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1 minute ago, PJetski said:

I'm not familiar. 90mm? 105mm? 120mm?

EDIT: 120x92mm

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4 minutes ago, PJetski said:

Has anyone confirmed the base size for chariots yet?

ordinary Chariot base.

[The Rumour Thread]

15 minutes ago, Kaleb Daark said:

Well..

i was in this tavern see, and there was this fella looking for adventurers.

He telt me so it must be true.

Dude.. its the rumour thread not the news thread.

Hower != I've just made something up
So do you have an actual source or was it just some random guy? ^^

[Stormcast Eternals 3.0 - There is no "a" in Vindictors]

2 hours ago, ledha said:

I hope people ready to spam stormdrake guards are conscious that they will get a nerf in the next AOS faq because even if GW balance team is very often drunk when they decide point costs there is no way they keep them at 285 pts for a entire year

That's the part I hate about gaming: "Oh something is good, I MUST SPAM IT"

[Stormcast Eternals 3.0 - There is no "a" in Vindictors]

So Stormcast became Custodes with less Wards? 🤣

I present my 16 models list... erm... guess I‘ll have to give one hero the tome or switch to Krondys.

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1 hour ago, Scurvydog said:

Karazai is perhaps a bit more fun with just smash face and looks a bit cooler imo, but I think I will be building Krondys first at least.

I don’t get how they can be pointed equally. The damage difference between the two isn‘t that great and one is a awesome magician. I expected Karazai to be 545 and Krondys to be 600

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2 minutes ago, Magnusaur said:

lances over the swords?

nope.

[Stormcast Eternals 3.0 - There is no "a" in Vindictors]

40 minutes ago, PrimeElectrid said:

Almost everything oldcast and sacrosanct got shafted. Heroes especially almost all lost something, got worse, or went up in price.

Overall I am pretty happy with the new book though prices are about 20% too high on the older units.

I am sad about the Lord Heraldor losing his retreat and charge. Overall most heroes seem redundant now. The army will struggle to get enough bodies on the table and your list will pretty fast get to 2k points. Meaning one can't afford heroes that don't really do anything well, especially if they're too highly priced.

Apart from that I am seeing myself playing a list with one chariot, 5 Vigilors, 2 Drakes, 1 Hero Drake, the God Drake and some foot sloggers like Annihalators, Protectors and Vindictors. Maybe some dracoths.

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1 hour ago, Nizrah said:

 

Intresting to see so how many people have so many opinions! My comptetetive group screams that dragon are super OP literally armies of only dragons will dominate everything and everyone. 

I don’t see that Happening ^^

[The End of Free Warscrolls]

And we’re back to the 80s

 

[Stormcast Eternals 3.0 - There is no "a" in Vindictors]

10 minutes ago, Nizrah said:

Yea. Thats why Iam best stormcast player in Poland, was 8 in general Poland laederboard  in 2019-2020 season and scored 4-1 in our last Master tournament. I don't know anything about this army mate

How dare you taunting him for his insult!? 🤣

 

I am a little worried the point increase might be too much since I am not sure Stormcast are elite enough to win with so few models on the board.

but let‘s wait and see

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19 minutes ago, armisael said:

Any good news on our Stardrake and Tauralon?

The Tauralon  barely changed.

the Stardrake is still pillowfisted (at least 2 dmg on D6 tail attacks)

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20 minutes ago, Nizrah said:

I am not sure on this one tbh. If he‘s cheap (140 pts) then I would maybe get one.

he offers versatility due to the unit of 2 graph hounds...

[Painting Standards in Tabletop Games and Gatekeeping]

8 hours ago, amysrevenge said:

I don't really get it either, and yet you have the actual world where there are heaps of people who do exactly this, happily.  So even though I don't get it, I'm not going to stand in their face and tell them they are doing it wrong.

There’s a myriad of reasons:

-People want to play, once the models are assembled they‘re ready to be played 

-People don’t like to paint and commissions are very expensive

-People might feel like they can’t paint well enough 

My personal reason: The painting takes ages (in my case since I want the models to have a certain level of quality) - so I end up with ~30% of all my armies painted. Do I feel bad about it? Nope. Why I want the quality? The models were expensive so they should look decent, otherwise it feels like devaluing them.

