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I'd say it's an essential read for any Death players out there. Really sets up the key characters and the attitude of Nagash Has him being in the Daemons Codex been confirmed?

Interesting comment I picked up over the weekend off Twitter...

Heard similar the other month. One of the main stumbling blocks is that the electricity sub-station needs upgrading on the trading estate GW are based on and until that's done they are at the limit of available power.

I can see where you're coming from, but GW was very upfront about this year being 40k focused (we did get more AoS last year in comparison to 40k) with it being an anniversary year and a massive rules update. They have also said that we've got a load of stuff coming next year. The Easy Build kits are also intended for new or younger players as a cost-effective way of getting into the hobby - we have Start Collecting and Warband boxes that fill a similar role (but generally with more model options). If you put them to one side there are only three model releases for 40k and the promised 2 Codexes The thing is that we're all largely in the same boat as each other, so we all feel your frustration - but I'm fairly sure it will improve

New rumour picture: Edit: Here's the cryptic Facebook quotes:

Battalions are a real mixed baggage. Some will allow the units to perform better (e.g. making a combat unit more killy), others help to reduce the poor bits of units (e.g. making a slow unit faster) and other just add extra abilities. All of them reduce the number of deployments you make (which means you're more likely to be able to choose who takes first turn) and provide an extra artefact. Since the new handbook, we've seen the number of battalions being fielded reduce due to the points required for them, because they're now competing with models on the table. Generally for Khorne, Gorepilgrims, Brass Stampede and Murderhost are generally considered to provide a good points to performance ratio

Mortal Realms produced a load of 1" round tokens you could stamp out and use. That plus a 1" punch and some 1" clear bottle cap pendant sticky things make some pretty cheap and durable tokens

It plays towards the whole "Garden of Nurgle" concept, where Nurgle isn't about corruption but about rebirth from decay and repeating in a perpetual cycle. We're seeing it a lot more now in AoS, there are quite a few stories about it and even models are following that theme (Horticulous Slimux)

Rose with thorns... Part of me wants to say Nurgle too, but we've equally not seen the Order Malign Portents character. Could of course be something random and a new Gardener faction where they wield shears and dangerous spray guns of bug spray.

Completely agree with this. GW were pretty up front earlier this year in saying they were giving 40k the lions share of the releases due to it being an anniversary year. I've found it a great opportunity to catch up on projects and also look at some of the "side" releases like Firestorm and Shadespire too.

Should be as it clearly represents the warscroll. The line tends to be when you use parts from other miniature companies - so you couldn't use parts from an Avatars of War model for example.

Very interesting to see those bits from the weekend - roughly the quantity that I was expecting (this wasn't a GW event afterall). My own "crystal ball" prediction is we're going to see a new age go live next March and the new logo will tie into that. March is when we're likely getting the AoS Open Day (40k is next weekend, you've then the New Year one in January and HH Weekender in February). I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll see more scenery released alongside the new age. New Darkoath model is lovely, really pushes that classic Conan barbarian style, but keeping with a Chaos Undivided theme. Can see what people are saying about the armour, though my own thoughts is that it really works (having the correct balance of form and function). New Skaven warband was quite a nice reveal, we knew it was coming so got more of a reveal than a hint.

Pretty much all of my experience has been on 40k models, so things like Knights etc which tend to have really simple base, wash, highlight approach. I tend to use a more military modelling approach to my 40k models than AoS, mainly due to the size of the models. Wash wise, I use gloss washes, or regular washes thinned with air caste thinner (makes them satin) and paint them in the recesses rather than all over. Recently I've found that Gunmetal drybrushed with Silver Rub n Buff and then edge highlighted in Silver is pretty effective for large weapons

If you look for cauldrons for doll's houses, they're roughly the right scale, then just need a bit of fine chain and can connect it up to the regular resin butcher

Nice to see somebody else using Metal Color - best acrylic metallic I've come across. I tend to use the gold and silver for nearly all of my edge highlighting now. Gunmetal is pretty decent when you're after a darker steel, I'd say a fraction darker than Leadbelcher, but more reflective. They do pull through the undercoat finish too, so if you want it more matt, use a regular black undercoat and then through satin to gloss. Biggest benefit I've found over Metal Air is that they clean out the airbrush a lot more easily Out of curiosity, what colours are you using to shade the gold?

Thanks! Makes perfect sense on the Hold cards, I've just added the word Objective onto the deckbuilder source Would love to have scans on, but you're right in that I think GW will have an issue with it as they're not public domain currently. I created something similar years ago for the old HHCCG from Sabertooth and scanned every card in, was a really popular tool until Sabertooth started releasing new expansions in quick succession and it wasn't feasible to buy all the cards!

In a burst of madness, I've knocked the list @Killax has written into a little web app for deck building. It's really basic! No saving or pre-defined decks at the moment and it automatically orders the cards rather than listing them on a first come first serve. http://runebrush.pa-sy.com/shadespire/ (edit: it's also missing the name of the fighter for some upgrade cards)

Very good call! Could be a new terrain piece - or the base of something I guess?

I believe you can attack as many times as you wish unless you have charged, which prevents that model from taking any other actions. You can only make a single charge and move action, but a regular move won't prevent you from attacking later on.

Although I feel they got off to a rocky start, if the future warscrolls are the same as Idol of Gork we should be fine.

In the process of creating it. No idea what this will mean, but there will be a team of people dedicated to AoS in the same way as they've got a team for Lord of the Rings and Specialist Games.

Just off the latest Twitch stream. FW appear to have appointed or have almost appointed somebody to head their AoS team Fimir could well be another couple of years away before we see anything Khornate Chaos Dragon should be out next year, they weren't happy with the Korne Lord so have redone him a number of times

Wow, that's pretty major. Being maxed out on power is also a massive blow. It does make sense on the number of items going temporarily out of stock too.

I'd say you can safely wait for a new starter box then The past couple of years they've also done large start collecting style boxes at Christmas time (around £100) so it's possible there might be one you like the look of!