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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.
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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.
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31 minutes ago, CDM said:
Uh oh. Whitefang gave me a confused reaction! Hopefully it was to the idea of a split battletome rather than a wave 2!
I just wouldn't get your hopes up for more than what they've showed anytime in the near (or more than near) future.
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On 5/8/2023 at 12:16 PM, Arzalyn said:
Totally agree that we should differentiate between the two while we discuss things, they change a lot how the army play/which units they favor.
On the Thunder Lizards part, I expect it to become the faction for lists that don't want to spam warriors/agradons while still playing coalesced. AoS Coach had a nice video talking about coalesced where they show a list like this (will link it bellow). I imagine those kinds of lists would favor using bastiladons, troglodons and carnosaurs, not spamming them, but mixing them with saurus to diversify what they can do. I still think this is probably our lowest hanging fruit, sub-faction wise, do to stegadons being overcosted, but I think it should perform well enough for a 3-2.
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?
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38 minutes ago, Bosskelot said:
Personally I find the concerns that the pdf factions may end of being Legends'd really absurd.
Things get put in Legends when the models stop being made and sold.
Have a look at all of the AOS factions in those pdf armies and tell me their entire model ranges are going to stop being sold. Go on.
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.
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1 minute ago, GhostShark said:
OTOH, they'll be playable right out of the gate. You'll be able to put your armies on the table and play them against your friends. Yes, they probably will be outdated in a year or two. That's a real concern, but not one that WHFB players haven't faced even when that game was still alive. A lot of armies went a few years without updates. So i don't want to dismiss your concern, because it is a real concern! But I also think that this isn't so bad and is infinitely better that what we have now.
I also think there is a real possibility that if the game is successful they will expand into the armies they don't plan to support on release. they said as much with Chaos Dwarves, that they COULD happen after a few years. "Could" certainly doesn't mean will. But I think its pretty likely that the first few years will be spent just getting the initial 9 armies up to speed. Which is a pretty huge undertaking, even making use of old models.
I'm really not trying to be too optimistic. In fat, up till now I've kept my expectations extremely conservative. This is much more than I expected.
What were your initial expectations?
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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.
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4 hours ago, PJetski said:
Kroxigors
? No. Or at least, not by themselves so any additional comments would be helpful.
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I really like the book, but jeez I am struggling to come up with a damage dealing Coalesced list.
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1 hour ago, The Lost Sigmarite said:
Idk. To me, I feel like he's laughing at me and my opinions (that's because that's what I do with laugh reacts on comments on social media). How are my comments funny @Whitefang ? Funny like I'm a clown ? Funny like I amuse you ?
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.
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13 minutes ago, EntMan said:
I think @Whitefang hinted that the FEC refresh wouldn't be small.
That’s good news! The Archregent is one of my favorite AoS models and I’ve been holding off on FEC for years.
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It will be crazy disappointing if the FEC ‘refresh’ is just a warband.
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3 hours ago, RileyArlic said:
In other news, the Soulblight Gravelords and Ossiarch Bonereapers Battletomes are gone from the GW store completely (minus the digital edition of course).
The Flesh Eater Courts battletome is still present on the website.Several other sets are set as "No Longer Available" - likely for reboxing. The SBGL Start Collecting is also set as "No Longer Available". Maybe we'll finally see the Wight King on Steed sold separately?
Are there currently any rumors that FEC is getting a rework? I have not been keeping up with this sort of stuff.
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46 minutes ago, Kronos said:
Kroxigors are one of the 4 Pillars of Lizardmen Society. Slann, Saurus, Skinks, Kroxigors. Everything else is just additional but those 4 were made by the Old Ones very intentionally. Would be odd to forgo them, that and Whitefang has openly commented on them. And his word is better than Gold.
Coldone on the other Hand are odd, it’s only really been since Sixth Edition that Saurus were given Coldone Mounts. Prior to that it was only Skinks that rode them, and their more intelligent Kin the Horned ones. Stylistically, it’s more old Hammer for Saurus to be a Mainstay on foot, Kroxigors to be monstrous Infantry, and for Skinks to be adaptable between skirmishers, riders and large blocks of Infantry.
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.
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1 hour ago, Magnusaur said:
I don't think we'll be getting new Saurus Knights. We've seen the Salamander, the Astrolith bearer, and I absolutely expect us to get some kind of massive dinosaur centerpiece. Going by Whitefang's "Now pick 4" post, I think it comes down to Kroxigors or Knights. Kroxigors are resin, there's the rumor engine (could be Sunblood/Gor-Rok, but doubt it), and it just makes sense to me that they would want to show one from each 'caste' in this new release.
