Games Workshop - Warhammer Age of Sigmar - Starter Set Harbinger

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One thing to be aware of with these figures is the join line down the cape on each side. Once again, some sprue goo (that’s glue with some old sprue mixed in to make a melted plastic paste) will be your friend here and you’ll be able to make the gap disappear, as I have in the picture below.

Often incorrectly referred to as Stormcast Vindicators (which is something else entirely), this is another relatively straightforward sprue. Unlike dominion, where you get two of this sprue in the box, each of the starter sets comes with only 1 sprue In their next turn, though, after moving their full 5″, the Vindictors rolled the necessary 8 required to close the gap between themselves and the Swampcalla Shaman.

Maggotkin of Nurgle

You’ll find ten Stormcast Eternals figures in the Habringer Starter Set: five Vindictors, three Praetors, a Lord-Imperatant and his Gryph-hound. They’re all great figures and will look awesome on your shelf, desk, tabletop, or wherever it is you decide to stash your (un)painted models. This is an issue with push-fit figures. One thing some people have suggested doing is shaving a millimetre or so off the very end of the joining peg using a sharp hobby knife or some sprue cutters. Because the sprues found in this Starter Set are taken straight from the Dominion box, a lot of what you’ll see below will be quite similar to what we originally wrote in our Dominion review – plus a few inserts of hindsight now both Rob and I have built all our figures and started painting them.

This, of all the three new Starter Sets, is the most beginner-friendly. Unlike the larger Starter Sets, which are geared to also appeal to people with established armies and perhaps a little more time and drive to dedicate to learning the ropes of the new edition of Age of Sigmar, the Warrior Starter Set is pitched at the complete beginner. Compared to a lot of the figures in this set, this is quite a complex model, but it very well put together. One thing to note is that the Gryph-hound does have a join line across his chest and spine, but these can be hidden with a decent plastic glue and the subsequent clean-up that should be no more difficult than removing a mould line. Plastic Push-fit Citadel Miniatures: At the heart of the Harbinger set are two armies of brand new miniatures, all cleverly designed so they can be pushed together without the need for glue. Each force includes three powerful units armed with devastating weaponry and wargear, and they can easily be bolstered with additional reinforcements to act as the elite core of a larger army. These models include: Finally, the gruesome Flesh-eater Courts’ new character is the Marrowscroll Herald– also known, in named character form, as Sir Jerrion. These heralds are messengers who think they’re spreading the word of their lords’ worthy wars – but are in fact spreading their ghoul curse. Tragic. The subsequent clean-up, however, was a real pain as I simply couldn’t reach a lot of the areas I needed to. It worked okay on the arm, but for his hood, I ended up smoothing out gaps that should have remained as holes. Hobgrot SlittazAnd, although the scenery looks great, it doesn’t really serve any purpose when it comes to teaching people how to play – which, surely, is the ultimate, most core and crucial point of these boxes. I’m yanking the reins off FauxHammer for a bit, as the scenery sprues are completely new and, so far, totally unique to the boxed releases that have been introduced with AoS Ver 3.0. as these are push-fit, you can (carefully) prise them apart and reconfigure them. but be careful as they do not come apart easily and you can easily damage them. It’s worth noting here that, aside from the terrain features, all the Stormcast Eternals and Orruk figures that you’d find in the Extremis box are exactly the same as those you’d find in the Harbinger box. If you’re just after some figures and don’t care about scenery, save yourself some cash and grab the Harbinger box.

Now, whether or not you like painting scenery is another matter entirely. It’s one of those things that divides the community: some people love doing it and setting up impressive displays and photographs with their plastic terrain, or setting it up on the tabletop to make their battles look all the more realistic. These are delightful models to build and go together with ease. They only had the odd join-line visible, but these have all been carefully designed to hide in natural armour gaps anyway.

Unique Rules

The round begins with the Stormcasts moving into shooting range. With only the front trio able to throw stuff at the nearest Kruleboyz, the Stormcast Eternals were only able to inflict a single wound on the orruks. attempting to charge, the Vindictors only managed a 5 – not enough to move into range of the orruks, and thus the turn passed to them. There aren’t any objective markers – or even things you could use as objective markers – provided in the Warrior starter set. Also, given my aversion to painting scenery, and the fact my copy of Cursed City remains untouched, I discovered I don’t actually have anything I could use as an objective marker, either! The game started with the Swampcall Shaman, who cast Arcane Missile on the pair of Vindicors on the eastern side of the board. With a casting value of 5, and 5 being rolled on two dice, one of the Vindictors suffered a Mortal Wound. The Shaman decided to stay put for the rest of the turn and wait for the Stormcasts to come to him.