Kaleb Daark
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I also think it's a very clever move thus far that they haven't released base sizes so that those with existing old world armies can't get a head start and start basing.
Brets.. oh happy happy days. I've got my dwarves, so the dwarf hold of karak-Kaboom will march once more and now just waiting on brets to unleash a glorious panoply of heraldic colour.
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On 7/26/2023 at 8:59 AM, Public Universal Duardin said:
The only worry I have is that instead of the conga lines 40K had a few editions ago, TOW will get armies doing line dance. I mean, unless there's restrictions in place what prevents me from running a 100-man (well, Dwarf) wide unit of dwarfs with great axes lmao
You'll have nothing to worry about, my bearded friend.
Ranks and flanks are all about base to base contact.
If it's anything like the old wfb then you won't be playing that conga line shenanigan after the first time.
first terrain or obstacle you come to you'd have to reform the unit to get through the gap either through changing ranking or changing facing.
ranks mean fortitude and a single rank however long will crumble to stiff wind as units smashing into it with multiple ranks will get extra attacks in on the second rank, or third if they are over a certain size or weapon type.
Movement and positioning in wfb was far more critical and stricter than it ever was in 40k or AoS. You won't be able to do that whole waft around the board and rely on 1" coherency thing in a rank and flank game, and that's before the tzeentch wizard on disc goes to the end of the conga line and threw a purple sun down it and took the unit out in one hit.
I'm really looking forward to it.
The only thing I've always dreaded since the day it was announced?
Khorne and Frenzy.
In old fantasy, mark of khorne was the most expensive mark for your warriors, and the only mark that you could lose.
Instead of giving you +1 strength or the effects of frenzy permanently you just got frenzy.
Frenzy was conditional - it gave you immunity to psychology and +1 attack, but of you lost a battle round you lost the frenzy.
You also had to charge the nearest opponent unit unless you made a leadership so a vampire count with a swarm of bats on a bad day would have your horde of 50 halberd warriors running around the board chasing it like a bad comedy.
It sucked balls, and I really really hated that rule.
I always wished that MoK would give a +1 to strength, given the swollen bulk and savagery of the models it always just made more sense - let slaanesh and the elves get the flurry and speed of blows in - but if the khorne unit survived - you knew that under that strength of attack, you wouldn't.
So in answer to your concern... I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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all cerastus knights in plastic make me happy, and a proper manticore finally.
once I've done a wings and face conversion on it it'll be mythically awesome and will make my chaos lord awesome as well, and I can bin that hideous storm of magic monstrosity they dared to call a manticore.
Other than that... yea... meh.
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3 minutes ago, Gareth 🍄 said:
A plastic Rogue Idol would probably be quite popular.
As would a mahoosive khorne dragon which could double up as a nice chaos lord on mahoosive dragon
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2 hours ago, DinoJon said:
I think we all saw this coming but it's here sooner than I thought. Say goodnight to those sweet Forgeworld models, at least for the time being.
I suspect AoS will have some Forgeworld support again once The Old World gets going.
I'll miss those massive monsters showing up at events just for cool points.looks like my FW thirster is becoming a standard thirster..
if they thing I'm going to pay out for those plastic leaping kitty monstrosities they call thirsters then they can go swivel... I'd rather take a dump into my hands and clap. The plastic thirster is truly awful... truly..
Mine might only be the poverty spec thirster, but they'll look like the coolest poverty spec thirsters ever!!!
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21 minutes ago, Clan's Cynic said:
Pretty much everything was already in plastic before the End Times with the exception of individual Heroes/characters and the odd unit like Blood Knights.....
I don't know, I just don't buy it.
aye.
The easiest route for them is to standardise base sizes and re-release all the old fantasy models as they will cost them nothing. The tooling is already in place and with the increased base sizes all I read into the article was that yes there will be new stuff coming to old world, and that new stuff will be more dynamic in pose, and that a 20mm base size won't help that.
