Kramer
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On 5/30/2021 at 11:10 PM, Kaylethia said:
Thanks again for the thread, @Kramer
No worries, brings me joy that it's picked up again.
But now i'm turning off the notifications because that's a tease I don't need in my life 😂
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Thanks for all the stories peeps! Not enough likes per day, to like them all.
I'll likely be back at some point.-
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12 hours ago, Gwill_of_the_Woods said:
Didn't they release the Silver Tower "heroes" in clam pack eventually?!
The rules could be on the website in pdf and on whichever apps they have now.
For AoS heroes, they'd probably do a Silver Tower style expansion with player character cards.
Yes.
And they had an silver tower app with a bunch of heroes you could play. Unless they change the core mechanics that could still work.
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I need some more positivity in this hobby. Help me get excited. No critical comments about models, rules, points, releases. Give that it's own threat. I debated a bit about writing what brought this on, in the end I decided to put it in the spoiler tag as that's also not the most postive.
Here I want to hear what you are excited about; what you are passionately painting or eagerly awaiting! What gems you have in your pile of potential or how you're growing that pile exponential. Maybe you're meticulously building something as instructed or converting something never before seen, and I want to hear about it all.
Let's get some creative juices flowing.
SpoilerI don't know what it is. Maybe people are getting worn down by the pandemic. Maybe Im getting worn down by the pandemic. Maybe life is bad allround. But everybody should be doing this hobby for fun. This should be where some passion is, that one thing that's the most important thing in the world, yet absolutely insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Basically it should be a hobby.
But not having played in a month, the Netherlands upped their restrictions, this forum is a big part of where i'm inspired and get excited about the hobby. But the last few weeks seemingly every conversation here that kept going past a few comments where complaints. And I don't mind the critical side of it. That's good and important in its own right. But every single thread went to a point where I was looking at the comments thinking, why bother? Why, if things are really that bad, bother with the hobby. Again if that's how you enjoy the hobby, or feel the need to discuss something this should definitely be the forum as well. But the balance between positive and negative was gone.
Life in general, and hobby in specific, gets better when you focus on the positives. Not ignoring the negatives, but focussing on the positives. But I personally need to see and read about it here, as currently there is very little hobby nor games going on in my friend group. Haven't picked up a brush in over 20 days. So help a brother out and share your exciting hobby.
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1 hour ago, Malakithe said:
I like messing around with Underguts. I tend to lean towards a Tyrant guard and msu style. A unit of 12 might be bad for battleshock
It isn’t much of an issue if I’m honest. I always field my leadbelchers in units of 10. But I had 90 points left over.
in underguts I usually have a Gut guard as well. Especially since I went down to two cannons instead of three or four. But trying to include a Frostlord led me off the beaten track a bit onto this weirdness 😂
I use the leadbelchers mostly as a melee unit with rend and some extra flexibility. So them not getting a big punch in first, as what happens with Msu, hurts me more than battleshock. Although there are bad match ups for it for sure
I tried msu a few times but I also didn’t like it as a playstyle so it might be better but I can’t get it to work.
as a side note most of my TTS armies in 2020 started with a goremand battalion with slaughtermaster, 8 ironguts, 12 gluttons, 10 leadbelchers. Which doesn’t leave much wiggle room. But it’s such a solid start.
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2 minutes ago, AverageBoss said:
It's always bugged me that the 1s digit in AoS is never used. What even have it?
Why don't we just say we are playing 200 point games. 5x Liberators cost 9 points. 12x Ogre Gluttons cost 40 points. Etc.
I think that's mainly too match how Warhammer was and 40K is.
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27 minutes ago, Lord Krungharr said:
Now that's an interesting use of Underguts; I think the Gnoblar Bomb could go on the Slaughtermaster. Maybe save it for when he gets the cauldron-pick that does mortal wounds amidst a mass of enemies, and chuck the bomb for extra extra MW that turn.
Oh that’s a good thought as well. He’s likely moving forward with the ironguts, so he might be in range for it earlier than my Frostlord.
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21 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
You can expect GW to make exciting and balanced rules for all there models... but if we're honest it aint gonna happen.
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14 minutes ago, zilberfrid said:
Correct, and I guess also cheaper than the regular khemist.
