Vampire Counts Rumours

[Sarthex]

oh question: are we going to get new wolfies? pretty please?
no really , the current ones aren't that good IMO. all the same poses over and over again...
well, if we don't get any, then i'm off to buy Chaos hounds or whatever they're called.

 

[Grish]

Apparently there will be new plastic dire wolves, but I haven't seen a new picture yet. They're just direwolves though, so I'm considering buying some of the cheap ones on Ebay. I want my main, scary units to look good, but sacrificial dire wolves... I don't mind if they don't look so great.

 

[Master Vampire]

There's plenty of photos throughout this thread

Which is 57 pages long.

The pictures are posted in the Rumour Round-Up, yes.

 

[FatOlaf]

I seem agreeing to be with the general trend - skeletons good, corpse cart okay, characters crap.

Agree!

Like the idea of the corpse cart as a mount for a necromancer...

Better be some sort of Ward save on that thing, otherwise no way Jose!

Overall I'm feeling quite down about it all, the new figures on the whole are dissapointing, especially the KOTBK, but with these I'm hoping the paint job is affecting it. The rumours on the whole seem to be nerf, nerf, nerf..........nothing seems to be making me look forward to March / April...........My other armies might be getting more battle practise soon...

 

[Grish]

Well I'm hoping it works out well. The proof is in the pudding! (Where did that expression come from anyways?)

 

[Jedi152]

Presumably an old bakers saying or something. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Everything will be fine. The internet is littered with people whining about rumoured rules and how they will kill their armies and systems.

Remember when ogres were revealed? WarSeer was packed with people crying about how it would ruin the game and they were hideously broken and unfair and would slaughter any 'normal' army they faced.

Wait until the army book to cry.

 

[Avaris]

At the kotbk... ugh.

The only chance gw had to make me get these guys was to get some beautiful models, and these aren't good enough. Maybe that will change when they are displayed properly, but I sincerly doubt it.

 

[Grish]

What's with the damn bat wings? They look so terrible. To keep with this terrible bat wing theme, I think I'll draft a Hotwheels Batmobile as a black coach, and use Batmans batwings as fell bats. Can't make it any worse...

 

[Jedi152]

I can't stand the horizontal helmet wings on one of them. They remind of the abysmal limited Blood Dragon standard bearer from the current book. Awful.

 

[Master Vampire]

It's pretty weird if the Bat will have the Fly rule, with ripped wings and all it shouldn't be able to fly at all.

 

[Grish]

I don't think the physics of the models are really brought into consideration. A zombie dragon shouldn't fly, and really a regular dragon shouldn't fly with its supposed weight. And skeletons can move without muscles, so something can fly with ripped wings.

 

[Didymus13]

I really *really* hate the bat-winged helms on the KOTBK , well any batwinged helm for that matter. It just seems to me that they would get their heads stuck in the first tree they come across, and they would be doomed if it was a Kite-eating tree!

S D

 

[Belial]

Hey MV, or any other mod, sorry to keep pestering you, but there's a few things on the roundup:

- Two of the three presented KotBK images are identical.
- Mannfred image broken
- Konrad image broken
- AB cover image broken(this one and the above has been removed from their locations)
- Why not add all the so forth found pics to the rumour thread? Including new skellies, Vlad, female vamp, Corpse Cart, etc.?

Also, if someone could be convinced(not me, I'm busy enough as it is with an exampaper due friday. Yes, I have time for forums ) to merge all the different quotes into one single comprehensible list of changes(and perhaps divide the changes into categories, "Magic", "Units", "Heroes", "Special Chars", "Releases"), it would really help those that have not participated in this discussion from the beginning.

I think that's all. Oh, and bring me a cup of coffee. *Cracks whip*

 

[Danceman]

I guess it was only a matter of time... the BotK does indeed look terrible and I agree with what is with GW and wierd hats?
Regardless the new rumours are interesting. So late feb/early may the new book appear... gonna be fun

those who´s lazy ; Quote from warseer.

Im not sure if this is in the right spot. I got this info at my local gw.

The plauge cart allows any undead within 12 inches to march. Not sure what else it dose. And its troop

The blood knights are beter then knorn chosen knights. There also going to be like str 7 on the charge with lances. and there rare.

some heros can be 1000 points and can kill dragons on foot.

