They may lack the reputation and profile of the legendary pacemen of past West Indian touring sides, but Australia opener Simon Katich believes this summer's version of 'Calypso Heat' has plenty of potency.
The West Indies' fine history of producing premier quicks may have recently abated, but the intimidating likes of Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh wreaked havoc against Australian sides of the past.
Fidel Edwards and Daren Powell did their best to add their names to that register when Australia toured the Caribbean in 2008, and while at times the pair looked dangerous, the visitors still came away with a 2-0 series win.
A knee injury has kept Edwards from touring this season, while Powell has signed with Lancashire as a Kolpak player, rendering him unavailable.
Jerome Taylor was also in danger of missing his chance to rattle Australia in Thursday's opening Test at the Gabba after being unable to take part in the tour match against Queensland, but coach David Williams declared his 'spearhead' was fit on Tuesday.
Taylor will most likely share the new ball with 21-year-old Kemar Roach, with the support cast to be made up of all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, and one or two of potential Test debutants Ravi Rampaul and Gavin Tonge.
The raw attack, minus Taylor and Tonge, largely failed to impress in the four-day tour match against an inexperienced Queensland side, with the Bulls declaring at 7-617.
However, Katich was not about to write off the tourists' pace attack after one poor showing with the ball.
"They have some very good pacemen in their line-up," Katich said.
"They generally have three or four guys who can all hit 140km-plus, and you know the Gabba is going to provide good carry and a bit of swing."
"When you put all that together they are capable of knocking guys over and we are fully aware of that."
The one highlight of the visitors' only warm-up for the Test series was the work of Roach.
Roach posted figures of 3-135, but his express pace and dangerous bounce made an impression on many, including Bulls opener Nick Kruger - whom he struck on the helmet twice.
At well under six-feet tall, Roach may lack the height of his heroes Walsh and Ambrose, but there is no doubting his ability to generate serious pace.
Roach was clocked at 152kph at the recent ICC Champions Trophy and Katich believed he and fellow opener Shane Watson would have to be on guard.
"That's really good pace, you know if they are bowling at 150kph the old heart rate is going to be up," he said.
"That's the beauty of playing Test cricket, you want to be challenged, and there is no doubt that is going to happen."
Taylor looms large as the Windies other main weapon, having dismissed Australia captain Ricky Ponting three times in the space of two Tests.
Williams, speaking after his side completed a training session at Allan Border Field on Tuesday, believed the right-armer had Ponting's measure.
"I think we can see that if you look at the records from the Test matches, but it's going to be a completely new game," Williams said.
"Ricky's an experienced guy, he'll be aware of what we're going to come at him with."
"He (Taylor) didn't play the four-day game, but looking at him in the nets he's up and ready to go and that is good for us."
Williams admitted his pace squadron may be lacking experience, but was adamant it could surprise this summer.
"It's a new-look bowling attack, we still have Jerome Taylor who is going to spearhead the attack, he's still a handful and we've got some young guys that are coming in that are pretty exciting," Williams said.
"We're hoping this is going to be a series for most of these youngsters, it's going to be tough, it's going to be hard, but they are good bowlers and they are learning pretty quickly."
"Of course we want to try and be as aggressive as possible, but we have plans for all the batsmen and we're going to stick to our plans."
"If we do the basic things right out there, we could come out on top."