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    Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin RTS discussion

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    On 7/11/2023 at 10:13 AM, CommissarRotke said:

    I forgot the Blizz RTS have that micro ability... they were always too focused on ranked games for me. AOE feels like the enemy can easily catch up to your units, or at least the Definitive Edition of 2 it's hard to escape without sacrificing a rearguard.

    I do agree RoR has an issue with units getting stuck together, which is compounded by Retreat being the same button as Charge AND also completely contextual

    How has the reception to the beta over on the RoR discord?

    The Rumour Thread

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    I am not interested in removing any more models from the game. 

    I don't even agree with removing stuff from the old world from the game either. Even if we get new Beast elves, I still don't think Wanderers should have been removed

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    The Rumour Thread

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    3 minutes ago, Dawi not Duardin said:

    Reflections on the new Fyreslayer short story: 

    Sorry, but they are just too boring. I want to like them - they are dwarfs, after all - but they just feel too flanderized. Fyre-steel, fyre-ale, magma-holds. Who cares? It is just way overdone and way too cartoonish. I just can't see how the Fyreslayer concept is enough for a freestanding army. People rightly compain about the lack of models, but honestly, the problem isn't necessarily just with the lack of sculpts but rather with the lack of nuances and in the concept. It is literally all just fire fyre & flames.

    ...at least the artwork of the guy with the hammers has eyebrows, unlike the model. The face looks much better.

    ...but they really need someone to tell them to do exactly what Grungni did with the Kharadron: go out and be a bit more creative and independent and come up with some ways of living that aren't so single-minded. Maybe Gotrek the anti-theist will teach them that? Or, plot twist, maybe Grimnir actually planned to die all along to teach the Fyreslayers independence, just how Grungni abandoned the Kharadron, except Grimnir failed massively where Grungni succeeded?

    You don't have to like them, not every faction is for every person. There are other flavor of dwarves. But there are people that do like the Fyreslayer for what they are. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    6 minutes ago, Neverchosen said:

    I am conflicted as I was just assuming I would skip over the game but it looks pretty cool but only 4 factions is a major downer for me. So much of AOS is about the varied armies and I will be sad to not see all of that aesthetic diversity in game form. The good part is that four factions can feel more balanced and well thought out. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    1 minute ago, Vasshpit said:

    @xking If you're referring to the book one I was actually going to mention him and say the even the new Kharadron lawyer reads to me as even slightly toned down from their earlier stuff. 😄

    Maybe it's just me.

    He's definitely more weird than the other Kharadron Heroes.  Except for the Monopoly man

    The Rumour Thread

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    6 minutes ago, Vasshpit said:

    It was more of an example of a 1st edition straight out the gate army more than anything but if Jawz were to recieve this I dont think it'd be adding or removing so much as just redesigning similarly to what SE recieved. We see this design creeping in across much of AoS. Look at the new bloodpelt hunter compared to older ogres, the new flying drakes compared to the first drocoth riders, kruleboyz anatomical design is a pretty steep change up from the traditional Geedubs orc (ork, orruk) and even across the bits of Darkoath humans throughout aos you can see a lean into a more functional fantasy than high fantasy.  

    Pinpoint prime example of this for Jawz would be gore gruntas mouths. I highly doubt we'll ever see the over the top stylization that is their goofy mess. Its subjective, I get it, but it seems AoS design is moving into, again, a more functional fantasy than high fantasy. 

    Even things like the new sylvaneth bug riders seem a bit more anatomically functional and that's a pretty high fantasy design. 

    It's late and perhaps I'm just spitting gibberish. 😄

    I will agree with functional fantasy if you are talking about cities of Sigmar free Guild that were shown off. Other stuff, not so much. Like have you seen that new Sky dwarf? This is still very much age of Sigmar.

    The Rumour Thread

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    1 hour ago, Vasshpit said:

    Damn near the entire dino-duders range just recieved an update and that seems to have been well recieved. 

    Yes but an updated and polished design from a 1st edition brand spanking new setting to which said initial design no longer reflects the current design moving forward. 

    I'm not saying it's fair. 

    Like I said in earlier posts if for example Fyreslayers recieved this same treatment I'm positive they'd pick up plenty more fans for that faction. 

    They are the poster faction and they have to maintain the "image" of the game. i don't even collect SE but that new design has enticed me more than once.

