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I am look at buying a box of chaos knights and it popped in my head. Can one model be both the standard bearer and musician at the same time? The chaos knight box comes with the parts to do this and I haven’t seen any rules that would state it to be otherwise. What are your ideas?

I finally got the acolytes finished after 3 years. It was surprisingly quick I suppose all the painting between then and now has paid off. I plan on getting the eyes of the nine for the two extra acolytes to finish it at a cool 30. Plus I would love to convert that magister as the head on it is awful. I glued more bits to my objective marker aka flux cairn as well. The crystal is something my older brother gave me many years ago before we both moved to separate parts of the country so it has some sentimental value as we as looking cool. also my painting buddy busy at work

I pulled these guys off in two days. I gotta say they were a lot easier than the flamers and gave me a satisfied feeling once they had a healthy clunk when the basing was finished. After these I think I’m going to finish the silver tower acolytes I’ve had lying around for a few years or start the rest of the horrors. I might do an army shot later to see how it looks altogether. here’s a few pictures of the army

I think given time AoS will have a more fleshed out image for life in most of the innerlands of the various realms like we got with the Empire and Ulthuan. A lot of the little pieces the released with malign portents and most if not all the black library novels released in the last few years have really been trying to make an effort to create a tangible setting like they had with the olde world. Even chaos cultures and the deepkin have been really fleshed out and I’m certain as long as the newer generation of AoS authors who picked up where Reynolds left off continue on his tangent then we will certainly have a much mor concrete setting for the everyday man in the mortal realms. I feel like with the old army books it isn’t really the job of the battletomes to get into that much detail and more the job of the novels and rpgs.

Does anyone remember if fantasy really had much of a detailed setting speaking of the day to day lives of the mortal inhabitants aside from the role playing games prior to 7th Ed? I was thinking and I can’t really remember much and most of it was presented as 3rd person summaries or as anecdotes written in world by imperial scholars.

From what I get from the interviews from the guys who do the different ways to play there are less people involved with those rules typically just a few people making the scenarios so it’ll inherently be a little more unbalanced. I believe what matched play even remotely fair are the third party play testers. It’s hard to gauge how many people play each type of game as @Melbar said the tournament people are the most vocal on the internet thus the most seen. i have not played the game since before there were points and only twice before that so I can’t really speak from experience just from conclusions drawn from the podcasts and YouTube videos I have listened to. Though the hobby is more an escape for me only painting once in a while and most just reading the novels and battletomes before bed or when I’m in a hotel room.

I used to play clan Mors in fantasy so I feel you haha

Wasn’t Jactos Goldmane the first named stormcast who was slain but did not reforge? I know that Vandus is really seen as a Mary-sue because he was on the front of most of the stormcast stuff in the beginning but I really want to see them expand on his story. I do feel kind of peeved they haven’t made more mention of these original Lord Celestants like they do in 40k with Calgar or Dante.

A little but I painted everything with the solid brown already. Is it a common thing to do? I only ask as I have seen it a few times.

Does anyone ever feel bad for thosto bladestorm?

I got the flamers finished and based as well as the curseling done. The curseling was fun and got me thinking of doing some of the new chaos warriors if I could get my hands on some. Next is either screamers or horrors, I haven’t made up my mind yet.

Josh Reynolds’ Gardus Steelsoul really got me into the novels and motivated me to get into all the other things I have read. Most of the black library books have regular people as primary perspective characters though most of them only last a single book other than Callis and Toll. All the Hamilcar Bear-eater short stories and the novel were fun reads and gave a humorous departure from the space marine heroics you get with most stormcast characters. Guymer’s Deepkin stories are interesting but typical elven pity parties.

You gotta remember that most of the writers that GW employs are not the same ones that were there in the past. Even separate parts of the same battletome are written by different people and that’s a lot for editors to catch especially when it has to go through several of their departments where everyone is leaving notes along the way. Just like how subjective our different views of the hobby are jaded by our personal experiences with It the final product of a single battletome can have small inconsistencies like little bits of verbiage.

There is no need to take the high road once the gauntlet has been thrown. You argued in circles each time to the point that several people backed down because it was like trying to talk to a wall of noise. If you don’t mind me asking if you feel so irked by the inconsistencies of the setting then why keep coming back to defend arguments that haven’t gained traction then picking apart the criticisms of your points?

I read this whole thread and I am going to say that you seem to be arguing for the sake of arguing like it’s a high school debate class. You can’t just keep referring to how you outline arguments when you never outline them in the first place. I know being cooped up at home makes coming back over and over easier but just give it a rest. It’s 10 pages now of you making these cyclical arguments about a fantasy setting. They become cyclical because it is just that; fantasy. please stop picking top talking points that people have complained about before and acting like you have made these eye opening claims. Sometimes it’s better to just admit that you might not be convincing people to your side of the argument and cut your losses. I felt like I was watching the talking heads on 24 hour news with the ‘I’m right because I am and you are wrong because of what I just said above’ nonsense. what makes this game and it’s setting so great is that it is a constantly developing series. Much like LotR it wasn’t a complete and coherent thought from the get go and that is what makes it fun For me to read the new background they come out with. Very few of the battle times were wholly written by the same person with different writers putting different things together in the finishEd product. Hell in the last 5 years I have seen more story development out of AoS than I did in 10 years of reading fantasy army books and novels. Though I suppose this whole post will be moot in the end as it makes assumptions based on what ‘I’ have read and doesn’t Make direct quotes for assemble and structure d argument. Which is off topic in the extreme I’m sure we can all agree.

I got a new hobby area in our new place and I decided to work on my tzeentch stuff while my wife is away. I started late in the night but I got most of the bass coats done. The heads and hands may look pink but they are a watered down dark cherry color that I am going to dry brush a lighter shade onto. I want them to be bright and kind of silly looking so I want to try and paint light shades on them.

I always enjoy reading your writing, it’s always well thought out!

This was awesome. Everyone should definitely take the time to read it.

This is a really good idea. Start with 3 or 4 gargants and work your way into 2000 when the new army comes out. I’m tempted to do this myself.

There are a few armies that allow an elite unit to become battle line if you meet certain conditions such as Tzeentch with screamers under a certain some subfaction or with a specific general

This was very well done I enjoyed the twists throughout.

There are a lot of factions that fit those guidelines but Stormcasts really tic all the boxes. their shooting is really Strong with with judicators and the ballista but the melee output of nearly all their units is as good or better than most other armies. Plus one of thier battle traits is an inbuilt deep strike that functions better than either beasts or nighthaunts.

In all honesty you wouldn’t need to put a saddle or reins on the boar. Many equine traditions didn’t use leads or stirrups to guide the horse but rather trained them to respond to pressure from the riders’ legs or certain verbal commands. Savage Boar riders were designed with this in mind and the same could certainly be said of humans doing the same thing.

I enjoyed reading this it was pretty creative

@AthelLoren do what you gotta do hahahaha