Saurus Knights have not stood the age of time, not at all. I have a soft spot for them because I remember them being such a massive upgrade over the previous riders. And like the Saurus Temple Guard, I admire how closely they made them fit with the preexisting Saurus Warriors. Now that those are going away the Knights and Guard are going to look even more out of place, but alas. I just don't think we'll see two cavalry units in the same wave.
What I can totally see, however, is a Saurus Scar-Veteran on Cold One being released. The current model is part resin and so probably not long for this world. This could be a first peak at what a future Knight revamp might look like, while satisfying the previously given hint we got from the Ogor hunter. It would also fill the Seraphon's quota of the "lord-on-mount" requirement that every new army seems to have: Stormcast, Nighthaunt, Ossiarchs, Lumineth, Gravelords, Kruleboyz, and so on.
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.
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42 minutes ago, KingBrodd said:
Im gunna come out and say it. That was the best Online Preview for me all year.
Those Wolf Riders? I dont say it enough but they are perfection.
That Beastlord? Utterly gorgeous.
Underworld Gitz? Stunning absolutely stunning.
I see no reason to believe thats all we will get for BOC, there is still a good chance they are saving the Big Reveals for the New Year stream because why wouldnt they? I doubt we will see COS because thats later in the year.
What have they always done? Show us the reveals for the next 3-4 months. What releases in the first few months of next year? STD, Gitz and Beasts.
I am willing to bet all the Coins of Mallus that BOC will get more minis and there are far too many Gitz REs to not have at least another Hero for the Wolf Riders or a Warcry Warband or even better another unit.
That Roadmap has given me so much hype for next year. I believe that the first Order tome is KO and they may recieve a new ship or hero.
Followed by small releases for Khorne and Slaanesh.
Death is tricky. Either of the 3 left are optional but we do know that @Whitefang has heavily hinted at a big range refresh for Flesh Eater Courts.
Id imagine a single mini release for Soulblight and hopefully Mortek Archers for Ossiarch.
Seraphon range update in the Summer, perfect for Reptiles.
Im hyped. So damn hyped.
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.
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2 hours ago, Whitefang said:
Well if the problem is still the container, then they probably didn't order enough boxes to stuff AoS products on the ship. XD
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?
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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.
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4 minutes ago, Gaz Taylor said:
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Really!?!
Have I said nobody is allowed to have a opinion on a book? No I have asked you all to be mindful about throwing round words like bin and sin. You can post on this forum and say you don’t like something (but please keep it constructive) but being part of TGA (and I would like to think outside in the real world) means you try to be polite. One of the reasons GW stopped saying who wrote books was because of things like this. If you think being polite and trying to be a decent person is forced happiness, this may not be the forum for you.
As somebody who has just finished a year of multi critical projects that have had all sorts of outside influences (you budget has just been halved or we want it next week due to a promise to the board), I suspect it’s not just a case of writing better rules.
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.
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14 minutes ago, Ogregut said:
There is a diffrence between constructive criticism and just being rude and insulting to someone's work. It's not forced happiness, it's common courtesy.
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.
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3 hours ago, Gaz Taylor said:
+++ Mod Hat On +++
Just to make it very clear - no more bin and sin references to people working on the books. It’s not nice and I’m pretty sure if I started calling people the “bin guy” about work they do, you would get annoyed.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.
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4 hours ago, Chikout said:
He's wrong though. (He said AoS is being ignored in favour of 40k) It's been less than a year since AoS was dominating the release schedule. Last year AoS had 5 big ranges of minis released, 40k had just 3. (Orks, sisters and black Templars) Eldar and Chaos will give them a similar 12 months to AoS.
Delays have dampened the hype for AoS somewhat but that's largely out of GW's control. I'm pretty sure that the Fyreslayers idk box was originally intended to be a winter 2021 release, and maybe the battletomes too.
Even so it's only been six months since AoS 3 launched. 2nd edition didn't get a narrative advancement until May 2019 with Forbidden Power, almost a year after the launch. I'd expect something similar for AoS 3.
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.
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16 hours ago, HorticulusTGA said:
Sorry if already posted or forbidden knowledge, but here are the new Ossiarch Bonereapers rules, from the last WD's Tome Celestial :
https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/5965
From Bob at War of Sigmar
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.
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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?
The Rumour Thread
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I mean maybe, but GW also has issues with AoS and scale. Just take a look at Idoneth archers vs swordsmen sometime.