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  1. Im all in for this, i should just about have finished painting Mortal Realms when it starts properly 😀 So many minis!
  2. Bear in mind what you pay for gw keeps the brick and mortar stores open, enables third party sellers to exist, and pays for the free stuff that goes to schools and gsming clubs to keep the whole hobby alive! Yeah its premium pricing, but gw are doing more than any other wargames manufacturer to keep the hobby going. Its never been just the cost of tbe models to make and distribute. I started when a tactical squad was 10 quid - you can afford it or u cant.
  3. Those warcry warbands should offer some good discounts, the daughters one in particular looks great for core units!
  4. The story makes some interesting points about the power of the Waaagh i think. Firstly Gordrakk ignores Skagrotts prophecy and kills the shaman who relays it, choosing to go straight for Excelsis rather than find the two other artefacts he needs, one of which would make him even more resistant to damage. By choosing only brutality and rejecting kunnin, Gordrakk is set up to fail, first against Kragnos, then again at the Siege. Hopefully he will learn some kind of lesson and look for a way to beat Kragnos, before he gets back to hunting Sigmar. The second idea i liked was Kroak's utter ruthlessness. He plans for the horde to enter the city as the power of the Waaagh will be split among the city streets, giving the defenders a chance where a battle outside the gates would been a guaranteed defeat. Kroaks wards are also responsible for Hammergord breaking, which i think is a fair trade off. As for Kragnos' narrative purpose, i think its quite straightforward he represents the unpredictable impact of life ascendant after the soul wars, throwing a spanner into the established narrative and being set up to have an even greater impact in the Era of the Beast.
  5. Now i have my hands on the book and having avoided spoilers i am extremely satisfied with how it plays out. Gordrakk and Skagrott get some great screen time at last, and the duel between Gordrakk, Bigteef and Kragnos is suitably epic. Snazzgar's brutal death was a great character moment for Gordrakk. The Slaaneshi plot to seed a rift between men and aelves has some great potential, as does be'lakor chatting with the twins in the realm of Chaos. Kroak regarding Gardus as a fulcrum of the Great Plan is excellent, as is Nagash letting Teclis know its far from over. I like Kragnos leaving to smash some drakes and attracting the attention of the local Kruleboys. Morathi rejecting the judgment of the Celestant Prime as she is a god and can do what she wants cements her new role and repairs the grand alliance of Order at least for now. My absolute favourite reveal though is Grungni very strongly being implicated as having been the white dwarf all along, tying in nicely with the ongoing stories in WD and his appearance in BR Belakor. Great stuff and a solid finish to the Broken Realms series!
  6. Ouch my wallet! Online Warcry has basically gotten me thru this year so ill be snapping up all those books asap for even more options!
  7. Thank you that was super useful! Some high value stuff in the second half, i cant be the only one planning to buy duplicates and make bigger units and alternate builds wherever possible! I have quite the backlog of stormies to paint but im pretty much on top of the nighthaunts and terrain. Im thoroughly enjoying this series!
  8. Ok over the last few months ive accumulated the slaves to darkness battleforce, feast of bones, gloomspite battleforce and aether war. Do i do a whole box at once or a big from each, and in either case where do i start!?
  9. Doh maybe theyre phasing them out then, in which case WHY do that at the end of a run of army books...!?
  10. Warriors got a +1 in their melee profile, to wound in the case of hand weapons, and reroll saves of 1 at 20+ went to reroll saves at 10+. I think this is way better and worth the originall 100pts they were on par with liberators. And this before all the enhanced buffs they can get! I agree with the chariot nerf, but then it was dumb having a load of individual chariots all with exalted charioteer stats - why take a unit of more than one at all? One thing i dont get is the removal of the massive regiment discount. This doesnt make sense when the KO and Tzeentch books still have them...
  11. I dont get the fuss, GW significantly buffed all of the warscrolls AND the ghb allegiance abilities. Chaos warriors actually feel like a decent threat now before you even taje into account the improved auras, sorceror, lord and warshrine buffs. Nerfing the clearly ridiculous nirgle DP ability was a good move, it was a horrible rule that skewed Slaves armies towards always taking it. Similar to plague monks, which were ridiculous to include in the skaven book with their original warscroll and at 70pts for 10, both of which have finally been fixed. Hopefully this indicates GW will fix egregious stuff like keeper spam and petrifex rules more promptly, altho ill concede theres not really any other indication of this. The only bit that i found annoying was how mixed weapons in chaos warrior units got into the book in the first place. The wording was deliberately changed and then changed back, with a potential real impact on how customers will have assembled their models, or even changed their existing ones. Perhaps these slapdash errors are an outcome of rushing out all the battletomes so fast?
  12. I think this is nonsense. Im a KO fan and while i agree they are not very competitive right now, im sure thisll be fixed whenever their new book comes out. And considering the army is only two and a half years old they can afford to wait a bit longer. I think Seraphon and Tzeentch should be ahead of KOs in the queue by virtue of being older. I certainly dont feel likd GW has dragged me through the mud! 😀
  13. The index books put me off 40k completely - i bought them all only for them to be replaced almost immediately with codexes which vastly outclassed the index rules. Now, only 2 and a half years into 40k 8th, we already have 2.0 codexes for SM and CSM - financially i want to spend my hobby budget on models not rules, so ive dropped 40k. This has however led to a massive influx of AoS models 😁
  14. I think the terrain looks great, but it should be pointed and probably just treated as a unit in your army that cant move or be destroyed. Id like if skaven gnawholes deep striked in rather than how they currently deploy around the board edge. I only tend to buy the terrain pieces if i have a good 2k force already, and i only have malign sorcery and forbidden power endless spells as i have better things to paint for my armies!
  15. I like to have around a start collectings worth of one faction from each of the grand alliances on the go at the same time. This means i can flit between projects at will, bit will get a good chunk of several armies done in a reasonable amount of time. Currently im working on fyreslayers, nighthaunt, squigs and slaanesh, with a bunch of terrain in the mix for good measure!
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