    Thunderstrike does the opposite for me. I'd probably leave the game

    The Rumour Thread

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    46 minutes ago, Baron Klatz said:

    I can see some updates like earlier when I talked about the possibility of a 10th anniversary to make the Thunderstrike Brotherhood actually match the looks(at least some design touch-ups with male & female options) and give Vandus a new model to go up against Khul. Maybe more dynamic lightning around his model to show his strategy of calling down orbital strikes around his position with little care about his own safety.(could get a cool new chain reaction rule that if his lightning blasts actually take him out his troops around him act like their Blaze of Glory is triggered by the power of his own reforging, frying the enemy with a bunch of mortal wounds)

    Mainly I can see an update strategy if Stormcast Eternals are planned to be the constant edition release every edition. If they’re planning that every 3 years and across 7 Realms then they’re gonna run out of new chambers fast.

    Updating older units into sleeker looking angels and some warriors into top-heavy juggernauts wouldn’t be a bad idea to stretch that out(even just Ruination chamber + Ruination Chamber Thunderstrike reinforcements would shave two editions off) 

    Like with the earlier Prosecutors suggestion, making them look closer in form to the Knight-Venators would likely help their graceful flyer aesthetic a lot.

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    (Soulbound’s sleek stylized art is a pretty good design cue to take from)

    I do hope as they go along that they show Grungni’s had enough time to start embellishing again and make some stuff that looks like a combo of new and old designs.

    I see people mix AoS1 designs with AoS3 and they look stellar!

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    Fyreslayers I get, they need female Fyrequeens and could use more masks and drake-scale armor like kilts, but do Ironjawz need it? They seem a pretty solid design that holds up even with the latest stuff like the Warhammer+ one.

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    They look like the perfect standard if someone wants to go bright and fantastical or serious and grimdark with their looks:

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    Would you add even more armor? Make them bigger or just do deadlier weapons like spiked brass knuckles and iron claws?

    Summoning pretty big on their lore how they get down to the lower Realms with their teleporters and Slann thinking bodysuits into existence for their Azyr bodies to wear and gain physicality, which the articles have been pretty big on pointing out the phantasmal Starborne nature, so I can’t imagine that’s going.

    Personally I hope they add a bit more to both groups. Starborne gaining their starlight blood that banishes daemons & burns undead-

     > “There is a great little sidebar that depicts a vampire going up against the Seraphon. Feeling a bit peckish, she bites into a Saurus, then realises she is not drinking blood but pure celestial energy (not great for a vampire). Then the Saurus turns round and bites her head off…”

    -so it’s close to Stormcast Eternals Blaze of Glory but doing like 1 damage to neutral enemies while Chaos & Death keywords get hit with D3 mortal wounds to make them dread the star daemons of perfect Order. Destruction having to deal with the hardened carapaces of the Coalesced so already have it rough.

    With how big the refresh is I could imagine two more constellations. Maybe a Huanchi one that favors the Starborne chameleons fresh from the shadowy cosmos of Ulgu which buffs summoning for ambush tactics while a Chotec constellation battlelines the Spawns of Chotec and focuses on unleashing the ancient tech to cleanse Chaos with flame(insert Astartes Salamander jokes here)

    I don't expect the ruination chamber to look like anything that currently exists. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    11 minutes ago, Vasshpit said:

    How would you feel if say Ironjawz recieved a similar redesign with a more proportional and serious look or if Fyreslayers were given an overhaul with a more male and female oriented ratio and more diversifying look?

    These and SE were all early AoS designs and I can definitely see a change in the look of newer AoS designs compared to these old ones. 

    I don't expect them to update anything, but I do expect them to add new units. Also annihilators are essentially first edition paladins

    The Rumour Thread

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    3 minutes ago, Baron Klatz said:

    According to the memes I’m seeing it looks likely. At the very least it’ll be like AoS3 where you have everything free on the app until the book update.

    (Everyday our beloved Kharadron rules-lawyer becomes a bigger and bigger blessing to the community as a whole)

    Hopefully they bring PDFs back. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    15 minutes ago, madmac said:

    I think it's more like, if GW is going to keep making Stormcast anyway (and they will) they might as update some of the clunkier models instead of bloating the army further with new units they don't need.

    Yeah I don't see that happening, as they have no reason to do it. 

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