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  1. So are modern Stormcast lists really still mainly made up of 1.0 stuff? Most of what I've seen basically completely ignore the new stuff (maybe excepting Stormdrake Guard) and seem to be playing like early 1.0?
  2. So out of sheer curiosity as the models look sick, is it viable to run mostly the new stuff and not rely on bringing in old WHFB elves/dwarfs/Empire stuff (maybe excluding regular wizards)? Or is it built around synergy still from the old ranges?
  3. It really feels like the warcry miniatures are done with the quality you'd expect from the market leader. Some of the regular kits still look... it's hard to explain, but a lot of them don't come close to equivalent 3d printed models as far as quality, despite being priced way higher because GW, or in some cases they're just ridiculous design for designs sake like half the lumineth models. The same cannot be said about the warcry stuff.
  4. I hope they take nothing. 40k 10th edition is a complete dumpster fire and IMHO a huge step backwards. AOS is already the superior game. If I actually had to pick something then maybe the Leviathan mission card format which actually seems pretty good
  5. I feel that if they're gonna have playtesters they need to lsiten. 40k already IMHO went south by essentially making ITC the game, since ITC was IMHO a huge mistake.
  6. I haven't yet because I haven't really been able to play for several months due to a myriad of things in real life. My local store is having a league but they're treating it like a tournament which isn't my preference but it means guaranteed games so I will take it however I plan to gauge the other players and see if a few of them would be open to something more than standard games afterwards. I suspect that I would have to do it on the down low because My experience has been if the store isn't running it then people don't want to do anything that's not "officially supported" by the flgs. But the downside of this of course is that then it becomes open to anyone whereas I think a PTG would be better suited by a smaller close-knit group, Even if we basically have to act like we're just going to the store to play a game and nobody really needs to know that or actually doing a campaign because, honestly, it's none of the game stores business. And yes, I never understood the attitude that matched play is somehow balanced at all when it's very clearly not the best reasoning I've seen given is that it's more straightforward in setting up a game and that's the main thing people care about.
  7. In my (albeit inexperienced) opinion, what I like about the new PtG system is that it IS "Matched Play + Extras". In my area at least it's basically if it's not Matched Play, nobody cares or will give you the time of day because it might be unbalanced, so the rule of the day is GHB pitched battles only (even the rulebook ones are considered bad), constantly changing based on what the GHB seasons are whether or not it's tournament games. it might as well be every game is a tournament practice game. I hate it; it's boring, it's stale, and daring to suggest not using the GHB you might as well be saying go back to launch-day rules with funky "My beard is bigger than yours so I get a bonus" and "I'm playing 10 Nagashes" rules with how people will, politely sometimes, tell you to buzz off. Having something that feels similar to matched play but allows for extras is, IMHO, amazing and was the big thing missing previously. It would be much easier in my locale to convince someone to play PtG if A) it still retained what was basically a Matched Play core and had extras, and B) allowed for use against people whether or not they were doing it (although I could see some complaints here about it being "not fair" to get extras for PtG by not playing PtG; I could definitely see a situation where someone has played more non-PtG games but applied PtG rules and ends up with a bonus over someone who hasn't). That definitely was not the cases in the previous systems where people would spend more time complaining about how the games COULD be unbalanced than trying to make it not unbalanced, when it's easier to just say "2k pitched battle on Friday night" and have that be the entirety of the conversation. That said though I wish they'd expand it. It bothers me constantly that GW only focuses on what are essentially tournament rules, and those rules affect the entire game not just tournaments. It would be one thing if people only used the GHB plans for tournaments, but just like it's always been the GHB is considered the game by the vast majority of people, not just something for tournament play; it's like they are still in an AOS 1.0 mindset where it's either GHB rules or it's "put whatever you want" and there is no in between.
  8. Or even if they are, it's in Beta now. Once it goes live there's no reason to expect it will stay free.
  9. If you ask me this is a total backwards move for GW, and they should feel bad. We all knew it was coming, but still the freely available scrolls was a HUGE selling point of AOS. I hope we see a big backlash over this, they deserve it for this sort of ******.
  10. Definitely strange. For now at least logging out and back in fixed it, but... yeah, app is definitely buggy.
  11. Is the core book (e.g. from Dominion) supposed to have a code to unlock it in the app? the new app has like Core Battalions locked and says: but there's no code. Just an oversight (pretty big one IMHO)? I have to say, so far not too thrilled with this app compared to Azyr. Also the fact there's no way to edit the size/etc. of an army list, you have to delete and recreate it.
  12. And yet they have competitive playtesters and at least one designer who is a fairly competent competitive player, so these changes make even less sense if there's someone who actually "gets it"
  13. As par for the course seems like the adjustments are haphazard and random with little or no justification or reasoning, like they were ran through a random number generator. Slaanesh got absolutely decimated and I feel like this is where GW's lack of transparency in design choices is going to be a huge issue, because something like this really warrants something from the designer on just why they felt like it was necessary. Lumineth, which was already super strong to the point of being broken, seems to have come out without much damage while Slaanesh which had issues was gutted for no reason and kicked to the bottom. Makes no sense how or why these changes were done, and with what reasoning behind it.
  14. Which is exactly the problem with balance in AOS. The fact there are a few crazy strong armies skews everything else.
  15. I get what you're saying but I've never found a game as bad as GW games in that regard. Every other game I've played, while there are imbalances, it's never to the point of saying "Don't play that, it's terrible and you'll lose constantly", it's more like "That's not meta right now but here's how you can make the most of it". Only Warhammer it seems to be binary to where there's seemingly nothing to be done to make it even remotely playable, it's pure garbage and you're wasting money/time if you pick to play it. At least that seems to be the way people approach it as I frequently see people dissuade someone from playing a certain army or units by dismissing the entire thing as "bad". A good example of this in my mind is when I played Warmachine. There was a really cool unit (Man-o-War Shocktroopers) that looked awesome but wasn't that great. You constantly had people want to make the most of them, and most everyone agreed they were cool and just not good. Yet you always saw people suggest other units/characters that helped them out, with the understanding it still would not be a super meta list but would not be unplayable garbage. It would be like "If you take X and Y it helps them out" and people still did okay with them as long as they weren't playing against S-tier meta lists. Yet in warhammer I see a lot of "Don't take these units at all, nothing will help them, they are totally unplayable and terrible" as the answer to someone wanting to know about it.
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