If the legion gets re-released when chaos dwarfs get released that would be amazing, as would a built to order khorne dragon so I don't have to have some snot on ebay trying to mug me off that the recast one he's got is genuine but he can't supply the box let alone the rules and story pamphlet that comes with it.
Path of least resistance is make in plastic what was resin or missing and leave the rest be.
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On 4/4/2023 at 10:19 AM, Still-young said:
Does anyone have any recommendations of AoS books they really enjoyed? Bonus points if they’re fairly available physically (which probably doesn’t actually leave many, with Black Library being as they are) as I tend to struggle with Ebooks, but recommend anyway as I might be able to get them second hand or something! Thanks!
I've got the following:
Scourge of Fate - Robbie MacNiven
Warcry Catacombs - Richard Strachen
Oaths and Conquests - various
The red Feast - Gav Thorpe
Godeater's Son - Noah Van Nguyen
If you're in the UK, pm me your address and sort out the postage and you can have the lot.
I'm about to throw out all my old second edition battletomes and generals handbooks so you might as well have the novels.
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4 hours ago, Chikout said:
This one's actually by Gav Thorpe. Unfortunately gw decided not to continue the series.
sorry, yes you're right.
it's a good read and I was looking forward to seeing how the characters evolved into what they became - the Khorne Protagonists of the original AoS starter box.
The standout character for me was the guy who will eventually become the bloodsecrator model.
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Anything by Josh Reynolds as said above.
Soul wars is quite sublime.
scourge of fate is ok.
Rise of Khul is a cracker, a real pity josh left gw before writing the next one.
Stay away from Godeaters Son, the only reason I finished it was because I’d paid for it but in truth it was like pulling teeth but more painful.
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38 minutes ago, JackStreicher said:
Why? The money keeps flowing, people keep buying, the managers keep being incompetent and new people keep coming.
GW loses nothing, why should they learn.
This. Utterly and simply this.
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1 minute ago, Sabush said:
I thought this was possible in Open Play?
oh it totally is, but I was thinking more of a situation where you might have a mixed doubles tournament scenario and you could each take 1k.
I mean obviously I never go to such things to win and fully expect to get the wooden spoon at the end of the day... cinematic trailer visuals first... effectiveness second, that's me.
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25 minutes ago, Malakithe said:
Ive been saying for years the way the point AoS is so bad compared to 40k but since AoS was supposed to be a much smaller skirmish game they wanted less time and models on the table so everything has massive points costs compared to 40k
Oh I totally get that, at 1000 points it would be fun to have the big boys slugging it out with just a unit or two as support.
I think that would allow for some nice heroic duels, and due to model count would be a really quick game.
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4 hours ago, JackStreicher said:
Looks okay, though by far not 975 points okay. To me he feels like 700-800-ish points.
Imagine the Vampire Lore is bad snd there‘d be nothing good for him to use his 8 spells on 🤣
I am a little sad the deflect MWs rule is gone.
That's one of the greatest balls ups of the AoS pointing strategy.
From a marketing and sales point of view I do think a trick has been missed by the team.
In 40k a 1000 point game can consist of a primarch and some core units and be legit, in AoS you can't run the archaon or nagash figureheads at 1k, and that's a massive oversight from a small game perspective.
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9 hours ago, Clan's Cynic said:
Price list stolen off Dakka. Wight King on Steed isn't as wallet-busting as I feared.
Oofff!
wow! You’re not kidding.
I can see me kitbashing one from an old chaos knight or original blood knight mount- I’m sure I got a loose one somewhere without a rider.
