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56 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:
however, I have no idea how this would work since our paladins are already the "terminator" type of Stormcast!
exactly, more big than them is the centurion squad
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3 minutes ago, Graywater said:
funnily enough, Gallup polling is reported on nightly as fact, and that only polls 1000 people at a time... considering there aren't close to half of the US population as hobbyists, 500 isn't inconsistent with currently accepted reporting procedure. Not to saying your point doesn't stand though.
Probably depends what you want to know, agree that a pool with 500 or 1000 is good enough to have an idea on the less desiderabile faction in aos
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The solution could be a discount big boxes for everyone when faction A vs faction B is released.
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8 hours ago, CommissarRotke said:
counterpoint: Beasts of Chaos should've been Destruction from the start, most of them don't worship one singular chaos god (if they even worship the big 4) and so many aspects line up with GA Destruction rather than Chaos.
we already have Paladins though..? they are already heavy knight/terminator type Stormcast. I don't understand how much more they could possibly bulk up Stormcast...
Centurion Stormcast Squad
I really like my paladins hope the best for them!
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6 minutes ago, Dreddships said:
stormcast terminators also fixes the main gripe with stormcast.
why do are army of superpowered reincarnated eternal golden lightning demigods formed from the souls of legendary warriors sit almost stat-for-stat as 'guy/gal in some armour who worships the devil'
Don’t buy stormcast and go directly to a chaos army?
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2 minutes ago, HorticulusTGA said:
I watched it too. Can confirm.
A credible person (the likes of Whitefang trust me) said this summer would be GREAT.
And apparently the SCE are worth the wait... BRING IT ON
thank's bro, my optimism is repaid 🤣
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Somebody know
36 minutes ago, HorticulusTGA said:Like, uh, a ... TWIN TAILED COMET ? .... Is it Azyrite ? Is it Dracothion ?
You're like the Oracle Of Hype
Btw those dragons really looks like the Stardrakes (notably the ones in the Kragnos Trailer). PS : for those wondering, the "Cave paintings" artwork comes from the Warhammer Instagram page.
same impression, I would say stormcast but other factions could have a double tail dragon, hope sylvaneth or idoneth.
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8 minutes ago, Battlefury said:
If you can pay for that, wich a lot of people can#t and don't want. Also, some armies won't get the power. We never know what GW designes and why. Ther is no certain foresight of an army being powerful.
Yeah I am one of those people haha, I have one faction and don't want another one!
I have only said what appears to be.
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16 minutes ago, Nos said:
Balance is too diffuse a word.
When I say balance I mean I want a game which is principally balanced towards both players being involved and enjoying themselves with what they have. This is something which most mini games have as their ethos. The rules of things like Oathmark, Saga, Kings of Wrar etc are designed around this. AOS is *attrocious* on this front. As is 40k, as was Warhammer.
But I get it, because GW principally sell their lore. People for the most part collect GW armies because they want to invest in the models and the whole experience of following them through the lore. There is more flavour in GW factions. People love their army like they love their sports teams. They get excited for new releases like they want new players to sign for their club. With the historical wargames I play, which are vastly more elegant systems on the table, there is nothing like that degree of enthusiasm off it.
I think the issue with balance is that GW dont know how to/don't care about translating the character of factions onto the table *with restraint*.
Sylvaneth are my favourite AOS faction because they combine beautiful models with thematic rules. The problem is they have clearly been designed with close adherence to the core mechanics. You have to play the game well to utilise their powers. You get the basics wrong, you're not going to be able to use your army effectivley. I love that because it makes them a very involved experience
Whereas the strongest factions tend to get rules with supersede those of the core mechanics, either through exploit or deliberately. The abundance of MW and Ward Saves is the most obvious case in point. These were originally designed to be rare, powerful supplements to combat. Now they're just routine components for the strongest factions while being largely unavailable to others. With the strong factions, you can play badly and still win just by virtue of having the tabletop equivalent of an atomic bomb. You just need to detonate it.
In that scenario you could have someone who plays the basics much better stil lose to someone who makes multiple basic errors but is able to exploit a gimmick. And learning how to beat that gimmick isnt really about learning to play the game better- it's about learning how to stop one very particular contrivance.
