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22 minutes ago, Captaniser said:
Remember how almost everybody, me included, believed that the Kroot leggins were either Drukhari, Slaanesh or Aelves of some kind from the rumor engine? This Pillar might as well be Chaos Silent people for all we know.
Khemrian Kunrnothi confirmed!
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2 hours ago, Asbestress said:
I mean, we haven't seen anything to the contrary either.
They even gave a lukewarm answer during the original reveal that there may be other races.I do love the idea of Cities as a cosmopolitan melting pot, but dawnbringers is just a tired old religious cliché, and I think the evasive answers about the rest is them not wanting to bear bad news.
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1 hour ago, Snorri Nelriksson said:
MMM....
I like the warband but don't seem too distant to old world empire.
I think some "non-human" elements would have improved the rendition....something like a dark elf torturer or dwarf gunman.
Hoping for some "aosifying" in the project like over-the-top technology for ironweld,more mystical\holy elements to Order of Azyr(i liked the priestess\prophet of Cursed city) and obviously a new look for freeguild.
I haven't seen any reason to believe this crusade is inclusive in different species.
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39 minutes ago, dmorley21 said:
I don't feel like it's been that slow for AoS, considering it's been more of a 40k year.
We've gotten 6 new battletomes with 4 more on the way, a General's Handbook, and a fluff/narrative Thondia book.
We've gotten 7 new heroes with at least 4 more on the way (and likely 6), 3 new kits (one that is a multi-unit kit), and the Incarnate and terrain.
Maybe it's been slow if you're just into the hobby side of things, but for gameplay it's been great and constantly changing.
For the hobby side of things, it's really slow. Books are constantly in and out of rotation. That's a detriment rather than a boon for people like me. I don't want to spend €50 a year on incomplete rules.
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11 hours ago, Beliman said:
I must disagree about the rules.
Imho, FW seems to writte better rules overall. After 3 AoS editions, we usually see some "broken" interactions and people point out what crazy stuff are in the books in the first few weeks or even before the books are out.
Horus heresy seems to be doing fine, a few things are a bit meh (mainly double tap with Auspex+Reaction and boring battleplans) , but this are not just bad rules or broken interactions, it's more about knowing what you are doing (don't DR near things with Auspex, they can shoot two or even three times before you can react...).
Btw, I'm only talking about nu-Forgeworld (Andy Hoare era). And HH box has a nice price tag, it's not as good as some SC or Dominion, but still good value.
It might well be for horus heresy (which is mostly just space marines, so should be easy to write), but the rules for their AoS stuff were awful. Many things were over 400 points, so couldn't be taken in a 2k army because they weren't keyworded, and their warscrolls were not updated.
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7 hours ago, EccentricCircle said:
Giving them aos stats would require forge world to remember that aos exists... Given that they are slowly discontinuing all their aos models I think we can conclude that that's not likely to happen any time soon...
Yeah, I would be surprised if they make anything for AoS from 4th onward. Not terribly surprised, maybe it takes another edition for molds to wear out, break, get lots or just scrapped, but the pattern is quite clear.
FW offers no benefit over GW, higher prices, harder to get, harder to work with, worse quality control, worse customer service and barely any attention to rules.
They do make nice Necromunda models though, and GW mainly price jumps made infantry heroes about the same price. Not really worth the price, like all infantry heroes.
They also sell nice Admech stuff from HH, but that's a space marine game, so far outside my interest.
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1 hour ago, Sahrial said:
If witch hunters i absolutely want some big ole mastiffs or bloodhounds with heckin droopy jowls and faces
Like Dungeons and doggies?
Or Cats and Catacombs?
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Well, Kharadron could get you a really original blood bowl team, or blood bowl could get you really dynamic Kharadron.
Tsaangors, Lords of Change, Gaunt Summoners and Ogroid Thaumaturges are excellent monsters. Horrors are really easy to paint, and a box of blue horrors is a lot of practice material.
Stormcast has excellent gryph creatures and their final iteration even has good humanoids
And Ossiarch also exist. Kratakros is cool though.
Get the Snotling Blood Bowl team, they are really fun to paint.
Necromunda sets could sate your 40k desires, the game is awful* but most of the models are good.
*About €120 in books before you even get to paint a model, with rules between all books (which admittedly are beautiful).
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My necromunda dwarves so far
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5 hours ago, Aeryenn said:
Gloomspite received like 3 Celestial Tomes? One for each subfaction. I'm sure about Troggoths and Squigs and I own these WD issues. But it didn't help Gloomspite much. They need most of their warscrolls updated on par with allegiance abilities.
That's just a sneaky way to get people to pay for three white dwarfs.
Pay about as much as a tome, get less*!
*If you aren't interested in the rest of the magazine
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2 hours ago, EntMan said:
Steampunk mechs, yes please.
Mega Gargant sized.
No mega gargants, but I'm interested to see how these turn out:
Considering barge went from this
To this in rendering
(Barrels and boxes are seperate stls)
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1 hour ago, Clan's Cynic said:
You know it's slow period when we're openly posting 40k reveals here.
As someone who loves all things Dwarf, I'm not in love with any of the League stuff we've seen so far. It feels like if you slapped them with human proportions they'd be any other third party generic sci-fi range, there's not much that feels very Dwarfy about them except for the odd rune or the Fyreslayer-esq crests.
