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I've actually included the Untamed Beast and a Darkoath hero or two entirely for fluff reasons. You see, my Beasts army is actually the various livestock found around Chaos Acres. The Darkoath family (mommy and daddy Darkoath, brothers Billy, Timmy, and Otto, little sister Susie, and their dog Oreo) raise herds of gors, ungors, razorgors, and raptoryxs for the farmer's markets of CHAOS!!!💀💀💀 They've even started a Gor rental service. Let's say the land you've conquered for Khorne has pesky weeds, shrubs, aelves, free people, whatever. They'll rent you a brayherd to come out and g-'raze' (😉) that all right into the ground for ya! 😀 😀 I'll go now. 😁

I was very excited to see the Seraphon lore in the Tome of Champions Warcry book. They mentioned the Old Ones and Great Plan for starters. I don't get the feeling that the Old Ones will make an appearance. I also don't want to see a continuation of the Great Plan but rather an evolution of it. I like the notion of leylines and astral manipulation powering their magic. From their celestial vantage point, the Slann could be manipulating magical leylines within realms and between realms, perhaps controlling the movement and positioning of the 8 realms themselves in the fight against Chaos. That could make for a narrative event on the scale of the Necroquake!

I know she's 40k and not AoS, but I had to go with Severina Raine. But then I'm biased since I did just paint her up to be my wife's avatar in the game. 😊 If I had to pick an AoS model I would pick the Rockgut Troggoths. They are gorgeous sculpts that are practically oozing character and story. I love the little birds and rocks-as-hats and the expression one has looking at a grot he's holding up. You can almost hear the tiny, rusty gears turning and you can sense the inevitable moment when those gears will lock up. Then the Troggoths, curiosity unsatisfied will gulp down that sad, little grot. It's great! 😁

I just wanted to take a moment to speak to all the Nighthaunt players here on TGA and in the world generally. I have never played Nighthaunt myself however I have recently assembled a small Nighthaunt force for the club at my school. Its a small thing, about 500pts. Just enough for the students to play some small games. I think I speak for everyone when I say I'm sorry. We're sorry. We had no idea. We didn't understand your suffering and hadn't appreciated your strength. All Nighthaunt players have our deepest sympathies for the absolute, unadulterated hell that is assembling Spirit Hosts. 'hugs' PS: After going through that, I think I understand what being punished by Nagash must be like.

Good morning, beasties! So I've playing around with my BoC a lot lately and trying to figure out where to expand the army, particularly Heroes. I'm not focused on being competitive but I enjoy hordes of infantry and really like the ambushing and summoning mechanics in our army. I usually play smaller games (1000-1500pts) and my typical list is something like the following: 1 Beastlord 2 Bray-Shamans 20 Ungor Raiders 20 Bestigors 20-30 Gors A smattering of Chariots or Razorgors Desolating Brayherd Battalion So with that in mind, what Brayherd Heroes do people usually bring? Do I have enough? Beastlord for General or Bray-Shaman? Any suggestions for Command Traits? Are multiple Beastlords worth it? I've been running him with Oracle of the Dark Tongue and the Banshee Blade because I enjoy the combo potential (and he did kill 400pts of Bloodbound by himself that one time! 👍). Does anyone have any suggestions for alternate Beastlord models? I have the GW one and he's nice enough but my opponents keep confusing him for a particularly short and scrawny Gor. How many Bray-Shamans is too many? I've found that having two works well for their movement buff and I'd like more of that please! I usually have one Bray-Shaman with the Knowing Eye. Does anyone have any other suggestions for useful artifacts? However, their magic seems really hit-or-miss. Their spells are quite short-ranged and they never survive past turn 2-3 unless they are so far back they can't do anything useful. I do enjoy all of our Endless Spells and would like a bit more consistency casting those. Thanks for the ideas and inspiration! PS: I'd like to keep it focused on Brayherd. The Warherd and Thunderscorn models just don't it for me. 🐮

Every once in a while GW just throws a little surprise into White Dwarf that makes me have to get it that month. This is one of those times! Also a good reason to pick up Gotrek!

Excellent advice! If you're in this hobby long enough, you'll end up with a few careless scars so always use a sharp blade! Because we all know that models perform better on the tabletop if you offer them a blood sacrifice during assembly! 😈

Oh my god...what if... ...this is the start of AoS End Times!! They're rebooting the game...in reverse! 😱

Stop it, you guys! Just stop it! 😭 Don't ya see? This is just what GW wants us to do! They're trying to tear us apart just when need to help each other the most! How are we gonna solve the Mystery of the Thalassic Troggoth if we can't work together?!

