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    The Rumour Thread

    in Age of Sigmar Discussions

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    2 hours ago, Dez said:

    Ok another thought! Looking at the sculpting...I think it's a Blood Bowl mini. Think about the Referees, hairless Rat Ogre...

    The more I look at it, the more I think you're right. The slightly cartoonish vibe to it, and the hand really looks like a leather glove now that I think of it. Think it could very well be some sort of Undead or Dark Elves Blood Bowl team.

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    The Rumour Thread

    in Age of Sigmar Discussions

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    Kinda hoping they'll kill two birds with one stone here and make the rumoured Shadow Aelfs some sort of Necromancer/Vampire Death allegiance army.

     

    I know there's conflicting fiction on this, but Princess Eldyra of Tiranoc in one End Times lore is said to have been turned Vampire. Maybe they'll go down that route.

     

     

     

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    The Rage Quit Amnesty

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    I didn't rage quit, I just quit. It was a great hobby during my mid teens, but the increasingly high prices and the fact I was getting too old to play in the store on weekends, but not old enough to be able to really sort out any sort of external club - and my schedule didn't permit for playing on the "veterans night" Tuesday basically meant that I lost the ability to play. Being more into the social and gaming side of the hobby at this point, I just sort of fell out of the hobby. Seems in my time away I missed a lot of the worst of GW - finecast, the shakey launch of AoS and so on.

    I probably would've rage quit though. I definitely made fun of it, when I heard about them moving to skirmish system without points. I always preferred the grimdark sci-fi aesthetic of 40k back in the day, but I played Fantasy for the deeper, more complex rules system with tactical movement, better psychology and magic. When I came back to the hobby, I was reaaaally not sure to go AoS over 40K given everything I'd heard, but the minis were just way too cool and in the end I'm really glad I did. I've loved everything I've played in Age of Sigmar right now, I'm really loving what they've done with the fluff so far, I'm loving the alleviation of a lot of the restrictions that stifled creativity in WHFB by the end. Moreover, I returned primarily as a hobbyist, painter, modeller, etc. I'm not going to win any prizes for my paint jobs, but I love the freedom that AoS affords me to mix and match within my grand alliance. For a collector and painter, it's just no contest over the way things used to be.

    In fact, as a side project to my two, new, main armies, I've started the arduous process of rebasing my 2000pts+ of WHFB Dwarfs onto rounds - where previously I'd rescued them from my mothers attic and kept them untouched in their case just in case I'd ever want to go back to 6th Ed Fantasy, Kings of War or 9th Age. No more - I'm all in on Age of Sigmar now. SIGMAR, BE PRAISED! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

     

    On 20/08/2016 at 7:02 PM, Shadowspite said:

    I never liked the Ogre Kingdoms and felt they'd been very clumsily shoehorned into the fluff (this was back in 6th edition when they were first introduced), but you weren't allowed to venture that opinion if you worked for GW Retail.

    Your story is fascinating to me, because your beef started happening roughly about the time that I went on extended hiatus from the hobby myself. I think one of the last things I strongly remember was the introduction of Ogre Kingdoms, which I kinda hated (although in saying that, I really love the Beastclaw Raiders stuff that's out now). I sympathise with you, as a lot of this stuff I remember really vividly as sort of my last memories of playing in GW stores before I quit.

     

    On 20/08/2016 at 7:02 PM, Shadowspite said:

    Likewise, even though I had no real interest in LotR, it was the big new game and I was required to learn it, play it and collect at least one army for it. I tried.

    I also strongly remember the huge GW push for LOTR - the funny thing is that I actually have a pretty big amount of painted minis for LOTR. I had acquired through either my own buys, that LOTR partworks magazine (man that reduced price first issue was an amazing source of cheap Moria Goblins), and buying old models from a friend who built an army but never used it, a pretty collossal Uruk Hai army, and I even went as far to paint a great deal of it (pretty simplistically, but it looked nice en masse).

    I think I might've played about 3 games in my life though, and I never collected a 'Good' army, meaning I could never take my LOTR to tournaments, so it was all a little pointless. I've considered a few times breaking out my old LOTR collection, putting together some kind of 'Good' force and picking up the Hobbit rulebook, just as a sort of 'just-in-case' diversification attempt, but man, I just can't bring myself to care either. I too like the movies, but the whole thing stunk too much of "stick to the franchise" and lacked the opportunities to be creative that Warhammer afforded. Also, the 25mm minis were.. eh. Not really to my taste. I could avoid it, for the most part, despite it being shoved down my throat so much - I can't imagine how fatiguing that must've been as a GW staffer.

     

     

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