hughwyeth

Dude..... Absolute insanity. Incredible display!

If you tasked a super-intelligent being with creating a balanced game, it would first remove humans.

I think there's an issue in the community where we rely on GW for perfect balance in order to have good games. That's not going to happen. Instead of bemoaning this all the time, find a community or group that don't meta chase constantly. The issue is the people you play with, not the balance. We have a great community of seriously competitive players, none of whom play Slaanesh. If you play with a group of people who's only interest is winning at all costs, you'll have a miserable experience. AoS can provide really great games, but you need a player who buys into the same mindset. If you're having a miserable time, change the group or the people you play with. This is by nature a socially interactive game- the player on the other side of the table will make or break your experience. GW can't control that.

This is discussed a lot. I think the premise is wrong in the first place. For balance, you need to have 2 forces with identical rules played on a symmetrical table. The second you introduce any variation in rules or profiles, balance is out the window. There will always be rock/paper/scissors and there will always be armies that do better in the current meta than others. And with AoS there is such a huge variety of armies and models, i don't think it's even theoretically possible to balance. I think GW are doing a decent job at maintaining a general balance for a good chunk of armies. People have beaten Slaanesh. It is possible to beat. They are powerful right now, but how long will that last? Regarding the designers "putting effort into balancing the game"- i think they do, but GW has always been about models and selling models. AoS had no points when it launched. The serious competitive side is still quite a new thing for GW and AoS.

Hey people! I'm selling this army, some painted in Anvils colours: Knight-Heraldor (100) Black undercoatKnight-Incantor (140) PaintedKnight-Vexillor (120) (Part assembled)- Meteoric StandardLord-Arcanum on Celestial Dracoline (220) Painted Lord-Arcanum on Gryph-Charger (220) Basecoated BlackLord-Castellant (120) PaintedLord-Celestant (100) UnpaintedLord-Exorcist (120) Part assembled, black basecoat3 x Castigators (80) Black basecoat5 x Evocators (220) Painted5 x Evocators (220) Basecoated3 x Evocators on Dracolines (300) (Unassembled in box)10 x Judicators (320) Basecoated- Skybolt Bows10 x Sequitors (260) Painted- Stormsmite Mauls and Soulshields10 x Sequitors (260) Basecoated/Unpainted- Stormsmite Mauls and SoulshieldsCelestar Ballista (110) PaintedCelestar Ballista (110) Part Painted Also comes with the newest battletome and the warscroll cards/tokens. Retail cost is £421. Looking for £250! I'm based in London.

Finished my Terrorgheist and managed to take some proper photos! Also some of my 1st Arch Regent as a bonus.

As a Nurgle and FEC player, welcome! If you can get an Arch-Regent, get one. They gotta release it in a blister soon...i hope.

I don't believe so- it was FAQd in AoS 1 so that Plaguetouched (Everchosen) could not count.

Event Title: War in the Mortal Realms VIII, a one day tournament in central London Event Author: hughwyeth Calendar: Events UK Event Date: 09/28/2019 09:00 AM to 09/28/2019 06:00 PM In brief The event will take place over 1 day, on Saturday 28th September 2019. Bad Moon Café will open from 08.00 till 23.00 on the day and the tournament will take place from 09.00 till 19.00. There will be 3 games played over the day. Armies should be created using the Generals Handbook 2019 Matched Play rules consisting of up to 2000pts. Players should bring 3 printed copies of their list- 1 for themselves, one for the opponent and one for the event staff. Triumph bonuses will be used as per the GH19 Rules. Endless spells will be allowed as per Malign Sorcery Rules. Realm Artefacts will be allowed and Realm Spells will be allowed. Realm of Battle Realmsphere Magic, Realmscape Features and Realm Commands will not be used. Forge World models are allowed. Objectives used do not have height or size for rules purposes. Proxies, conversions and 3rd party models will be allowed but must clearly represent the warscroll. Firestorm allegiance and abilities will be used. Forbidden Power allegiances will be used. The Tournament will be run using Tabletop.To software using Swiss Tournament Rules with strength of schedule. We will be following the UK Community Scoring points system rulesets. There are no painting rules, points or limitations, however there will be an award for best painted army, with the result submitted to the Pro Painted rankings. Rules pack attached. Please note all tickets have already sold- comment if you'd like to be on the waitlist! BMC_AoS_Monthly_RulesPack_September2019.pdf War in the Mortal Realms VIII, a one day tournament in central London

They're definitely 32mm bases. Regular Skeletons on 25mm are nearly touching the side of the bases when they're in a wide pose. These are skeletons on steroids and they sit comfortably inside the base.

Amazing! This makes it hard for me to moan about Nurgle not being top tier 😝

The mortarch is definite top 5 GW models ever for me. It's going to be hard to not make these dudes my next army.

So I might be getting back into playing Nurgle properly now, mostly inspired by @sal4m4nd3r's posts! I used to play Daemon or Mix, but I like the mortal builds here. What are people's opinions on 30 bestigors with blades (along with 3 units of BKs)? 60 attacks with blades giving mortal wounds on a 5 seems insanely good?

Amazing stuff @Nico and SLL crew!

We've already started our warcry league and Ironjawz and Iron Golem are head and shoulders above in the first dozen or so games. I bet that's not the case by the end.

Amazing! Well done! Wonder how it would do in the UK meta...

I'd say it's a littttttle early to start the usual "X is OP" discussion. Give it a month before it settles down. There's counters to everything. Ranged attacks need line of sight and that should be easy enough to deny in Warcry if you're playing with the usual amount of terrain (and don't draw one of those sparse battlefield setup cards...)

This is amazing! Can't wait for FEC - about 80% done on my army - should be great for the first dozen games with them! Particularly useful for my Nurgle considering all the hero phase shenanigans.

Hmmm, i guess RAW it's not, but (with the caveat i don't have the book in front of me) i would say RAI it's not that clear?? Don't mind either way but it is a sort of vital spell for us to not get a bonus to cast!

Our one days use this: Triumph bonuses will be used as per the Triumph table (p56) in General’s Handbook 2019. Endless spells will be allowed as per Malign Sorcery Rules. Realm Artefacts will be allowed and Realm Spells will be allowed. Forge World models are allowed. Objectives used do not have height or size for rules purposes. Proxies, conversions and 3rd party models will be allowed but must clearly represent the warscroll. Firestorm allegiance and abilities will be used. Forbidden Power allegiances will be used. For Realmscape features, I ran a series of 3 one day tournaments that used them, but pre-determined for each of the three games. Ultimately, if you know in advanced, you can't complain, and I only selected the most neutral ones. In our one-dayers, we don't have painting rules- there's one a month and they're there as a relaxed tournament for people to have fun and/or test out new builds. Terrain rules used at player's discretion (agreed before battle, rolled for). I would say our AoS community is fantastic- although they're very competitive (or some are) they're not WAAC types. I've never had an issue with a player and disagreements so far. Only on our 2 day GT did we have an issue with not finishing games- I usually say "theory out to 5 turns" but with certain builds that doesn't work. If I do another 2 day GT, I will use a rule along the lines of "If a player does not finish 2 or more games, they will get a 50pt penalty" or something similar.

Wut. I've always added +1 to that spell........dayum

Ben Johnson was asked in the Warcry Whatsapp chat and he said he would try and sort it out. There's currently a Necromunda and Kill Team one i think so it should be up there soon.

Thanks! Cork bark, milliput and a piece from the Garden of Morr/Sigmarite Mausoleum inside holding it all up and providing the door gates.