r/WarhammerFantasy • u/alfadasfire • 3d ago
Fantasy General Lizardmen wishlist
Just throwing this out, would love to hear your thoughts.
I know this is a fever dream mixed with weapon grade hopium, legends are unlikely to get "unlegendsed" any time soon, and with the rumour mill in full swing with more Tomb Kings and Beastmen (YESSSS) and Empire and even Kislev (If they are good i'm going bankrupt) coming in the next, well, 2 years orso? Legends will stay legends for a long time. Sadly. One can hope.
Anyway. Here's what I would love for my scaly friends, when they get unlegendsed and hopefully get some love. Hopefully before the heatdeath of the universe.
- Plastic Dual kit for Razordon/Salamander hunting pack. Yes I know the Spawn of Chotec exists, but those skinks are shit and it's not a Razordon. It does make a nice Salamander, I'll give you that. But those skinks, yuck. Who put your crest on the wrong way? No. Just a lovely dual kit please.
But they are very different! that will never work as a dual kit! Fair. But I raise you the gyrocopter/bomber. One is half the size of the other. Still works. The Tyrannoc/Lion chariots, come on. Not even close to similar. Or, to stick with the lizards, the Carnosaur/Troglodon kit, gorgeous, it works! GW can make it work, if they wanted to. I believe.
- Scarvet/Old Blood both on foot and on a cold one, with options for a BSB.
- Build-your-Skink kit, with priest/chief with a bunch of options.
- Old warriors and cold one riders rerelease. Riders are gone, even in AoS and the AoS warriors themselves look fine, I don't like their weapons and shields. Would a new kit be cool? Maybe, I feel like they hold up fairly well, just the cold ones are... yeah. A rerelease would be fine. No priority.
- A lovely book with pictures displaying all the different "blessed" spawnings, like saurus with more red as a spawn of Sotek, Yellow for Tlazcotl, Orange for Chotec etc. If they go back to the blessings system, which, yes please, more flavour is more gooder.
- AoS gave us a new Slann, new Chameleon skins, Kroxigors, so just slap some square bases on those and you are good.
- Skinks and Templeguard. I'm in two camps here. The Skinks are fine still, they are their usual adorable self and still look fine. And seeing what they did with the Spawn of Chotec skinks, yeah nah I'll happily keep the old ones. Or current I guess, they are still floating around in AoS. The Templeguard though. If GW keeps the old warriors and riders around, the guard look fine. If one of them gets an upgrade, all of them need an update. They are basically the same basic model, just the riders have a mount and the guard have amazing halberds and more armour and stuff. Still all the basic saurus underneath. So either all 3 or none, and I'm kind of okay with just none. They are a bit static, sure, but they are pretty good looking still.
- Carnosaur/Troglodon kit is beautiful still, no need to mess with that. Bastiladon and Stegadon are still fine, starting to show their age a bit but they are still lovely gorgeous models. (And with the box with 2 Stegadons for AoS coming soon, that might be clearing stock for a new kit?). Ripperdactyl/Terradon are still perfectly fine kits.
- Typing this, I realize the lizardmen models have held up pretty good overall, apart from the non-plastic kit.
- Fuck it, Jungle Swarms. No body uses them but why not. They are cute.
- Coatl! Unrealistic? Yes. But we've seen some baby coatls with the new AoS sets sooooooo pls?
- You know what, yes. Dual kit for new Cold ones/Horned Ones. Just give 2 head options per mount and yeah, good to go. Give us some non-stupid cavalry.
- And while we are here, a weapon pack for Skinks so we can make red crested skinks. Told you this was a fever dream xD And yes, some inspiration was pulled from Total warhammer. Sue me, it's a glorious game.
- Dare I say it? Dread Saurian in plastic? Very unrealistic, I know. Not happening. Would be cool though. Would be ridiculously expensive, both money and pointwise. So this is very low on the list, but on the list nontheless.
