Kaleb Daark
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9 hours ago, Maogrim said:
I voted for the ever-popular and always appreciated Lumineth Realm-Lords. Not because of Sentinels or perceived power level but based on aesthetics and lore. I just love the added high fantasy vibe with the Alarith Mountain Spirits and floating structures. They are the army that got me into Age of Sigmar. And they taught me so much about painting.
If I had a second vote it would go to the Daughters of Khaine. They keep on distracting me from my Lumineth and I painted Morgwaeth's Bladecoven just to test my Khailebron colour scheme.
Silence silly hatted, over tall, knife eared non smiling faction distractathon.
er...
now close the thread.
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chaos dwarfs.
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4 hours ago, Overread said:
I wonder if there's degradation of the plastic with repeat melting and moulding? Ergo its fine to do it once or twice, but repeated processes results in a poorer overall performance. Another issue might simply be that the hopper design can take pellets but not sprue so easily.
That said I do have some recollection that GW did try a recycling system through their stores but couldn't get efficient/cheap enough return transporting and sorting to make it work. It would be wonderful if they could sort something out and if material could go around again .
Sorting might be an issue, customers might apply glue and paints or other such things to the sprue that they return without thinking about it and suddenly you've got contamination in the mix. Or even plastics of a different formula from another firm being thrown in (because why not get rid of your plastics all at one spot).
thermocycling and post curing affects the polymer matrix and alters the properties each melt/cure cycle.
To recycle the plastic you'd have to decontaminate the plastics and then grind them into the base pellet state they come in to allow them to feed properly into the injection moulding hopper.
This is simplistic but helps to explain the process. About the only thing you have now is preheated moulds, as it increases the output rate and minimises shrinkage when the part cures, but you generally design with the shrinkage rate taken into account.
The linked videos also help to explain why they're loathed to update models unless there's a decent business case for it, a bit more complex than making silicon or rubber pour and centrifugal moulds for metals.
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4 minutes ago, The Red King said:
This is from yesterday. And judging by the complication to flavor to power analysis of this rule I expect individual khorne models will have to track how many skull tokens they have (1 per enemy model slain by that model regardless of points or wounds etc) and once they have 8 they'll get +1 to hit for the last turn of the game because let's be honest it took 4 turns to activate this.
I'll get me coat..
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2 hours ago, Grimrock said:
Funny enough this IS that keeper. At least their interpretation of it applied to the new keeper body. I agree it doesn't look anywhere near as good as the art, but it is N'kari.
Also no Nurgle article yet today? Are we actually going to get a genestealer cult article but no Nurgle one?
We got this, just snuck down the side of the sofa.
The all units getting stinky tokens is interesting as it opens the question are they going to do something like that for khorne?
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1 hour ago, yukishiro1 said:
I have heard people say you can only reuse 80%, but even if so, that'd still allow you to recycle all the empty sprues that get sent back since that's comfortably less than 80% of the material of a new one.
I’d not listen to what people say as the man above your post has the facts.
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3 hours ago, Kodos der Henker said:
with Polystyrene you can do exactly that or do you think GW has their own chemical plant and does the polymerization in England?
they buy packs of solid chunks from China in the right colour and melt them to put into their machinery
I’ll bow to your greater knowledge on that as you clearly are in the know.
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30 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
So what about you? What are some models that stood out for you guys this year?
This.
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23 hours ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
The aesthetic of the old skeletons is mostly just "spooky". Bone stuff, bat wings, coffin lid shields... Most of their design elements don't point to a specific historical periode in the real world. But the few elements that do are decidedly medieval european. Viking helmets, straight swords, gothic decorations, that kind of thing. I built a few of those guys as Tomb Kings skeletons. It mostly involved leaving off all the interesting details and having them be "naked" as much as possible.
that's not old skeletons.. and yes, I always thought the halloween costume bone stuff, bat wings and coffin shields was utter dog log.
These is old Skeletons
and these is old skaven
And some very old orcs and the mighty original Skragg the Slaughterer
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On 11/29/2021 at 6:22 AM, Beliman said:
Unpopular Opinion:
AoS is not a competitive game. It has everything to NOT be competitive. Let's be honest here, a game that's 1vs1 is not enough to be competitive nowadays. It needs a LOT more than what AoS have:
No bans, no league/ divisions (or matchmaking), no company or federation behind the game (that is not the selling company), no regulation past 2 FAQs a year even if there are broken things since first day, or just a regulation to stop using broken things until they are fixe'd...
