Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll
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Coherency rules also made our bad battleline Thralls literally unplayable. 1" attacks on a 32" base and keeping all models w/in 1" of 2 other units screws our second rank "stagger" significantly! I sincerely hope they get 2" range in the next battletome!
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What about an Ossiarch Kavalos list? It's not the strongest thing in the world, but a Kavalos Lance or two with some support characters and/or maybe some trebuchets can be quite effective.
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46 minutes ago, zilberfrid said:
1 in 4 Slaves to Darkness, and no Stormcast
Adds CHAOS and CHAOS MORTAL tags, removes ORDER tags?
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Has anyone seen a CAD price floated? I know just running the conversion rate isn't always accurate.
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The image was even from the shot of the lineup of the protagonists. It's definitely the same.
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Would be really interested to know what their carts are!
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16 hours ago, Wraith said:
Dear Mz Taylor,
Thank you for bringing to our attention the matter of representation of worn animal fur in model form, and its replication on a number of fictional characters in the Warhammer universe.
To address your first point, that wearing the fur of dead animals takes no skill and thus does nothing to significantly the martial prowess of the characters under contention, is a position that can not be supported under existing game lore. To the contrary, these characters are described as ripping the hides from these beasts after defeating them in battle with nothing but their bare hands, and thus creating the offending garments as depicted on the models. Clearly this does show a display of martial prowess. Unfortunately, I must dismiss your first claim as without foundation.
As regards your second point, that any product derived from animals is unethical due to the unavoidable cruelty that must accompany that artefact’s production, let me assure you and your organisation that Games Workshop takes the matter of equality and equity very seriously indeed. Games Workshop would not, as a matter of principle, promote in any way the differential treatments humans and other animals. If I might draw your attention to such characters as Fabius Bile or Necron Flayers, we find their garments are produced from human hides, obtained through truely and deliberately cruel methods. It is clear that the standards to which we subject animals to in our game lore is no different to the standard we subject humans to. There is no inconsistency in unethical treatment between humans and non human animals, and thus we reject your insinuation of any anthrocentricity on our behalf.
I find the clear discrimination inherent in your letter, that is a complete lack of concern for the of cruel and inhumane treatment of humans, as shown by omission, to be a matter of much greater concern that our depiction of animals products on models of fictional characters. Given the organisation you represent bases it’s claims to ethical validity on the principle that anthrocentric thinking is descriminarory, could you please explain how placing a different ethical value on one species of animal, in this case Homo sapiens, is not itself an expression of anthrocentric prejudice?
We believe our depiction of the treatment of animals in our fictional lore can be construed as ethical, by the standards of PETA’s own ideology, given depicted treatment is entirely consistent across species including humans. There is no discrimination going on here. I encourage you to critically assess the extent to which your own organisation has been encouraging discrimination between animal species, and thus the normalisation of unethical treatment of animals by our own species, through your assertion of an ethical difference between humans and other animals. I think it is fair to say that we should expect better from an organisation that aspires to represent animal liberation.
Your sincerely,
Some obscure offical,
Adeptus Administratum,
Terra, Imperium of Man.
We can close this thread tbh nothing can beat this
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Blackstone Fortress. Too bad the expansions I wanted are out-of-print though!
3 Underworlds starter sets (giving me 3 boards, 6 teams)
1 last Underworlds warband (Grymwatch, to be precise).
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Malerion has changed so much, he could have become animalistic and growl-y in his new form?
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Come on guys I can't be the only one who can't keep my eyes off of the Keeper of Secret's alluring androgyny (also way sexier than the hyper-feminized off-brand knock-offs, fite me).
Honourable mention to Katakros though. Literally chiselled statue-of-david sexiness combined with prominent "package" is a win.
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No it's Raging Heroes. New pirate line. Not sure they're vampires though, seems just general Fantasy Pirates?
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Aye, slapping some sort of shield and spear or sword on them would make them some decent Mortek Guard. As people noted above, there are some solid options for other minis; harvester, stalker. Szarekh when he comes out can be modified to be Katakros. Cryptek for Boneshaper. Lord for Soulreaper. That's 3 HQ, a whole pile of infantry, and two different elite options; enough to build an army. If you're VERY creative you could maybe build cavalry or a Crawler out of Necron bits too.
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One note: from the Shining Company rule, one would think that the best way to do this would be two straight rows, but then you can't take units off the edges: I think a cloud formation is safest. Then you can take a unit off the edge, and its neighbours are all still touching 2+ other models.
For other armies, abilities that let YOU pick the model to remove are more valuable now.
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If it's a battallion, that's the added points cost for the battalion. That is to say, you pay points for the extra rules the battalion gives you (as well as the ability to take an extra artefact and have only one drop) on top of the cost for the units that constitute it.
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53 minutes ago, DantePQ said:
There are tons of stuff in Battletomes that never became models. I dobut Deepkin get another terrain, doesn't make sense whatsoever unless GW changes them to "Etheric Terrain" Order Battletome.
But is there stuff with tags and mechanics built for it that never becomes models? There's certainly stuff in the fiction that never gets models, but is there stuff that has a slot in the gameplay specifically and explicitly left open for it that has gotten completely dropped?
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A massive traditional sling (as opposed to a slingshot) that slings entire boulders would work because it could easily have a dual build with a javelin: both weapons would share a body and a stance, all they'd have to model is an alternative hand and the weapon itself!
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they look good!
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Yeah, as soon as dice have different effects, they stop being rolled together. Treat it as if those attacks had been from a completely different weapon.
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1 hour ago, Neinball said:
There was a leaked photo from a couple of weeks back with even more new marine models (grav bikes and something else I don’t remember) so they’re far from done with the flood of marines.
It was gravbikes and an updated Land Speeder-like model.
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Ideally they would come out with a line of Circle-to-square adaptable bases, that simply squares the edges of the appropriately sized bases. That or bases like ASOIAF uses, same idea but for whole units.
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This'll be a very cool army once it's all finished! Very unique!
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The idea of having hte dual kit of the Catapult be some sort of fighting platform is really intriguing! A monster with that design (like a long caterpillar with humanoid looking legs) would be some real good horror stuff!
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Right, I forgot about the "fight the dudes one at a time" thing. Which to be honest is still pretty cool, and unique so.
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I think a lot of the issues with the line will be fixed by more inspired paint jobs than GW's. I think their stock paint job really highlights the weaknesses of the line, and doesn't show off it's strengths. Hopefully they have an alternative more creative take, where they give some of the more creative team members the kits and say "go wild with this."
As a side note, I'm almost wondering whether the Mortarch doesn't actually have that base on the battlefield. Perhaps those ARE different hero units, and it comes as one giant box that makes a whole command line, similar to the Cauldron of Blood miniature. Forge World has experimented with having swappable battle and diorama bases, could this be a GW model taking that on?
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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Every single reveal is "this unit is slightly more resilient/deadly, which makes it the new stand-out" except literally every unit in the game is equally more resilient/deadly with those. So they're not standing out any more. Same thing with Rally. Every unit can now get models back. So it's not special that any given unit can do it using Rally. Now if they were remarking on how base size rules changed one unit versus another, maybe.