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This are great! Make them look a bit more evil/gritty than the standard ones! Incredible!! Are you doing the other wing the same?

Thanks dude, very kind!

Haven't had any time to progress on enlightened unfortunately! Hopefully this week I can get a few hours in though. Been great to see others' progress on this thread though!

It's a web app that i have pinned to the home screen on my ipad and functions so well you couldn't tell it's a webapp.

Your paintjob really makes me wanna start a beasts army.

I've played Blade's Edge twice now, and it's really fun. Going second is a really powerful thing in this scenario as you dictate the whole direction of the game. Choosing to go first on a round take a lot of thought. First time I didn't really realise this and decided to go first to try and get someone off an objective which wasn't too effective. Second game i decided to go second every turn (lucky priority roles!) and found it to be a really powerful position to be in. Take up a defensive posture on your home objectives and just remove opponent's objectives 1 by 1. Bog them down on one objective with 40 ghouls in one turn, then pick that objective to be removed- they just wasted 3 units for an objective that's no longer there.

Very very slow progress with this fella. Too much work on at the moment to get all 3 done, might not even be done by the end of august.

Brettonia is pretty old-school fantasy now. I can't really see a place for them in AoS, other than in a reimagined way, as Gaz says. All the new armies are much more exciting than Brettonia ever was, though I did like the narrative and a lot of the models.

It's strange how bad it is really. I subscribe on both iOS and android but don't mind because it's cheap. It's an app with such basic functionality- it's, at most a 1 day a week coding job to maintain the whole thing for 1 person, if that. I really don't understand why it's so buggy and out of date. Pretty much the only reason I have it is because it saves lists and the warscrolls are really easy to access. If you look at something like AoS Reminders- it's pretty much bug-free, works incredibly well on any platform and is pretty much up to date.

I love these poses! Nothing to add really!

Finally selling my first proper AoS force! You can see most of the models here: Not shown are the Great Unclean One and Lord of Plagues, but they are included in this sale - Here's the full list - LeadersEpidemius Tallyman of Nurgle (200) (Primed)Festus the Leechlord (140)(Primed)Great Unclean One (320) (Fully painted single loadout, magnetised other loadouts)- Plague Flail & Massive BileswordGutrot Spume (140)Harbinger of Decay (160) (Primed)Horticulous Slimux (220) (Assembled)Lord of Plagues (140) (Fully Painted)Lord of Blights (140) (Primed)Poxbringer Herald of Nurgle (120) (Part painted as part of a test scheme)Poxbringer Herald of Nurgle (120)(Part painted as part of a test scheme)Slaves to Darkness Daemon Prince (210) (Painted)- AxeSorcerer (120) (Painted)Spoilpox Scrivener Herald of Nurgle (90) (Primed)The Glottkin (380) (Painted- the two brothers Glott are partly painted/ base colour only and not glued to the big dude)Battleline30 x Plaguebearers (300) (Painted)30 x Plaguebearers (300)(Painted)5 x Putrid Blightkings (140)(Painted)5 x Putrid Blightkings (140)(Painted)Units6 x Nurglings (160)6 x Plague Drones (380) (3 Painted, 3 assembled. Some of the painted drones have their swords snapped off- see pics)) 3x Nurgle trees, painted- some of the hanging bells snapped off. Total: 3920 / 2000Extra Command Points: 0Allies: 0 / 400Wounds: 266 Also included are the battletome, warscroll cards and the card cycle of corruption wheel. Total RRP cost for this is £750. I am looking for £500, but open to offers. Cheers

Ok started on the skyfires. My decision to try and use blending everywhere really means every unit will take aaaaages.

As others have said, it's going to be really hard for an AoS app to be worth £4 a month in a world of AoS reminders. I pay subscription for that app and it's invaluable, well made, super stable and fast. GW's record on these kind of things is appalling.

I'm not saying they have a gender policy. I'm saying the imperium is a straight rip-off, hierarchy, titles, beliefs and all, of medieval Christianity at it's most hate-filled and intolerant. Calling for greater diversity doesn't make any sense in that context. The gender segregation referred to sisters and marines, not the whole imperium.

