Slow Kill Team progress, Skaven temptations, and too many ideas at once
Sometimes the hobby just refuses to stick to one track. We start with painting, immediately get distracted by new releases, then somehow end up planning conversions for entirely different systems. So, in other words: a very normal day for us.
Kill Team is moving… just slowly
end3r reported that the Kill Team painting is progressing — just not exactly at lightning speed. We know that feeling very well. Sometimes getting paint onto models is enough of a victory, even if the whole project crawls forward one operative at a time.
And naturally, instead of being supportive and focused, we immediately drifted into hobby menace mode: what if the newest Tyranids from Kill Team got converted into something else entirely?
There is a very specific kind of Warhammer brain rot where no new kit is allowed to remain “just itself”. Everything is a potential conversion base. Everything can be repurposed. Everything can become a side project. We are not saying this is healthy, but we are saying it is familiar.
Skaven news: predictable, tempting, and slightly disappointing
Then the conversation swerved into Skaven, because of course it did.
Michał pointed out that it was pretty obvious that Gutter Runners and Night Runners would be among the next Skaven things to appear. That part was not surprising. The mild disappointment came from the fact that the new Gutter Runners look very close to what we already expected — not bad, just not quite exciting enough to blow the doors off.
And then came the important qualifier: yes, there was disappointment… but also yes, the Spearhead will probably still get bought.
Honestly, fair enough. A Clan Eshin-flavoured Spearhead sounds like exactly the sort of thing that could be great fun on the table. Fast, sneaky, annoying in all the right ways — and Spearhead continues to look like a genuinely good intro format as well as a nice “let’s get a game in without committing the whole day” option.
Michał was very clear on that point: Spearhead is something he’d happily play from time to time because it works well as an accessible game mode. And if that ends with more Skaven on the shelf, well… there are worse outcomes.
But the old ones still have the magic
The real emotional pivot, though, was the comparison with the classics. Because while the new Gutter Runners are decent enough, Michał’s verdict was simple: they do not beat the classic 1988 sculpts.
And honestly, we get it. Old Skaven have that weird, wiry, slightly unhinged charm that is hard to recreate. Modern kits are cleaner and more dynamic, but those old sculpts often have a personality all their own. Sometimes nostalgia is doing part of the work, sure — but not all of it.
City of Ash looks dangerously appealing
The next temptation on the pile was the City of Ash box for Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
Michał dropped the preview text about the set including two complete Spearhead forces — Cities of Sigmar and Skaven — plus missions, rules, a double-sided city board, and terrain. Which is exactly the sort of product that sounds suspiciously like “good value, if the price doesn’t go completely off the rails”.
That was basically the conclusion too: if it lands at a reasonable price, it is very likely getting picked up.
For reference, the Cities of Sigmar side in particular started setting off all kinds of extra ideas immediately.
The most dangerous hobby sentence: “these would be perfect for another system”
Naturally, it did not stop at Age of Sigmar.
While looking at the new Cities of Sigmar models, Michał immediately clocked them as a great fit for Border Princes Brigands in Warhammer: The Old World – Renegade Crowns. Specifically, the idea was for impetuous infantry with blunderbusses, with Scout and Warband — a wonderfully chaotic little package of rules, and exactly the kind of unit that makes us start browsing model ranges with suspicious intent.
This is one of our favourite kinds of army-building energy: not just buying a unit for the game it was designed for, but spotting where else it could work. A model range that can pull double duty across systems is always extra attractive.
And it did not end there, because even the little character on the glyphwing got flagged as having a future job in Renegade Crowns too.
That is probably the best summary of the whole conversation, really: one box announcement leads to Spearhead plans, which lead to Skaven nostalgia, which lead to conversion thoughts, which lead to army-building for an entirely different game.
So where are we at right now?
- Kill Team painting is happening, slowly but surely.
- New Skaven are tempting, even if not every sculpt is an instant all-timer.
- Spearhead keeps looking like a genuinely fun format.
- City of Ash may be hard to resist.
- And half the fun of new releases is figuring out how to use them somewhere completely unintended.
Which, let’s be honest, is a very Wiatry Magii way to hobby.