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Thanks both kind gents.

Hi folks. Long time, old git here and was gifted the ltd ed Kruleboy with the spear, shield, and vulture on his shoulder for Christmas. Is this a hero or basically unit champ? I'm 100% new to Kruleboyz but their aesthetic harkens back to the old 1983 era Citadel Orcs which well,.. nostalgia is a cruel mistress (krule?). Before I paint this guy up should I spend an hour painting him or 5 hours? (hero level). Thanks kindly!

Gosh I hope so.

Can we start a new thread since this is 300 pages not relative to the current book. Thanks

I sure do! and I've painted those models myself recently as Painbringers or the other ones. They also work well on converted chariots. Looks great thanks for sharing

I didn't know they dropped rules. Thanks for the link I would say rules for RoR are a passing fancy. I don't recall seeing RoR last long other than from 5th ed, there were some in 6th edition and one guy used his DoW in 7th a bit. I also feel this isn't the first time we've had a mercenary/RoR mechanic in AoS. If you want the models and the discount it is a good thing to consider. I noticed the Kruleboyz was $55 CAD cheaper than the items individually (no clue if they are good). Someone gave me the ltd edition Kruleboy guy with the vulture on his shoulder and I am old enough to remember buying Citadel Orcs in blister packs with the Eye of Sauron so I still feel the pull for that nostalgia and to paint them like pre Dave Andrews Greenskins skin.

The thing about over costed is the cost of Bestigors can come down. it's a better problem to have than a bad warscroll that's really cheap. And it appears they can work in the current mode. A lot in the book went up in a perplexing way (Shaggoth looking at you). So I still feel let it settle out for 6 months. Granted,.. that's the next GHB but still. If people are making them work, good for them. If you are making other things work, good for you. Onwards and upwards.

Rob, Honest WArgammer just posted an interview with someone who did very well with Bestigors. It will be non-patreon only Friday so I'm keen to hear the persons results and findings. Sometimes it boils down to oddity in circumstance as to why the person did well with said unit. Never the less I always find it takes 4-6 months of trials and attempts to come to conclusions and things to form top tier. Sometimes things just come out of the blue and are surprise hits.

Discord, Facebook groups (TBH I don't honestly know about these but years ago when I was on FB people would post about models and if I had them to sell I could through DMs), and eBay. I am thinking about flooding eBay with stuff and drastically lower than list prices to sell fast and mess up people listing OOP models at 4 times the original cost.

Well they have Shadespire which bridges between collectable card games and small warbands which don't require even glue. Just some clippers. This is wildly hilarious and inaccurate. GW could not have survived on making games that are bad which would then stop people from playing them. GW makes great games and you constantly hear people talk about games like Dread Fleet, the khorne champion games, Shadespire, etc being fun and enjoyable.

If you want to keep the discussion "friendly" don't guise it in complaints and comparing two different games that have evolved over 20 years when you are getting to a point that maintaining a competitive edge isn't one of the highest priorities in your life. Warhammer Fantasy was subject to abysmal dice spiking. 20 goblins could win Combat Res over 10 elite elves through cause you just needed those 4 goblins to roll 5s and the 4 elves to roll 1s and 2s.... with 5 dice each. The points cost disparity was terrible; 60 points of goblins compared to 180 points of elves. And then the fixes were ASF, then ASF being a mechanic to RR hits which of course caused an uproar of complaints that extended to Horde formation, the power scroll, 6th spells in lores. Very little about Fantasy was actually a good combat mechanic as far as game design. If you look back to Fantasy for this century there will be someone older complaining about unkillable Greater Daemons or Chaos Lords or Rhino Rush or magic spell cards from editions 2 through 5. Games Workshop players love their rose coloured glasses. What was good was GW continually evolved the game and when it came time rebuilt it so it worked in a modern age better. The #1 sign someone needs introspection is when the come to the Age of Sigmar discussions sub-forum to complain about the state of the game.

Going to add a thought. BoC has a weak, out-of-date, model that gained the nickname Pumbagor, still in the book and it's finecast.. Pretty sure anyone claiming they know GW is taking a massive axe to the CoS range, is salty and has no proof.

Unpopular opinion. Games Workshops makes fun games. *GASP SHOCKING*. Of course it's fun. It is always good to hear people discover and enjoy their hobby

Uh.. have you looked at the non stop campaign books GW has produced for AoS since day one? There is nothing but lore progression. Literally the rulebook condenses all the lore up to date as well. There were more AoS books producing lore in the first year of the game than 6th, 7th, or 8th ed combined (baring End Times which was just killing everyone). and the end of 2nd edition AoS had 4 big campaign books which had enough lore movement as ETs anyway.

in 2019 i painted 335 models. I just stopped caring what other people thought. instead of 5 hours a model, i went to batch paint 5 in a night. Work on heads, weapons and don't think too much about boots. I got this from Maxime the Eavy Metal painter. I still did my eldar nicely just not as nice as "OMG this is amazing". People knock over my models all the time and they get wear and tear. Plus over time the value of them is lessened. My 2005 era wood elf army that won ever painting contest it went in,.. well it's 2005-good and a chunk of those models had to be repurposed and I have a mortgage, house, 2 kids and hobbies outside work. It's okay to do things "fine". GW has really led the field in this regard with washes, basing, contrast, etc. While people will get butthurt GW didn't "invent" that, they made it consolidated and easily accessible and the base level for what you can do to get a whole army painted and based. Today people shouldn't have piles of shame like they did 20-30-40 years ago.