Every spell caster can raise dead, always. then they roll d6 for there spells list like other spell casters

You cant summon NEW units of skeletons but you can still summon new units of zombies. Meaning you can increase the size of skeleton units to a point and you can summon zombies to block enemy units.

Black knight horse are ethreal so they move threw cover easly. They are still hard hitting.

The black coatch is awsome.

There is 65 pages of fluff and storys.

Release is in late Feb early March.

Isabella if given the chaless can heal a wound on her husban (cant remeber name).

Manfield is very hard to kill and stay dead.

Vampires are going to be the leaders not necromancers.

Necromancers are no longer going to have magic levels, there doing somthing differnt with them. Apprently you dont have to relie on them as much as before.

This army is going to be awsome to anyone who thinks more virity and custmistion is fun.

there are ways to heal grave guard and ghouls, I cant remeber what others.

There is a limit on how many skeletons you can summon in a unit but there are ways to increase the cap.

in the book they have exsaples of what blood line powers you take to fit a sertan blood line. But there is not limit on blood line powers and combinations other then the 100 points. They also have 100 point magic item limit. The frost sword is still there. And a lot of other weapons.

I spell realy bad. And Im not bothering to download spell check at 3am.

This is probley in the wrong place

And I dont care.

 

[The Dead of Night]

Like the idea of the corpse cart as a mount for a necromancer...

Better be some sort of Ward save on that thing, otherwise no way Jose!

Well it's rumoured to be like 60 points and core, so I doubt very much that it has a ward of any kind, but then its not like the 200pt Black Coach, losing it won't be crippling, and I doubt I'll miss the necro too much either, probably put a lvl1 (or whatever they'll be) in there and use him as a raiser. When he dies... Meh, I'll raise him back up for the next battle

I think I'll prefer it without the ward, keep it cheap. I'll judge it on what abilities it has, its point cost and core slot.

 

[N.I.B]

I love those KotBK models, they have a great sense of movement, plunging forward. People should take a deep breath and consider what we got today. The joke that is Black Knights, the stiff chaos knights, stale Empire knights of the state and cloned Bret knights. These KotBK models are most likely the best heavy cavalry GW has ever released.

And the Varghulf on the rock made my week. It's brilliant!

The whole look of the new VC is really coming through for me now, with the exagerated parts and all. I think it will look awesome on the table, as opposed to the depressing mess that is the current range.

Konrad looks incredible, I just hope he's the one depicted on the cover with white hair, and not another bald guy.

 

[Belial]

I agree with the pose of the KotBK. Some of them do look like they are falling off, but that's only realistical... I especially love the one leaning back, while his horse is leaping forward. Much mroe realistic, and really gives that sense of action and movement. I love them as well, and it seems that they are very detailed.

Overall, I'm actually very happy with what we have seen so far of the range. They are incredibly detailed, and that someone has done some bad paintjobs on some of them, does not mean the models as such are bad. And though I think that Vlad looks odd with the bearpaw, the tusk, and the faces in the cloak, I am ready to believe he is much nicer when seen "live".

 

[abhorash]

*phew* I have no life. I just read................this...........whole...........thread...........straight through. All 65 pages. Anyways, drooling over some of those models (female vamp and KotBK being major exceptions), looking forward to seeing a WORKING LINK to a pic of Konrad.

EDIT: 200 pts of stuff on the counts? When's March?

 

[Belial]

Look here: https://www.vampirecounts.net/showthread.php?tid=277
And cry over your wasted hours

 

[Master Vampire]

*phew* I have no life. I just read................this...........whole...........thread...........straight through. All 65 pages. Anyways, drooling over some of those models (female vamp and KotBK being major exceptions), looking forward to seeing a WORKING LINK to a pic of Konrad.

EDIT: 200 pts of stuff on the counts? When's March?

You're funny. Check Belial's link. Now, don't bother going over the next 300 pages that will be generated in this post in a few months.

 

[W0lf]

i cant get the links to Konrad or the army book cover to work, someone help please im desperate to see!

 

[Master Vampire]

apparantly it was copyrighted? Then I'm sorry to say we can't retrieve the pics. o_o

 

[abhorash]

:|o_o:O hehe

 

[W0lf]

no way!

[Tantrum] I wanna see the army book cover! i wanna see it nowwwwww [/Tantrum]

seriously can anyone help?

 

[Dreadlegions]

Just go here: http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40093&page=2