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12 hours ago, petitionercity said:
Yeah, I am not commenting on the AoS books; you made a cheap dig at new heresy, which was both misinformed and misinforming. So I corrected you
To repeat, the heresy team is led by Andy Hoare, who I'm sure you know (since you worship the black books) co wrote Books 2 and 3, and wrote among others IA 13 and IA 2 second edition (as well as brilliant old 40k things like codex witch Hunters and codex kroot from chapter approved), and was a lead writer on Rogue Trader by FFG (alongside Owen Barnes, a lead on dark heresy, who he brought into specialist games). He was one of the old hands of FW in the "Bligh era", in that he is perhaps unfairly eclipsed (alongside French) by Bligh.
Hoare's portfolio expanded to include managing heresy in 2019, following the success of SG, which likely was the best decision for the property given his experience in the first edition, his closeness to other key people in heresy (eg John French) and other deep dive pieces of GW IP. Plastic heresy is presumably his baby, alongside Mark Bedford as the head mini designer for FW, and we are lucky they are running it.
If you want to see what the heresy team (ie the specialist games team) have done, check out Titanicus's campaign books (for example the wonder Crucible of Iron one), or the lore in the necromunda books I mentioned above.
No I didn’t.
But you believe what you want.
I’m very hopeful for the new heresy and I’m hoping that its nothing like the aos books.
thats it. No point having a pop until it lands.
Im glad we got that sorted.
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12 minutes ago, petitionercity said:
Given they are by very different teams, I think it's worth rethinking that assertion
More so, heresy is led by one of its longest standing contributors (Hoare), includes one of the FFG rpg's most prolific authors (Barnes), and a host of other hobby weirdos we all love. A better thing to compare with would be the Aranthian Succession or the House of books if you want recent FW/SG products - or indeed any of the excellent AT and AI books
nope, sorry but the new battle tomes are rubbish where content is concerned.
Ok, I'll set the bar lower... an 8th ed warhammer fantasy army book, not even 5th ed, which were still rich in stories and lore.
Nope... still worse than that. All we get now is a timeline, a quick dirty synopsis and paragraph unit entries and then to the rules. Not good enough for the money that's being charged.
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3 minutes ago, EntMan said:
Could anyone tell me please what base size the Middle Earth Cave Troll is? Looks like it could defo find a home in AoS somewhere.
about ogre sized but a bit bigger
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On 3/31/2023 at 10:50 PM, KingBrodd said:
I just got out of a screening of Dungeons and Dragons Honour Among Thieves...
GO. WATCH IT.
Honestly it is such a fun film.
After reading the blades of khorne book I need cheering up.
Definitely on the to watch list.
As for the book.... well the best bits about it are whats in the app.
Lore and back story... you'd do a better job sitting on the bog.
Art... yes... well....
I mean, I know I'm a harsh critic as the Tamurkhan and the heresy black books are THE absolute benchmark as far as this sirt of tome goes, but hashut's beard on a lettuce leaf, the book was nearly as painful to get through as Godeater Son, which was tantamount to pulling teef while sitting on a red hot skewer.
Unit descriptions.. as above
The whole book is just a waste of time to justify the price of the warscrolls therein.
From a lore and story fan point of view it truly sucks mega gargant reproductive spheres.
If this is what the writing team deem as acceptable then honestly just up the price of the monthly app subs and just open up all the battle tomes to me for the game mechanics.
Honestly it was truly dire.
I truly fear for the Heresy campaign books if they're this level of dog toffee.
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26 minutes ago, EccentricCircle said:
So underlords, overlords, then its only a matter of time before you get wombles.
Whombelorn Garbage liftekin if you don't mind.
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Going to play with mighty lord on Juggernaut, valkia, and skaarac with six units of skullcrushers this weekend.
victory? - pah
objectives - pah
visual feast - oh most certainly!
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1 hour ago, KriticalKhan said:
I was kinda surprised that the Sunblood and Eternity Warden didn't get new minis, but (assuming they survive to the new book and don't get dropped) they're almost guaranteed to be the obligatory single foot-hero release for the next time Seraphon get a Battletome.
