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Broken Realms: Teclis - SPOILER Discussion + Lore Summary
Going with @Clan's Cynic idea for BR: Morathi, I think it's a good time to start a spoilers and discussion thread about what's going to happen in BR Teclis, instead of the rumours thread. We already have some information from White Dwarf and the Broken Realms short stories. 


 

I've summarized the LRL relvant information from the February White Dwarf here: 

 
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Going to start the Spoilers and Discussion thread about what's going to happen in next Broken Realm Book starring Be'lakor


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Shadow of the Dark Master - YouTube
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Event Title: The AoS Masters
Event Author: Ben
Calendar: Events UK
Event Date: 07/11/2020 12:00 AM to 07/12/2020 12:00 AM
 

UK AoS Masters 2020

Date: 11th/12th July
Venue: The Grange Banqueting Suites, Derby, DE23 6XX

I am happy to announce the details for the 2020 Age of Sigmar Masters.

2 Day event.  5 games. 
The Masters Knockout and Singles event.
 
Tickets go on sale to the top 40 in the rankings on Weds April 1st at 8pm (Max. 2 tickets per player) for 1 week before going on general sale. 

Tickets will be £60 and includes lunch on both days

 FORMAT
The top 15 entrants + The current Master will play in the Masters event while the remainder of the field go into the singles event. 
List submission 7 days prior to the event. 

79 Tickets in Total (+ Free ticket for current Master Dan Bradshaw)
Top 16 ticket holders in the rankings will playing the Masters Knockout event.  
Seeded 1st Draw using pools based Rankings position.
4 rounds Knock out tournament
Winners progress and Losers on day 1 enter the singles event with a full BYE for rounds played in masters (MAX Tournament points and MAX Kill Points)

On Sunday all Masters players other than the finalists will be playing in the singles event.  

COVERAGE
The event coverage will be provided by Wargamer Online on YouTube and Twitch

RULES
2000 Points Match Play Warhammer Age of Sigmar. 
Malign Sorcery realm rules for spells, terrain and artefacts will not be in use. 
20-0 System. 
14 Points for a Major Win.  
4 Points 2 Hidden Agendas to claim and Deny
2 Points for +/- 1000 Kill points scored or denied.
3 Hour Rounds
All Terrain Provided
Pre-Selected Battle Plans to be published on day of the event
(rules pack to follow)

TIMETABLE
Friday Evening

Set-up at venue.
The Masters Dinner and 1st round draw
We have a table booked at a local restaurant for the traditional Masters players get together. 

Day 1

Masters
Round of 16
Round of Quarter Finals
Semi Finals

Singles
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3

Saturday Evening
The venue remains open. Cheap bar.  Food can be ordered in and we have an excellent outdoor patio/drinking area.  

Day 2

Masters
Finals 

Singles
Round 4
Round 5

The final will overlap an extended lunch break and have the game live on a screen at the venue for players to watch during lunch.  

 

 


The AoS Masters

 

 
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Blood and Glory 2018 was my first ever tournament...and the reason I've been to at least 12 tournaments so far this year with 6 more in the calendar. You better believe I'm coming back for this one!
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Inspired by @Ben's question about Better Part of Valour I got curious: What's your favourite scenario? No wrong answer possible.

And let us know why! 

For me it's gotta be Relocation Orb. I get that's a bit of a crabshoot but it's always fun. It requires both anticipation and the ability to react. You need to be able to block, and you need to be able to move. In no other battleplan do I need so much time to decide going first or second. 
I love it, never had a bad game with it that wasn't fun. 
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Path of the Changer
Tzeentch be praised!! Welcome to my Tzeentch AoS PLOG.

To start with, a little background.  I'm based in Manchester in the UK and I've been on these forums for a few months now, mainly as a lurker but also an occasional poster.  I've recently moved house and have been itching to get back into painting - all of my stuff has been packed up for a couple of months now.  The birth of my son last year really impacted the amount of time I had to paint; but I suppose that's what comes with fatherhood.  I've decided to start this PLOG to give me an additional incentive to find time to paint - I'm a painter first with my hobby, and a gamer second.  I've been to numerous Throne of Skulls tournaments held at Warhammer World, where my armies have been nominated for best painted twice and I've won the coveted award once.  I'm a perfectionist, and I've been known to strip a model and start again just because I've not been able to get a blend right.

Anyway, enough of that rubbish.

My favourite Chaos god has always been Tzeentch; the magic, the mystery, and the fact that even in the face of losing game after game I know that it's all part of Tzeentchs' plan.

I've had Silver Tower since it was released - I love all of the models in that box and really wanted those to form the basis of my AoS force.  I want my force to be striking, and draw the eye - basically, I'm aiming to paint an award winning force again.  I've decided to start by painting the Gaunt Summoners (I have both the one on foot and on disc) and the familiars to get a feel for an overall colour scheme.  From these, I'm starting with the familiars - basically because if I ****** them up I have replicas from the box.  So without further ado, here's a completed Blot, and a WIP of Slop.  Bases will be completed at a later date, once we have a better idea of how the realm of metal looks.

C&C is always welcome.
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The Hag!
The Troggoth Hag is definitely a piece I believe every Troggoth army needs. It's amazing as a model and amazing on the table.


I rarely do such detailed eyes and faces but when working on a model that is the centrepiece of your army you want to spend some extra time just to make it special. This is surely the best work I have ever done on a models face and I think there is just a lot of character and emotion on the model. 