You know- i half agree and half disagree. I really like diversity in armies just for the different aesthetics, totally separate from any social/political agenda. But at the same time, what makes 40k interesting is it is a riff on medieval christianity. GW have toned this down in Space Marines quite a lot, but it's still there in sisters and the inquisition. A super vicious, ignorance-encouraging, hyper-violent, other-hating religiously fervant group of soldiers, with a ludicrous hierarchy of men in silly hats. I mean penitent engines are something straight from the inquisitorial imagination of 16th century catholic spain. Part of this imitation is it's attitudes to "others" (xenos) and it's strict gender segregation. In that sense, a male-only army makes perfect sense in that lore and i don't think it needs to be made diverse, save for racial diversity perhaps. I don't want a racially and sexually diverse Imperial Inquisition. It's like saying WW2 wargames should have a racial and sexually diverse german army (for some reason the shorthand for nationalist socialist democratic party is censored on the forum?) . Like I've said before, AoS is great because it leaves fantasy tropes behind and there's huge space to include diversity without going against the narrative of armies. After all, Khorne cares not from where the blood flows. I'm just not so sure the same can be said of 40k.

I think the strength in AoS is it can leave behind a lot of these fantasy tropes. To see how angry people were that GW dared give elves hammers was disappointing for me. It's fantasy, why do we need to maintain 70 year old tropes? Every single other wargame system maintains the tropes, if you want high elves, chose literally any other company. Thank god GW is daring to do something different. A fantasy world where a huge mix of genders and races fight together in one unit is actually pretty refreshing, entirely seperate from any representation agenda. Give me a unit of katana wielding female dwarves!! Give me a unit of bearded, muscly, hammer wielding elves!

This army looks amazing!

I'd be interested to hear what people from a non-white background think. I think it's of very limited use for white guys (myself included) to postulate on what other groups want from the hobby. Do they even care? I know I've read a couple of accounts of daughters of hobbyists seeing the female stormcast on a box cover and exclaiming "they have models that look like me!" which is a great sign of how the hobby is progressing. As a hobby, i don't think it needs to be held to the standards of diversity we expect of public bodies and companies. Whilst it's important our own government represents the people they govern, a hobby based around fantasy characters is of little consequence. I think the representation of a broader range of peoples in the hobby would be great because it just makes the ranges a lot more interesting (new SCE are a great example), but ultimately it's the behaviour of hobbyists towards other groups which matters far more than the models they make. I know some hobbyists who aren't of the majority group in the hobby are entirely unconcerned with representation in the miniatures themselves as long as they don't feel ostracised from the hobby because of who they are. The worst form of corporate PR is when they pander to a zeitgeist because it will make them look good, rather than investing in a longer term, and more difficult goal, of promoting inclusiveness and a community that welcomes everyone. That comes across as cheap marketing to sell more stuff rather than a genuine interest in improving inclusivity. In that sense, any diversity in the hobby is up to us, the hobbyists and store owners.

I got 20 on sprues and 10 painted. BKs are great. Shame that even at 110/300 PBs are ******. They need a new warscroll desperately.

I got one of these - https://www.hobbyzone.pl/en/tables-for-painting/14-paint-station.html. Perfect for a single project- all the paints you need all fit in.

Let me know! I find even 60 is hard to manage on the board.

Absolutely this. They need to do for SCE what they did for space marines. One moment SM were terrible- weapons that were uninteresting and a troop unit that was unremarkable compared to any other troop unit. Now they're much closer to how they're portrayed in the narrative. Their weapons can be AP/Rend -2 on a standard unit! When you read about stormcast, the armous is made FROM SIGMARITE ORE HARVESTED FROM THE HEART OF THE OLD WORLD THAT FLOATS ABOVE AZYR, CRAFTED BY THE DUARDIN DEMIGODS THE SIX SMITHS. THEIR WEAPONS ARE INFUSED WITH THE ENERGIES OF ONE OF THE SENTIENT STORMS OF AZYR. Hmm, what should their stat line be? 4+ save, 2 attacks 4+/3+/rend 0/1 damage, bravery 6. These guys should be incredibly powerful. 3+ save minimum. 2 attacks, 3+/3+/rend -1/1dmg minimum, bravery 8 minimum.

Yeah i meant PBs. But honestly point drops won't fix it. The battletome was great when it was launched but needs a refresh rules wise. Lowering points still makes Nurgle difficult to play with and hard to match up with newer battletomes. I also think GW look at points for units they get feedback for. People have BKs, so they're lowering BKs because people are asking. No-one's playing with plaguebearers because they're hilariously outdated now. I mean compare them to Tzeentch's basic daemons- pink horrors- they're way way way more resilient, despite tzeentch being the fragile chaos faction and nurgle being the most resilient chaos faction. Keep Plaguebearers at 120/320, but revamp the warscroll. Make the save 4+/4++ to match phoenix guard and keep the non-existent damage output. Make the minus to hit available for smaller unit sizes. Then they might start to be useful.

Good news, but please please make PBs like 30% less at least.

Yeah it's not good- i play as generic LA on Dracoline, but she's not great in-game. But it looks great! Especially next to evocators on dracolines.