Age Of Sigmar Range Review: Sylvaneth 

The best thing in this range are Alarielle's thighs

"Cutesy insects" That's something I've never heard before, but for some reason it feels 100% legit, coming from you.

Anthropromophism - reminds me of the face of the mutant bugs in the movie Mimic.

"bustle" - it's called a bussy geez get it right :P

The beetle of the first model is a hint at what revised tyranids could look like.

anthropomorphic

I never saw that tree gap, but now that you said it, I can’t unsee.

I've got a plan for my Sylv army, very egyptian themed basically based around Galadrielle being painted up as Eset (the Egyptian Goddess of Magic) and Khepri (the Scarab God of Dawn). Should work real well, only issue is I'm not a huge fan of the "spirits within the trees" part and much prefer the living trees aspect which is kinda basic in terms of converting and painting.

Love your range reviews mate. Apologies if you've already done this and I've missed it but I've recently got heavily into blood bowl. Would love to see you do a range review on the teams. Bit different but would be really cool.

Bustles were high fashion during the two bustle eras, the first being around 1868 - 1876. After this, the natural form dress became popular but during 1882, the silhouette given by the bustle became popular again but this time it came back bigger and more pronounced. This style of bustle died out towards the end of the 1880s. Source: am fashion historian building 1887 walking dress with a very big bustle

Mentioning the undead/Dark Souls version of Sylvaneth you did reminded me how good those conversion looked. Have you thought of trying to do something with Titanicus like your own psi-titan or corrupted titan?

"what dwarf would be tall enough to take advantage of that?" pin the beard to your base and have a slayer way up top flying through the air! :D

Alarielle can crush watermelons with her thighs.

Alarielle the Everqueen and her massive Wardroth Beetle are a well sculptured model of the Sylvaneth armies. The head on the Drycha Hamadreth looks like a Daemonette and Wood Elf. I like the bees flying out of the honey combed silos flying to their unseen enemies.

Kiri: "What Dwarf would be tall enough to use that beard?" My mind: "GRIIIIIIMNIIIIIIIIIRRRRR"

The tree-revenant kit is why i started this wonderful army Not a huge fan of spite-revenant Same as you i really love paint them with some simple dry brushing And the combinaison of colors between brown/green of tree and bleu/purple of the insects and elfy parts, i love it

Doing range reviews of all of AOS? I pray for your self control and your wallet

favourites are absolutely the kurnoth hunters... if i ever do a full sylvaneth army (currently just have one of each plastic unit from the initial release), then ill be going pretty heavy on them!

Wargames factory skeleton warriors is an excellent source of skeleton bits, better than GW's offering IMO. Gives plenty of bits and also pretty cheap.

almost daemonic? when i saw these when they were released, i thought essentially everything getting daemons now, or being soul-constructs. Seems like the entire AOS is an enterprise in necromancy if not soul-omancy.

honestly loved how posable the treelords were. I have my durthu pointing its blade in a kind of challenge pose. with the claw hand pointing upwards. ddnt swap the legs but I have another kit I might do tht with to try another look. just love the options.

Branchwraith is the old Drycha model, by the way. No wonder you like it :D

it wonders me.. we have a godly factionleaders like her,, teclis, kragnos, nagash.. etc but were are the models of sigmar himself oder the chaos-gods

If ever there was an army that would benefit from a glow in the dark base coat this would be it

I’m tempted between Slyvaneth and Idoneth, but I’m already on the path to chaos and what’s next for me is Disciples of Tzeentch and thousand sons

This is a fantastically creepy range! GW managed to create dynamic looking possessed trees.

The Dryads came out at the end of 6th edition, 17 years ago. That's probably why you're not liking them as much.

2:00 I think that you're looking for 'anthropomorphic'

Gaunts, Genestealers, now Dryads - it's a given now that Kiri will dislike some of my favourite models :'( I reckon I love them because I'm nostalgic, I was collecting Wood Elves back when that Dryad box came out! :P

Came to this video expecting Slyvanian Families......lack of hedgehogs, rabbits etc..... :P

Never built any. I have the Mortal Realms premium kit 2 but my ex wants that. The old finecast branchwych is the old Drycha model from Fantasy. I knew someone who had her and she hated trying to get the arm to stay in place.

It's interesting that you like the Branchwych so much, since that was the Old World version of Drycha.

Love the video. I have to say I had a completely different experience with the Dryads. So many extra bits, not only for other models, but for the Dryads themselves. The one branch for the back is not enough. Most of mine have 2, and some with 3. I even have some growing from their ankles. Some have 3 arms/claws. There's so much you can do with this kit. And I have 30-50 in an army, and they are all completely unique. That's a testament to the awesomeness of this box of branches.

12:42 I forgot how EXTREMELY knotted the Minotaur models are. Those could easily be respun as some kind of undead monstrosity, Chaos Spawn, or Dark Eldar grotesque.

There's too many miniatures and too little time... I have a couple of dryads from an inherited Wood Elves Battalion (an old one from like 2004 or something), and I'm gonna paint a couple of them in different seasons I think. The Kurnoth hunters looks incredible and I'd get a kit, but I just know theyre gonna sit unpainted and unassembled for so long.. I've got sooo much to get roundto doing.

For the high heels on the Tree Man, I wonder if they're meant to be like Japanese wooden sandals, called geta. The Pokemon Shiftry has those, and they have the vibe of "wooden old guy that hates you." At least, that how I view the one with a staff; Durthu looks like he got fashion advice from the Queen of Blades. I love how Alarielle makes so much use of leaves. So many nature spirit designs forget all about that, and just make giant golems or trolls made of wood.

