The army rules have mostly been leaked. A charging dwarf army gets +1 S when charging.
(This is really interesting. It punishes players from getting out maneuvered by dwarfs.)
They hate greenskins and skaven, and on a d6 1-2 their general hates the opponents general (no matter what army), 3-4 all dwarf characters hate the opponents characters, on a 5-6 the entire army hates the other army.
The last one is to bring the fluff of grudges into the games. I like it.
I really, really like these models, and have been waiting for Dwarf heavy infantry to convert for what seems like forever. The problem I have though is for £7 more I can buy the FW ones, there are cheaper alternatives out there that are ‘dark dwarves’ or whatever. I really enjoy the modelling opportunities of the CDs which is why I will get them, but while my heart says yes, my head (and tbh wallet) say no.
So, I don’t know if this has been discussed already, but a LGS near me was accidentally selling next week’s White Dwarf early. The Dwarfs have a Gyrobomber coming, this kit also makes a new Gyrocopter. They are also getting a new Runelord, and Engineer Character, and the next White Dwarf has a picture of the new Dwarf Army Book. Also, if you look closely, you can see new Dwarf Ironbreakers. This new Ironbreakers kit also looks like it builds some kind of blunderbuss wielding shooting unit. This blunderbuss carrying unit might also have the option to build some kind of flamethrower gun, I’m not sure.
So, I don't know if this has been discussed already, but a LGS near me was accidentally selling next week's White Dwarf early. The Dwarfs have a Gyrobomber coming, this kit also makes a new Gyrocopter. They are also getting a new Runelord, and Engineer Character, and the next White Dwarf has a picture of the new Dwarf Army Book. Also, if you look closely, you can see new Dwarf Ironbreakers. This new Ironbreakers kit also looks like it builds some kind of blunderbuss wielding shooting unit. This blunderbuss carrying unit might also have the option to build some kind of flamethrower gun, I'm not sure.
I actually had a vague feeling that Dwarfs would receive some sort of blunderbuss for flavour, but we’ll see if the rumour about it turns out correct. A return of the Dwarf flamethrower will be hailed with raised tankard!
The new dwarves look an awfully lot like Chaos Dwarves. The scale-mail instead of chainmail. The overall shape of their armour...
Of course this only makes it less likely to see Chaos Dwarves returning to Games Workshop :)
By the way, anyone else notice that their legs seem to be a lot longer than before?
JMR
Yes, and their proportions are less ball-like. Heads are also smaller. GW Dwarfs moves from 5th edition bowling Dwarfs towards Lotr Dwarfs proportions.
Absolutely amazing kits, but I can’t justify that price. I may see if I can pick them up elsewhere at more reasonable cost, but £30 for 10 models is way out of my range.
I think it a little strange that they’ve removed a lot of customisability as well - you can either have hammerers with their standard equipment or longbeards with two-handed weapons (the choice is literally just hammers or axes): would’ve been nice for hand weapon/shield combo.
That being said, the axes are absolutely beautiful! The special character is amazing and I’m so happy that a smidge of greenstuff over the lughole for the back banner will allow the model to be greatly improved
Very happy with the release, but hardpressed to find myself paying that price for them.
I’m actually very eager to buy them (despite not having disposable income at this present moment), but I’ll be looking for as big a discount as possible and fully expect it won’t be enough (since they’d need to be over a third off to be considered a little pricey).
Well they’re not humans so their arms can be as long as GW wants.
What I’m curious to see is if it is going to be possible to use my Chaos Dwarfs as vanilla Dwarfs with only minor additions. I’d love to get a 2nd playable army out of this if it isn’t going to cost me an arm and a leg.
I would have been such a great move of GW if they gave them "Hatred: Chaos Dwarfs" x.x
That aside, I am interested, whether the rumoured blunderbusses will follow the same (or comparable) rules as ours and whether the weapons will fit on IG :)
Certainly we'll see several IG w/ GW-conversions based on the new dwarfs and, dependig on the models, blunderbussers.