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I was confused on that entire argument because I never found where it said dice rolls cannot go below 1.

I believe it. If you watch any of the YouTube, you’d have known that channels that got upwards of half a million views were opening up about playing Warhammerat the start of Covid. 40K’s Facebook page had somewhere around 200k likes as well, and we’ve had availability issues since Early 2019 (Carrion Empire). There aren’t any scalpers who can put a dent as large as people think they can. At least not any big enough to stop so many from getting any. 100 boxes of Indomitus is $20,000 and shouldn’t put a dent in supplies (maybe 1,000 copies, but again, that’s a small house payment, and THEN you have to move all those copies). They’re going for $250 now on eBay, but you’d be losing some amount to shipping and eBay fees. And then there’s the obvious website crashes. There was a Metric Sh**ton (It’s a real unit of measure in the Imperial System. Look it up) of people.

I thought new stuff couldn’t drop until preorders went up (You aren’t the only one to drop it, just curious why this time wasn’t the case)

I’ve requested it before, I would like to request it again: Can we get a Rumo(u)r Forum to post and discuss rumo(u)rs on a topic by topic format instead of the one “Really Long Thread” format we have now? As of current page (2709) the thread is: 1. Fyreslayers Players talking about their own rumors ranging between “We’re bad” and “We’re Soup Now?” (This is enough to be its own topic and not a thread derail/general conversation) 2. Hellberg posted something new! Leaked rules for unit sizes! 2. Oh no wait, they were just being a Good Samaritan and reposting an image that was probably posted earlier in the thread. (Which if this was its own thread we could have avoided an image repost, and maybe the poster looking for the image could have found it on their own). 3. A post that pretty much summarized my frustration with the one thread format: It amazes me how many people didn't read how Roar works. It prevents command abilities on the following COMBAT phase, so no preventing +1 saves for shooting That’s probably because they’re reading someone’s misreading of the rule instead of reading the actual rule for themselves, which they would, if they could actually find the rule themselves.

That’s interesting. I played few objective games and a lot of “Run at each other and murder.” games and at the old sizes, there was always a good 1/4 to 1/3 of the table that was mostly unused. New 40K has that issue still, but only if nobody takes Deep Strike units.

As a positive to contrast Warmahordes Mk3: They have yet to make the promise that all the factions would be balanced on launch.

Who would win in a fight: The Newborn Spawn of the Literal God of Chaos -or- Some Witch Hunter Bois? On the one hand, incredibly anticlimactic appearance for the Slaanesh Twins. On the other, I think BR:Be’lakor and this interaction is what you need to take away: Chaos is relatively grounded in the story now. A whole army of Tzeentch, Khorne, Nurgle, or Slaanesh can’t just walk in and take what they want, they don’t have the plot armor Archaon does and in the end, they could just get wrecked by a God. It’s why Be’lakor, despite having his masterstroke as near complete as it was, stepped back when Grugni showed up. He’s not a god, neither is a Bloodthirster, LoC, GUO, or KoS. I think there’s a lot to be said about planning as well. Kroak lost a major army in order to take down Eater of Tomes (who had escape plan after escape plan). But could only push Kragnos somewhere else in Ghur (Insert Mystic “He needs him for something bigger” Mumbojumbo for why he didn’t fling him into the void). Meanwhile, Teclis and Nagash didn’t really plan for one another and their armies got flung at the walls and never stuck. Then Nagash showed up and nearly took down Avenlor alone. It took Teclis + His Army to do it. I surmise the following power scales: 1. Chaos God <- Pantheon God <- Non-God Character <- Army <- Schlebs 2. Full Pantheon Gods <- 4 Chaos Gods + Archaon (+Skaven?) = Pantheon Gods minus Gorkamorka = 1 Pantheon God during their masterstroke (Nagash’s Ritual) <- Pantheon minus Gorkamorka and Nagash <- God/Character Ritual (Sigmar Opening a Chamber, Alarielle’s Song, Be’lakor’s Plots, Morathi’s Ascension to Pantheon God status) <- Chaos God <- Pantheon God

Yes, but my thread is topical to current events.

With the launch of 3.0 on the horizon, I thought it would be nice to know what everyone else is doing until launch. Are you reading the tea leaves as to what the new rules are? Are you building and painting that new (or shelved) army in preparation for the new edition? Are you occupying your time with other hobbies while you wait?) Are you hoarding gasoline and matches to prepare for the coming ragequit? Personally: Build Kroak, Build Kragnos, Inventory my collection (It was 85k this time last year), then paint until it’s out.

Autobattlers alternates between rounds where you build your team of characters and place them on a board, and rounds in which the teams of characters automatically battle one another (no interaction between players and the teams).

This is a good place to put this, and I'm not going to lie: I'm 100% certain I'm the only person interested in Soul Arena. I love me some Teamfight Tactics.

