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    Warhammer - The Old World

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    6 minutes ago, Deepkin said:

    The point is people loved the Old World and like to see it supported and not abandoned in the really weird way GW did. 

    The hype train is here boys, and got no breaks

    I still don't understand the train of thought behind that decision of resurrecting the old world, in whatever form. Anyway, for the fans, enjoy.

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    Warhammer - The Old World

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    From a new player perspective, I don't see the point. At all. Yes it will be a success. Yes the new gameplay will be certainly cool. But I find this announcement counter-productive to the point of irrelevancy. AoS is not even 5 years olds, and still, they announce the resurrection of its predecessor. Anyway, even if dug Total war warhammer a lot, I guess I am not the target.

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    Organising a small 1 afternoon Meeting engagements event at my local geedub

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    Dear fellow Age of Sigmar players,

    I would like to organise a small Meeting engagement event at my local geedub before the end of the year.

    I want to organise that for several reasons:

    • After my first tournament ever this week end (Bloodshed in the shires 2019 which saw me going from 8 games ever played to 12!!! ), I am really motivated to play more
    • Even if I did not have the chance to play it, I am convinced that ME is fun after watching a couple of ME battle reports on the interweb.
    • In addition, I don't have any friends to play with (my only toy soldiers friend is living overseas), only the usual bunch at my local geedub.
    • My local geedub's (bi-) monthly events are usually from 13h to 18h (5 hours), on 4*4 tables (because unfortunately they don't have much place), and I have been a little frustrated to never finish 1 game properly there since I started playing, because the time allowed to play is too short even for 1.5k points games.

    So my goal here is to experience with this format at least once and ensure that all player can play 2 games in this narrow 5 hours slot.

    But because I don't think it makes sense to bring something like Archaon, Morathi or Nagash (whom I don't think you can anyway), I thought that a point limitation could be relevant.

    My rule of thumb would be to restrict any unit that is over 1/3 of the 1000 points ME limit, because it feels that those units are not designed for less than 1.5k if not 2k games.  So I started a small survey on twitter (check below), but you are welcome to comment here, and not on the relevance of Meeting engagement. I don't want to start a never-ending discussion à la "is zero a number?" ;)

    Points limitation on this survey are  300, 350, 450 and no point limitation, to stick around the "inferior to 1/3 of 1000 points, because I want to keep hte restriction as simple as I can.

     

    Also, concerning the time frame, it seems that I could guaranty 2 * 1h15min games for up to 8 people in 5 hours:

    • For 8 players (tight schedule)
      • First round 13h -> 14h15, players 1 to 4
      • Second round 14h20 -> 15h35, players 5 to 8
      • Third round 15h40 -> 16h55, players: 1, 3, 5 and 7
      • Fourth round 14h -> 18h15, players: 2, 4, 6 and 8
    • For 6 players (either with a 4th round for 4 of the 6 players or with 90 minutes games)
      • First round 13h -> 14h15, players 1 to 4
      • Second round 14h20 -> 15h35, players: 5, 6, 1 and 3
      • Third round 15h40 -> 16h55, players: 5, 6, 2 and 4

    What do you experienced warmongers think?

     

     

     

    https://twitter.com/pseudorythme/status/1188855811390484480?s=20

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    The Rumour Thread

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    2 hours ago, Shearl said:

    Others have touched upon it, but I don't think I'd say the pose is simply copied from SC or other heroes. 

    GW has chosen similar poses for for many of their mounted heroes for a reason, take a look at artistic depictions of historical figures (horses seem to rarely have all four hooves on the ground)

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    Knight of shroud on steed !

    The Future of DEATH is AoS

    in Death

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    1 hour ago, Sception said:

    And as long as we're talking pie in the sky, not gonna happen pipe dreams, my dearest wish:  Death Elves.

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    The forces of Slaanesh discover their god's hiding spot and converge to free him.  In response, the Elven gods gather to finally remove all the remaining elf souls from Slaanesh at once in a desperate piñata beat down.  But during the ritual Malerion, spurred on by Morathi, attempts to take control and steal all the elven souls for himself.  Morathi in turn betrays him, siding with Tyrion, Teclis (& maybe Alarielle & Kurnous if they're invited to the party).  The other gods gang up on & kill Malerion.  As a result Morathi steals  dominion over Ulgu and many of the darker elven souls that would have gone to Malerion.

    Many, but not all, though, as Malerion 'dies', but doesn't cease to exist.  Instead his weakened spirit, along with the elven souls he was able to claim before the other elven gods stop him, gets caught up in the gravity of Shyish and fall screaming to Nagash's clutches.  There Malerion and Nagash enter into an uneasy alliance, with Malerion becoming something more than a Mortarch but less than a full partner to Nagash, and master of his own legion of necromonger-inspired death-alliance shadow elves - half living and half undead, flickering between physical and ghostly forms, with arcane power over necromantically animated shadows.  He then launches a war of revenge on Morathi, bringing the better part of Ulgu under Alliance of Death control.

     

     

    So more or less @Thomas Lyons WIP Nighthanut/Cities of Sigmar army project

    The Future of DEATH is AoS

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    For vampires, I would go either super classical with werewolves and the likes or 40k Genestealer Cult like with the possibility to use humans models with at least upgrade sprues.

