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  1. Even if not technically a diorama, still part of  it as a main piece to develop in a future project.

    So, le'ts give birth to the physical spells. If GW brought up the endless spells, we can use also physical version fot the classical ones that last more than the spreading of the magic itseòf ^^

    And  cause I started an Ossiarch bonereapers army...I can follow the lead^^

     

  2. On 9/22/2021 at 2:02 PM, Sception said:

    The prices of ~most of~ the models in the army are quite high, but so are the points costs, which means the price of the ~overall army~ isn't that bad.  And the overall army price is brought down further by the one exception to the 'high priced' trend - mortek guard.  While mortek spam is less of a thing in 3e than it was in 2e (points cost up, no max unit discount, max unit down, reinforcements restricted, smaller unit sizes in the game in general making 5 man kavalos units a more attractive battle line option than they were in 2e, new CA restrictions make it harder to stack buffs like morteks used to like to do which further skews attention towards the less RDP hungry kavalos), most OBR armies are still going to have Morteks taking up a larger portion of the overall points value of the army than anything else, and compared to other equivalent units Mortarks are surprisingly cheap.  Fully half the price per model of the equivalent lumineth core battleline units, and not appreciably less elite than they are in points cost or tabletop effectiveness.  Mortek Guard could have been the same price for 10 models instead of 20 and people wouldn't have griped any more about them than any other elite infantry kit in the game.

    As is, they're cheaper per model than some hoardy chaff units in other armies.  They're the same price per model as deathrattle skeletons, only barely more than deadwalker zombies, and significantly cheaper than chainrasp hordes, and this goes a long way towards making the cost of collecting an OBR army much more manageable than it might at first appear, even without a start collecting set.

    I agree about the prices, but at ghe same time it's missimg a collector box. The broken realm one has been a welcome wntry, but at the same time not enough. And fesst of bones has disappeared even before seeing it.

    Chainrasp armies had the setbox and mortal realm releasing (not in my country  Mortal realms sigh...).

     

    About points I care relatevely, the balance shift often.

     

    The improvements of the abilities anout the relentless points helped a lot .

    And compared to the deathrattle they have the bonuses thanks to the champion and avoid battleshock tests.

     

  3. I fell in love about Ossisarch Bonereapeers when I readabout the crematorians. What stopped me was the prices of the models, really high. 

    But when I saw the releasing of:

     

    I decided to buy it and slowly assemblong, magnetizing and paint it (i'm still preparing the videos about. And yes, even if I know that they should be stalliark related, myriad are the better, I still fell in love for Crematorians^^ (and I have enough models of the other undead armies  that I could rival Nagash itself in summoning^^ so I decided to have totally fun with them and make every idea I have avalaible^^ (it only neeeds time^^) 

    I'm having quite a lot og fun about them and I like the dethriders... I've made even a song about Kavalos...

     

    Also as @Vasshpit showed, that model it's simply amazing. And I'm really thinking about buying that unit to use it as one of my army pieces, maybe making it not him as it is, but as a substitute for something else  (soulmansion?).

    I love also the gohthizzard, one really carismatic model.

    What I'd change it's only the heads of the mortek guard, I really don't like them. LUckyly I have quite a few of skeleton head waiting them if I'll gain some of those models.

    And the little leegs of the crawler (only th e legs, the model itself I find it really awesome.

     

    Anywya I don't think it0s about being too much contricted as army. There are a lot of ways to personalize them. 

    If you read novel like Ossiarch Bonerepaers and oters you can find that  they make a lot of contructs in a lot of different ways. Think even simply to Broken Realm Teclis where they fuse mortek guard together to create a suspended bridge or the statues defending the valley. So not a single problem abou personalizing them eventually.

     

    Still I agree with some more units avalaible to increase the chouise.

    Based on the underworld one Mir, to accompany him there are special morteks, and it seems soon there willl be avalaible the archer ones, while one of them can be associated to a Liege on foot.

    So I think that more choices will be avalaible with the next battletome (even before knowing GW). Think about Necrons from Warhammer 0k. They spent decades with a really small amount of models and when tey renewd them they amplyfies quite a lot. The same about the Nighthaunt army.

    I'm waitingfor many more models for Ossiarch Bonereapers and Flesh eater courts (and Flesh eater courts are the suplime about creating different units with the fewer sets avalaible(.

  4. Dragons has developed and changed has concept along the centuries. The first western culture referral about dragons made them more about big snakes than something like actual. There are referral about them in painting of 1200. And even if you go to Romans and Greeks you find something completely different and not associated with the word "dragon"

    Western and Oriental dragon now are totally different (eastern more related to the "original" concept).

    Our actual dragons are related more about last century. And evolved even more in the last 50.60 years. In the '50 of last century they were more like a sort of big lizards. After the book of Dinosaurs they vere associated to the mass concept of those. The they developed with games from the '80sin different typeso dragons, drakes,drakling, wyverns and o on.

     

    About ingame now. You only need to have something that can be about almost the same volume. You can persoalize it in a lot of different ways.  For example I prefer to use the positioning of the terrorgheist with the head of the dragon zombie to use the dragon zombie itself (I have to do a videoabout magnetizing the model).