Had to check: Wood Elves (3): Eternal Guard/Wildwood Rangers, Nomad Prince, Sisters of the Thorn/Wild Riders High Elves (3): Sisters of the Watch/Shadow Warriors, Phoenix Guard, Phoenix Kit I filed Wood Elves under Sylvaneth mostly because there was a Dryad/Treelord set that came out with the 8th Edition book, and it was always a sign to me that there were no pointy ears. High Elves on the other hand were gone when the Cities book dropped and Lumineth didn't come out for another 8 or so months, and didn't fit everything old High Elf until this year's releases.

Now that I think about it: Armies new/mostly new to AoS: Fyreslayers, IDK, KO, LRL, Nighthaunt, OBR Armies split from WFB Faction and major things added: DoK, Sylvaneth, BoK, DoT, HoS, MoN, FEC, Gitz, Orruks, SoB The same WFB Faction throughout: Seraphon Were split, but returned to the same WFB Faction: Beasts, Skaven, Ogors Had things split from, returned to the same WFB Faction, then got significantly more stuff: StD, Soulblight Soup Armies: Cities WFB Armies not appearing in this film: Brets, TKs, and High Elves.

Neutral leaning worried. I like where the game is. We don't really need a new Edition. But it is time of alignment for a new edition is here. It doesn't feel like 40K 5th into 6th or 6th into 7th, but 8th into 9th. Every army got a book, we've had a killer story event in Broken Realms. We're getting new sculpts for old models (some only available for five minutes). GW has earned their update and subsequent bonus. What has me worried is my opinion on 40K's 9th Edition. I hate the way they wrote the Core Rulebook. It seems like there are too many words baked into each blurb, it's not written in step by step order, and Advanced Rules are thrown smack into the middle of Core Rules. Example: The first paragraph on charges: We say select an eligible unit, then describe what is an eligible or ineligible unit, then a very obvious statement (paraphrase; If you have no units you want to charge, move on to the next phase), then a sentence that skips to the very end of the phase. Then even more stipulations to what can charge, then "Progress to the next step", and then we go on to how to do a charge.

Fyreslayers can be saved by giving more models and a second theme that fits alongside it. They have a very nice second theme already with volcanic rock, Magmadroths, and Molten Infernoth. You can lean into the usual Dwarf forgebuilding aspect as well and make Volcanic Golems. You can go more fiery and toward Tzeentch Burning Horrors. Fyreslayers have a 'Everything Looks the Same' issue. They also have a 'Models you should run in packs of 30 for $60 issue per 10 issue'. The first is bad, but collectors who want it all, like myself, will still buy them. The second issue keeps me from wanting to. (PS: If you see a box set with Fyreslayers, buy it. It will be sold out faster than Indomitus.) Negative Me says from here, they enter the Bret/Beastmen/TK Death Spiral: GW can't sell them, so they won't update them, so nobody will ever play them. Neutral Me says they get souped. Positive Me hopes GW are cooking up something new. I don't mind Army Souping, but I'd like to see the subfactions expanded upon.

This isn’t really surprising, they do a really good job of taking care of their employees at all levels. Most of the price increases are due to them opening more stores, and I think they’ve been extremely strategic on where they get put.

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The sheer flaunting of money because of how expensive the army was (Thanks Forge World)

They’re going back to not launching an entire army on day one? Okay, something is seriously WRONG with GW.

Yeah, that was a weird moment. The AoS 3.0 studio vid seemed to frame Order = Good, Chaos, Death, Destruction = Bad. Don't think I've ever considered Orruks bad. Hell, the current framing has been that only Chaos = Bad.

A few other rules/changes I live by: The only place to get 'deals' from GW directly is buying the larger boxes; Starter, Start Collecting, 1v1 Faction Boxes, Specialist Games, Christmas, and the occasional event releases. Typically 30% off the separate model prices (in case you can't afford it at the time). Great for starting an army, but YMMV if you own a sizable force already. Things now sell out immediately. Either be best friends with your FLGS (Being the lone person who buys it helps, buying repetitively also does but both get expensive), or be online at the moment of Pre-Order Day (Saturday, Noon God's Time) If the faction isn't in the top tier on codex drop, it won't be until the next codex update. Everyone gets a codex update for the new edition. You may wait two years, you may wait only one month. Wait your turn. *Latest* Your army may get new models within six months to one year of the initial release.

Soul Arena of course. Let me put my position another way: If I'm wrong we have our 3.0 reveal. If I'm right, we have something completely new, and 3.0 gets revealed in two weeks anyway.

Cursed City Reprint AoS 3.0 Teaser Trailer The AoS 3.0 Starter Set is a one-time print run

I know it's been a long year and four months, but Covid really rushed the Psychic Awakening. As mentioned: Silent King Teaser was May 10th, 9th Ed was announced on May 23rd. Indomitus box announcement June 13th, pre-order date was revealed on July 1st to be July 11th, and the set hit stores July 25th. All that evidence running counter to what you say, but if like I said they're aiming for a July 3rd release, all of that would fit the bill. God help us if they still haven't gotten the quantity issues fixed.

That's awesome. What I like most: The little dotted texture you painted on the face to make it look like skin. What I like least: That I can't find anything to critique, nor can I paint this good.