Let’s be honest here. GenCon came 2 months early this year for Wyrd. With all the work they put into pre-releasing lots of avatars, they ran out of time to release the last models from book 2. So october seems to be the month for tying up loos ends.
Let’s start off with the bad. I was already afraid to see this model when I saw the concept art in the second book. Luckily, the miniature looks better. But not much. The idea of an ashen core carried around by a dust cloud is brilliant, but the resulting miniature is... well, boring to be honest. Too bad, because I was really looking forward to adding this one to my Leveticus crew.
On to the good stuff then. Everybody’s favorite undead hooker is finally up for sale! We’re talking about Molly Squidpiddge of course. A beautiful miniature (every goth’s favorite fantasy) that will be added to many a Seamus crew, I figure.
In Molly’s wake, there’s the Crooligans. Little lost orphans that wander around the city, ready to steal and kill to make a... well, living, by lack of a better word.
To top of Molly’s starter box, we finally get the rogue necromancy. Finally an undead beast that can deal some real damage. You can just hear McMourning players all over the world cheering in joy for the arrival of this beastie. I can’t wait to summon one of these in combat. "Surprise!" Followed by a big grin (note to myself: practice on maniacal grin)
And Molly is of course the only henchman so far to get her own totem, in the form of the Necrotic machine. Some kind of mechanized pet cat. Although cat might be stretching it a bit.
To top off all this necromantic goodness, we also get the alternate and avatar version of seamus (who were already released in preview during gencon). Talk about resser overload!
And while we are at the subject of the criminally insane: the arcanists also see their hench.. erm.. woman released. Kaeris she is called and if you read the excellent background stories in the last book, you know that she is a few cards shy of a full deck. The ultimate firestarter. Born on blazing wings, she flies around the battlefield and rains fire upon her foes like an angel straight out of hell. What else could you ever want?
And where there’s fire, there must be fire gamins. Think of the Ice gamins, but then the complete opposite. They set fire to just about anything on the battlefield. The only thing I will need for these are cool fire tokens to put everywhere, to really show the destruction they are causing.
To top off Kaeris’ boxed sets, there’s a female and a male gunsmith. Packed to the teeth with guns and not afraid to use them. As if Kaeris and her gamins wouldn’t cause enough damage on their own. I really want to get my hands on this box. I can just smell the sulfur and burned wood when looking at it.
As always, we save the best for last. The Mechanical rider is a clockwork steed with a clockwork rider. Armed with a sword and some kind of harpoon-axe that she can use to drag enemies along with her. I know all Leveticus fans were waiting for more riders, so it is easy to forget what an awesome model this will be to have in any regular Arcanist army.
More info on prices and release dates can be found on the Wyrd forum.