After sleeping on it, I'm still unimpressed with the Dawnbringer armour design, but I've completely come around to how weird the faces look. Imagine you're some elite Chaos Warrior who's plagued the realms of mankind for centuries, backed up by daemons from ****** beyond your comprehension and riding a flesh-eating horse that shoots lasers out of its eyes, and the blokes who rock up to challenge your domain all look like this
*BANG BANG*
"CAM ON DAWNBRINGERS. RECLAIM SOME FACKING REALMS"
They’ll get a special ability though.
in the box is a model of a cat that you can place in any enemy unit.
They get +1 to hit and reroll leadership against that unit because someone told them that they can stroke the cat if they can get to it.
”Those guys over there have a cat you can stroke..”
this increases to +2 against bone reaper armies as they misheard and though his name was Kattycross
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the seraphon are out of the park, I really like them.
I'm not a tzeentch head so everything else is meh, meh and thrice meh.
I'm actually excited about the heresy campaign book - seeing a lancer on the front gives me hope for a plastic cerastus chassis.
Looking at the beastmen in the 40k warband I do wonder how amazing some updated dynamic posed AoS bestigor and gor models would have been, with the original models going back to the Warhammer: The Old World rank and flank models pool.
With the Old world coming I feel its the perfect time to relegate the original warhammer fantasy models back to where they belong and give AoS new versions with a more dynamic round base AoS aesthetic vibe to them.
As to the big trousers and feather in their hats cities.. they can keep it. cities of sigmar indeed - nearly as much trouble as elves, just smellier and uglier.
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I’ll take anything in fairness.
but please lord in a lettuce leaf not another deluge of toughness 3, 1 wound mortal cultists / tribesmen / angry farmers in fancy party frocks.
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On 3/19/2023 at 11:30 PM, wargames101 said:
Great post and an important thread. "Pile of Shame" posts pop up with shocking regularity and highlight some uncomfortable truths about the hobby, namely that there is a reasonably large portion of the customer base with a tendency towards hoarding. I don't think this is unique to GW. I've seen a lot of scale modelers have this issue, with widows trying to unload a basement full of unopened boxes. Funko Pop fans are much the same. There's a certain personality type that just loves the idea of amassing huge troves of plastic tchotchkes.
For many, this is a manageable compulsion. It's their hobby dollars and while a weird use of funds has no further impact. I get the sense that for many others amassing these collections is a kind of coping mechanism. I've certainly spent time in my FLGS as a form of retail therapy. Much like OP, I've recognized that this kind of behavior is unhealthy and taken steps to limit it.
As a community, I think we should discourage hoarding. I don't think folks posting their piles of shame should literally be shamed, but nor should their clout chasing be rewarded. I'd wager that many of these folks are dealing with much bigger issues and using these posts as a form of cope. If nothing else, I'd suggest whenever someone posts their pile, that they be sent this video which does a great job diagnosing the underlying issue and offering some proactive remedies:
well that's ten minutes of my life I'll never get back.
As a community 'we' should just be there enjoying the game / hobby/ whatever in whatever form we choose and not getting obsessed about a dude that can't be effed to crack a box open before buying another. No different to a guy that has more watches or socks than he knows what to do with.
As for going out and actively shaming, really? Keeping it in perspective, it's hardly taking food out of the mouths of the starving or preventing world altering medical research, it's just pushing plastic toys around a table. One day when I can be bothered I'll crack some boxes open and paint them, until then they can stay where they are until something comes an wows me for me to get the ultra mojo back, but truth is that nothing is inspiring me to bust out thise models at the moment, and honestly - I'm really not losing sleep over it.
Now that said, with some of that stuff, were I to sell it off, with GW price rises of late, I can get my full 100% return on it, so all in all it's win win for me.
And when that big burst of inspiration arrives It'll all be there waiting.
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Warhammer - The Old World
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There's a lot of monstrous arcanum and storm of magic scrolls of binding monsters in that thar trailer 🤔