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56 minutes ago, Azamar said:
Finished my first warden. Bit of a test colour scheme but I like it well enough to do the rest the same way, although white clothes are a bit tricky.
no particular great nation as I probably won’t focus on just one to start with.
Looks good! The light blue on the armor works very well with the golden details!
I also finished painting some miniatures today. Here my first Dawnrider:
I really like the idea of the Ymetrica Aelfs making heavy use of triangle patterns. So I added some to the little backbanners of the Dawnriders.
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42 minutes ago, fenriswolf2003 said:
Gecktron. Could you make one for zaitrec too?
Im already working on it! Zaitrec has a lot of usable symbolism, Syar on the other hand not so much. I really have to think about how to represent them.
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1 hour ago, Acid_Nine said:
I think I really jumped the gun thinking I'd get my armies on parade board done by this year....
I just want a little more info to satisfy some world building needs. For Example, are the nations run by the spiritual leaders of temples? is the majority of the government within each nation a City State where each city controls their land? Is the society Feudal? or is there freedom of movement and social mobility?
We know that Iliatha is a matriarchy, with mothers that have successfully raised a new generation ranking the highest.
We also know from the Syar entry that their capital is called Ar-Ennascath, which implies that there is some form of centralized government.EDIT: Speaking of Iliatha, I also gave Iliathas Coat of Arms a try:
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The sun and the droplets of blood represent their belief that knowledge and enlightenment grows, not by individual feats, but by raising each new generation in a way that they can grow and surpass their fore bearers. While the split in the middle represents the iliathans fascination with twins.
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4 minutes ago, LuminethMage said:
I'd would have been great if they had at least touched upon this in the Battletome (is there now Idoneth enclave in Hysh which thinks more positively of Teclis and the Lumineth?)
The very first Idoneth City (and original home of the Ionrach Enclave) Gealrachi is located in the Gealus Ocean in Hysh. The Ymetrica map even shows two whirlways. So I think its safe to assume there are still multiple Idoneth settlements in the Realm of Light.
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Im not sure if this is the right place, but the battletome lore made me think a bit more about the different great nations, how they are run, how their culture differs from each other, and how the same unit type can look different in each nation.
Im currently mostly thinking about Ymetrica.
In my mind, Ymetrica is a theocracy ruled over by either high-ranking members of the Alarith temple, or philosophers that have climbed the teclian ladder by meditating on top of the highest peaks.We know from the battletome that Ymetricans favor triangle patterns and symbols. I tried to incorporate that while trying to come up with a coat of arms/symbol for the nation:
The helmet at the top is based on the Stoneguard helmet, but It could also represent the warform of an Alarith Mountain Spirit, or the Ymetrican Longhorn itself.
Im currently planning on going all in with Ymetrica and Im thinking about slightly converting most models to incorporate more mountain symbolic.
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4 hours ago, John Edwards said:
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- Loreseekers - Loremaster style spellswords
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Aelementiri Temples
- River - tens of thousands of river warriors, presumably some kind of river wizard and river aelementor?
- Mountains - the Alarith we have seen already, ~ a thousand
- Wind - rare, air wizards/aelementor? Rare.
- Zenith - angelic aelves, beings of light/thought. Almost none.
Good summary!
Something interesting, the wind temple is described in detail. One section in the tome describes cloud riding wizards, archers on long-limbed riding-beasts and a bow wielding fox-faced spirit. If we compare that with the Alarith, thats basically the full temple (maybe add a named character or two).
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28 minutes ago, xking said:
So the battletome confirms that there are multiple moons in Hysh? Also anything on the other elemental groups and what their warriors look like?
Yes. As far as I understand it, there are multiple moons, waxing and waning. These moons are only partially physical. They periodically materialize and fade into incorporeality. Only Celennar, the true Moon, always orbits above the realm sphere (Its important to remember that the sky above the realmsphere is just as magical as the edges).
Other groups are mentioned. The Aelementari of the Zenith temple can turn into beings of pure light, while the warriors of the River temple are described as swift dexterous warriors. There is a short tale that features horse archers and a "fox-faced" bow wielding spirit of the Wind Temple.
Oh, there is also a mention of a River Spirits, but they arent described in any detail.-
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39 minutes ago, xking said:
Does the book mention anything about the soul wars? Also can you talk about the moon Spirit? Does it have a rivalry with a bad moon?
The Soul Wars are mentioned, yes. But more in the form of the aftermath of the Necroquake. Even though the Lumineth erected spires of aetherquarz to stabilize the realms, the wave of necrotic energy still animated hordes of skeletons and set free legions of Nighthaunt. Wild Endless Spells roam the realm now and the edges of the realmsphere are destabilizing at an alarming rate.
