Xander:
They are going in an interesting He-Man-like direction with AoS. Blending Tech with Magic in a more direct way than ever before.
A Squat army is now super easy to convert. These would also make great fodder for Skaven conversions.
Neat plastic stuff in general.
Pappa Midnight:
I like the airships and can see them as a good source for conversions ( the small one would look good mashed with the small Titan Forge zeppelin) and the large one pretty much as-is with suitable CD changes. The Infantry is ok but the “Thunderers” look like they would make a nice basis for a heavy “Immortal” squad for my Chaos Space Dwarfs ( graft some big hats on them and lose the vanilla dwarf iconography).
Look forward to seeing these released.
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Carcearion:
Oh wow just got my first look at the Karador Overlords, and while I do like the air-ships and some of the units as a standalone I have to say pulling away from classic fantasy to a full blown magitech-steampunk faction just doesn�?Tt feel good to me. A cool airship amongst dwarves is a wonder, a whole faction of crazy steel balloon pilots just feels like another case of them making AoS way too 40k.
cornixt:
What I like:
They look fun
Lots of different poses - Refreshing after the 8th edition monopose-but-thousand-parts models
My immediate though was that they would not look out of place in 40k. Seems that Chaos is not longer the only army where you can play both systems with the same models.
The paint job is rather bland - brass and black. One of the key parts of having a nice looking army is to not give in to paining everything on a model made of metal to look like unpainted metal. More red or blue parts would have been nice.
I like them, I have no use for them, I will probably not buy any of them, they probably cost way too much for even a fun one-off purchase. But it’s not fantasy any more. And what the heck are they harpooning?
Fuggit Khan:
Baggronor:
They really are going after the WoW crowd with AoS aren’t they? :cheers
I love the airships, really cool. The infantry could have done with a more striking silhouette maybe. Really like the leader models, especially that crazy dude with the top hat 
Dînadan:
And what the heck are they harpooning?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=60BjkUtqxPE
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Grimstonefire:
I really can’t say I’m sold on them, but then I think I’ll always have my Warhammer hat on and not an AOS hat.
Having said that… If you look at them entirely outside of anything that has come before then they’re a nice range within themselves.
tjub:
They look cool! 
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Abecedar:
Definitely conversion fodder only for me but even then only some of them at that.
BABIS:
sigh, I remember those days when wh40k and whfb were two different games…
Admiral:
Squats return! Marvellous and weird miniatures, though too long-legged. The ball shape is the ideal body form. Not much use in fantasy except for conversion basis or if you run a steampunk theme, but boy are they good sci-fi models. The airships are particularly good. Will have to get 'em in due time for my space dwarfs, and maybe sell some unbuilt Forgefathers. Unlike Mantic’s Forgefathers, I don’t think these need any addition of details to pop, so conversion time will be low.
I’m glad companies like Avatars of War cater with quality miniatures to the Tolkienish-Warhammerish classic fantasy collectors with their ranges, now that GW for the moment pulls away from that niche (a return is of course not impossible). Their ranges still have a long way to go before they can cover up all the gaps left by Games Workshop’s retreat, not to speak of the loss of plastic kits in the classic fantasy niche.
wallacer:
So GW have stopped ripping off Tolkien and are now going to be ripping off Rackham Miniatures. Swell…
Grimstonefire:
Looking more at these, it strikes me that they would actually make great chaos dwarfs. Just with a hell of a lot of conversions required.
In my mind chaos dwarfs are basically what dwarfs but without technology traditions holding them back.
Admittedly these models push that theme quite far by anyone’s standards. From viking esque to Victorian.
And not chaos themed at all…
But I have a plan. So based on this I’m going to challenge myself and get a few.
I think the hardest part will be shrinking their legs down so they are actually dwarfs again!
Abecedar:
I do like the idea of the tri-barrel guns and have had that thought in the back of my mind for ages after differing stories in Sci-Fi and fantasy.
The “Ducks Foot” gun is also interesting as I haven’t seen it in a miniature before.
Just have to wait for GW to try and copywrite them now.
Forgefire:
I have to say until now i thought AoS felt rather soulless compared to Fantasy but i actually like this army theyve got an unique feel. Can also be because ive been reading Gotrek and Felix recently and the airship in that book is quite advanced ^^
Slavemaster Hod:
So GW have stopped ripping off Tolkien and are now going to be ripping off Rackham Miniatures. Swell...They are very much like Rackham's Tir-Na-Bor dwarfs. Even the backpacks and their weird power source is straight out of Rackham. I bet they are smaller though and would look like a child next to a Rackham dwarf.
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Dînadan:
Something I’ve just noticed while watching yesterday’s BoW Weekender - one of the characters (second pic in the OP) looks a lot like an update on Astragoth - similar exoskeleton and he even has a nifty Big Hat! Remove the wrist mounted gun and flight pack and swap the chaonsword for a pneumatic hammer and a more appropriate paint job and it’d work well as an updated version of the ol’ High Priest (in fact if you were to do a homebrew campaign where the Warhammer World wasn’t destroyed, I could see him fitting in as an Astragoth who’s Sorcerer’s Curse has progressed even further than the old mini).
Firehammer:
Biggest problem I have with these is that they're in the wrong system; they really should be in 40k as a revival of the Squats.Why do you think this is more SciFi than pure Fantasy ;)
Dînadan
Carcearion:
I just can’t believe that balloon hero clearly has a chainsword… I mean c’mom!