Carnelian
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8 minutes ago, PrimeElectrid said:
While I’ve enjoyed BR for what they are, the fluff has well and truly jumped the shark. Seraphon have pyramid ships that can shoot out orbit, LRL can levitate rocks, and Kroak can open portals at will without a realmgate. Not to mention the mobile floating islands referred to in Dawnbringer Crusades.
The military applications of these concepts render the need for armies to hit each other with swords more contrived than the 40k universe.
These things have been present since the very birth of AOS so no jumping the shark here.
AOS was born post-shark jump
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19 minutes ago, KriticalKhan said:
Best ignore the past half-dozen or so 😉
so far it's been people getting angry about dwarf soup
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4 minutes ago, Carnelian said:
As soon as I heard a spoiler went up I have avoided TGA until I could read BR - had to stay off here for two weeks! Would have been gutted if I'd had BR Kragnos spoiled so really hope you managed to enjoy it anyway!
by posting this i've just realised I have 87 pages of these genius insights/guff to catch up on 😁
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On 5/25/2021 at 6:43 PM, KingBrodd said:
It's my fault for staying here but mate. You just spoilt it for me. Use spoiler tags next time.
As soon as I heard a spoiler went up I have avoided TGA until I could read BR - had to stay off here for two weeks! Would have been gutted if I'd had BR Kragnos spoiled so really hope you managed to enjoy it anyway!
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On 6/6/2021 at 11:20 AM, MitGas said:
....IMO the writing quality directly related to battletomes and short stories has declined - I don't read enough of the books but I've been told that some are indeed very well written....
IMO the quality of short stories and battletome lore writing is at an all time high for AoS (can't speak for oldhammer as well but don't see how this can be disputed 2015 onwards).
as you surmise, this goes for the full length fiction too (particularly Richard Strachan's books)
Overall i really enjoyed this whole series.
The only thing missing for me was a map of pre-siege Excelsis. That would have been great.
Reading everyone's comments now, I can see how the Slaanesh stuff was a bit anti-climactic but other than that, I thought the quality of writing was good enough that Gordrak and Kragnos et al came over really well
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On 6/5/2021 at 4:31 PM, Sorrow said:
So, I read the Broken Realms Kragnos and I have mixed feelings on the way Slaaneshi side was handled.
First, they are literal children of Slaanesh, even calling Slaanesh "their father". So I would assume that they are mighty indeed, but the way the get killed by a family of vampire hunters is just absolutely tragicomic. Also, where are all the Hedonites? In Broken Realms short stories, we are told that Sigvald, Glutos and that named Lord of Pain are all going towards Excelsis? Nobody of them appears. Their final talk with Belakor implies once again some grand Slaaneshi scheme going on, maybe GW will follow on it, maybe not.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GoOdPej7qcXOKbTT.pdf answers what happened to Sigvald and Glutos!
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18 minutes ago, Darnok said:
This from todays Rumour Engine can be read as a hint of the Vanguard Chamber being the Stormcast focus of the Dominion box.
I suspect this is just flavour.
We've already seen some of the new stormcast and they don't look particularly vanguard-y
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warhammer+ needs to include access to wahapedia
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completely understand that Warhammer+ as a separate subscription channel is pushing it, but also I'd much rather give my money to GW rather than our corporate overlords amazon, so will be quite disappointed if it was only a prime channel
also perplexed by how they think they can generate enough content for a full channel but i hope they pull it off! want to watch new stormcast cartoons at 10am every saturday with some sugary cereal
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the Richard Strachan book "The End of Enlightenment" has some great insight into OBR too.
highly recommend it - Strachan is now my clear favourite AoS author, even surpassing Josh Reynolds' stuff
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1 hour ago, KingBrodd said:
Oh damn I hope its included in it!! Seeing the Sons represented in Broken Realms will be amazing. Hopefully it's the Murgg Brothers from the BR short.
The flashpoints stuff is not only lore, but it's pretty good lore too. White Dwarf has become a bit of a must have for AOS lore seekers if you ask me, what with flashpoints and ongoing short story series etc
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I JUST WANT AOS3 NOW
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2 hours ago, Public Universal Duardin said:
Ooooh, I like that! I think a gang of gangly goblinoids covered in the grime and filth of the swamps would be sufficiently creepy to fit the teaser!