This event lead to the Lumineth ending their isolation. They realized that events that happen in one realm, can still affect them in Hysh.
We dont know Celennars opinion on the Bad Moon. But the Great Nation of Zaitrec worships Celennar, the true Moon, and the other moons of Hysh. But they fear the Bad Moon. Against all their efforts to force him into orderly patterns, it still moves as it pleases, which terrifies the people of Zaitrec.
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1 hour ago, Acid_Nine said:
Awesome Paint job! did you paint it in sub asemblies? or glue it all together and paint at once?
I glued everything in place before painting. I prefer seeing it all come together while painting
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Happy Release Day everyone!
I gave the second Ymetrica color scheme a try:
Im pretty happy with how it turned out! I think I will paint my whole army in this scheme (but now, im thinking about how im going to paint the Alariths?)
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People are slowly getting their boxes. So, what is everyone planning on how to paint their miniatures? Are you going for one of the subfactions? Or a custom color scheme?
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5 minutes ago, Rors said:
Your core infantry are wizards. A hero set behind them with twinstones can let them cast first each turn. Doesn't matter if they don't have any use for sunmetal their spell basically becomes give your wizard +1 to cast.
It might be possible to set up a caster and two sentinel units in the twinstones bubble. Then you can spam MW with your archers and empower your wizard at the same time.
Its important to remember that the Twinstones are a predatory Endless Spell! So the enemy can, potentially, move them away.
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1 hour ago, Wyliekyote said:
Hey all AoS:Lumineth peeps! I'm a total newb, never played 40k etc, and have been enjoying SW:Legion a bunch. For some reason, this box leapt out, smacked me in the face, and asked to go home with me. Before I take home a complete stranger, and jump head first into AoS, does this look like a good box to jump in with? Will it be enough to get a "skirmish" game in or three? How long after a Big Box release does GW let loose the dogs of war and give us more kits? Any advice for a newbie?
Thanks in advance!
Hi and welcome to the Mortal Realms!
The box gives you a nice 500 points list. A good starting point for a few small games.
The Box is also pretty good If you are complety new, as you get the core rules, the battletome, die and markers all in one set.
We dont know how long we will have to wait for the rest, but I guess GW will release the other kits after the Launch of the new 40K edition next month.
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56 minutes ago, alghero81 said:
Part of me hopes is not that cause: Excelsis is a really interesting city with few novels around and would be sad losing it or, even worst, they leave it like Lethis damaged but not broken or like Glymmsforge in an unknown state.
Glymmsforge is still holding on. The Soulbound book mentions the council of Glymmsforge stemming the tide of the growing Ossiarch Empire.
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Just now, woolf said:
does the double movement spell work on allies? 28'' (+charge) flying eel-missile hardly even need the soulscryer to get where u want them...
No. Only LUMINETH REALMLORD units wholly within 18" of the caster.
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7 hours ago, Euphanism said:
So is anyone currently running or in a campaign? I think I've about finished the framework for mine. I'm trying to keep it to 5-6 sessions and only 4 players since its a brand new system for all of us. It'll be interesting to see if they like a more narrative style game, coming from very crunchy DnD backgrounds.
I finished a solo adventure with one of my players a few weeks ago (he played a Skaven Assassin!) and im currently running the free Crash&Burn adventure with my main group. I think its only one session left until we wrap this up.
I changed the adventure a bit, so the group is travelling to Edesa instead of Brightspear. I hope to run a few more adventures once they are there.-
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I found this color scheme on a french forum (they say its Ymetrica?) And I think it looks really good. Im tempted to go with that for my Lumineth force!
Source: https://www.warhammer-forum.com/index.php?/topic/274075-discussion-lumineth-realm-lords/page/70/-
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2 minutes ago, LuminethMage said:
Your idea with a few mages and lots of core troops sounds good and will look great, I’m sure. I guess many people will also make non-Teclis Ymetrica armies, the Battle Cattle look like they are going to be a lot of fun to play.
This is what im going for! Its not that I dont like Teclis, but I tend to play smaller games, so bringing a 660 point model would be a bit much.
I like the lore and design of the Alarith models (especially the mountain spirit with the large hammer). And the great nation of Ymetrica sounds like a perfect fit to me. Im waiting to see how some of the alternative color schemes look in real life, but im also thinking about doing my own color scheme. Similarly to the studio scheme, but I would switch the creme color for some dark greys, dark blues and some white/silver as accent color (grey for the stone of the mountains, white for the snow covered peaks, and blue for the sky).
Im also thinking about doing this with my Stoneguard models:
Its not that I dislike the stock models, its just that I like THIS look very much!
