games to play but I like those
games to be very different from the things that I already play and so you know maybe age of Sigmar
scratches my fantasy itch but if this game can be a little bit more of a rank and file even somehow
sillier age of Sigmar I think that that would be really really interesting with that being said
though this list was very hard to put together because almost every single model from Warhammer
fantasy battles was really really showing their age and you know out of a game with hundreds of
models I was able to find six that I really really appreciated and enjoyed so I am looking forward to
what Games Workshop does in the future and still kicking myself for not picking up a necros sphinx
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