And a BIG second on getting more Troggoths! Playing with a Troggoth-only list made me feel the joy of krumpin' smaller gits I assume every Destruction player feels in their brutal but cunning (or possibly cunning but brutal) hearts...if only I would have named myself Public Universal Trogg!As one of many representatives from the Aelven factions, let me offer my praise and welcome to Public Universal Trogg.
Public Universal Duardin is dead!
Long live Public Universal Trogg!
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Sounds like a whole bunch of different greenskins are joining the Great Waaagh to destroy Excelsis, and the starter box is going to feature multiple races of greenskins, inclusing a new hobgoblin style unit
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1 hour ago, HollowHills said:
In my opinion the aesthetic of AoS is getting closer and closer to WHFB by the day.
One word: DWEENCLAW
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1 minute ago, CarkFish said:
"Morally" she's due one.... Her model is gash
What on earth...her model is amazing!
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4 hours ago, PJetski said:
This would end up empowering lists that don't really care about command points. The double turn is so potent that people would start tailoring lists to exclude dependence on command points
No doubt. But if it was enacted with a conscious ability to make the most powerful abilities cost command points (e.g. Teclis casting ability), it could be interesting
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Any rumours on new Warcry releases? Gone a bit quiet on that front. But they're always such good models!
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Maybe they can nerf the double turn by ruling that the player who takes the double cannot spend or generate command points during that turn
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no way is it Fimir because a) Fimir look a bit bland and b) have a history of really terrible lore and c) aren't brand new and d) aren't gobbos
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Want: AOS 3 full reveal/ AoS epic scale game/ Epic 40k tyranids / AOS TV show news
Expect: only a vague teaser trailer for AOS 3 and some 40k TV show news
Don't want: only a vague teaser trailer for AOS 3 and some 40k TV news
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DWEENCLAW is my new favourite AoS model and name
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I understand that one of the reasons why a small sample size can still be useful is to do with random samples: e.g. if all the samples are pulled completely randomly, then correlations even at small numbers can be really significant.
Additionally, if the samples give you additional information that can allow them to be weighted (e.g. geographical location) towards some other greater body of data then a small sample can be usefully extrapolated.
Conversely, that is why twitter and forum polls are generally quite useless at getting towards any real statistical insights that include offline opinion: the way responses to these polls are generated is the opposite of random = they are self selecting, based on who knows the user/follows that thread already etc.
A poll on a TGA in say the destruction sub-forum is probably not necessarily that good at guaging the opinions of even all TGA users, let alone all GW hobbiers, for the reason that a TGA user might have really strong opinions on destruction but still never visit the destruction sub-forum.
(I am not saying that polls like that are not fun or cannot generate insights, just that they're not really going to be good at guaging the entire hobby community)
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1 hour ago, Aeryenn said:
I agree that they should step away from some factions and return to Fyreslayers, Sylvaneth, Ironjawz etc but PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE don't ever again merge any factions. It's basically a death sentence if we look at what happen to them. Take skaven. One of the most iconic Warhammer armies of all time. What did they receive after merging them? One model was it? What happened to Ironjawz? No new models. Cities? Ok, it's a bit different with them but it was one unit of witch hunters, correct? Basically dead in terms of new releases. If they do something similar let's say to Fyreslayers and all Dwarfs that's basically it. It should be called a crime against humanity. Develop factions on their OWN. It takes nothing more than goodwill. I can think of like 5 new sculpts for Ironjawz right away. Same with Fyreslayers. DON'T KILL CONCEPTS by merging them into armies with no real theme.
"Crime against humanity" might be a slight, teeny-weeny, exaggeration.
Now not releasing any follow up to the Excelsior Warpriest - that's a crime against humanity!
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AoS 3 New Rules Discussion
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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Notwithstanding that AOS might be better, i agree, AoS 2 was overall, brilliant!
this interview video is ambiguous as to whether existing battalions remain in matched play