It might sound harsh, yet I‘ve faced a lot of armies (40k mostly) that‘d rather stayed grey, boy did the miserable paint job and taste of colors annihalate the immersion. Yet I don’t mind playing those people since both sides still have fun.

in other words: Painting the minis just for the sake of having them painted is stupid in my opinion.

[The Rumour Thread]

1 minute ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:

It's a slow beatstick hero with comparatively low armour. That's an uphill battle in AoS. 5" non-flying is pretty back breaking. Maybe it's cheap though.

* and it does not bracket
seems fine to me if it costs around 300 pts.

[The Rumour Thread]

5 minutes ago, PJetski said:

Troggoth bad

Imo it's good
Up to 7 attacks hitting on 2s (all out attack), wounding on 3s, -2 ,3 damage. How is that bad?

[The Future of Battletomes]

2 minutes ago, Iksdee said:

They are already doing this in the form of faq's and white dwarf releases. And what about new models that arent included in a battletome. Sometimes it is already outdated after a month or 2. Slaanesh got 2 battletomes in 2 years.

exactly. They could just print the rewritten rules and you could put them into your spiral-binder-book

[The Rumour Thread]

3 hours ago, JackStreicher said:

It would be nice to have one of these that does NOT lead to a new edition.

I also don't get why Battletomes aren't Spiral-Staplers like the new GHB, yet you can open the clamp to add new pages.
So GW could simply add new Rules in books and White Dwarfes, make them extractable from that book to be put into your Battletome-Spiral-Stapler... easy and always up-to-date.
Yes Spiral-Staplers don't look nice, yet it's utterly practical and it'd be great to keep up to date, add rules, change rules, rewrite rules and update rules.

 

EDIT: And it saves production costs *wink wink*

Quick mockups to drive home the point:

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

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I made some quick mockups.

What you can see:
- A Cover which holds the spiral binder
- A standard black binder
- A Binder for Order
 

(Faction specific you could design the binder to look jagged, spiralled or even contain runes of your faction)

 

Truly: The Sky is the limit with this method.

[The Future of Battletomes]

5 minutes ago, RuneBrush said:

Filofax armies 😲  You buy a generals handbook folder that contains all the battleplans for that year and realm rules etc and then the warscroll cards for an army has the allegiance abilities and warscrolls with holes in!

Exactly. Even Broken realms style books could have rip-out-Pages with holes in them (or not being part of the book, but being contained in a seperate booklet).

this way they could add an infinite amount of content that one could collect without ever being out of date.

Edit: Those kinds of Battletomes are cheaper and, oh boy, GW could create so many Accessoires to make it look cooler (And ofc make money off of it)

- Faction specific binders

- Faction specific Hard Covers that wrap around the binder to make it look like a real book.

- A leather Wrap-Hard Cover to make it look like a tome

- a magnetic cover to which you can attack your gaming aids etc.

[The Future of Battletomes]

3 minutes ago, AaronWilson said:

I think they make far too much money from physical books to ever swap to a full digital service. I think they know that a digital service for books would be better, but (and to be fair rightfully so for a business) I think they have a too big revenue stream from physical books to stop them.

Yup. That‘s why I am all in for spiral binders (GHB 2021) style that let you update your Battletome easily.

There are ofc other ways like clamps and the lines which could be added into the book.

[The Rumour Thread]

20 minutes ago, KingBrodd said:

I do hope there is another Broken Realms type series 

It would be nice to have one of these that does NOT lead to a new edition.

I also don't get why Battletomes aren't Spiral-Staplers like the new GHB, yet you can open the clamp to add new pages.
So GW could simply add new Rules in books and White Dwarfes, make them extractable from that book to be put into your Battletome-Spiral-Stapler... easy and always up-to-date.
Yes Spiral-Staplers don't look nice, yet it's utterly practical and it'd be great to keep up to date, add rules, change rules, rewrite rules and update rules.

 

EDIT: And it saves production costs *wink wink*

[The Rumour Thread]

14 minutes ago, Snorri Nelriksson said:

Maybe with Gordrakk finally kickstarting a "colossal waagh" like the age of myth.

He just did, didn’t he?

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2 hours ago, PJetski said:

I'm gonna get at least 4 Chariots. I don't care if they're good or not.

They have the Annihalators‘ impact hits - they Are Good.

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Oh boy. I will definitely get some Dragons. Yet I‘ll spread out the purchases - my hype is at negative levels

I‘ll only get the BT and the Scrolls, before I buy any models