Might be looking for the word 'Anthropomorphic' or possibly the phrase 'uncanny valley'

Interesting colors. Always like your take on things. Thanks for the video.

You didn't paint enough skulls until you tackle Skulltakers cape. ...Was enough for me :D

Hey hope you read this kirioth really enjoy your channel any chance you are goimg to bring back the community spotlight I like seeing the kitbashes and paint jobs. I'm newer to the hobby amd fell in love with kitbashing and maybe ill submit somthing

If I get Sylvaneth, I'll be getting it in conjunction with Lumineth to do a Selesnya force for my Ravnica D&D game.

Can't wait until GW starts putting out some more insectile units or wood spirit units with insectile symbiotes for the Sylvaneth, you know to help bind the insectoid parts more firmly into fitting the army rather than just being a 'why?' addition. Also expanding the rosters more because many of the new army rosters they seem to put out seem to be absolute bare minimum for an army which just makes me sad when they seem to have such epic ideas and themes behind them.

The funny thing about your undead sylvaneth is that they actually fit in to age of sigmar considering how the sylvaneth are just souls of various dead aelves held inside of various trees. Also the Dryads are I think one of the few holdovers from pre end times warhammer fantasy.

The sylvaneth desperately need new miniatures to shake up their roster. The tree spirits are great, but holy hell they need some variate. Maybe bring back brettonia by making some green knights and human peasants who worship Alarielle.

My thing with the sylvaneth is that I like everything about them except the faces. I can't even explain why

I mean think of this karioth, nature has two things, cute little bugs and dogs, and horrid monstrosities and everything can kill you. so I think the balance is justified

I have a pretty big Sylvaneth army and I love the range and the models are nive to paint. But I gotta say, the new sylvaneth wildwood is one of the worst models ever made by human hands. The branches are too heavy and mounted in ball sockets causing them to droop while drying and the fact the leaves are scuplted as part of the branch means you can even paint them seperatre.

"Do you have a massive Sylvaneth army?" I'm working on it, alright :D

Gunna be honest the branchwitche's scythe is a bugger to attach. Haven't worked up the courage to build my treelord yet though

Is the word you were looking for expressive? Anyway, always nice to see a range review from you.

Are you sure that beetle isn't actually some sort of stone construct in the shape of a beetle? Its carapace looks more chiseled than grown to me.

Some of these kits are absolutely great for the bits box. Really creatively designed range. More please GW. Maybe less stretch faced hobgobs, reminding me of that scene in Army of darkness a little too much.

I think the term you're looking for is uncanny valley regarding the face.

For the dryads i think mixing them with the new zombies could mix well with the rest of the army.

If you need more skeleton models, wargames atlantic has a skeleton box you could look into

My favorite is definitely the sprit of durthu and hunters because of a bunch of angry tree men

Honeycombed arse... Well thats a sentence I won't be able to get out of my mind for some time.

i've painted 2 durthu's and i can confirm a lot of skulls XD

"the honeycomb arse is something I go back and forward on"

That long road mini guy kinda sounds like you. Any relation?

I really like the Kurnothi, the Hunters and Outcastes.

Durthu could easley be converted into an avatar of Khane

Also the Branchwaith used to be Drycha.

SylVARneth, surely it’s sylVUHneth

I honestly never noticed that the beatle has a face xD

I fail to see an anthropomorphic face on the beetle.

Love the Sylvaneth, I think the new edition has given them a proper new lease of life, they've always been one of the cooler potentially evil looking Order armies :). Let us know if you'd like any list advice ;)

The word you want is anthropomorphic

poo sylvaneth.... poor poor sylvaneth

I started this army on a whim. I bought the start collecting box for the treelord and dryads to use in D&D. I found them to be so enjoyable to paint that I decided to expand. The only thing I've found so far that's a slog is the awakened wyldwood and that's probably just because I did 6 in one go. Almost all of the kits have plenty of great leftovers. I even made my own branchwraith from all the extras in my start collecting box. I agree that most of the little bugs are kinda weird and seem superfluous, except for the ones on Drycha. They have their own attack rules and I prefer my models to have some representation for their weapons. Things don't have to be exactly like the box art, but for me, I feel like something should be visually representative of the weapon. I toyed around with a nest of sorts at her feet but found they looked better just coming off her arms, so I stuck with the expected assembly. I wouldn't be surprised if someone had a better way to handle that. It's just a limitation of my skills.

For your Tree Lord ancients base did you consider having skeletons coming from around the feet and climbing up them as well as moving in the direction of the outstretched arm? Also awesome review, really enjoying these

Durthu is probably my favorite model out of these, and you are one hundred percent correct: the skulls are absolutely horrid to paint. Especially when you're going for an ashed, crispy tree man look.

Really enjoying your range reviews, some interesting perspectives. Have you considered making a playlist of all the range reviews?

Managed to find that old Drycha model in metal few years back from my local shop. Also, dryads haven't aged well even though they looked good during 6th edition.

*cries in woodelf*

Will you stop making me regretgoing for 40K instead of AOS

I bloody love the lore and look of slyvaneth, but good God are they a pain to put together! I really enjoyed this ramble. Thank you.

The Smew enjoys beetles....nom nom

A dwarf on a big rock

I love the fact that Drycha is basically a Dryad mech and I freaking love that.

anthropomorphized

You may want to change the tags. I didn’t see a lot of bolters in this video.

the word for the cutesy insect is "anthropomorphized" :)

Came for a Kirioth video, stayed for Kirioths awesome conversions

Thanks for the video Kiri!

The words are uncanny valley. When it looks human but not

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