My solution was to purchase some of the female heads from Victoria miniatures. They are mostly sci-fi themed however they do have some that are just women's heads with no helmets or wargear; just somewhat finer features and longer hair. They were a decent price so I bought 20 of them and added them to my Freeguild Guard on the assumption that they're militia and not all of them have helmets. Also its hard to tell a man from a women when they're wearing puffy shirts and bresatplates so the head was all the needed changing in my opinion. https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/female-squads-and-bits/products/bald-female-heads-x12 PS: That's for 5 heads with hair...not sure why it says "bald female heads x 12". 😛 PPS: They do have bald lady heads though!

You already know the solution to this problem... ...its the same solution we have to every problem... ...murder them... ...and eat them...* 🐮 *the Ironguts, not the Ogor player

Oooh! Its limited edition! Keepin' it classy! As for me, I remember buying my first 40k minis in Feb, 2003. I was 22 at the time and a senior in college. A friend of mine was waxing nostalgic about playing Warhammer in high school and he wanted to start again. I went with Tyranids, he got Space Marines, and another friend played Eldar. We played 5 games before we graduated and moved away...😥 Anyway it would be another decade of on-again, off-again Warhammer before I found a stable group to play 40k. I played a bit of Fantasy in 8th edition but once AoS dropped, I was completely hooked. Yes, I loved AoS when the game was released and really enjoy Open Play to this day. I'm one of thoooose people... 😉

I've played a couple of games with Hallowheart and their MW output is pretty nuts. Against Fyreslayers I dealt 20+ MW in a single Hero Phase! This was in a Meeting Engagements game so that was some serious damage. Unfortunately I lost that game so that proves Hallowheart is trash, GW sucks, and I burned my army. Next thread! 😎

A Battalion that needs 2-4 Battlemages?! Bwahaha!! My time has come! I always knew painting the eight Wizards of the magical land of Foon would payoff!

Don't mind me. Just gonna set this Lifeswarm over by my little angry dwarf friend with his orange mohawk. 😉

This is always an excellent topic to discuss whenever it comes up. I know a player who ran into their first case of hobby burn-out and thought they'd gotten everything from Warhammer they could. As a result, I...uh, I mean...they sold their army and regretted it later. 😳 Sometimes keeping things in perspective helps when I get discouraged. I have literally hundreds of models left to paint. Nearly all of my friend's grots (200+ models), 50+ Seraphon, 50+ Beastmen, 30 or so Freeguild, more than 30 Imperial Guard for 40k, and exactly 1 Tyranid. I never let myself think about that chunk of hobby as one thing I need to complete. I focus only on the few models, seven Ungors currently, that sit on my hobby desk. I also remind myself that I have no deadline. This is a hobby not a job(by). I have the rest of my life to paint my toys. I will paint some 40k Guardsmen and then switch to Freeguild, then a unit of Grots, then a big monster or vehicle. I'm currently selecting Beastmen models to paint by rolling randomly on a D6. 1-3: Infantry or 4-6: Other then, then, 1-3: Command model 1: Hero 4-6: Standard model 2-3: Monster 4-5: Other 6:Endless Spell In spite of this system I've managed to paint every Hero in my Beastmen army and almost no Infantry. Oh, the luck of the dice! If I'm really sick of my current armies, I've found that painting a Shadespire warband makes for a nice break. Something totally different that I've never tried before. This is also a really good idea. Terrain is quick to build, easy to paint, and usually quite large. It leaves me with a nice sense of accomplishment for minimal effort. And of course, if I'm really feeling burnt out from the hobby, I'll just take a break. Pack up my paints and models, maybe sell some (NOT ALL!) of them, put the rest in the closet and do something else for a bit. I recently started playing WoW again. I needed a break after finishing up my friend's Tzeentch and Bonesplittaz. I know I'll come back to the hobby when something inspires me but its always fine to take a break. We're all just racing towards the grave anyway, may as well slow down and enjoy the journey! Keeping it upbeat! 😎

Oh, alright... 😛

That's actually what the lion from the Untamed Beasts is for. He's the barn cat for rooting out all those Chaos rats. Seekers are known for their high volume of milk production its true, however there's a certain quality that Fury milk has that can't be replicated by Seekers. I think its the fact that the domesticated fury will try to stab you during the milking process. Seekers will kill you as well (with their tongues), but they actually enjoy it and are having fun. Its the undisguised hatred of the fury and its attempted murder that adds to the subtle flavor and richness of the milk. Now fury cheese...that really is an acquired taste and one that is difficult to appreciate unless you grow up on it. PS: And just so you all don't think I'm a complete weirdo, all these allusions to farming and livestock rearing refer to discussions I've had with a friend who plays Nurgle. All of our battles seem to be metaphors for the pastoral vs agrarian conflict. Nurgle plants trees in his orchards, my goats come and eat the 'fruit', Nurgle guys chase off the goats, and the cycle repeats.