I guess my perception of an expensive model isn't what GW thinks of it. Some people do buy the 22,5 euro single pose infantry sized models without any extra bits.
Yeah absolutely. I recently bought the nurgle lord that’s only €12,00 and I suddenly had a flashback to when that was a normal price 😂
But the other two are 22,50
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2 minutes ago, zilberfrid said:
For the price you pay for a few figures, being able to actually use them in both games is a good thing.
You can. They still are great models. Thudnrik makes a very cool khemist.
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1 hour ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
On the one hand, I agree that Underworlds and Warcry warbands are not primarily for AoS and that they are playable at all is just a bonus, but on the other hand GW is a multi-million, international company who should really be able to cross-integrate them in a more exciting way.
The multi-million of International company can’t get the balance in the main game right, so why do you expect them to cross integrate the side game models in a more exciting way?
even more moving parts to mess up balance.
money doesn’t equal skill-
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2 hours ago, LuminethMage said:
I can understand that they don’t make them too good, but as people mentioned, a fun spell, or even mildly useful would be ok. For example, someone like me would use Myari even if it’s somewhat subpar or fun, simply because I like to play with mages. But, going out of their way to make them really useless and unfun is a problem I think. For most factions this means one additional Warscroll, I doubt this would make balancing that much more difficult for them, and think that’s part of their job. In the case of Myari, it’s not like the scroll would be super powerful if Myari had access to the Lore of Hysh, like any Lumineth mage should. It would be still pretty bad, but you could put them in if you really want to. Right now they are boring and bad.
I bought the Warband after I knew how bad it is in AoS, I just think they miss out on an opportunity to bring in some fun options. Especially for people who don’t see other large extensions of their faction. I’ll likely get a few more mages in a few months, so I can give it all a shrug, but for other factions a Warband might be all they get for a few years. And then the devs make sure that they are really useless and boring. Just seems strange to me.
If I’m honest. You want not only a cake and eat it. But it also needs to be at least able to cast a fun spell.
and I do agree that they could have been made cool/good/game breaking/whatever you want from them. But I’m just happy I can play the toys if I want them. It’s an extra, not a requirement.
edit: and reading what people have posted after the post I responded to.
I feel even stronger that they should never have been given rules for AoS.
If a little throwaway gesture that you can play in the main game leads to complaints, just don’t do it and let them be alternative sculpts.-
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3 hours ago, azdimy said:
I see it as getting a chaos sorcerer lord and 3 cool chaos warriors to complete my existing units for a good price in comparison to the aos cost alternative
And even if you field them together you get an 8 wound wizard on a 4+ and a 5+ vs mortal wounds.
but if she doesn’t get acces to the spells that hurts though.
but mostly for alternative sculpts I agree.
5 hours ago, LuminethMage said:I don’t understand why they really try hard for most of the bands to make them pretty much unfun and useless in the main game
Besides two, accidentally, useful warscrolls that seems to be goal. (Shadowstalkers and beast of chaos)
and I get it. The reason why Skaven one was good is because they were added later and the wording allowed stacking of the command ability.
it’s a nice gesture that you are allowed to play the side game models in the main game. But adding them to the mix and balancing them internally with all the different unit types in a unit. Let alone balancing them externally, that is probably too much for GW.
especially with the Warcry warbands that aren’t marked unique and you could spamagain it’s super nice that I can play my toys, but I don’t expect them to be an integral part of an army when they are often added later. Maybe GW shouldn’t do the scrolls and just advice as what to use them as. Unit champions, alternative heroes etc.
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Still tinkering with underguts. I find it such a fun challenge to get some Beastclaw in there.
Currently i'm thinking something like this for a TTS game. Any suggestions on the artefacts?
One needs to go for the Gnoblar Casket.
Also considering getting the belchers down to 10 and getting some extra cats for screens.
Basic idea is replacing the shooting of the cannons for mortals of the thundertusks. Leadbelchers are amazing on their own. Support the 4 ironguts, with the slaughtermaster. +1 attack, +1 hit makes even 4 ironguts a big threat.