My smaller Troggoths are just green and blue but for this model I felt like it really needed another color to make it pop more so I asked some people what would be best and after many recommendations I decided to go for a nice bright orange and I think it really fits nicely. This picture also shows well the addition of mushrooms all over the model. Even though my Troggoth army is based on swamp themed bases with lots of water effects the mushrooms really tie it to my Grots and Squigs that are based on more rocky bases but with lots of mushrooms. The base on this model was definitely one of the most fun parts of the process of creating it.


Here we see a detail shot of the base with the small Free Guild soldier hiding from the lumbering Hag. I love the base I did here. The water effects came out nicely and the base that comes with the Hag looks really nice after I added all kinds of fun stuff like mushrooms and skulls to it.

 
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The 5000+ Owners Club
A simple showing off and inspirational thread where those with 5K or more points in a single army (formal army not grand alliance army) can show off those huge model counts! Gives you an excuse to get the whole army on the table/floor/shelving and show it off! 

 

Some people have some really huge armies, 10K, 20K or rarely even more in points; and I think those armies are worth showing off. To show the dedication and fun people have had collecting a single army to such a vast size! So come one come all and lets show off and chat about these huge armies! 
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With the end of the year rapidly approaching who is taking stock of how well they've done in 2018, and making plans for the coming year?

2018 Successes:

Last year I had two main hobby resolutions, the first being to focus on building my scenery collection, and the second being to try to play the actual game a bit more regularly. My christmas battleforce was Kharadron Overlords, but I didn't end up expanding it into a full army. Instead I've mainly focused on collecting non GW figures to build up a set of crusades era Saracens who can be used for other games, or as an Araby style freeguild army.

I've done pretty well on the scenery front, expanding my random assortment of terrain into several fully painted sets themed around different terrains. Before all my battles were fought among a hodge podge of ruins and trees, but I now have a solid set of town houses, and jungle and desert themed boards, as well as the ability to make more crowded boards of ruins and forest.

On the second count I started a facebook group of all my warhammer loving friends and have been gradually getting a more regular (if not more frequent) set of gaming going. I've definitely played more games in as a result, though I've ended up playing  a lot more 40K and frostgrave than age of sigmar. (Not that that's a bad thing...)

2019 plans:

So looking ahead to next year I need to continue building my local group, probably with some campaigns. I want to try to get more Lord of the Rings and AoS games in.

Getting more stuff painted is a boring new years resolution, as just about everyone will probably say that, but it kind of has to be on the list.

I think my main collecting project will be trying to get a second full 40K army together, along with a few Kill Teams for variety. That also means that I can keep my AoS focus on painting up the few thousand points of Elves i've got waiting. We'll see how that turns out... I may end up sitting here in 12 months time with twice as many grey elves and not a necron in sight!
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I think we can agree that Malign Portents was great and it really improved the lore in leaps and bounds. Now that the Necroquake has happened and the Mortals Realms are still reeling, it seems like a perfect time to set up another disaster. It could be anything from a huge Waaagh that takes advantage of the weakened walls of Order, the much anticipated escape of Slaanesh, or something totally different. 

 

What would you like to see happen next in the lore?
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Realms at War 3 - Aethermy - The run up to this event is amazing!!!!
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Artefact + Hero Megathread
So, I've been playing with an army that has garbage artefacts, Flesh Eater Courts, which encouraged me to find better artefacts from Malign Sorcery. After some experimenting I settled on a very tasty interaction that has been sweeping enemy units for a while now. It occurred to me that some players might not have the luxury or patience to test different artefacts, so I thought I ought to make a thread where everyone can share the pairings of heroes and artefacts that have proven their worth. It also occurred to me that a lot of people might have written off most of the artefacts in their books, choosing the tried and tested artefacts every game instead of taking a risk on a new one (looking at you Ethereal Amulet). This thread is for everyone to discuss specific interactions between warscrolls and artefacts that others may have overlooked. I feel as though my army has been significantly improved by this interaction, and that it has given me a whole new sub-strategy to explore every game.

Here is my contribution:

Crypt Haunter Courtier + Rune Blade (Chamon)

A Crypt Haunter Courtier has a club that deals 3 damage, but has no rend.


A Crypt Haunter Courtier can re-roll failed hits while within 15" of any Abhorrent Ghoul King, a hero which is an auto-include in any FEC army.


A Rune Blade changes the rend characteristic of a given weapon to -3.


With the warscroll having an in-built way to re-roll hits, this makes for a very powerful combination. A rend of -3 reduces a 4+ to absolutely nothing, making it entirely possible to kill heroes in one round of combat, something that the vanilla warscroll cannot do with any consistency.


The army also has ways to allow the Courtier to re-roll wound rolls if playing alongside an Abhorrent Ghoul King on Zombie Dragon, which makes this artefact + hero even nastier.



I hope this thread proves to be useful, and I am excited to see what other interactions the good people of this sub have discovered.
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Hi TGA.

Back in feb (see below for original post) I gave a shout out for help to this amazing community which ultimately resulted in me being told the many varied and wonderful ways that you would all like to support the site.

The gist of this is that the site is getting very expensive to run (I’ve paid out over £3000 in the last 12 months) and as the community grows the costs are ever increasing.

I previously wrote about this in detail so I won’t go into it all again, but the response was just amazing!

Its taken me another 6+ months to get around to it, but over the next few weeks I will be introducing a 3 ways that will help cover the running costs of TGA.

I’ll talk here about how we will be doing this, and why I have chosen each of them.
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Advertised on Black Library's coming soon banner but not actually solicited as a title coming soon:


Hurry up and give us some more info (and a model!) GW  

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