I mean, AoS can be competitive if we ignore what a competitive game should look like.
Until it's on the TV with a million pound prize money pot, I think I can live with that and not lose sleep over it.
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On 11/3/2021 at 3:34 PM, yukishiro1 said:
For stuff in the UK factory and warehouse, sure, I buy that, they're close together. But if you have to send an unsold box of X back halfway across the world to be melted down, the economics of that start to look quite different.
These days plastic is expensive enough that it might still be worth shipping unsold stuff back to the UK to be made into new stuff, but I doubt that was the case pre-plastic spikes, and I kinda doubt GW would have paid a premium back in the day to do that. But I obviously don't know for sure.
the polymer structure changes. You can't just melt it all down and put it back into the machine as if it was casting metal, it doesn't work like that.
GW for a long time as many companies do, felt that sales and discounts devalued the brand. You gave discounts in other ways such as start collecting etc. where you paid for 2 units and got the third effectively free. Bundles are a way of hiding the fact you're discounting.
Now, maybe someone has realised that actually people like an obvious bargain when they see one, and things like black friday et al. are the perfect vehicle to offer obvious discount without devaluing your brand because well, that's what those occasions are all about. No point if all your going to do is bang on about it on your website and then customers look at it and see that everything is still full RRP.
As for dominion - I and a friend took advantage of the Weyland sales and now I have double cruelboyz, I'm really happy about that. From one angle if they'd not made enough, then we'd have had the outcry. my gut feeling was that they wanted a massive production run and there were lots left over as a result. They weren't a flop, probably just lots to go round with spares to boot. Add to that the fact that we all know what a tactile and visual hobby this is, the whole not being able to go into store and play with stuff and see it in the real has probably impacted all of the sales side of things in all aspects. (i'm leaving 40k way out of this in every way).
If it were me how would I do it?
If it's about lean production and manufacturing, you know what, I'd do it as a made to order - its what some of the book publishers do. Invite a pre-order window say of a month., two weeks whatever. The order then goes to the manufacturer and that number is made plus whatever margin for game stores etc. Everyone who wanted one gets one, and shops all get what the ask for. And you know that it all arrives in a month, two months, whatever. The price for you actually getting one is the wait. Everyone is happy, there's not warehouses full of surplus stock sitting there because the last time 90% of people that wanted it didn't get one. if weyland etc feel that they can shift a ton more at christmas they can order them all upfront and hold them back, and that way they have stock and the manufacturer has the money in the bank.
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3 hours ago, Skreech Verminking said:
You know what is missing on that orruk base?
a brass orb, waiting to detonate just in the right moment
Chaos dwarf’s daemonic bound delayed blast hand grenade! I love it.
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3 hours ago, Iksdee said:
GW really hates aos skaven players XD.
Nah, they just know the psychic reverberations from all the whining would be less than if they’d have used an elf head.
See…skaven, even in death still grin-smiling.
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1 hour ago, Iamanbo said:
I need rumors Ogres, even if it's a lie hahaha
Ogre and chaos dwarf boxed set.
ogres with a separate chaos ogres sprue with god specific enhancements like a six pack for khorngers and perfume bottles and pincers for slaangers and a great big even bigger-rer belly for Plaguegers.
Plastic rhinox cavalry in the box with new thunderlord hero.
Oh and maggotkin are getting a massive plastic toad dragon - era of the beast innit.
You're welcome, you have a nice day now.
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13 hours ago, PJetski said:
Everyone is looking at the image in the middle, but what about that gearwork underneath the frame? It looks like Seraphon to me
look at the cutouts that you can see the gears through - it's all coffee beans and cups of brew and a pair of oval biscuits.
The silent people are actually starbucks people, or is that Starkin Khoffeegrinds?
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1 hour ago, Higolx said:
Rumors can take a long time to happen. All Im trying to say is, even tho it could have non eldar rumors we shouldnt expect non eldar rumors, you know? Just to avoid future dissapointments. I would love non eldar 40k rumors and non 40k rumors to also be present but Im ready for it being just eldars. You know, the whole "lower your expectations" stuff.