  5. 45 minutes ago, Honk said:

    and here you casually state the heart and essence of fear and dread for LoN Deathrattle or Soulblight players worldwide...

    if the tea leaf readings were correct, OBR was the first book to slowly obsolete the GA:D style LoN Book. 


    what to do with the death range beyond OBR and FEC... especially the old staples of Necromancers, Vampires and Wightkings leading troops of zombies, skellis/guards or bloodknights? And yes, throwing in TK for the heartache.

    if the GDubs way of maximum IP protection continues, the whole line would need to be redesigned, since the classic skelli and Vampire theme is kinda open sourced. Also with the soft removal of Nagash and Arkhan from LoN the whole fluff needs to be redone. 
    with the „Undying King“ and „Dominion of Bones“ fluff I hope for two/three things

    - Mortals of Shyish, mortals and necromancers and maybe constructs (deathwalker hordes)

    - soulblight, from Bloodknights to Pirates (elite vampires)

    - better books/fluff... maybe it‘s an audible thing, but „UnKi and DOB“ was slow boring and just not as exciting as old gotrek & Felix or Nagash or Vamp wars... even the Necromancer novel was more interesting

     

     

    I appreciated a lot Undying king, but I like a lot Reynolds writings. Dominion of Bones is a celebration of Neferata, and in some way recall the stories about the Von Carstein. It would be interesting to see a renew of the "Sylvania army" as a way to make the Soulbloght... Technically they should recall the old 6th edition Warhammer fantasy vampire counts book, the fun part. But such s way it would be quite similar to a City of Sigmar.

    I don't think anyway that Skellues need an update as models, other then  to increase the weapon options. But they could only sell the upgrade set separate.

    About zombies .. they changed their way since the corpse cart releasing, and we can see confirmed new style with the FEC endless spells and the BB undead teams. The old ones are still valid, but something new would be interesting, still they would need more options.

    About the BG, Gotrek & Felix and vampire Wars are old friends, they are a different style. I still like them quite a lot, but said so it sounds more like nostalgia^^ here it's totally taste related, so can't be argued about any. Way

  6. Anyway thinking more about a possible future Battletome, I thought back to the Black LIbrary "Undying King", maybe an army of zombies and deathrattle is not so crazy as an idea. We have seen in that volume the raise of a new deathlord, a Mortarch, the VonDrak firl, it would be interesting to see a representation about it.

    We would have

    - deathrattle (Broken Kings)

    -FEC (her ancient uncle)

    - zombies (the sea around) with even a lot of options abou an undead fleet)

    It could even have the characterization not to be alliable with the Legion of Blood eventually.

    I think that if done in the right wway, it could be done in quite a interesting way

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  7. In my opinion there would be un update of the LoN that has become  a rewamp of the GA:D, cause there is anywai the need to call all at the war together. Even if we think about Broken Realms a step after the Necroquake, there is still too much about Nagash options

    OBR has been a new faction,but it can't represent the Deathrttle, more like a Qatar army of the Tomb Kings.

    In such a way, I think that more than being released a deathrattle book as I always hopd, there will be two different Battletome yet to publish: one related about the mix of Deathrrattle and Necronmancers, cause it would let a lot of units being avalaible at the same time and they ae quite  close to each other, maybe with one or two new Mortarchs (here i'd think about a Kemmler/Krell combination?)

    About zombie side and new models, we have seen new options  about them since the releasing of the coprse cart.  I still like the old models (eventually i combine them with ghouls set heads), but it would be interesting to see them updated with the style of the the models of the Blood Bowl. Anyway some bigger sombie or golem corpse or so on it would be nice to add. 

    About Soulblight...they are simple not enough.We have some beasts and the vampires, and not many of them at that. OK, they have been able to create a battletome from FEC , and they don't have many models, but still they have quite a lot of  variant in their assembly, so it was affordable. The Soulblight should have a restyling and addeded many more units. We can find that we have seen a new swam bats with the GRymwatch, and seeing the Lord of the rings options also the fell bats are not so difficult to see them redone.  The real trouble rre the units of the vampires themeselves, cause wehave seen them as heroes and as chavalry (even if I never liked them too much as models maybe cause too financial expensive) cause they need to have solid background about them and so:

    1) they introduce the grades of vampirism 

    2) they take elites and simply call suborrdinates alike

    But in such a way they would not be characteristic enough, so technically the real problemabout new battletome is the SOulblight.Ok, you can think about giving them zombies and skeletons as subparts, but it doesn't have enough "premium" to be something else than a yet avalaible LoN (that should be anyway refreshed )

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  8. My main army is still Death oriented and while  I am sill increasing the dioramas about my Stormcast Eternals with new techiques and tricks (I'll bring them too when I am at right step^^), still I can't forget my love about undead.

    I never liked the latest lupi zombie, I can't stand them. I still have the previous ones in mass number, but I wanted to realize something moregriimdark, more horrific, so...

    I decided to modify and improe the Road To Diorama with some easy sculpting and create my "zombies wolves"... ora should i call spiderzombies/spiderghouls?

    Still some nigthmare incoming^^

     

     

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