Kharadron look like they're a unique spin on Dwarfs, but still recognisably fitting the Dwarf archtype. The Leagues look like any other sci-fi army with Dwarf proportions.
I like the Necromunda squats' design better, even though I think the content of the box seems disappointing.
These space marine dwarves aren't my thing, but the heartkin and bikes seem nice
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Kharadron might not be a bad pick. Narr especially.
Some antimagic stuff, none of their own magic, and steampunky contraptions to get to their prey. Also reasonable in headcount.
Fyreslayers might also be a pick, with war altar instead of magmadroth. They have more priests.
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8 hours ago, NinthMusketeer said:
Having a 42% chance of 'winning' because I chose second then won a single dice off is a pretty negative experience. It's not even a win in anything but name, it's just me & my opponent setting up a game only to not have one. Because bar inexperience or a really bad mismatch of power between armies, that is exactly what a 1-2 or 2-3 double is; automatic win. I remember all four times I've lost with a 1-2 double, because I seriously messed up in each of them.
Some like the double because it covers over the terrible balance; even an army that is strictly underpowered compared to the opponent can win *sometimes* by virtue of a massive handicap given out at random by game mechanics. But for every unbalanced game it fixes, there is a balanced game that it ruins, so even at its best there is no net gain to that mechanic.
End of the day, random initiative is a NPE generator.
I wouldn't say it's an NPE generator, but I do agree it's a really effective way to hide balance problems to have another unbalancing randomizer as part of the rules.
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My July starts out strong, with two models at an average of 80% completion because I couldn't sleep, but it will get a lot worse from here on out. I have no weekends that are not planned to the brim until the end of July.
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12 hours ago, KingBrodd said:
Oh wow you can see such similar designs in the shoes!! I wonder if some KO designs became Squats/LOV.
I think the Necromunda dwarves are squarely between Kharadron and LoV
Necromunda dwarves have an old timey space suit aesthetic, Kharadron an old timey diving suit, while Votann looks positively sci fi. Look at the backpacks especially, Necromunda is a lot less modern than Votann, but would fit right in with Kharadron
I also thought the designs of Kharadron might have originally been designed for 40k, but then, the earlier Necromunda squats were this, which looks more like old squats
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3 hours ago, JackStreicher said:
Fixing Mortal wounds:
Every unit of a player can’t suffer more than 5 mortal wounds in between the player’s own hero phases. All excess Mortal Wounds are lost.
Done.
Make it 4 to give infantry heroes a chance, and you have a deal.
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6 hours ago, Gailon said:
This is the model that makes me wish I was a better and more patient painter (and didn't already have an enormous pile of grey shame). It is so gorgeous and looks like it would be amazing to really dive into an elaborate paint job.
It is certainly a subassembly thing, nooks and crannies can get awkward.
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3 hours ago, Greyshadow said:
Oh excellent responses from all! I’m going to go with the Kharadron Ironclad - breathtakingly awesome. The Eiladon would be a close second. I’m painting a Isharann Tidecaster at the moment and it is just a spectacular model. Many, many incredible models to choose from that’s for sure.
I was frankly a bit disappointed with the Ironclad, you don't have any options for customisation except the gun.
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15 minutes ago, novakai said:
MW are also facilitating more Ward saves now too, which also hurts rend and regular attacks since Ward units can possible get 2 chances to negate damage with save stacking (a little less if the weapon does multi damage) while MW only need to worry about the Ward saves
if GW is going through their usually arm race mentality we could possibly see more anti ward ability like Drakkfoot and that NH dreadscythe Harridan allegiance in the future.
They could give the scale something Aqshi artifact ability to most units. Start off with a ward save 4+ vs mortal wounds for all dwarves to signify their magic resistance, and go from there.
Mortal Wound spam fixed, but another layer of complexity.
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The Necromunda dwarves really fit Kharadron well. I have a box of them now, but their base size is nonsense and they don't get the good Necromunda bases. I put him on a 25 mm though, because that's useful for me. Also, only 10 heads of 5 designs (only male) for 8 figures, few melee weapons. It isn't so hot for a Necromunda set.
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4 hours ago, EccentricCircle said:
As a long time lizardmen fan I can't see the problem with a lot of their models. Sure cold ones are quite cartoony, but what's wrong with chameleons, kroxigor or salamanders besides them being resin? Sure it's a bad material but the models look fine to me? The 3rd party lizzies certainly set a n astronomically high bar, but that doesn't mean the gw sculpts are bad, just not as good.
The problem is that GW has astronomically high prices in the miniature world, and delivers a product here that doesn't seem worth that.
Look at Freeguild Handgunners.
€32 for 10 (a 60% increase in the last four years). This doesn't reflect distribution, because it's just from a webshop.
Now look at Warlord Landsknecht missiles.
These are €29 for 30.
Having painted both, the GW painter did a good job making them look like less like apes, while Warlord's offering paints up really easily.
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18 minutes ago, Popisdead said:
Minotaurs
Minotuars
also Minotaurs...
There's an aelf for that
The "mortals redesign" Discussion
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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They could. They could also dump the remainder of Cities after they take the humans out and reshuffle a few kits with some life in them. How many warscrolls are in more than one unit?
As for why I think the Dawnbringer crusade will not have any nonhumans?
- It would be easy to write.
- Apart from Stormcast, no nonhumans with models are followers of Sigmar, and all Stormcast souls are harvested from humans.
- I really dislike crusades, and they are not usually done with people wanting to have a peaceful conversation with people.