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    Aos 2 - Lumineth Realm-Lords Discussion

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    7 hours ago, NorthernNurgling said:

    I don't know about anyone else, but I've been following the teasers since the first announcement and saving money for the eventual release, but it's been a strange process. It goes like this:

     

    Step 1) I get all hyped imagining what the models will look like

    Step 2) The release is shown and it is nothing like I imagined

    Step 3) I go to bed that night thinking "well I'm not collecting those"

    Step 4) I wake up the next day, look at the models again and think "Actually these guys look fantastic!"

     

    Is anyone else going through this process or am I developing schizophrenia??

    Feel exactly the same way. The preview really threw me yesterday but after letting it sink in for 24 hours I love the mountain bullyaks now. 

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    Does the adversary advance after a convergence?

    in Warcry

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    Pretty much what it says in the title.

    Does the adversary advance in their campaign after they’ve fought in a convergence battle in somebody else’s campaign? Or are they just there as opponents for the aspiring warband and it gets them some extra glory etc. But not an advancement in their own campaign.

    I’m thinking the latter as it says in the narrative section about the adversaries ‘interacting with the eight points’ and the warband is taking on a new role for that battle but can’t find a clear rule in the book.

    Age when you started Wargaming

    in Age of Sigmar Discussions

    Posted · Edited by valenswift

    In the mid 80's my dad and I often walked past GW in Manchester and back then they sold a variety of games. Eventually my dad got the courage to go in (I think this must have been '87) and he bought Vietnam 1965-1975. Now this game never got played but soon after seeing it I managed to convince my parents to buy me WFRP. From there I bought anything GW and had rules and minis for battle and 40k as well as the boxed games like Dark Future and Adeptus Mechanicus. However the game we played most (probably because it was cheaper than a full army and at 13 it's all we could afford) was Blood Bowl.

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    The Rumour Thread

    in Age of Sigmar Discussions

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    18 minutes ago, Malakithe said:

    Haha I knew they would just combo everything together...now the Orruks all in one is interesting. I thought Ironjawz disliked or dismissed any other greenskin that wasnt Ironjawz as they saw them as inferior?

    Thinking back to Old World, they could have some kind of animosity rule as a penalty for having a Big Waaagh!

    The Rumour Thread

    in Age of Sigmar Discussions

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    2 hours ago, alghero81 said:

    I’m looking forward to Warcry and hopefully for some news today however Warcry is not AoS and I’m more interested in the main story line rather than alternative sculpts. 

    Hopefully the 20th will hear more about a new battletome or waves of miniatures but more importantly a hint or something about plot progression. Not long now, just 2 weeks 

    What happened to themed weeks for Forbidden Power?  we had one and then nothing since....

    AoS 2 - Idoneth Deepkin Discussion

    in Order

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    Played my first game of Meeting Engagement last night and we decided to use the first battleplan.

     

    My IDK list was

    Spearhead - Tidecaster Naquas Barionic, Mistress of Shoals, 10 Reavers, Quicksilver Swords

    Main body - Soulrender, Lotann, 10 Thralls, 3 Ishlaen Guard

    Rearguard - 10 Thralls, 3 Morsarr Guard

     

    I was playing against Khorne. My idea for the spearhead was have the tidecaster and reavers rush the objective and use some ranged attacks to score points in the first battle round. I didn't manage to get my endless spell off but the reavers took out one bloodletter with shooting and their 8" movement meant they scored me the maximum 5 points in battle round 1 (who would have thought reaver would ever be useful :P)

    Going second again in battle round 2 I countered his charge with his bloodletters, who took out half the reavers, by retreating with them and flanking either side with eels and thralls. This again won me the objective and wound points making it 10-0

    Strangely high tide was the best round for Khorne as he let me go first so he could use the quicksilver swords and it meant a lot of my units were out of position for charges. Khorne managed to get 5 points here as he rushed the middle and took out my first eels whilst his Daemonic Prince general survived by 1 wound.

    Khorne went first in the final battle round and although he got all the charges as well as summoning 5 bloodletters and 5 hounds thanks to blood tithe and Karanak, he hadn't accounted for the Morsarr spears special ability and I took out his general before anyone attacked in the combat phase. Unbelievably the Morsarr rolled 3 twice to fail a charge in my turn which would have undoubtedly resulted in me taking the objective but ultimately it didn't matter as I got 23 wounds to his 21 and the final score was 12-8 on VP.

    I really like the way meeting engagements play, there is a lot of strategy to deciding your 3 contingents but also I feel the lists can be very thematic, helping tell the story of the battle. When composing my list I could just imagine the Tidecaster and Reavers storming onto the battlefield loosing arrows and Eldritch energies, with the Akhelian nobles coming in the rearguard after the minions had taken the brunt of the Chaos Daemons.

    After seeing no AoS or 40k being played as tournaments at Warhammerfest I'm sure this will definitely become the tournament standard their next year. With only 4 rounds and the way it scores, it feels like a cross between AoS and Shadespire and for me this is a fantastic way to play. 

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