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which do you like old school chaos dwarfs( like all the old tall hats )
or new school  a converted fresh looking army.

Hands down anything non-big hat. Don't care if its two pieces of clay lumped together with a toothpick for a weapon and badly painted by a 2 year old. Anything is better then the "hat" models that nearly sunk CDs from Warhammer or at least are directly attributable to the state or limbo our army is in right now.

what about the new old school?

Old Skool - marauder minis

New Skool - Big Hats

New Old Skool - BFSP/CW conversions, Ishkur's stuff etc.

I honestly think some of the people on this site (especially ishkur) are producing better CDs than GW ever did, so it's the new old skool for me!

Anything 3rd edition in all honesty. My earlier post was me being snarky because I felt like being grumpy.

I like all the Chaos Dwarf models! Marauders stand out as my favorite, big hat models are very cool but I hate the new Dwarf plastic kits! people on this site have done wonders converting them but I just can't approve them in any way, new plastic dwarfs suck IMHO!

Old Skool all the way, marauders and big hats! (not in the same army though )

I too like that fact, however it doesn't change the fact that GW talks out of both sides of their mouth(s) whenever CDs are mentioned now-a-days. People can model their CDs in whatever fashion they wish. But to say that the CDs aren't in limbo is wishful thinking. Sorry.

If anyone seemingly anywhere mentions Chaos Dwarfs to any long time gamer and their first reaction "oh the dwarfs with the funny hats". Not the easiest perception to overcome. GW is going to have to fight this to some degree as their is still an overall perception of Chaos Dwarfs to this day for a lot of people. Is it the overriding factor? Only GW knows for sure. is it fatal? Maybe not, but a hindrance that no other army has to face.

As I've stated before in other threads when this comes up: GW is in a much different place now then they were in the early 90's; they face pressures they never had to from within the industry and without. They face competition from any number of discretionary spending: people have many more aveneues for entertainment then what is a fairly expensive hobby, and only becoming more expensive all the time, with a high price of entry in terms of both money and time.; GW cannot afford another fiasco like the "Tall Hat Debacle" in 7th edition. If by some miracle GW does re-do CDs we need to hope/pray/sacrifice to Hashut whatever needed to insure success. Because another failure of CDs will most likely result in the death of CD as an army, right now I'd say its on life support.  

Facts are facts: last time GW sold them as a full fledged and supported army they failed badly in the marketplace. GW follows the money (like any company), armies that are successful make money; there-by successful armies making money get updates with new models and rulebook(s)... Chaos Dwarfs haven't had a full fledged army book since 4th. When did it come out 1993? 14 years later sure seems like a limbo to me. 2009 at the earliest? 16 years without a book... From there the next leap of logic is this: Why did they fail? One needs look no further then the stove pipes on the heads of said models. Bad sculpting are part of it? Maybe. Artwork bad? Depends, I've seen much worse from GW. These are contributing factors and perhaps minor ones in all honesty.

That being said: feel free to paint or convert ones models in any manner possible (note: thats anyone). In closing nothing personal.

I like new school the best.But i have some old school stuff

Hats all the way. except with a touch of actual chaos.

if i remember correctly i made a thread a while back where it listed everyone under there catagory, bt im too tired to look for it now to put the data in here.

As was stated in that thread "there is room enough under Hashut's hat for all.

Well till 2009 im standing with my newSchool  army.Hope fully there new Chaos Dwarf army will be as cool as before.

wouldnt it be cool if GW released army books for armies but didnt release models for those armies. they could be called modellers armies, and the books would be full of conversion, modelling and sculpting guides.

I think the one thing that is certain is that it will be non-hatty.

hat for me.
every time somebody looks at my army(thank god it is finished after 5 months)they say 'wow chaos dwarfs or,orks and dwarfs you are cheating'.
in one way some say the tallhead aren't chaos enough,but i think that is the beauty about it they are just dwarfs with cool beards and tall heads or they are mighty dwarfs using magic and flying an bulls,did you ever see a normal dwarf do that!!!!
i wear my tall head with pride

Well.... the only glimpse we have regarding new CD models is the Hellcannon...

Well, I know this has probably been said before but I can't be bothered to trall through thraeds looking for how it turned out, but the hellcannon crew are not the only glimpse we have had...  we have had brand new artwork for the 7thEd rulebook of a Chaos Dwarf with a tallhat!! (found in top right corner of this site)
Who knows what they will do, the irony is whatever they do there will be Chaos Dwarf fans who won't like it

Btw my creed is hats, masks and helms its all good, or evil as it were.

One piece of art hardly counter-balances three actual figures IMHO. That being said Hashut's hat is big enough for all!

Guess we'll agree to disagree. I'm sure the run up to Fall 2009 should prove interesting as to which style will prevail.

Also: topics of such a nebulous nature are bound to end like like this, its inevitable.

Were not. There are no garantees to be made here as multipe people have heard multiple stories regarding theultimate fate of the CDs.


I'm an "optimistic realist"... in other words I hope we will get a new army book but not opptomsitic it will happen.

I think Tall Hat just fainted and died after seeing that massive, uh, Tall hat!

I've often wondered why the various CD heroes just don't whip off their stove pipes and beat their opponents to death with them?! I mean the should do something like this: S9 d6 Wounds per hit no save...