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  1. 6 hours ago, Clan's Cynic said:

    Kill-Team: Octarius was £125 and you don't really get anymore than Heart of Ghur, so I don't know where the £140 is entering their heads beyond "because we can lol." The resale value of Octarius was also great, because people were chomping at the bits for the Krieg and Kommandos, whereas you're probably only going to be flipping these warbands on Ebay if their rules are hilariously OP, since AoS stuff doesn't resale nearly as well. The terrain might go for around £50-60 but even that's less than half, even if you buy it from a discounter.

    What killed my local KT scene was the sheer cost of entry of KT'21. Warcry already struggled to gain any traction here back in first edition, whereas KT '18 was pretty popular, so if a 40k spin-off can't survive at £125ish, I might as well hold a funeral for Warcry at £140 (especially in this economy).

     

     

    What do you think makes it that Necromunda, with similar challenging price points, seems to be doing better than Warcry? Or is that a misconception on my part, and Necromunda isnt more successful than Warcry?

    I still keep wishing that Warcry was closer to the way campaigns worked (and flexibility of warband design) in Mordheim and Necromunda; equally while I do feel each setting in Warcry has had rich evocative possibilities - the game itself hasn't managed to use worldbuilding to really construct a modern Mordheim or Necromunda (whether the Underhive, the ash wastes or the more expansive world it is today). Cursed City was much closer to that, rather than Warcry. I just dont get that there's a real world behind the events of Warcry - but this may be different with Ghur?

    If there was that strong kernel of worldbuilding, I'd think there would be more for players to latch onto, irrespective of the prices?

     

     

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  2. Does anyone feel there just isn't momentum in AoS since the release of third? Or is it "lateral", in fluff or other non-army releases? I just don't know what this edition "stands" for, although that isn't necessary to enjoy a game, but I feel a bit lost as a (mostly new to AOS) player.

    Also does anyone ever play "historical" AOS, and play in the periods before the game itself? It seems a rich several millenia - has anyone charted it and/or written rules for it?  🤔

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  3. 4 hours ago, Skreech Verminking said:

    So what did the skaven need:

    -a huge points decrease, across the whole faction

    -a increase in size for stormvermins and plague monks

    And what has gw to show for it,

    well basically nothing.

    the units that almost never saw the game, and are still to expensive, even for their now decreased cost, have gotten a miserable update, from all of those updated units I’m at least happy to say that 1 of them might see the table now.

    for the rest of the units, I guess they are just a lost call.

     

    as for a positive side, the amulet seems to have gotten a lot less attractive, which I personally do appreciate,

    Yes-yes

    If the book is soon, they may have long ago moved on creatively and are long in the headspace of fundamental revisions. That might be the case with many languishing factions in the update - they require major work, or the studio has done major work to them already in publications due in the next year and a half, and thus sees not much point in too many changes in this document?

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Doko said:

    Worst balance never done by gw ever.

    Top armys:

    Gargants 0 changes or nerf

    Dok 0 changes or nerf,even some buffs

    Tzenth no nerf for kairos or lord of change

    Seraphons a sligth nerf to salamdres

    Sc dont get any nerf even broken units as fulminators or raptors(and useless units as twin dragons domt get any buff)

    Ironjaws that are the top army didnt get even close to any nerf,only a sligth nerf  to gruntas

     

    But middle tier armys as citys got a huge nerf to irondrakes,gotrek got a 50!!!! Nerf when teclis or morathi didnt get any change 

    Write to them and tell them this - I think they need as much feedback as possible. Also if on twitter, talk to the lead designers (eg Phil Kelly, Ben Johnson, etc), and chat - politely - with them about it.

     

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  5. How would you imagine Lumineth terrain? If you were to make a Lumineth board, what would you include on it? Obviously, Hysh is huge and will have lots of different climates and environments and historical trends of architecture, but for your elves, where do they live, what do they live in?

  6. Not sure if this is the right topic area for this, but tomorrow at 3pm UK time (wed 6th Oct) University of Glasgow's Centre for War Studies is hosting our National Museum's curator of European Weapons and Armour for a talk entitled:

    ‘wele & sufficiently arayed as it apertiens to their degree’: Arms & Armour of Fighting Men at the time of Agincourt

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    This seminar will be led by Dr Ralph Moffat, Curator of European Arms & Armour at Glasgow Museums. It will present objects from Glasgow Museums’ collections to provide a better understanding of the equipment used by the fighting men of this time.

    For zoom details please email arts-warstudies@glasgow.ac.uk 

    Further Reading

    • Blair, C., European Armour, circa 1066 to circa 1700 (London, 1958)
    • –– European and American Arms, c. 1100-1850 (London, 1962)
    • Capwell, T., Armour of the English Knight, 1400-1450(London, 2015)
    • Moffat, R., ‘Armourers and Armour: Textual Evidence’, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles ofthe British Isles, c. 450-1450, ed. G. Owen-Crocker, E. Coatsworth and M. Hayward (Leiden, 2012), pp. 49-52
    • –– ‘The Importance of Being Harnest: Armour, Heraldry and Recognition in the Mêlée’, Battle & Bloodshed: The Medieval World at War, ed. L. Bleach and K. Borrill (Newcastle, 2013), pp. 5-24
      –– ‘“A hard harnest man”: The Armour of George Dunbar, 9th Earl of March’,Transactions of the
      East Lothian Antiquarian Society 30 (2015), 21-37
    • –– ‘“Armed & redy to come to the felde”: Arming for the Judicial Duel in 15th-Century England’, Courts of Chivalry and Admiralty in Late Medieval Europe, ed. A. Musson and N. Ramsay (Woodbridge, 2018), pp. 121-33
    • –– ‘Arms and Armour’, A Companion to Chivalry, ed. R. W. Jones and P. Coss (Woodbridge, 2019), pp. 159-85

    You can register to attend by emailing arts-warstudies@glasgow.ac.uk.

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  7. I can't imagine a Lumineth release before pretty much every other faction has had some substantial attention. They've left nice spaces for future development - Tyrion, River, Zenith, etc - as you've noted. But I think it *should* be 3 years before Lumineth receive a new wave, given the state of other armies. Even if gw decided to give more based on sales, that sale data and the development saga places those releases at 2-3 years away.

    It might be of course that there never is a third wave, and the army receives only thay kind of one-off characters that armies kind of get as a tide you by update in both 40k and AoS. It could be therefore a decade, or two editions' worth of other factions, before any kind of real update

    Anyway, as the third or fourth-most modern range, LRL are in a very nice place, mini-wise. They won't always be as strong, and presumably will drop through the edition(s)'(s) cycle, but that's ok and the way of things too :)

     

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  8. Hi all, newbie, dipping into the LRL and have been reading through the core book and it's depiction of Hysh. Really loving it but I was rather surprised that LRL cannot have allies from an army representing Settler's Gain. Do you think maybe whatever happens with Cities/Dawnbringer Settlements will change that? 

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