Kugane

I bet the survey will say as often as possible lol.

Yeah you are right. I sometimes even find washes too thick already if they pooled a bit too much on a detail. I kind of wonder how these paints will dry when pooling. Sometimes you just miss a spot. Especially when doing the assembly line. Regardless we will probably see a lot less of thick acrylic coats among newer painters. No more putting nice and thick layers straight out of the pot to save time haha. No more "paint is liquid, It'll shape to the details by itself right?!" XD

It seems in the right hands it can be amazing, like merkel showed some amazing results using contrast paints on a Skaven bombardier, but I have also seen other people review it on YouTube and the results were kind of meh in my opinion with some shading, but a basecoat and wash would look nicer (YMMV). I think the whole "1 thick layer" should not be taken too literal. I still think, like glazes, layering these paints may give the best results. Especially to create gradients. However, for speed painting this is a god-sent invention regardless. I used to make the same stuff mixing washes with citadel air paints, resulting in paints that are both a wash and glaze. This will certainly battle the mid-army burnout of horde army painting. Having to go back 4 to 7 steps for each colour is tiring. Now it's just 2 for good results :). I think if you take the darker primer and overbrush it with the light basecoat prior to painting it may improve the gradient better. Or drybrushing if you want to go with darker tones. I'll experiment a bit when the paints are released :).

100%. If it isnt painted, I wont play it until it has its final layer of varnish on it. Because of that mindset it makes me sad when the opponent fields grey or sometimes in rare occassions even subassembled armies haha. The downside is that good stuff will get nerfed, become obsolete or too weak to compete due to rule changes/point adjustments. Seeing stuff painted to tabletop++ standard becoming unuseable tends to hurt. Especially in horde armies.

I personally think having warhammer underworlds available online soon will draw in lots of new people that want to go to real life events alongside of playing online. Magic arena has pulled in many people into our LGS and revigorated that hobby. Funny enough magic arena also brought in more warhammer hobbyists as a result that decided to do both MTG and AOS/40k. Then again cardgames and miniature gaming are two different beasts... considering 1 all you do is sleeve your cards for 10 minutes and the other you need to sacrifice a month of your life to even get the stuff painted xD.

Its what I love about assassins in 40k actually, that they can be some elite force that you slot into your imperium army as a back up. For some subfactions, like assassins, it even makes then more special to field.

I ended up selling my stormcast eternals for this very reason and refuse to buy into them anymore. Sacrosanct looks awesome in my opinion, But sequitors for example could easily have counted as liberators and simply giving them chapter tactics instead. Same with castigators could have counted as raptors or judicators.

It would also be nice if these minifactions get blanket protection like space marines for example do. Even if a chapter is not supported anymore, you can still run the miniatures and aesthetics as generic space marines and pick a different chapter to represent them. Perhaps these minifactions should be similar? That way the same army can have several aesthetics. It would also help newer players who pick up random warbands to work towards an overal bigger army to play AOS.

Yeah you are right. Its not like these are cheap to purchase either. It also seems games like battle for middle earth suffer from this less. Not a single one of my 15 years of purchases is unuseable. I would personally prefer newer and shinier sculpts of existing models each year, allowing old ones to be legal for use, than all these new releases outclassing old stuff. Or making sure every single model has a replacement scroll.

We should probably switch back to rumors before we upset the TGA gods (mods) =P

It would probably be less damaging if the ammount of work that goes into an army is less. I am not sure what others feel, But to me personally it makes little difference if an army has 30 miniatures or 80 miniatures. The game is equally enjoyable in my opinion. It does make a huge difference if you painted 30 vs 80 models (or even converted them) and seeing weeks of work being for nothing other than having new display pieces when your 80 soldiers are now useless.

