We acquired our palms on the brand new Slaves to Darkness Army Set and constructed these minis! Join us as we dive deeper into the brand new field.

When Games Workshop first revealed the brand new Slaves to Darkness Army Set I used to be pumped. That’s as a result of it’s packed full of brand name new plastic fashions. There’s a brand new Plastic Daemon Prince, new plastic Chaos Chosen, and even a model new unit of Ogroid Theridons which I used to be tremendous pumped about. I acquired to unbox and construct the miniatures so test them out:



Slaves To Darkness Army Set

Let’s simply go down the road of the brand new miniatures. First up let’s chat concerning the new Plastic Daemon Prince.

First up, sure, it is a twin objective equipment. You can construct the Daemon Prince as a 40k Daemon Prince OR as a AoS Daemon Prince. But these aren’t your solely choices. There’s a TON of swaps you can also make with it. There’s totally different poses for the weapon (proper) hand and three essential weapon choices: Sword, Axe, or Malefic Talons. The left hand doesn’t have fairly as many poses however you continue to can go for the common hand or Malefic Talon. And in fact if you happen to’re going to for the 40k model you are able to do the wristed mounted weapon, too.

The toes even have two totally different choices so you’ll be able to select both claws or the hooves. And to maintain the choices going, the again has both Wings, a trophy rack, or a 40k backpack. You get the thought. Oh after which there’s all of the totally different chaos icons that help you differentiate which Chaos God this Daemon Prince is a fan of. The level is…you’ve acquired choices.

Now, let’s chat about these Chaos Chosen. This field incorporates sufficient sprues which you could construct 10 of them — and you can also make a bunch of various variations of them! I used to be actually impressed by the sheer variety of choices from this equipment. Axes, Hammers, large Maces, Swords — you get the thought! Plus there’s the icon/commonplace bearer and a musician as nicely. And I don’t need to skip over the improbable particulars on all these miniatures. The manner that GW minimize the fashions as much as placed on the sprues actually hides their seam strains nicely. Plus the poses are only a ton extra enjoyable and dynamic than their earlier incarnation.

I believe that is one other improbable equipment that Slaves to Darkness followers are going to have loads of enjoyable with — and they’re additionally a very scary unit now. But we’ll tackle how the foundations work in a special article.

I believe I preserve calling these guys “OGOR-roids” as a substitute of “OG-roids” I higher repair that earlier than they hear me! This is a model new unit and one other actually cool equipment for the Slaves to Darkness. I really feel like these fashions are what the previous Minotaurs from Beast of Chaos needed to be however hit the health club a little bit too laborious and ended up trying nicely, how they appear. The Ogroids look intimidating and are spectacular. Building them was fairly straightforward, too!

I’ll supply up a little bit recommendation on these guys nonetheless: Pay consideration to which model you’re constructing! There’s totally different choices for the unit champion and since these sprues solely enable for 3 fashions, every mannequin makes use of the same base pose however provides different bits to it to create the Champ, Musician, or Standard Bearer. You’ve additionally acquired choices for the Swords and Boards (shields) or the Axes. Both variations look improbable so take pleasure in construct these.

This can be the primary place you’re going to get your palms on the Slaves to Darkness Battletome in addition to their warscroll playing cards and an unique 28 card Enhancement Deck. All these extras are simply helpful play-aides to have with you.

Overall I used to be actually proud of this Army Boxed set as a veteran Slaves to Darkness participant. Everything within the field is new, plastic kits. While the Daemon Prince and Chosen aren’t new items I believe they’re each leaps and bounds forward of their earlier variations. And we additionally get the brand new Ogroid unit, too! I sort of need one other set of Ogroids simply so I can run a full squad and now have the Champ, Musician, and Standard Bearer within the unit as nicely. Looks like my Slaves to Darkness military is getting a significant enhance!

And now for a private plug. I’ve a good friend who additionally performs Slaves to Darkness and is an enormous pillar in our native gaming neighborhood. He’s acquired a Kickstarter going for a darkish fantasy graphic novel and if you happen to’re a fan of Slaves to Darkness and may’t get sufficient darkish fantasy in your life, then please go try his Kickstarter. This isn’t an advert from him and he doesn’t know I’m even throwing this in right here. But I believe his work deserves to be seen so please, if you happen to’ve acquired a minute, go have a look and decide for your self if you wish to again it (and I hope you do).

Slaves to Darkness Army Set

Up for Pre-order this weekend! Archaon shall be happy…

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Kickstarter plug is unsponsored and unrequested however you ought to nonetheless go test it out.

Writer, Editor, Texas Native, and Austinite for 15+ years, Adam covers all issues Tabletop Gaming. Which consists of Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, D&D, Board Games and every little thing else that entails cube, boards, playing cards and a desk.
A hobbyist, participant, and collector of miniatures and video games, Adam’s present obsession are his Death Armies for Age of Sigmar, his Blood Angels and Tyranids for 40k, and his ever rising Arkham Horror: The Card Game Collection.

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