Basically if GW actually stuck to the core rules of AOS as rigid, and worked out how to acce that the character ter of each da tion within those, rather than inventing new ways for every new army to effectivley ignore some of them, it would be more fun and no less competitive.
Also GW makes better miniatures(by far) and as you said, lore, that's why I'm in, and personally the knowledge that every army get the "power" at some point. Sure that encourages having more than one faction
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1 minute ago, SirSalabean said:
Fingers crossed, I’m imagining it could be destruction vs stormcast. Im interested to see the direction they take with more mortal stormcast and destruction aligned
I'm not worried about the lore or the sculpt, they are good at their job, I'm hoping stormcast will be playable again in competitive game 😂
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Just now, SirSalabean said:
So are we expecting 3.0 for the mystery stream?
Yes, plus new faction and stormcast stuff
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2 minutes ago, FFJump said:
Whitefang is TGA's shaman providing us visions of the future in the smoke of the rumor thread bonfire.
absolutely no peyote was involved in the making of the smoke and visions
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Knights Excelsior are represented against kragnos, could that mean anything?also that stormhost colors are a good combination, like it.
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6 minutes ago, SunStorm said:
Blown away by Kragnos, both the model and the lore we've seen. Plus the potential he opens up for the future of a new destruction force built of his new followers.
I love his shield, both the design and how it's painted with the heavy Verdigris.
I just need to decide if I paint him with green skin to match my Ironjaws.
I would make him look different since his a semi-divinity shouldn't be levelled with the rest of the army. my 50cent
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4 minutes ago, dirkdragonslayer said:
That feeling when a living God of Earthquakes is just as inspiring as a big smelly dankhold troggoth.
They take inspiration from stormcast
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Cool music tho
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19 minutes ago, KriticalKhan said:
“think bigger”:
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10 minutes ago, Chikout said:
Grand alliances will never go away simply because they are a very convenient way of organising things on the webstore. It also serves as an easy primer for newcomers.
In terms of allies we have already broken the bounds of the grand alliances with sons of Behemat.
I do find the obsession with grand alliances balance a bit tiresome though. If the designers discover a rich vein of creativity as they seem to have done with the Lumineth Gw shouldn't stop them just to balance the quota.
Also there has been a fairly good balance of releases this edition. 8 armies got more than 10 new kits: gloomspite, nighthaunt, Stormcast, lumineth, obr, Slaanesh, slaves to darkness, and the forthcoming Soulblight.
If we look at what's lacking it's regular humans, Orruk destruction and Duardin.
Hopefully we will see that addressed soon.
In first edition people complained about the lack of Aelves, now we have lots. Then people complained about the lack of Death, now we have lots. Recently there have been complaints about the lack of destruction. It looks highly likely that will be addressed in the new edition.
Gw want to get around to everything but it takes time and this is a game they want to support for the next 30 years.
New destruction faction going to be released soon.
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So at this point I’m pretty sure we will have something to say in matched play.Because a box with only new models means only that to me. I don’t accept any other explanations.😂
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Just now, Raptor_Jesues said:
why do i feel like you are trolling us just a little bit?
I can see it, with wings instead of arms
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36 minutes ago, xking said:
I want to ask the dev team way they did this.
Someone needs to tweet that video to the rules devs
They want to drink stormcast players tears, don't let them do it!😂
Joke(?) aside, at the point where we are it can only get better, probably several units will still be meh but not all of them, we are at the end of one cycle and the new one start with us.
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Do you think that with the future reaction to charge is the begins of the end for idk strategy?
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3 hours ago, Yeknomious said:
Poor Gardus, this reaction sums him up, so funny.
AoS 3 is at the door, we need to wait 2months then for stormcast will be only better.
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10 minutes ago, Loyal Son of Khemri said:
I DECLARE MORTAL KOMBAT!!!
*Mortal Wombat!
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AoS 2 - Stormcast Eternals Discussion
in Stormcast Eternals
Posted · Edited by baiardo
After that put it in a golem/dreadnaught!
Someone at GW's HQ really like matrioska.