Its a returning problem. Nowadays I can paint quite fast and can do around 5 miniatures per hour if needed, but I still recall when I rejoined the hobby 4 years ago and just finished a unit of 30 miniatures after like 2 months of painting only to have the army rules changed and everything being too weak to compete and some units (sayl the faithless) being useless in the army. The same when I invested into tomb kings and the entire range being scrapped. Also in 40k, recently I heavily invested in genestealer cults because I loved the vehicles, but vehicle armies are too weak to compete competitively. It just gets blown to pieces by flyers. I think it can be quite demotivating for newer players to deal with this, especially when not knowing there is such a large unbalance not only in rules of units, but when calculated, even baseline damage can be significantly different on a damage per points basis. Evocators vs palladors for example in case of stormcast. Evocators seem superior in every way. A new player wont know this and might buy into vanguard only to have a huge disadvantage straight out of the box. Maybe there should be a community that handles adapting/tuning rules and points for overal game balance. And using these tweaks as a supplement to the core game instead of waiting years for GW to do it. A lot of stuff can be easily fixed by tuning the statlines of a unit to reflect its cost, or its cost to reflect its rules and statlines. Every time I bring up balance on forums or even my local game group, it gets slaughtered by the "imbalance makes games more fun. Balance is boring" statement. But who is it more fun to? "That guy" who tables the new players? XD I think win % of an army should at least sit between 40 to 60% average win chance. Not 25 to 75% as it is right now (I personally can win about 1 in 4 games with bottom tier armies, But a more skilled player might do better of course.)

Thats a cool video! The karasu tengu in the video are the type of tengu those ninjas used to imitate. It's not sure if the yokai story of karasu tengu origin from encounters with these ninja or the ninja disguise was based around the story though. A lot of japanese folk lore is based around phenomina that they couldnt explain and thus it must be magic, lol. Regardless, considering that most warriors back then were 12 to 16 years of age it wasnt strange they would easily get scared or tricked. These new miniatures will be great as conversion pieces regardless :).

Oh my. They are gorgeous! Quite cheap as well!

Loving that crow warband. It reminds me of a group of ninja around the 1400s in Japan. They were known for disguising as crow tengu, looking like crow monsters in order to strike fear into bushi waging war. (Samurai were very superstitious) The historical ninja were fully clothed and even kept a caged crow hidden in their gi which would be loudly caw-ing to strengthen the illusion they were tengu. When they wanted to escape a battle, they would release the crow at their chest to create the illusion of transforming into one while they escaped. (Usually after using a smoke bomb) I tried finding the references on google about this group, but it seems the internet is overflown with random anime and videogame ninja stuff xD. I can't find any historical info about them anymore. I think adding some gi and tabis on these miniatures would be great for a ninja-themed conversion. Even the scythes would be cool as kama. If only these were eshin skaven instead. Missed opportunity.

Anyone know if Warcry will have a Skaven release as well? I thought I saw something that slightly represents a horned rat, but wasn't sure if its just an icon for another "warband"

Thank you^^ and indeed! I think the hexwraith gloom paints and such recently are very close to contrast paints. I personally am really looking forward to mixing in random paints into this contrast range to see if its possible to make the gradient even stronger. I also think the mechanics + drybrushing the contrast paint undercoat will likely make all the edges even more defined. Lets hope its out next week haha.

I have been making these type of paints for nearly a year now and have posted this recipe at various sites. Just mix the GW Air paint 1:1 with a wash, slap that on a light undercoat. I personally tend to do standard mechanicus > Heavy ulthuan dry brush and then apply the "glaze"-shade mix all in 1 mix on top of that. So feel free and go and experiment a bit before these paints are released :). Abbadon black + nuln oil gives this result for example (WIP)

Perhaps propose lower point games. Generally games around 500 to 1000 range are more swingy than 2k games in my experience. The added variance can swing games in both players favor. In the meantime you can work on slowly improving your list to be as optimal as possible?

And another week of your life busy cleaning moldlines of hundreds of underlings. Moldlines are the wrong kind of mold pestilens likes.

Loving the dark blue/black colour! What colours did You use for that effect? Also, careful, dont get burnt out! That looks like quite some work to get finished for a horde army.

Vanguard marines also now. I'm having a lot of fun with both atm. GW is finally giving the stealth play style attention. I hope this comes to AoS

I think the first step is to accept you are a person that gets frustrated, the second step is to do something about that. Instead of trying to fight the symptoms, you should try and fix the core issue by practicing a positive attitude. When you do lose, and you do feel that frustration brewing in your mind, rather than giving in to that feeling, treat it as an opportunity to practice to be humble, to practice patience, and even to practice tolerance to loss. The moments thing don't go our way are always the moments with the most opportunity for personal growth. We all have enough suffering as is, so don't let a game like AoS be one of them :). Keep practicing and in time you'll condition your mind to face a loss with dignity and perhaps even happiness.

Congrats! Well played :).

Has anyone played with the bombardier? Kind of wonder if its worth using him like a damage bomb with his buff. Nearly done painting him and would love to add it to the army.