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Well that sucks. He was their best AoS author by far.
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Dark Harvest is good enough to be a legit folk horror novel on its own. Basically no knowledge of AoS is needed to understand it. I got some serious Laird Barron vibes from it. Easily the best AoS novel, and among the best novels BL has ever published.
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1 hour ago, sandlemad said:
Same places as you. Even holes like Dakka have handled it better than I expected.
By and large I’ve seen responses that do meaningfully engage with older Kislev background and make a distinction between magic in the game, magical stuff on elite units, magical stuff on elite human units, magical stuff on elite human units with a (questionable, to my mind) different cultural attitude to magic vs the empire, and where personal preference comes in there. I’ve often seen that shut down with contextless lists of supernatural units presented as though they’re an argument and sometimes even “lol it’s all fantasy anyway, why do you care”. Generally I’ve seen more absolutist gleeful “WH was like this, gtfo if you don’t like it” from folks speaking in favour of the new designs and more specificity and awareness of WH’s changing tone/history from folks who liked the designs with reservations or were indifferent.
In all honesty in a handful of cases it has smacked of a nasty AoS-fan triumphalism anticipating the WHFB snobbery on the scale of a few years ago. It’s the sort of hair-trigger smugness of a former underdog that keeps me away from this forum on occasion.
And yeah, Archwarhammer is a truly garbage human being even apart from his lack of knowledge and no one should value his opinion on anything. I go out of my way to avoid anyone who cites or pays attention to him so I’m open to the idea I’m missing the worst of old school WHFB snobbery (or in his case purported old school but really recent and meant to drum up clicks/right wing outrage).
This all jives well with my experience. I like the WFRP low-fantasy approach best, I admit. But people who like the more high fantasy stuff better are cool too. Thats the great part of Warhammer. You can have both. I know its human nature and all, but the balkanization of the fanbase into ridiculous camps based on which version of the background they prefer is tiresome.
Its a game predicated on "Your Guys" (TM). People who want to wield lore like a cudgel to get rid of people having the wrong type of fun is silly. Let people have their things.
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4 hours ago, The ape said:
Here’s a rumour. When they get round to it, the Sons of Behemat novel will be written by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I used to work at the same law firm as him in Leeds and we often discussed whether he would write a BL novel. Since he’s gone full time as an author, he’s hinted several times on Twitter that he’s writing something for them and this would suit his writing style (IMO)
This would be awesome. Tchaikovsky would easily be the best author that has ever written for BL. His novels "Guns of the Dawn" and "Redemptions Blade" are both excellent. The first is if Jane Austen wrote "The Things They Carried." The second is a "how do we rebuild society after defeating the Dark Lord." Highly recommend.
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4 minutes ago, Neverchosen said:
@xking @Deepkin
I am loving these suggestions, I might even make an army of converted highlander Destruction Dwarves! I have my Chaos and Order armies already so this could be my next project waaay down the line.
Also I will use the Fyreslayers, as a base but I might try and remove their Ur-Gold Runes...
🤔Scibor minis makes some nice resin highlander dwarfs IIRC. Could be a nice place to start!
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Could do like Highlander hill dwarfs that don't worship any god (cuz no dwarf would worship an orc god! Thats a grudgin!) but trust only in the riddle of steel, waging endless war on those around them because anyone who isn't a dwarf isn't worth keeping alive and any dwarf that isn't from the hills isn't a dwarf
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3 minutes ago, Beliman said:
You are all wrong.
Every model that is not a dwarf is just a wasted model.
The actual truth.
They will make excellent fodder for chaos dwarf conversions with the bull heads though.
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1 minute ago, xking said:
90% of the time you say anything it's negative, what are we supposed to think. It's an observation, not an attack on
At least have the balls to follow through when you call someone out. Don't be resort to this catty "oh no offense" BS. Ignore my posts it they don't suit you, you'll be happier in the long run.
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6 minutes ago, xking said:
Yeah I don't get it either, ever since he's(or she's) been on here. They have done nothing but state how much they hate Age of Sigmar and the hate the models.
You consistently have some of the worst takes on this site, but this one stands out as particularly egregious. Never have I said I hate AoS or the models. Don't project your insecurity regarding the setting and its popularity onto me.
I don't like these particular models. I like the Deepkin range, however. I like the Scions of the Flame (in particular the flamberge model) and the Iron Golems from Warcry. I like the Kharadron range. I like the new Chaos Warriors and Knights. I like some of the Fyreslayers. And so on. I can like some parts of a model range and dislike others. Some people are nuanced like that. If that's hard for you to understand, maybe take a moment of self-reflection.
Or, keep adminstering purity tests for AoS Stasi or whatever keeps you busy.
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14 minutes ago, michu said:
Sigmar's hammer, even with more similar shape to real warhammers is too big. Warhammer weapons are not realistic, deal with it.
No. I like what I like, and dislike what I dislike. You deal with it.
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23 minutes ago, michu said:
Does anybody even thought that if there is someone capable of making balanced helmets with big crests it's aelves?
And about those redesings - getting rid of spire helmets is not a good idea. Without them it's maybe more balanced but less aelven.
I dunno, I find them to look not elven at all, just intensely stupid with the cow pillar helmets. With the headswaps they look adequate, though their hammers still look like wacky toy mallets from Warcraft, not like actual weapons.
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9 minutes ago, michu said:
As I said earlier, look at the Yhetees. That was always how ice weapons looked like in Warhammer. Regularly shaped ice weapon in this scale is just a normal weapon painted blue.
Or, and heres a thought, they could just have regular bardiches or something. Wacky anime weapons are lame. Functional weapons are sexy.