What you mean 40k chaos squats as a concurrent chaos dwarf release?
Well, colour me happy.
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Just now, Nezzhil said:
chaos dwarf hand grenade
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1 minute ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
its been Brets'd
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29 minutes ago, Gaz Taylor said:
What could this mean? A Maggotkin Neverchosen special…
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/29/neverchosen-the-quest-begins/
puking toads - what like the forgeworld plague toads
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9 minutes ago, pnkdth said:
Such is the path of the trademark. Next up is Shaoudeuwy Maleeshus Aeulves, Kaows Duardinhatts, and let's not forget the Seelynt Pewpewles.
don't forget Floatae Duardin and Skynniidip Duardin
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3 hours ago, KingBrodd said:
I hope this isnt true as Idoneth and Fyreslayers have so much potential as Factions and GW just doesnt seem to know what to do with them.
2 hours ago, sandlemad said:Yeah, it's unfortunate that Fyreslayers have the most opaque and confusing naming scheme in AoS. Later examples of new factions do it coherently (e.g. the castes for the Ossiarch/Idoneth) but with FS it's like the writers just randomly threw darts at a board showing "hearth", "auric", "rune" with no rhyme or reason. It's the part of the faction that's least likely to change with any update as well.
And agreed, a new hero won't do anything to actually address the near-total visual uniformity of the range.
I know, I totally agree with you both. It's the brets and beasts quandry again.
You need someone with vision and also a real love for the faction to dream it forward, not just in models and rules but also in narrative. if you don't then what happens is that they get pidgeon holed and they become a one trick pony with no avenues of escape.
That results in the vicious cycle of stagnancy, which leads to reduced sales, and reduced sales leads to lack of development of new stuff for them as all said and done the accountants spreadsheet just shows poor revenue for that faction for X years running and so no point investing in as the "player base" isn't there.
It's nothing new, and it's been going on since the days of fantasy. Its what happened to Brets, who just became some knights in armour with a couple of pegasus riders and bloke on a hippogriff. With the whole lady of the lake trope and some non fantastical stuff potential customers would look at them, go meh and overlook them for the new shiny.
No sales, no new toys, no new toys, meh.
Accountant sees nothing other than dead stock. = no point spending money developing that.
But what I suspect is that there was also nobody to just pick the faction up by the scruff and give it the love to turn it up to 11 and reinvent it. And so we have the now. Where GW are at great pains to tell you that the brets are dead, gone for good - there you go.. see their bones at the feet of the flesh eater courts. there's your brets, now stop your whining and clear off.
As you can tell, I miss brets.
However I do feel that the AoS battletomes have also had some very lazy writing.
For me I'd love a battletome to be a big thick coffee table book thick with lore and imagery. The warscrolls and points can go online for the most part, and in that way not rendering the book obsolete but something to treasure, with the warscrolls really being secondary to the book contents, and the book being an evolution of that factions' storyline.
In that way, those that have no or little interest in the faction (lore and fluff) past competitive gaming and mechanics can just pay for the scrolls and points as part of their app subscription and not feel that they are paying for content they don't care for, whereas for us who are fluff and lore lovers we can spend out on what we know to be a feast to fill our eyeballs with.
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Although not strictly AoS, these two videos are a really interesting insight into the modelling process, and also the thinking about how to approach a miniature design.
It also help to clear up a lot of the misinformation about the the Lord Of the Rings franchise, and also some interesting perspectives from the ex employees about how the machine at GW worked when they worked there.
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10 hours ago, Dondarion said:
This Dragon is amazing man. It has 0 Disney Vibes...
that was definitely my favourite as well.
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7 hours ago, Neverchosen said:
That is so exciting, it also looks like I get to choose the horns on top, I think I will go for a wild dragon that is still smugly confident and smiling, also going for a neutral build lets me more easily proxy between both Super Dragon Bros.
...assuming I can ever afford the kit 😅Two heads eh?
chaos plumber dragon you say
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Most Popular Army 2021
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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I actually will say that it has to be your knife ears as they're getting a new model.
I'm happy to reveal that a new teclis model is coming out following community feedback that his trousers were far to voluminous and silly , and his animal companion was wearing a silly mask to hide his shame, so the new one will be based on his Broken Realms artwork and will be far more accurate. Behold:
here it is: