whoah there, hang on and I'll explain.
First up, apologies if this has been said before.
I'm not sure I want GW to bring our curly beards back into the fold. As some of you will have seen I'm currently blogging my own mission to find and paint a big hat army, and thats just it...find.
Part of the attraction was the rarity of chaos dwarf armies these days, that kinda elite feeling y'know?
Secondly the chase!, having to put a bit of effort into building the army, I can't just walk into GW and buy what I want. I've had to bid on ebay, negotiate on Bartertown and deal with friends. Its made me love my army all the more. Those of you converting your own CDs will not have this but instead will have the time and skill put into each mini which will probably make you love them even more.
Thirdly the community, this is without doubt the friendliest warhammer forum I've ever used. Theres a real sense of camaraderie you just dont get anywhere else and thats probably down to the way chaos dwarfs are the "cult" army in WHFB.
I'm probably exaggerating when I say I don't want a new range but I'd hate to lose what I have. For my army to be viewed like 5th Ed dark elves and CDs to become just another WHFB army galls me.
Am I talking rubbish?
Well said, but some form of recognition would be nice from gw. And maybe a little more publicity
For me the attraction of Chaos Dwarfs is the potential for practicing my sculpting and painting to create a striking force. If GW brings them back then great, I may get new stuff if it's like the Hellcannon crew, but I'll still convert BfSP Dwarfs, heh. I can certainly understand your point of view, and having an uncommon army will be nice as I tend to play Chaos in Warhammer 40k, but I reckon more 'publicity' as it were will be a good thing to revitalise the army.
personally i'm hoping that when they brign back CD they will use some of the old range.
the bull centaurs, hobos and CD hero/lord are good sculpts. The rest probaly needs to be redone though
I honestly think that CD would be massively popular if GW pitched them right. Everyone loves an evil army, and most people I know have a soft spot for dwarfs.
I love the old range of miniatures but, as its been said before, was the main thing holding it back.
As for what starscream said, the lack of support from GW has made me love Chaos Dwarfs more, as it gives us a much larger creative lisence and people tend to notice more when you pull out your CDs (although some derogatory comments ensue). Just give us a WD update, that'll keep us going
The main reason I started them was the conversion opportunities. The other reason was pure outrage that they did Ogre Kingdoms instead of Chaos Dwarfs, although I'm not actually that fussed about getting a new book now, I prefer making stuff up and using the RH rules or the Dwarf list.
GW do still use some people in playtesting, I know some guys from Druchii.net were testing the Daemon and DE rules, both fluff and in-game mechanics. Admittedly they are a much larger community for an established army, while we are a bunch of twirly-bearded eccentrics
The fact that CD keep appearing in various army book's fluff makes me think they at least have them in mind. Its just a question of waiting for the right moment when circumstances favour a new army, rather than polishing established ones.
that's ture all these people have been without a new army for what seem's like for ever but thay've been so long that thay have started to make there own andit shown's so much passion and conmitent they have but still GW haven't made a new army for them so the question is would you like a new army to take over your great converted one?
Frankly its been so long since GW did any good models, I shall be sculpting and converting most of any new armies I do. My Slaanesh Daemons will be all sculpted/converted apart from the rank and file Daemonettes. GW seem to have lost their decent sculptors (probably due to their outrageous rights-grabbing). The new Dark Elves have been thoroughly disappointing apart from the Cold One, and even that is just 'nice', and don't even get me started on the Vampires. So, they would really have to pull their fingers out to get me to buy any new CD range.
I don't need a new miniature range, because they probably wont fit with the rest of my CD army, but I want them to bring a new range, because that will mean that we get our book
but maybe no one in GW play with CD and it's just us so if we're the only ones there not going to listen for example no one in GW would say "oh my CD are out of date let's make some more" but they have left it for so long that it is only us collecting it but we don't back down and still fight i don't collect CD but i'm willing to fight who's with me
create your own rules and play dwarfs on tournement, but use CD models !!!!
We need to evolve too, not just try to fit the RH list to Dwarfs. The Dwarf list may have no cavalry, but it has plenty of other options that are way cool. The obvious ones are the true elite infantry; Hammerers and Iron Breakers make awesome Immortals. Plus you can do a lot with the war machines; I'm currently working on a pair of Bolt Throwers with some augmented armoured Hobgobs as crew and Chaos Dwarf Engineers, and a young Taurus to use as a Gyrocopter
Plus there's no reason why you cant mount a Bull Centaur on 2 infantry bases and use him as 2 rank and file models. If GW don't want to do anything new for CDs then we should.
New models will always be of interest even if it's just for the converting possibilities to shape them to fit the look of your existing army. As for updating or tweaking CD units my army (photos soon) uses as much of the old stuff (whirlwinds, units of swivel guns, crossbows) mixed with the RH list plus extra stuff like my Mid-Nor Cyclops. As long as it has a coherent thread and look then I'm happy and I would rather such units were used rather than gathering dust on a shelf.
So if new models were ever to appear and there was something I liked the look of I would find a way to use them.
i just have a warriors of chaos army, and encorporate my chaos dwarfs in it..especially with the new chaos mortals army list out, its a very easy thing to do, for every 3 chaos warriors i pop in a cd plus having a unit of all chaos dwarfs..personally i like the 3rd edition chaos dwarfs especially the marauder minis i think they look like a chaos dwarf should look..a dwarf in chaos armour i have good feeling tht chaos dwarfs will stay the way they are which is the rh army list on the website and maybe appear once in awhile in warriors of chaos or as collectors models