Also fun is the Mass of scars and The rime shroud vs my regular KO opponent 😂
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54 minutes ago, willange said:
Pretty sure it'd have to be like a 1/8th-Gargant
Does that mean its a 1/16th Mega Gargant?
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1 hour ago, AverageBoss said:
Ya, hes resin now. But as I was looking for alternatives (I don't like GWs resin or finecast offerings), I found an old metal one on ebay for $30 and grabbed it up. Needs a lot of work to make it table-top ready (lots of gaps, and a broken stump hook), but I am happy to have found him.
Now watch GW actually announce a new plastic one around the time I finish him. XDHaha if that's not painting motivation i don't know what is.
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2 hours ago, Ogregut said:
April for quest makes sense as gives a strong start to the year as I'm sure its going to be a good seller.
Doesn't their financial year start in July? Thought that was why generals handbook/new editions launched over summer. So they could shift does numbers left and right.
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4 hours ago, Sleboda said:
Back in the day I worked at GW US HQ. In addition to my actual job duties, I moderated the original forums (I was GW_JadeGriffinJoe or something like that).
Our IT director hated having to support the forums. Our management hated them as well. Too much work, too much complaining from customers.
So ...
They shut the forums down and rejoiced.
Dumb.
nobody says it is fun to moderate. But its worth it for the company.
Last week a client of mine, it's a high school, had a sweet little post of an empty hallway with something like: 'Students we miss you. Keep save'
You get the usual responses. Some genuine we miss you to, some sassy kids saying they didn't miss school and a lot of moms really wishing we take their kids off their hands... but one father who posted 'this is a ****** rule. Just open the school. ****** Rutte' (Rutte is our prime minister.)
At that point their is no conversation to be had, and regardless of personal opinion thats not how we want the kids to talk, so I gave him the chance to change it. And when he didn't I removed the post.
So you do have to deal with a lot of 💩
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5 hours ago, AverageBoss said:
I used to have an IG army back in 4th-5th, that was 65 metal stormtroopers and 3 half metal demolisher tanks (+7 plastic chimeras). XD
That was a pain to transport.
But this metal slaughtermaster (or Skrag the Slaughterer for those who were around) weighs an absolute ton all on his own. XDHaha yeah, I had an army of 30 hammerers, 30 longbeards and 30 metal thunderers, plus all the warmachines and heroes for my dwarfs. That must have weight an insane amount as well.... Those youngsters aint got the back for it anymore #grumblegrumble.
They now sell Skrag in Resin right?
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3 hours ago, amysrevenge said:
h of those are possibilities that I can see. We don't know anything about what the intent is.
True. It could even end up being a board game. We know nothing much yet.
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2 hours ago, KK9T said:
I wouldn’t want these kinds of passive aggressive comments on my marketing posts either. From a company perspective, it must be hard to deal with this fanbase sometimes. In fact, it’s downright embarrassing to call myself a Warhammer aficionado when I see this kind of behaviour, even though it’s from a very vocal minority.
I do community management for several companies and the worst thing you can do is to remove it.
If it’s a vocal minority you brush it off with a joke (which they do often). And the majority wil respect amd support that.
if you remove it, people will see it as shady control. Regardless if it’s a minority or not.If it’s a majority than the best thing to do and maintain the attitude* is to own your mistake.
*don’t know the non-jargon term for that in English, sorry
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I’m wondering if they intent for the players with an old world army to be able to play it in the new old world.
because if they do, scale will become an issue. Take a dwarf warrior and put it next to an arkanaut. A khorne reaver next to a freeguild soldier. Etc.
so they either will step a bit down in scale with the new Kislev models to make them match empire humans. Making it easier to mix with old collections.
Or the scale will match the reavers and it will become interesting as models/proxy’s for AoS.both strategies will have pro’s and con’s. But if I were a betting man I’m guessing new old world sculpts will match AoS scale.
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@Sinarai those bases are just amazing. Really do justice to your models.
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4 hours ago, Lord Krungharr said:
And apparently they can be taken in units of 30!
My back ain’t that strong. Neither is my wallet.
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What would you like for AoS 3
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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Google Louisiana Creole. I’m pretty sure because of the swamplands background of them, GW was trying to cheekily combine cruel with creole
At least that was my first thought when they showed the name and mini’s.