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  1. 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!? 🤣


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    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 :)

  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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 Sometimes it is already outdated after a month or 2.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 :)

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  5. 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:

     

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  6. 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)

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    Truly: The Sky is the limit with this method.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 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*

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  10. 14 hours ago, C0deb1ue said:

    mawcrushas

    They were. Tripple Cabbage was un-counterable for a chunk of armies.

    Edit: I really don‘t get Destruction players. Didn’t you know that the only Job of Orcs was to die in droves? :D

    Srsly, imo destruction already has quite a lot of tools. No reason to lose your mind over a needed change to mawcrushers (which even become crushier)

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  11. Just now, Charleston said:

    While we all agree here, I am afraid this wont happen as many people already own knights so buffing them won't boost sales that much

    Yup. I figure that’s actually a big reason behind the decision making process.

    example Grave Guard: Arguably the best hammer in the book, yet old models -> followed up by a start collecting to shift old stock.

  12. 6 hours ago, ArkanautDadmiral said:

    You’ve made the white knight comment intentionally, does that now make it ok for me to make accusations about your character and call you what I want? It would be GWs fault ultimately remember, because they’re the source, so please try to remember that as I’m personally attacking you.
     

    Imo you are taking the whole white knighting a bit too much to heart. It describes a behavior on an online Plattform, not your character.

    Venting doesn’t mean you call anybody names, that’s just bad behavior. It‘s the „negative attitude“ that‘s being struck down (rather harshly and rudely) by white knights of the holy GW. :)
    Also if you call somebody a white Knight it‘s not name calling but calling out a certain behavior.

    To simplify my examples concerning who is to blame:

    If one causes a big issue and makes people go angry the person causing the issue should change (GW), not necessarily the people getting angry. Although the angry people can decide how to vent, the venting will happen at some point if the entity causing the anger to rise won‘t change. Telling people to „just don‘t be mad“ is the wrong perspective imo.

     

    In my experience especially players that have been in the hobby for a long time are really sore towards GW. So why is that? I‘ve been following the development of Star Citizen since 2012, yet I am not sore, I am still enjoying it.

  13. 55 minutes ago, ArkanautDadmiral said:

    But none of that relates to the point of excusing behaviour. It’s not GWs fault you’ve made the white knight comment, it’s yours, that was your action. You can’t pass the blame of your actions onto the source of your anger.

    I used the white Knight intentionally :)

    The argument is partially true. I can actively make a decision to neither mention the WK not to vent. However it all goes back to GW, as the source of both, so they‘re also to blame.

    It‘s like the pharmacy handing out highly addictive painkillers. Well it‘s not their fault people take it or that people don’t decide to stop taking the drug. (A very hyperbolic example)

    Imagine you sell a lackluster product in your neighborhood, people could buy somewhere else, yet it‘s not profitable at all (for some reason). So you are basically a monopoly. Now people point out the mistake, you ignore it and claim it’s The best product ever. This boils up until they demonstrate in front of your house since there is no other way to express their anger. Sure they could have decided to not demonstrate. That‘s on them, but what is the alternative? It will boil up at some point and the only true place to vent is a hobby club (most people don’t have one) or on the web. And you put your hands up: It‘s not my fault that you are angry folks, go home you bad people.


    A lot of the issues we‘re facing in the hobby is due to GW acting like it was 1980, deceiving (editing of posts) and acting like everything is awesome, smiling away issues.

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  14. 11 hours ago, ArkanautDadmiral said:

    While you’re saying GW doesn’t take responsibility for their actions it also feels a bit like you’re excusing members from their own actions because of their anger.

    I disagree. He is giving the reason why people are angry, not excusing it.

    He explains the issue on the highest level while you and the others are talking about the issue way further down the latter. (His argument is at 1. the rest seems to be at 4.). He explains the reason while you try to argue about the consequences, and how unjustifiable they are.

    1. Why are people angry at GW? (Y/n)

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    4. Should people truly vent their anger on the forums?

     

    about 4. No, yet where else could they? A lot of people don’t habe any chance to vent their anger anywhere really. Simply keeping the anger in yourself is the best way to get sick. At some point one will look for others feeling the same. Then here come the white knights which are actually the trigger for more anger. 
    Imo it’s be best if we had a threat in the dark corners of the forum where people could vent 😅

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