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Maybe this is a useful information for all you Cogfort aficionados, in the new Cities of Flame supplement for Soulbound, produced by Cubicle7, there is an adventure centered around a Cogfort! That specific cogfort "Greenskin's Despair" is described as being a 200 feet tall structure, on six giant mechanical legs. Armed with fifty cannons, two volley cannons, and crewed by 500 Handgunners, 50 crewmen (engineers, drivers, stokers) and also 30 Fyreslayers.
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Just now, ArchaicArc said:
Ahhhhh. I get it, this is a competitive gaming environment! Sorry, it’s my first time using this website, and this is the only group I’m in. I’m a little miffed, I was kinda hoping to see this explode into talk about the lore and people’s army themes/ideas, paint schemes, low-level tactic and fun lists etc. Not trying to play down people who are into the competitive side of warhammer, it’s just not really my jam. Does anybody know of similar discussion boards based around my tastes concerning LRL? I was loving the build up and anticipation on this sub, it’s just kind of morphing into something that’s not to my particular interest (again, not disrespecting !)?
This is also the place for that. Its just that the only thing we have right now is some parts of the rules.
Once people get the miniatures and the battletome in their hands the discussion will shift.Im also very excited for the lore and Im currently testing out a few color schemes via photoshop. I hope we get more lore on the great nations (especially Ymetrica) and some not-creme color schemes in the battletome!
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1 minute ago, Acid_Nine said:
So talking about teclis aside, does anyone struggle to place where Stoneguard would fit into a list that is not the mountain specific one? for like, 40pts more the wardens can have more attackss, same number of wounds, Bigger board presence and is a wizard that can cast a spell that lets them ignore rend or a spell that lets them get mortal wounds better. just seems to be more utility there to be honest. I think the mountain spirits and stone mages are great, but I think the guard is a bit lacking without them having magic...
The one big strenght they have is that they can move across the board and charge without losing most of their abilities.
But I think they need at least one mountain spirit and a stonemage to make use of their full potential.
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1 hour ago, ZLee Syn said:
Can you send me a link where can I find this playtesters video?
And the way I see it, Teclis looks like the most broken warscroll I ever saw. If the whole army is OK, that means that rest must be pretty trash in my eyes. And that doesnt look like good design.
If the whole balance is done based on rock-paper-scissors (if the enemy can threaten teclis first turn or cannot) then what is the reaosn to play? Just check the lists and go to lunch.They probably meant the bad dice podcast: http://baddice.co.uk/lumineth-realm-lords-review-with-the-play-testers/
To summarize their thoughts about Teclis a little: He is strong, and he will most likely be a centerpiece/linchpin for the faction at the start since he is pretty straightforward in what he does compared to the rest of the army, but he has his weaknesses. They think once people get a hang of the army they will slowly pivot away from him and make more use of the other elements of the army.
They made a great point. Lumineth are all about balancing your resources. You cant go all out with big toys or you lack the man to hold your objectives and screen, you cant go all out Sentinel spam or you cant threaten the enemies objectives, and so and so on.
I recommend listening to that episode.
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1 minute ago, Chumphammer said:
Unless you go spell portal and Teclis damage spell. that can hurt but I dont know I if i wanna be "that guys" lol
Do we know all the battalions yet (ie what they require and what they do)
Toying with a fast strike list using Eels as Teclis shields lol
Teclis: 660
3 x 10 Sentinals: 420
10 Dawn Riders: 260
10 Dawn Riders: 260
3 Ishlaen Guard: 140
3 Ishlaen Guard: 140
120pts spare
Yeah, we already know all the battalions. The Lumineth have 4: Alarith Temple (Battle cattle, Stonemage, Stoneguard), Auralan Legion (Cathallar, 2-4 Sentinals and Wardens), Dawnrider Lance (2-3 Dawnriders) and the mega battalion with the other three, Teclis and Eltharion.
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13 minutes ago, whispersofblood said:
Why do you think that? MSU might be one of our strongest strategies. 40 sentinels and 40-50 Wardens.
Oh sure, MSU may very well work in our favor (to a certain degree, I think there is a drop off, at a certain point because of Spell Lore and Aetherquarz limitations) I was mainly talking about the short comings of 1 or 2 drop lists.
In regards to why I think Sentinel Spam will fail is simply the fact that we need something to claim objectives. 5+ save Sentinels will melt and Warden lose all their good stuff if they charge. I think we need Stoneguard/Aralith units and Dawnriders to have a chance at winning the objective game. Just sitting in our deployment zone wont work.
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Dont get demotivated! Remember, Practice makes perfect! And for every nicely painted model you see online, there are at least 10 test-runs you dont see.
The dark blue is GW Kantor Blue, and the lighter one is Caledor sky.