Jagged Red Lines

I've run melee KO just once and it is such a rush! One of the most exciting melee armies in the game. They're like alpha strike ironjawz except they hit a lot harder. The biggest problem with the book imo is their easy battle tactics, which are hugely uninteractive.

I SEE WHEELS

'Oblivion for broken souls' most probably means 'permanently out of stock' for fatcast.

Of course, and I've argued in favour of this so many times. But for me, the worst kind of opponent are those that get miserable and salty because my army or list is 'broken'. (I play foot ogors and fyreslayers mostly) The best kind of player is the one that doesn't cry when they lose, or gloat when they win. They're there to do as best as they can, but also to play in a sporting and friendly way. Some of my most fun games have been against the best players in the country. I got curbstomped every time, but they were generally lovely people with passion for the game. I think it's toxic to blame the game or a list or the opponent, when what is really holding you back from winning is improvement in your own skill as a player.

I love a skew list. It's what makes AoS a wild and exciting game. There are bad match ups, but I feel like every faction is mostly balanced. If you keep losing, the fault isn't with "other people being mean." It's because you failed primarily as a player - in which case you need more practice with your army. Look at the winner of Worlds. He took Lumineth, which has a sub-50% win rate and beat all the meta lists and all the top players in the world with a mostly combined arms list. (Edit - he also had something like 500 games over the course of a year with his list iirc, which underlines the importance of practice. See also the 10,000 hour rule from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers)

Hard disagree, I think it's awesome that they've released every battletome and still have more than half a year before the next edition. That's an amazing feat, and something we should be grateful for. There's nothing worse than having a new battletome and for it to be invalidated a month later when the game changes, like what happened in 40k. At least with these dawnbringer books, they can fill in the remaining time until the next edition with model support and optional narrative rules for those who are interested. Crowding the release schedule throughout the edition will lead to delays in battletomes, and that would be an extremely bad thing for those factions that get pushed back.

Edit: noticed a lot of confused reactions from short-beards. I'll leave you here a sample of AoS 1 rules. Ancient Dignity: Dragons are ancient and prideful creatures, and the Elves that ride them are no less haughty, but from such nobility and dignity stems an inner strength. If, during your entire hero phase, you can maintain a dignified (even arrogant) composure and not smile, smirk or laugh regardless of your opponent’s antics, you may re-roll all hit rolls of 1 made for models in a Dragon Host until your next hero phase.

My spider sense is tingling. The gambler in me wants to snap up all the cheap doomfires on ebay in preparation for an absolutely filthy army of renown.

That's a good point, and well made.

I was quite surprised with all the rumours about bonesplitterz going away that there was so little emphasis on savage orcs in the old world book. From what I can gather they are a 0-1 unit in any list. I would have thought there would have been a bit more prominent as old world is a more historic setting and savage orcs look more primative. Perhaps it's GW getting rid of problematic racial connotations in its miniatures. For instance, mongolian goblins, japanese rats, aboriginal orcs etc. Might be why there are rumours that eshin are getting left out of the skaven range refresh.

HWG said the kroot were about half of what is coming for them. I'm not a 40k person, but these could tempt me.

Looks like a seahorse to me...

You're kidding?! 5 loonsmashers for £8.99 sold out in seconds, and on ebay for double the price. Same with mollog, stabbas and stormcast chariot. Krondys for £60. All incredible deals.

Could be just because I'm painting them at the moment, but that looks like a fyreslayers helmet.

I don't think we'll see any previews for DB5 yet. Normally these reveal streams are followed quite closely by the preorder announcement, at least for dawnbringer stuff. I think it'll prob just be stuff for DB4 we haven't seen yet - perhaps another death hero and the boxes. We may see a teaser video for DB5, but I doubt we'll see models yet. On the off-chance we do, I think it'll just be the darkoath cav we saw in the NY silhouette. Would love to be wrong though, and that we get more.

The novel is one of the best AoS stories I've read. Helps that it's from the best author.

I like the narrative progression. Look at Eltharion for instance, such an amazing re-imagining of a tragic old world hero. If it was just a new character, it would in no way be as evocative. Would love to see Queek return as some sort of rat daemon prince.

It's so people can gaslight you in a year's time when they get squatted by saying the current Cities book 'was only ever a placeholder'.

Fuethuan sharks, regenerating double dragon, skaven screaming bell nonsense, etc are all going to be taking the bat, most likely. And these are the lists that people have been building since worlds.

Jan 18. They won't release it before LVO

They used to do these in White Dwarf. I think the very first one was when the second, metal, iteration of the bloodthirster model was released in the mid 90s. Back then it had WS 10, S8, T8, A10, and (IIRC) it beat the socks off an Avatar of Khaine in the final. Was probably my favourite ever article in the mag.

Had a good laugh yesterday when HWG said on stream that the Chaos Dwarf rumour had been confirmed, and he referred to Whitefang as "Deep D.ick"

Honestly, I reckon it's just an extension of slaves to darkness. Adding cannons and warmachines.

Same energy