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EccentricCircle

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  1. The 40k people are currently confused and sad that they haven't had much new stuff since the new edition dropped. Short memories, as that literally always happens, but I guess we are more aware of what's going on in 40k than they are in AoS so I guess they pay attention to half as much of what goes on, so are less likely to spot the pattern!
  2. I enjoyed broken realms a lot. Found Malign portents a little skimpy. I've not read dawnbringers. I couldn't afford that many books, either in terms of money or shelf space so prioritised collecting warcry and soulbound. I think it manages to be both, but how well it dies that varies. I prefer the large scale stuff to be a setting, and story to mostly stay at the scale of the black library novels or our own campaigns. I don't think they've done a bad job of balancing it, no worse than 40k or wfb. AoS being so vug helps in that respect. But I do agree that the bug earth shattering events don't ever really fulfil their promise...
  3. Yep, it's one of the short stories that led up to the soul wars novel. One of the most pivotal bits of context in the whole setting, and GW just put it out there as a but of marketing fluff and haven't even kept it on their website. Things like the Blacktallon tv show suggest it's still canon though, and it's one hell of a lie...
  4. "SIGMAR LIED" My guess is that the lie is about the alleged "flaw" in the reforging process. We've known since Malign Portents in 2018 that the Stormcast have been lied to about why they lose their memories. For reference check out the Malign Portents story "The Price of Apotheosis" So we are most likely getting the Ruination Chamber at last. Bring on the lightning gheists! https://www.tga.community/forums/topic/27094-malign-portents-the-compiled-stories
  5. Given how long the R&D cycle takes, we can be sure they have the first 2-3 years planned out. Its clear they are planning a relaunch for each faction and some sort of campaign narrative. I reckon the best comparison is Necromunda, where they gradually introduced each faction with a new plastic kit, while releasing a random assortment of resin models. If it gets that level of support, or maybe between that and what the current edition of Middle Earth has got, then I'll be happy.
  6. Well, the abilities of all these characters happen to be represented by numerical stats, so surely figuring out which is more powerful is just a matter of comparing their warscrolls?
  7. I never needed it for plastic or most metal, but I've painted more metal historical minis lately, and they seem to chip more readily so i probably need to start. What's everyone 's recommendation for good brush on varnish in gloss, matt and satin? Most of my models go for a gloss finish, but it might be useful to make some areas like skin satin and dry cloth matt instead.
  8. I really hope they do. Those old terrain kits are fantastic and I'd love the chance to get the ones I couldn't afford at the time! We shall see I guess.
  9. I think the stone thing could work quite easily. Since these are chaos dwarfs it would be easy to say that using dark magic turns them to stone, not all magic. That way it needn't be an all "dwarfs can't use magic" thing and more just the price of using Dhar, rather than one of the proper winds, or sticking to good dwarfen runecraft. There's plenty of potential to have your evil sorcerous cake and eat it too. Turning to stine is definitely my favourite chaos mutation, the petrified sorcerers with their mechanical suits are just so iconic that they need to do something with that!
  10. Lets not forget that the ancient Egyptians believed that small painted figurines called "ushabti" could serve you in the afterlife. If it turns out that they were right then we're all going to be much better off than anyone who doesn't collect warhammer. They believed that you needed one figurine to do one day of work for you in a year. So by that metric we each need 366 minis to take with us into the beyond. Anything above that could presumably be a good bonus. Maybe like the terracotta army they could protect us from our enemies!
  11. By any reasonable metric I have enough. I have multiple armies, some fully painted, a few a work in progress, and plenty of options to use for RPGs. I have enough sprues that I could probably go a few years without buying anything and not run out if stuff to paint. I can more or less proxy anything with a reasonably close alternative at this point. However, there are still projects I want to do, and I often pick up some miscellaneous D&D minis when I decide to use that creature in a game, but don't quite have the perfect model for it. I don't see myself starting a whole new warhammer army any time soon, but I've got enough in progress that not starting something new isn't really going to stop me adding things to my existing forces.
  12. I'm literally planning to primarily play the free pdf armies as I need to save up for any non free stuff I might want, and its all out of stock anyway. I'll be playing Chaos Dwarfs and Vampire counts, and those unbuilt Skaven in the cupboard will go on square bases. People are very worried about "ongoing support" for a game with optional short codices, which don't actually change the compendium lists. Don't look at AoS or 40k and assume there will be exponential power creep, so far it looks as though it will be supported much more like LOTR so I don't see anyone's rules getting left behind.
  13. That's not saying much. I've built a lot of forge world models and the detail will be nice and crisp, if it isn't warped or miscast. They have bad quality control, the material is fragile and hard to work with. Fine as display pieces if you manage to tidy up the flash, gates, warping, and general brittleness, but they aren't great for heavy use or being transported. Big monsters go together a bit better in resin than in metal, I'll give them that, but really metal is better for heroes on foot, and plastic is better for everyone else.
  14. Yeah, it's not that we want the Tomb Kings to be "Good", it's that warhammer has never been about good vs evil in the first place. It's a definitive order vs chaos setting, and while Chaos is undoubtedly very evil, that doesn't make everything that opposes it good. I don't have a problem with the Tomb Kings being the villains of this first arc, or being less isolationist in this era. But the fact that they were true neutral rather than being lumped in with all the other bad guy factions was always a nice bit of nuance. Those shades of grey are what endeared the old world to us, and a large part of why we want it back. The question is whether modern GW have the finesse as writers, and the historical expertise to realise that promise in the way their predecessors did.
  15. Would the rulers of the forum consider adding a TOW board along with the warcry etc ones? This is the friendliest, most pleasant forum I've ever seen, and it would be a shame to have to find somewhere else for ToW news once it gets rolling! Surely it falls within the remit of fantasy warhammer as much as say, bloodbowl does.
  16. You might want to varnish them, as paint can chip, but other than that there's not really much different. Best to build them with superglue and a little green stuff, but they go together pretty well really. I'm very glad they are bringing it mostly back in metal rather than the terrible resin that these models were last available in. Metal models just hold up so much better, and have a lovely heft to them which modern plastic can't quite match, great as it is to work with.
  17. The Tomb Kings have returned!!!!! I know it's been coming for a while, but it's real, it's actually happening!
  18. I have full armies of Tomb Kings, Lizardmen, Dwarf and Chaos Dwarf, and vampire counts from the wfb days, and honestly a lot of my gloomspite and cities armies should work without any hassle so I'm more or less ready to go mostly with whatever compendium rules they put out for the non focused upon forces. I'd like to support the game, but I'm not going to be affording big army boxes in January, and much as I love the Tomb Kings dearly I don't need a whole armies worth of more derpy old skeletons. More Usabti would be good though!
  19. The new swarms and heros look great! Shame there doesn't seem to be a second plastic kit, but I guess Bretonnia just gave us too high expectations. I love the Tomb Kings dearly, but that Starter box isn't going to be useful for me. l already have a full tomb kings army, so the last thing I need are more skellies and chariots. Could do with more shabti, sphinxes and tomb guard really, so it's a shame they didn't put any of the ir good older models in the box!
  20. I really hope that they do but it will depend on whether production moulds were ever made, which seems unlikely. If not then they'd have to be very confident in the kits selling in order to justify making them. Plastic injection moulds are insanely expensive even today, and tow mostly seems to be using old kits for that very reason. They may feel that if they're going to make a new mould it might as well be totally new, as reusing the old greens doesn't save rhem much.
  21. You know you've been doing too much warhammer when you accidentally say that grapes come "still on the sprue" #hobbyistchristmas
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