>>96388171
That's the thing, my guy. I LOVE STEAMPUNK as an aesthetic. I just think the dwarves look awful and aren't interesting. Steampunk can be done great, it was just done in such a weird cartoony. I don't know how to put it. Everything in warhammer fantasy to 40k to necromunda... it all has a throughline of being either scary or cool. I don't think the balloon dwarves are scary, and I don't think they are cool. These guys looks like they come off of a 1970s jam band cover not a 1980s heavy metal cover. Does that make sense?

AoS has some neat stuff like the flesheater courts, and I like a lot of the chaos stuff. But overall the setting is so noblebright and disney feeling. The thing that I like feel like holdovers from fantasy. You could TELL me that these balloon dwarves kill people, rob people and are evil or something. You could tell me they hold grudges to a ridiculous exaggerated degree to the point they kill people. But these models don't tell that story at all.

Even votann at least have design language of their corporate themes, with engineering and technician inspired outfits and the presence of robots and such.