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I thought Scions of the Flame, personally.
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Buffalo helm anchorite guy is pretty sweet. Peak elf though, won't even get off his ass to fight a battle.
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On 2/27/2020 at 7:33 AM, Dead Scribe said:
I agree. WHFB is dead. This isn't the forum for that type of game.
In three years when the Old World releases, will there be a Live Scribe telling you to get your AoS "dead game" content off our forums I wonder?
So long as people play a game and enjoy a universe, it ain't dead. Look at the massive success of games like Total Warhammer and Vermintide. Look at the new WFRP edition. Look at GW making a new mini game in the Old World. Let people enjoy their things. It doesnt hurt your game at all.
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Honestly, most non-tie-in fantasy is pretty awful too. Sturgeon's Law is in full effect when it comes to literature. I think most BL authors arent worth reading, but the good ones, like Reynolds and ADB, are a better read than 90% of other fantasy/scifi. Other tie-in universes, like Star Wars, are shockingly terrible, even compared to standard BL bolter ******.
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I agree with Kadeton and others saying this is spurious. In the context within which it is written, the rule is clear. Anyone trying to interpret it otherwise is being a bit of a prat.
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At this point, I am just absolutely dumbfounded at the tone some people are taking. The internet is truly a strange and unpleasant place.
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13 minutes ago, sandlemad said:
I'd still be extremely leery of any reduction of her style to "oh she's a girl, their eyes are like that" when her work is still the result of a lot of effort and craft, there's male painters who work in that same style, and there's prominent female painters whose style is radically different.
The chain of 'female painter doing excellent work -> ah, here's a biological reason based on her eyes' seems to me to be a drastic oversimplification of what makes a good painter and what goes into the development of a particular painterly aesthetic. Comes off as a very Just-So story kind of situation. It's also not something anyone would say about a male painter; 'he's a dude, so he can paint like that'.
I'm not suggesting she paints that way because she's a woman at all. I just thought it was an interesting bit of trivia is all. I am colorblind myself, so I always find the ways in which color perception can differ between people (and populations, in this case) quite interesting.
@JPjr Thats not really what happened at all, but you do you, I suppose.
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3 minutes ago, Overread said:
Eh I dispute that on the grounds that the further back you go and the more base-line and less sedentary a society is, the more even the male/female job roles are. Women would be hunting rabbits and men berries just as much as the other gender. Both are your basic survival elements when you're a hunter-gatherer.
As for the artistic differences I think much of that is "more" a result of social elements than purely a male/female thing. Much like how many people will say that you've got to be born with an artists eye to create art (despite the fact that the vast majority of top artists often were trained from youth). A bit like how "pink is a girls colour" today and yet historically it was a boys colour if you go back far enough.
There's also styles as well and any outlier from the current "normal" will be quite evident and doesn't have to be the result of gender.
Heck even just growing up as children there are lots of subtle things that can influence us. Boy toys being more "war" toys might have more muted colour pallets more so than girls toys which might have more vibrant pallets. This might well have a subtle influence on any artistic choices that they then make in their adult life. Alongside that don't forget many people learn art by copying others. So whatever the current major/popular styles/methods are - they are far more likely to be copied. So if GW and many of the painting pros are putting out a similar style; many iwll follow that style's approach.
Well regardless of the reasoning behind it, it is an observable and measurable difference.
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27 minutes ago, JackStreicher said:
R u serious? I highly doubt that.
I dont know what he meant exactly, but there is some truth to this, from a certain point of view. Men are far, far more likely to be colorblind than women, with about 8-10% of the male population being so. The amount of women that are colorblind is so low its almost statistically insignificant. Conversely, an unknown, but significant, number of women are the opposite of colorblind: they can see dramatically more variation in the color spectrum than others, possibly due to the presence of a fourth type of cone in their eyes (as opposed to "baseline" humans with three, and colorblind humans with two), and so can distinguish between hues the rest of us find indistinguishable.
And in general, disregarding colorblindness and tetrachromats, women are more adept at distinguishing hues than men are.
Sauce: https://www.bibalex.org/SCIplanet/en/Article/Details?id=10304
There are other sources out there as well, if you google "women see more colours" or some such.
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52 minutes ago, HollowHills said:
Well at least your not being a nerd about the semantically appropriate use of the word "tax".
Was she the same as Allerielle? I vaguely remember the brettonians were accidently worshiping an elf goddess or something.
Nay, Alarielle (as the Everqueen) was an avatar of an aspect of Isha, much like Ariel of Athel Loren.
The Lady of the Lake was Lileath, Goddess of the Moon, Dreams and Fortune.
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15 minutes ago, Laststand said:
Realistically wont this just be an extension of legends into a book with some narrative campaigns and things?
I imagine it will be a Horus Heresy style game with different rules, possibly new kits from FW.
Personally, I hope for a Mordheim revival (but then again, Mordheim is basically perfect as-is with the fan mods available, so its perhaps unnecessary) but since they did the "square bases are back!" thing, I imagine it will be a revival of the rank-n-flank alongside the Old World.
Considering the insane popularity of Total Warhammer, large-scale Old World game sounds most likely to me.
I doubt a Titanicus-scale game only because there are far fewer Titan-esque monsters in the Old World and the I doubt it would pull in the same numbers as a full-on WHFB revival parallel to AoS.
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I'll keep calling them a tax, thanks
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Why don't GW just re release brettonia?
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6th edition warhammer and 2nd ed WFRP were the height of the background and aesthetic. Throw Mordheim in there too.
Bretonnia would work just fine in the new setting. People who don't like Bretonnia are just peasants, jealous of their betters