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  1. Do we have any educated guesses on the base size for vengorian lords/lauka val? 100mm round?
  2. This certainly looks promising for tomorrow's show!
  3. Excellent post! I have my own personal head-canon on the nature of chaos that nuances it a little more. I draw a close parallel to the story of Dark Souls where In the same vein I think of chaos as the most natural thing in the Warhammer world, being after all made up of emotions. However, it doesn't work well with rigid societies (it's in the name) and so it was denied, with everything regarding chaos branded as ultimate evil but sooner or later the dam breaks. Now, chaos is angry. Anyway, I hope you get around to the other gods as well!
  4. @Neverchosen That sounds good. Roll with your ideas and see how they work out, tweak if necessary. A tip from my own experience though is that campaigns do need an ending of some sort, otherwise it'll just drag on and become everyday life, so to speak. Same as in sports, seasons end and then its time for resting and preparing for the next one. That makes a great point to introduce new players or armies if you're making it a long term thing and you can use it to dramatically change the setting if you want to. Make sure to end every "season" with some kind of grand finale! An idea I got when it comes to varying your army lists would be something like this... both players (assuming there's two of you) will create 3 army lists. The first will be a fast-moving flanking force made up of mostly mounted models (or just especially quick ones), the second will be a slower defensive line with lots of battleline troops and the third will be more balanced (and your big bad general can only be in one of them!). Without telling the other, mark down on a map (or just a piece of paper) which location each of your armies are moving to and then reveal this to each other. This will decide which of your lists will be facing off. The above is obviously quite basic and can be expanded with rewards for taking each location, making the different armies vary in size and move at different speeds on the map, having a small scouting force you can send out to discover what your opponent is sending where... there's so much you could do! But you should probably start out a little smaller.
  5. @Neverchosen The point of narrative play is that you should be free to invent things to fit the story you want to tell in cooperation with your buddies. Matched play is actually a great starting point since it gives you the base which you can deviate from. It can easily feel like the wild west if you wing everything from the ground up. An example of a campaign I've tried to do before but unfortunately never run to fruition is a combination of army and skirmish scales. Here that could be Age of Sigmar and Warcry. Imagine that players have both an AoS army and a Warcry warband. The armies are fighting to control the area around the site where the warbands search for treasure. Success on the battlefield will stengthen the warband with fresh reinforcements while fortunes from the skirmish will strengthen the supply lines of the army until one faction is eventually declared the winner. I think that could be the base of a great campaign.
  6. Some thoughts... Matched play is easier to discuss on forums since it is more rigid and set in stone, so to speak. Narrative campaigns and playstyles usually vary between player groups, making it more difficult to follow along if you're not familiar. Also, the common culture of going to a club and finding people to play with there is really only suitable for matched play. A closer-knit group of players is much better for narrative things, with more administrating and organization required rather than just showing up to play. In my experience, narratives and campaigns demand more work and attention but the rewards are also greater. It really does need a committed group of people, though.
  7. The double turn is bad depending on the armies involved. My army can only run and punch things and is also fragile, so with a double turn I can't charge in willy-nilly since I'll only get to fight first in one place. Against strong magic or shooting you're in for a nuking. The power of ranged combat has gone up dramatically and the double turn works poorly with it. This must be addressed.
  8. @Beliman You could also run Vlad in a GA Death army to get the actual ring as an artefact. I think I'd bump him up another wound or two to show his old status.
  9. Ossiarch bonereapers from Chamon, although you'll only have the melee units aside from the mortek crawler/big gun.
  10. @JackThorne That's certainly fair. 👍
  11. I worry that you won't be getting any cannons or gunners for some proper pirating in the death armies. Have you considered using another army's rules with death-ified miniatures instead? Cities of Sigmar has lots of gun powder and Kharadron Overlords would let you have actual ships like the flying dutchman.
  12. Two more things to keep in mind about double turns. 1) By taking a double turn you're also creating the possibility of your opponent getting a double turn next. You should always weigh the risk and benefits of taking a double turn, if you can do enough good to warrant taking the risk of getting doubled next. Sometimes it's better to just let the game flow in the normal controlled way. 2) The army you're fighting against makes a big difference. You really don't want to get doubled by an army with powerful magic or shooting. The combat phase alternates the fighting between players but the hero and shooting phases doesn't, so there you'll be slammed twice without getting to do anything at all about it. A good shooting/magic double turn can certainly nuke an army out of the game.
  13. @Overread Yeah and I think it could be done in a way to cater to both ends. Some areas could be in focus and detailed with rich history while the true vastness of the realms provide the open canvas, creating both a micro and macro scale to suit your needs.
  14. There's an interesting dichotomy between the openness and closedness of a setting, in something I'll call weight. An open setting truly is free but provides little weight, and vice versa for a closed setting. What's better comes down to personal preference but integrating my own story into an established area and timeline motivates me much more than something where I'll have to come up with the entire frame as well, making it somehow feel more... intangible? I could provide you with a timeline of happenings and places unique to my Fantasy army and you would be able to follow along on an official map of the old world and cross reference it with established major events. This kind of weight gives it more merit in my eyes and I hope AoS will eventually offer the same opportunity.
  15. Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. The one on GW is the same as it was in that old Grand Alliance Death book. The warscroll in the LoN book has the new CA.
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