Christopher Rowe

But the rule was removed. The only Realms rule in either the Core Rules or the General's Handbook 2021 is the note in GHB that the Realm rules for Ghur must be used. And those rules don't say anything about other Realms. My take is that unless a rule specifically carried over from 2.0 to 3.0, then it's not in the new edition.

New to me, but I've not played that many games (none at all in 3.0 yet). Dang! I thought I'd spotted something nobody else had yet! Heh. Aside: I find the definition of "defensible terrain" a little unclear, personally.

Okay, this is pure theory, and I'm probably missing something, and it would also require a very large piece of terrain to be set up in exactly the right spot, but here goes. My five-model units of Saurus Guard (movement 5") start a movement phase in Round One. They find themselves 6" from a Defensible Terrain feature that is 20" across ("very large") and which is either not garrisoned at all or is garrisoned by 55 or fewer models from their own army. They use their movement to garrison the terrain or join the existing garrison. They've done this according to rule 17.2.1, which states that they can do this INSTEAD OF making a normal move. They've just moved 6" across the battlefield. Round Two. At the end of my next movement phase, I have the Saurus Gaurd unit leave the garrison according to rule 17.2.2 in a spot more than 3" from all enemy units. I do so by placing them 6" from the opposite end of the 20" terrain feature from which they entered. The movement 5" Saurus Guard have just moved 32" in two movement phases. What am I missing here?

There are no rules for any other Realm in either the Core Rules or in the General's Handbook 2021. So I'd say no. Which breaks my heart because that Battlemage Ghur would be an ally on every one of my lists.

What are "comp" and "WAAC" if you don't mind explaining?

Those look fantastic! Good job!

On my iPad Pro (from I think four years ago? it's the largest one they ever made at any rate), the Age of Sigmar App takes up the whole screen (another App I use, also from a British company as it happens, that of the Global Cycling Network) defaults to phone size. That said, the font size in the native parts of the App (the war scrolls and so on) is very small. BUT, if you bought the digital versions of the Battletomes and other hardcovers, you could zoom in. Actually, on my monster tablet, the difference in size between the Battletome page and the on-screen page is really not noticeable at all. That's one of the many reasons I hope they don't provide inferior content behind the paywall, but just port the current App over to Warhammer +.

Ableism is alive and well here at TGA. I can see that clearly even without my glasses. Since one solution to the problem is EASY AND CHEAP (releasing publications as electronic files where font size and choice are easy to set by the reader), why not solve the problem that way? Why cut off part of the market? You know that almost everyone's vision degrades as they get older, right? You know that almost everyone reading this will one day need visual aids, right?

This is absolutely the easiest solution for books already published. They should make all the rules, at the very least, available in a form that allows resizing and font choice. Such books would also be much easier to enable text to speech on. For what's it worth, I wrote a respectful but clearly worded email to the customer service email provided upthread.

Thanks! I certainly would love it if we can prove it! I don't see any mention of Realms of Battle rules in the Core Book however, and the rules about Ghur in the GHB '21 don't specifically cite a general rule either. I'm confused, I guess.

In the AoS app, you can "unlock" the full battletomes, with all content included. At least for now.

There are a very great many vision problems which glasses only partially correct or don't touch at all.

I'm pretty sure the answer is McDonald's for the first scheme and Burger King for the second.

That's interesting. Are the full codices of 8th Edition WH40K available in that app or just the rules bits?

How old are you?

I'd just add (and it's implicit in your post, I'm not saying you don't know this) that POSITIVE feedback and praise are just fine on social media!

Is that...thirteen drops? I guess it's true what people have been saying about number of drops not being important anymore!

I'll be really glad when this subject has finally been hashed to death. I asked this in the Rules Forum, but nobody has answered. Are Realms of War rules officially dead since they're not mentioned anywhere? I'm guessing yes. Because while I'm taking Battlemage Ghur as an ally in my first Seraphon list (consisting of models that are painted with wild dissonance from the "official" colors) whatever the case, because I'm aiming for mobility and like his spell, it would be pretty sweet to get that +1 to casting etc. Of course, if that were the case, almost every Order army would be allying him in!

100% agreed. And for you folks who don't have any trouble with it, well, I'm glad for you. But since this would be a relatively easy fix and allow more people to enjoy the hobby, don't you think what is no doubt a problem for a significant minority of players GW should address it?

Have Realms of Battle just gone away? If they haven't, I anticipate the Battlemage Ghur from Cities of Sigmar to be the most popular ally in the Order side of the game. I mean, he's still pretty nifty even without +1 to magicky things I guess.

Really, I understand some posters' points about being frustrated that it exists at all, but, as someone else said upthread, I don't live in a world where it's ever going to come up. Or if it does, it will be at a game day I'm hosting, in which case I'll just tell the "non-permission grantor" to get off the property and never come back, or I'm at a shop or tournament, where I'm 99 and 94/100ths percent sure that everyone in hearing distance would join me in mercilessly shaming the "grantor." I really just don't think it will come up. It certainly never has for me before, and I paint my Skinks orange, my Saurus various shades of purple and green (sometimes within the same unit!) and my Dinos whatever trippy color scheme I come up with on the fly. Is it asinine to include it at all? Or course, and they know that. They were at least sharp enough to not include it in a printed book or an errata, but in a FAQ, and even then be mealy-mouthed about it. Y'all do y'all, but this seems like a lot of digital ink spilled, a lot of sound and fury, over nothing at all important.

This is a problem with almost all gaming books (especially RPG books) from big companies. The arms race of full bleed color pages (because of trade dress, even on pages without art), enormous perfect bound hardcovers, and providing as much "content" as they can in one volume is kind of the opposite of how things were when I got into the RPG hobby in the eighties. I wear graduated lenses (trifocals without the lines) and even looking through the "close up" part of my glasses I find I have to move the (often very heavy) book back and forth, especially if it's later in the day and my eyes are tired. But, the #1 thing that bugs me the most, even beyond font size, is how SHINY all of the pages in these Chinese-printed books are. If you're reading under any kind of light source at all, the reflection off the page makes at least something illegible, so again with the moving a potentially enormous book back and forth to be able to read it. None of which means I'm going to stop buying these kinds of books, mind. I'm the perfect customer for GW on the rules and lore publication side, in that I have always been perfectly willing and happy to buy a physical book to have at home and a digital copy to put on my enormous tablet (the biggest iPad ever made, and if I'm griping, why are the manufacturers of tablets going back down in maximum size in their lines?) to take to games. Heck, I have some of the books THREE times, because I bought digital versions through iBooks, then figured out I could have them in the App, and then also bought the hardcovers. That was my bad, and I have no bones to pick over it, but they better not pull any shenanigans with all the books I have though the very good, very usable, why ****** with a good thing App (if you must have a paywall, then just put the current App behind ta paywall! I have no interest in watching Space Marine cartoons!). And, as a professional "content creator" myself, I simply cannot bring myself to using pirated versions of anything, so this rumor that upcoming Battletomes will only have the rules sections of the books electronically available and not the lore and art, drives me bonkers. And it's not even a real deal for me because I"m buying the flipping hardcover anyway! Gah! Okay, I've gone completely off the rails, here, sorry. You're right, the font is too small.

Actually, going back and reading your post more carefully, I see that you specified "match play," so I'm in agreement with you after all!

I'm really enjoying the art and lore, so for me at least there's plenty of reasons to buy it.

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