Chaos people are all really beefy and large. As we all learned as children, milk 'does a body good.' So it stands to reason that Chaos folks must drink a lot of milk. And where else would they get Chaos milk? 💪

As a quick update, I now have my Skink Starseer (but not painted yet) so Seraphon, complete! I've also started a Beasts of Chaos army with Slaves to Darkness allies. Beasts of Chaos 1 × Beastlord 2 x Bray Shaman 30 x Gors 20 x Bestigors 20 x Ungor Raiders 3 x Razorgors 2 x Chaos Giant 2 x Tuskgor Chariots Herdstone and Endless Spells Slaves to Darkness 1 x Darkoath Warqueen 1 x Darkoath Cheiftain 1 x Godsworn Hunt 1 x Untamed Beasts 6 x (new) Chaos Furries 12 x Raptoryx My Chaos army are peaceful, seminomadic pastoralists. They travel the plains with their herds of Chaos pigs and Chaos goats and Chaos chickens, milking their Chaos furries and occasionally going all Atilla the Hun on Sigmar people. 😎

I've played quite a few games using the new Open Play rules in the GHB 19 and I've enjoyed all of them immensely. I love how you choose what specific units to bring on while also rolling randomly for the general type of unit. It's a very clever way of making you think creatively about what reinforcements to bring on but with randomly determined limitations. Also the fact that you can pay for substitutions means you never have to worry about rolling unit types you don't own or can't field. So I can roll a Horde unit but if I really need my Linebreakers I can just sub them in...or not! It all depends on how silly or serious I feel like playing today! In all it leads to all kinds of silliness and I love it! My only complaint is that deploying within 3" of the board edge means the reinforcements that arrive late in the game may not do much before the end. All in all these new Open Play rules are a win in my book and I intend to play a lot more games with them! 😀

There's been a steady flow of ME at my local store. In fact we're having a ME tournament this Sunday (Fun n Games, Blacksburg, VA; come on by! 😀). I prefer smaller games as well and have really enjoyed the new Open Play rules and ME from the new General's Handbook. I think you don't see it as much because the online community has decided that it expects Matched Play so that's what they talk about and that's what they tell content creators to make. It like self-reinforcing confirmation bias. But that doesn't mean no one's playing ME. We're just not loud and flashy about it! 😎

Oh my god! I hope this is true because it comes with my favorite piece of Fantasy terrain...the outhouse! I've had many a game where the objective was to get to the outhouse and hold it "til the bitter end"! Essentially a wargame representing a lax day for food prep standards at Burning Man set in a grimdark fantasy world. Also that Watchtower is pretty nice! It would actually be interesting if this is the case. That would be the first piece of army terrain that's garrisonable (I think). Its also very fitting for the theme of the army.

I had to look that up since I'd never heard of it before. The first website I found said, "The Snyder Cut is real. Do you want to know more about it?" That would be a hard no.

You should use your 30 Freeguild Guard Militia conversions as Freeguild Guard models. I also like the archers and it sucks that you couldn't snatch them before they sold out. I'd keep an eye on eBay after this dies down. The kit is very nice and worth having. GW has never promised to provide models that represent the best options in the current meta but Freeguild players have lots of shields laying around in their bitz box, so glue one to his arm. However I will agree with you, that Empire Captain model is ugly. 😞 Their warscrolls are moving to Warhammer Legends. They are not being destroyed and the warscrolls will be available in a pdf on the Community page. The units in Warhammer Legends will not receive points updates and warscroll updates and so will usually not be playable in current Matched Play tournaments (but that is really up to the TO). The warscrolls are perfectly legal in Narrative and Open Play which is enjoyed by many more people that some folks want to admit. 😕 Can someone point to me to a statement by GW saying that once a model is discontinued players may no longer use that model in their games? I can understand if, at official GW events run at actual GW stores, they require people to play with current GW warscrolls, however that does not mean you cannot use your models. For 9 years my FLGS was a GW store in NOVA (Northern Virginia). I don't recall the owner ever saying that we couldn't play with out of production GW models in the store. It is simply unrealistic to think that GW can continue to produce every model they've ever made. Its really bad for business to make, ship, and store 1,000 Skycutter Chariot models in the hopes that someone might buy one of them some day. Needless to say it makes even less sense to keep the molds tucked away in case Mr. Fuentes from Bumpass, VA (its a real place, look it up) just happens to order one 3 years down the line. This was never gonna go down well. There was never going to be a calm, reasonable reaction from the fan base over this. I'm not sure why its impossible for consumers to be calm, reasonable, and reflective about what they want, but it certainly seems like it is. GW absolutely could have communicated this better and kept us informed more regularly however this was gonna ****** off a lot of people regardless. No amount of communication would've made cutting this many models anything but a fustercluck. Honestly, I see this as a "rip the band-aid off" situation for them; its gonna suck so get it over with. Unfortunately, it seems my earlier plea to chill with the negativity and try to have a constructive discussion about something we enjoy has worn off during the last 24 hours. So I suppose I'm outta here until the book drops. Peace out and keep checking your blood pressure!