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I am about as doubtful as they come for the survival of CoS as a whole, but I don't think they'll write one subfaction out of the rules because some story happened.

Also, the Pistoleers one had a General that mandated options no longer on the warscroll. But then, the whole of mercenaries was removed after a year. I hope Fall of Anvilgard doesn't mean the removal of that subfaction.

To be honest, I do think it's quite a lot. 25 euros is 40 Perry infantry guys and 5 left for a can of primer. Anything over 25 for an infantry sized mini is ridiculous.

25 euros is about the price I was expecting. Still steep for a single mini, but it's not too harsh.

Barak Thryng would fit quite well with a more traditional weapon. As for new models, we'll have to see. I wouldn't mind the idea JackStreicher has though, it would not be bad for Kharadron to have some ground troops, which may sound odd, but it allows for a rebalancing of AoS as a whole away from ranged combat without throwing away the best looking faction. Well, there was the Squat in Techpriest Grombrindel that caused at least some waves. I hope he either has no fixed skyport, or it's Thryng. Nar has two named heroes already, and he really does scream Thryng in his design. It's the most traditional dwarf you could think of. As for pricing; I'd go as high as 25 euro's, maybe 27.5, but if it's 32 for a foot hero, that isn't going to happen. Yeah, I think brewing beer is a bit easier for the alchemically minded dwarves trading everywhere than for dwarves that live in places where wheat and hops don't grow. That said, instead of Steinrauch beer (heated by tossing hot rocks in the wort), you could make the beer with rocks from recent battlefields to celebrate and remember your victories.

Double post

I know GW paper is very expensive, but with SM we see that it's not always all that durable. Not to mention that the Warpriest is on the cover of Soulbound and it has been sacrificed to power a redundant Knight Questor, and Witch hunters are in recent books and they also didn't survive the culling. Then we have GHB's with rules in them that are valid for only a year (like Mercenaries). GW does not seem to care about backlash at all, and pricing of rules hasn't indicated quality or longevity before.

Is there a new mold? If no, it's just paper. I don't really wear hats. I just go headlong into an idea and then get anxious about its future. Thus mini agnostic rulesets.

Well, there's the niggling doubt about Cities and continuous support... On the other hand, Bugman's has been referenced associated with Kharadron before.

I will absolutely get one of these! EDIT: the older Bugman is currently in use as the dwarf of a friend of mine. EDIT2: I will get one, depending on the price. That's a healthy caveat considering recent GW pricing.

In a LARP, there was an overgrown tomb where plant covered zombies came from that were hard to kill in the forest. That bad guy was called Ecotep (not always a serious LARP). Maybe they got some ideas from that. (GW taking ideas from an obscure Dutch LARP seems very likely). On a more serious note, there's a connection between the Briarqueen and, well, plant based undead.

On the wascroll, it's stated as "in a turn where they have made a charge movement". That would still be true.

Another option is Ghyran dwarves, tied to the earth as roots are on trees. Wearing armour of giant nutshells and treebark.

The devoted do not have any heroes, just fanatics (that's why I said subfaction, not faction). I wouldn't say he was a human version of the Castellant. Out of wounds/armour/move/bravery/#attacks/range/hit/wound/rend/damage not a single value is the same. Warpriest could unbind, and healing works quite differently (heals instantly, can target non-stormcast). Just the doggo is the same.

Grombrindel is Mechanicus now. Which I use in my Kharadron.

Why not have those reclaimed by the deity of home and hearth? Who founded many of those Karaks.

He was an excellent addition when he was alive. It wasn't a named character, so longevity isn't a problem. We now have a subfaction without any heroes, and this guy would have had the option to buff across subfaction lines, which is rare in Cities. His small gryph hound was also cuter and better detailed than the larger ones. After his soul was hammered into a misshapen humanoid figure, that's no longer true. Now he's just one of the multitudes of Knight Questors.

The only order human GW bothered to make for AoS has been sacrificed and reanimated into a superfluous Knight Questor shell. War it the fourth of that warscroll? 8th? Now there's a waste of design time. About the spears: Certainly. I thought at least someone should have thought about the issues fielding those, and designing the shafts with multiple stress risers along it wasn't the best decision either. I get what you mean about many directions being taken at once with Lumineth, but not why that's a problem. Cities takes many directions at once, and that's no problem either. So does STD, in a way. You'll just have to accept that other things will also use some of the same techniques and ideas. Like beastmen having hulking bovines and smaller ones, other pike blocks, wizard units (like sisters of the thorn or evocators) etcetera. And yes, please unify the rules for that. We don't want something like d&d psionics that made up whole new rulesystems for a few exceptions.

Broken Realms: Valaya!

New models would indicate commitment to future support. And while I am salty that the Freeguild Archers were stated to be available but when trying to buy just were not, progress been made that make the old sculpts less and less fitting. Plus, GW can't design a good dragon if their life depended on it. The old dragons are derpy, but the pudgy new ones are even worse. The LotR line (Smaug) is good, but that design wasn't done by GW.

Someone more knowledgable than me could probably tell whether the faces in the reflection of the bino's are new death models...

Paint them as you like. I do, however, disagree on calling Stormcast human. They are soul powered flesh golems from the hammer god. Vaguely human shaped Ogors that have different physiology, psychology and ability from real humans. Yes, there's a human keyword on the warscroll, but that's just the soul put in the machine.

Yeah, a plastic hunter would make sense.

I don't think fielding gods is a good idea at all. But here's a shot: 30w (non degrading), 1+ save, 10"move, 10 bravery. Attacks: 10 at 48"/1+/1+/-9/40 Sigmar can target a different unit with each attack. Sigmar scores objectives within 12', including other tables, and counts as 50. Player fielding Sigmar now owns every Stormcast model within 6' of Sigmar, including models still in the box. All damage including Mortal wounds are saved with the armour save.

To which the reply is that GW adds value by giving the rulesets and places to play. Without those, the model loses a lot of value.