FlatTooth

Just gone live vicariously through this for a moment.

Hey all, thinking about dipping my toe into the KO pool. I’ve always loved the idea of Barak Thryng but I’m not sure the best way to use the dispossessed. One idea I had was a block of hammerers and a soulscream bridge in a bottle to help them get where they’re going. Has anyone else played with something similar? It seems a little silly to bring the bridge in an army with fly high haha

Okay so I guess we agree. As I was saying— I loved the old world. That doesn’t mean I thought it was some kind of high art with great depth. To me, there is a difference between what Tolkien did and what GW did. I can tell I hit a nerve here though so let’s just agree to disagree.

Most of what you just listed was from the author you think is made up. lizardmen were literally just a kind of appropriation of South American mythology. But did you really just argue that GW made up the lady of the lake and knights of the grail?

the Old World was actually pretty shallow. I loved it. I grew up with it. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t just a collection of classic fantasy settings and tropes smashed together and then *slightly* modified. I will always have fond memories of it but I’m sure it was incredibly hard to write for. AoS is also smashing together tropes and settings but at least they also can kind do whatever they want and get away with it. I mean how much of the old world was literally just Tolkien and Moorcock with different names? A whole dang lot. Anyway- I’m really excited to learn more about the Lumineth!

I doubt they will be more frail then Eternal Guard.

I'd agree. If you look how the skaven fill the space of their base vs how the elves fill it I think that also shows the difference in base size. Elsewise those are some *tiny* elves.

I wonder if spears will be something like 1 attack with 2” range and rend on turn someone charges while swords are 2 attacks at 1” reach no rend. Something like that could be pretty neat.

Fair fair. Especially since the Swordmasters were not cheap to come by IIRC haha

Honestly I always preferred the lions to the sword masters. But I played Asrai so of course I liked the rangers haha.

Well that article was fairly sparse but still got my hype levels up! I’m excited to see how the elemental magic and the sun spears work out. I couldn’t help but laugh as they described how beautiful the detailing on the back of the shield is while only showing the front. “Trust me— you gotta see it to believe it. What? No you can’t see it right now!”

I'm not sure if it's actually good but man do I want to try a Drowned Men army.

I've been messing around a little with color schemes on photoshop but nothing too serious. I'm 100% sure I'm be sculpting some pelts for them to wear that will be painted white and possibly be from a feline source.

This is real good and real cool

Dragons are neat but I'd much rather Griffons/giant eagles/Sphinxes. I'd love if the spirits they mention are fantastic beasts in the same vein as Celennar. I'm also not totally convinced that GW is very good at dragons anyway haha

I’d love to see a White Lions mixed unit ala squigs/herders.

That explains the symbol on the pin that I got from them. The bone over the wheel I mean.

I can’t believe how often it needs to be said on this forum. You cannot define what is too pricey for someone and you really shouldn’t be making people feel bad for not having money to throw at a fancy board game. We cannot know each other’s lived experiences.

I played infinity for a while. It was great unless your internet connection went out and you couldn’t access the Wikipedia to navigate the labyrinthine rules. It’s also got the swingiest dice. There are ways to control it but bad luck in that game is extremely unforgiving. The models are really pretty tho.

I have the feeling that there will at least be weapon types so hopefully "reach" will be some kind of ability they have! There are a lot of spears and stuff so maybe the pikes will also see a return to "strike first even when charged"!

The twist is that the faces are the only part of them STILL ALIVE AGHHHH Also that's where they see from and it's terrible.

While we’re on the topic of terrible policies- Let me know if you’d like to buy one of my two discontinued infinity factions haha

I have a feeling the flayed face brigade will have a very interesting playstyle. Power from pain type stuff. The good news is I can’t imagine them showing all these bands and not having them be available to purchase at the start. It’s good to see they won’t just immediately shoot themselves in the foot ala necromunda haha. But yeah keeping my friends on the hype train with little concrete info is getting kind of hard 😬

Hysh because I imagine a realm governed by a mix of geometric rituals. Also in oldhammer all my battle mages were white mages

My biggest fear is they roll it out like the my did necromunda and kill a lot of hype for people wanting to play bands that aren’t out. I genuinely dont don’t think they’ll do that but it’s a fear. Im extremely hyped to see the final warbands but I think I’ll actually be going with the Ghur-boys and maybe buying two starter boxes so I can grow the game.