    In the first case it won't be "AoSed", but I trust GW to be able to put out gorgeous and highly dynamic classical monsters.In the second case, it would develop their scheming and infiltration nature in the human society. I guess it could only be done after/along a big humans release.

    Don't really see another vampire trope they could expand on, or subvert (like they did the KO).

    The Future of DEATH is AoS

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    1 hour ago, El Syf said:

    Nagash to finally sort out his rodent problem would be good. Every time he's been on the precipice of achieving something monumental, some bloody rats show up and spoil it!

     

    A funny away to do that would be a big narrative arc around Skaven (synched with a big Skaven release) which ends with Nagash messing Skaven plans 👌

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    Help a noob finish his non competitive list made out of only his painted models

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    Thanks @recoilia and @RuneBrush,

    My initial intuition was to run 2*5 black knights for board control (and I had a pretty good experience of 5 of them vaporizing a unit of 10 unbuffed witchelves). Also I really had no idea about the Spirit hosts.

    So this saturday, will be my 1st 2k game (I only played 1.5k game until now), and will try the 1*10 Black knights and 1*6 Spîrit hosts.

    I agree on the Guardian of souls, it is just a pity as I bloody love the Wight king sculpt and my paintjob :)

    My only problem with the @Gravetide @RuneBrush, is that it's not yet painted 😅 So it will depend if I can paint my 2 Morghasts, finish my Necromancer and my black knights in the upcoming 3 weeks (which is feasible).

    Wish me luck and thanks again mates!

     

     

     

     

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    Help a noob finish his non competitive list made out of only his painted models

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    5 minutes ago, ACBelMutie said:

    The Wight King with Axe is a pretty model, but Wight King with blade on Horse is still a better option -more attacks and movility.

    I think 1x10 Black Knights are better than 2x5, because if you want to get objectives with a quick unit, use Dire Wolves. They cost 70 points and they move 10", so you have 2x5 Dire Wolves for 140 points instead of 2x5 Black Knights for 240 points. You get 100 free points to expend in other units.

    Greetings

    Thanks, but I am not planning to buy and paint models that I don’t have right now 😅

    So no Wightking on steed nor Dire wolves.

     

    Help a noob finish his non competitive list made out of only his painted models

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    Dear fellow wargamers,

    I am a French dude who has entered the second half of his life (maybe his last third) and who has only 6 games of AoS under his belt, and I need you help because I am going to Bloodshed in the Shire in late October.

    Very important disclaimer: I am not going there to win, I don’t have an optimised list because I more or less don’t care and don’t want to paint 30000 times the same models. So basically, the core motivation behind the following list is the rule of cool. And I don’t plan to buy anything as of today for that tournament.

    So here are my couple of questions:

    1. Should I take my Wight king with baleful tomb blade because I love the sculpt and am pretty proud of my paint job, or the Guardian of souls who would be useful for supporting my chainrasps and be an additional wizard?
    2. Should I take 2*5 or 1*10 Black knights?
    3. Should I take 2*3 or 1*6 Spirit hosts ?
    4. Which endless should I take to complete and go to 2000 points?

    Thanks in advance people 

     

    Allegiance: Grand Host of Nagash

    Mortal Realm: Shyish

    Leaders (850 / 870)

    • Vampire Lord (140)
    • Arkhan the Black Mortarch of Sacrament (340)
    • Spirit Torment (120)
    • Necromancer (130)
    • Option
    1. Wight King with Baleful Tomb Blade (120)
    2. Guardian of Souls with Nightmare Lantern (140)

    Battleline  (380)

    • 20 x Chainrasp Horde (160)
    • 10 x Grave Guard with Great Wight Blades (140)
    • 10 x Skeleton Warriors  with Ancient spears (80)

    Units (680)

    • 5 x Black Knights (120)
    • 5 x Black Knights (120)
    • 2 x Morghast Harbingers  with Spirit halberds (200)
    • 3 x Spirit Hosts (120)
    • 3 x Spirit Hosts (120)

    Endless Spells / Terrain (50)

    • Purple Sun of Shyish (50)
    • option
    1. Soulsnare Shackles (40) (if Wight king)
    2. Malevolent Maelstrom (10) (if Guardian of souls)
    3. Suffocating gravetide (20) (if Guardian of souls)

    Total: 1960/1980 

    Extra Command Points: 0

    Allies: 0 / 400

    Wounds: 117

     

     

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    The Rumour Thread

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    44 minutes ago, zilberfrid said:

    Speculation ahead:

    For 3.0 (which I expect in about three years, maybe two)

    • CoS will get trimmed further, with GW maybe replacing a few molds with new ones. Another option would be a condensed Cities with about half units. Third option is everything goes away. 
    • Seraphon is dated throughout the line, and a tie to the old world. They may get removed.
    • Order will keep having about double the roster of the others
    • Either Chaos or Destruction will be the primary opponent. I hope the latter (to give that a turn) but expect the former

    I am really not sure about a squatting of Seraphon, as I feel that there is far more love for them that there is for the late Bretonians and Tomb kings. And when you see the sculpts they did with a recent kickstarter that is a complete rip-off of GW line, I strongly believe that GW could do an amazing overall of the faction. with great success.

    As for 3.0 speculations, my feeling was (still is?) that they would go Destruction as the main antagonist, and monsters heavy after the endless spells with lots of roaming beasts on the battlefield. My hopes are up again since the announcement of Beastgrave and the Warcry first expansion. We'll see...

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