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Austin

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  1. I mean maybe, but GW also has issues with AoS and scale. Just take a look at Idoneth archers vs swordsmen sometime.
  2. I just get so confused at the decisions GW makes. They correctly identify that this picture is awesome, and yet....no unit like this for new Cities of Sigmar.
  3. How do people feel about allies? I’d like to include either Annihilators or Fulminators as a sort of back line defender for the gun line, with some bite.
  4. I just wouldn't get your hopes up for more than what they've showed anytime in the near (or more than near) future.
  5. The example Koatl's Claw list is baffling, and if it works it actually is an indictment of the book (which I really want to be good btw). 15 Lancers- none of which benefit from the bite bonus- as the main body? Why bother taking a Koatl's Claw list if most of it won't benefit from either the bite or the charge bonus because as he says the point is to get the 9 strong unit into a grind?
  6. Absurd is a strong word when the quote from the article is “not part of the narrative we’re telling in the Old World.” They don’t need to be put anywhere, there already aren’t rules or a game for models that aren’t part of AoS.
  7. I think based on today's announcement and the latest news from Warhammer Fest, it is time for me to really put hope to bed on this project. Sad to say. I will take a look much more closely at Kings of War. I just can't get over the vanishing of Kislev. What in the world happened.
  8. I really like the book, but jeez I am struggling to come up with a damage dealing Coalesced list.
  9. I do like how you admit to trolling other people as a basis for why you think Whitefang is trolling you. Not as fun when someone else does it back.
  10. That’s good news! The Archregent is one of my favorite AoS models and I’ve been holding off on FEC for years.
  11. It will be crazy disappointing if the FEC ‘refresh’ is just a warband.
  12. Are there currently any rumors that FEC is getting a rework? I have not been keeping up with this sort of stuff.
  13. Mostly accurate. It is true that skinks rode Cold Ones, but they were the Great Crested Skinks specifically called out as bigger and stronger than normal Skinks in 5th edition in 1997. As I type that, man I am old. Edit for typo.
  14. As someone who bought a metal Terradon as his first GW model, I am really excited for this release. I do have to say, and acknowledge its a big statement, that if Kroxigor and Saurus Knights BOTH aren't redone, I will have a hard time with the release as a whole. They just need it so badly.
  15. It would be nice for the future of the fantasy setting if these things were true, but the simple fact is this isn't what was revealed last night or in any other reveal night this year. It is hope, not hype. And unfortunately it seems to be hope not based on past performance. Nobody here has any real idea why AoS has had the year (or more) its had, but the facts are it seems to have hit a wall (model specific). The StD release makes me somewhat more optimistic, but I truly think AoS needs massive help. By and large, anyone who comes looking to buy models from any popular non40k Warhammer video game either cannot buy them, or is buying 20 year old kits. That is not great. Anyone who says, well the WE release is small also, just take a look at Fyreslayers or Idoneth, or FEC. GW needs to feed AoS to make it grow.
  16. I suppose my point, though admittedly sarcastic, is that I have a very hard time believing shipping issues are the problem. That’s not to say shipping issues don’t exist in the world, of course they do, just that the evidence suggests that’s not the problem here. When shipping was the issue for 40k codexes, GW made sure to tell everyone the codexes were delayed. If shipping was the issue with Idoneth battletome, etc, why wouldn’t GW show the cover and say it’s been held up and is coming soon?
  17. Strangely these issues with factories and books seems to mostly impact the piles of AoS battletomes just waiting in China instead of their 40k counterparts.
  18. So what you just wrote is a perfect example of what is actually impolite. It is not a personal attack to tell someone who makes a product that the product is poor. Saying something like "if you think....trying to be a decent person is forced happiness", which is clearly not what I said and not even really on topic, is actually a personal attack. This is how backwards things are right now, and it is unhealthy for the game. The person who should be protected, and felt sympathy for, is the person whose army is bad now. For the time and attention put into that army. NOT the one who made it bad. The customer, not the business.
  19. There is no inherent value or respect due to someone just because they made something. Sure, there are lines of basic decorum that should be observed- but the comments here don't even come close. GW is a business. They have no personal relationship with us, our personal value is not based on their games. When a business makes a bad product, clamping down on criticism makes no sense outside of official channels. But maybe more importantly, without (perhaps strong) criticism what will change? GW clearly is pleased with the direction (this isn't the first or even the second time) for designers. Why shield them from consequences? If you have a job where your product goes out and faces any number of people, particularly when the product costs LOTS of money, expect strong feelings. Do better, instead of being told you win a juicebox just for showing up.
  20. This is really a new low for forced happiness on these forums. When all GW hears is echo chamber praise for no reason and the game doesn't improve, it will happen directly because of things like this.
  21. How many main factions for 40k see their rules dropped as White Dwarf features? I think maybe you could look back and see that that number throughout all editions of 40k is less than just this one edition for AoS.
  22. Sidenote, it is good to see Hastings still active! His comments in that thread are sadly, exactly what I think is happening now with AoS.
  23. For all the disappointment these meh releases cause, GW is only following what we've been told was the plan for AoS since the beginning. Back when the first AoS rumors (that all turned out to be true) came out from Atia and Hastings, etc. on Warseer they said GW would release small armies and then move on with no plan to support them. I suppose that plan might have been modified (see Stormcast or Lumineth) but in general it seems to be the guideline for this game. And, as long as folks continue to support that plan it will continue. It makes sense from a business perspective. Why make multiple units and sell two or three boxes of each when you can make one box and if people want to play they need to buy five or six boxes of it?
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