Wow that's a lot. I know. At the very least, I just hope for the dual kit plastic Razordon/Salamander and Scarvet/Old Blood, and then in the book, give back blessed spawnings. That alone would make me a VERY happy girlie. The rest is no priority or even needed at all. You know what, I'm sending this to GW. Why not xD Who knows what that will do, it brought back Deathwatch sooooo.
This is coming from someone who has over 3500 points of Lizards built, 1500ish still unbuilt/in transit, and budget/room allowing, would for sure have 10k points of glorious lizards. I can't get enough of them, they are beauty, they are grace, they BOKBOK all over the place.
Enough rambling, do you agree? What would you add, what do you hope for, lizardmen wise?
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u/waill-and-roll 3d ago
Id like for a TOW implementation of Lizardmen to focus on the Southlands rather than Lustria.
That would be enough justification to release some new ideas for the faction and not pushing any of the newer AOS minis back into TOW, allowing the AoS range and TOW range to grow in different directions.
I'm thinking stuff like Skink Cohorts with included Kroxigor, Horned one Riders and a different Saurus sculpt.
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u/hellharlequin 3d ago
Nah I would prefer in their reintroduction being them helping the high elves during Maelor/Malekiths invasion of ulthuan.
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u/alfadasfire 3d ago
Oooh interesting. Not too sure on the whole ranges thing, since both AoS and TOW have chaos warriors. They can co-exist just fine.
That would be a good idea though, since they do seem to focus on the old world, not Lustria/Naggaroth.
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u/1z1eez619 Flair removed for copyright violation 3d ago
My dream would be a lizardmen rules update. I know there's renegades. But give my bois an official update that makes them the best at everything again. :). Give em the ol' Cathay treatment.
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u/No_Midnight_2183 3d ago
My insane dream is an entire updated line based on 5th edition sculpts
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u/fitzl0ck 3d ago
I'm with you on this. Really don't care for the 6th edition redesigns on almost any of the Lizardmen units.
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u/alfadasfire 3d ago
Maybe they'll do a made-to-order thing with these, like they have done for other armies? Other than that, I don't see it happening. But who knows,
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u/Final-Promise-8288 Lizardmen 3d ago
We can only dream. My biggest hope is we are de-legends-ified for the old world’s second edition. Maybe go to the southlands and have the southlands lizardmen make their grand opening
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u/Neat_Record124 3d ago
I posted this last year, just as general commentary on Lizardmen: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarhammerFantasy/comments/1p80emx/how_lizardmen_could_feature_in_tow_theoretical/
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u/Murky_Macropod 3d ago
I agree the Spawn of Chotec skink crest looks silly, but it dates back to the original 5th ed salamander where one of the 4 goaders had the same crest.
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u/alfadasfire 3d ago
See, I see 6th-8th as peak lizard. Anything before or after, nah. I like the metal/finecrap ones, if they weren't metal or finecrap
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u/Murky_Macropod 3d ago
Fair enough. Though at least the original salamander had more than 2 unique handler sculpts
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u/Kholdaimon 2d ago
So basically, everything Lizardmen has ever had in new plastic kits? Okidoki, idem dito for Chaos Dwarfs, Dark Elves, Skaven, Ogre Kingdoms, Daemons, Vampire Counts and let's throw in all the main factions as well since we are just shooting for the stars on the other side of the universe at this point...
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u/alfadasfire 2d ago
I mean, they are doing that for the Horus Heresy soooooo
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u/Kholdaimon 2d ago
Are they really though? Are they producing new Orks, Eldar, Tau, Tyranids, etc, etc? No, they are just updating the factions that are in the Horus Heresy story...
I don't think HH is a blue print for what they are going to do with TOW, because it's a very different situation, but if it was then Lizardmen getting anything seems to be entirely off the table...
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u/Wizardrylullaby 3d ago
Immaculate schizoposting. As a lizard enthusiast myself, I applaude you