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    GW's Black Library Sales are slumping slightly. (A discussion)

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    On 1/17/2020 at 2:34 AM, TMS said:

    Like others I've got trouble getting into the ungroundedness of the mortal realms in the AoS novels. Contrast with WFB stories (Ulrika and Von Carstein trilogy for me, specifically) where I know the world they describe and I can follow along on a map as they travel between locations, with more bonus points for letting me imagine what my own TT characters are up to in the vicinity at the time of the novels' happenings.

    I hope that the realms will eventually create the same kind of familiarity for me as the old world has, although I'm biased with a long history of WFB behind me. The disparity has taught me that the fluff is more important to me than I thought it was.

    You'd like josh reynolds stuff, theres alot of deliberate interconnection

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    Lore Discussion: Gunpowder weapons

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    On 1/11/2020 at 9:32 PM, Baron Klatz said:

    To further some oddity, factor in outlaws like Ned Kelly were able to create bulletproof armor in 1880 against the modern firearms of the time using only pig iron they forged and were only defeated because they got surprised and left their ankles unarmored which the police were finally able to exploit.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly

    With all the magic armors, duardin level craft and realm enhanced minerals like from Chamon (or even Ghur bones) available it's definitely a factor that muskets can't punch through most armors and shields there as they usually could with real-world plate.

     

    The sheer difference in power that modern smokeless powder has over black powder is ridiculous. That and the lack of fouling allowed weapons to advance way more in the years between the 1890's and 1918 than in the previous few hundred years

    3rd Party Retailers of AOS

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    15 minutes ago, Saxon said:

     

    I didnt realise they were so old but i have been hearing noise down here from other local retailers as well as comments in local facebook groups but couldnt find anything else substantial. I unfortunately dont live anywhere near a Warhammer store. 

    I'd love to know why our comparable costs are so prohibitively high compared to other regions. Its extortionate. 

    Same reason our prices for electronics were so high for ages

    Because the companies can

    Lore Discussion: Gunpowder weapons

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    16 hours ago, Overread said:

    Actually the mention about ammunition is a good one. Guns in the setting seem to vary, but they seem to be in a wired spot with equal displays of repeating weapons and single shot or limited shot weapons. Skaven, for example, have single shot pistols and rifles, but at the same time you've got gattling guns with a mechanical crank (weapon team) and rats with gattling arms/chest attachments (I mean that might have internal body parts/mechanical cranking going on). Dwarves are much the same again with quite a variety in tech levels of guns. 

    It seems that they are sort of in the 1800s era when you've got repeating weapons that clearly use some form of cartridge shot; but at the same time you've also still got your rifles/muskets where you have to manually load each ball/shot every time. Or where guns are capable of holding several loaded charges before they have to be reloaded (either from cartridge or manual ball and wadding and such). 

     

    I figure we might well see some changes there if/when GW updates things like the free cities. I can well see the human gun users getting far more of an exotic steam-punk treatment visually to bring them up to standard with the lore that GW has created for them which, currently, is poorly presented on the tabletop. Heck tabletopwise the steam-tank is still the top of creative weapons; when in the stories we've got walking steam/aether powered walkers and such 

     

    In 1861 you had most militaries in yhe world using single shot smoothbore muskets while the  henry rifle, the colt revolver and the gatling gun were all available. ****** was weird

    Lore Discussion: Gunpowder weapons

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    So we're gonna get into some real world weirdness here.

    Gun powder weapons took prominence in the west because it was cheaper and faster to arm and train a soldier with a simple powder weapon and no armour than to teach him to use a bow or how to properly fight and move in full plate. And even when gunpowder had primacy in a battlefield, armoured soldiers could counteract it. The 15-1600s are a really interesting time militarily with armoured knights taking on blocks of pikemen and musketeers. Hell the french had curassiers for ages given that the breastplate would give them legitimate protection against musket shot.

    Given the chunkiness of the freeguild weapons, with the exception of mastercrafted duardin or ironweld stuff, i think we're dealing with wheellock and matchlock weapons that are unreliable and  incredibly slow to load, so many of the races and cultures throughout the mortal realms might have decided that they're not worth the effort or that these dang kids with their shootbangs are ruining a good war

    AoS 2 - Slaves to Darkness 2 Discussion

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    On 1/5/2020 at 10:08 PM, Coolwood said:

    Anyone got any ideas for chosen conversions? I was thinking of using deathshroud terminators and then converting them to get rid of the 40k stuff potentially. Any thoughts?

    Stormcast plus multipart chaos knight parts is what I'm going with. Either than or blood warrior and blightking parts.

    Anyone actually likes skirmish?

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    36 minutes ago, Moldek said:

    @Fairbanks good pointers. It does seem like a more fleshed out wound system could make standard dudes a tad more interesting. Also the whole treasures and creatures deal. The warcry system for beasts is quite good (you can try to activate one on a 3+, if you fail your opponent gets to play it). Now that I think about it, adopting the alternating activations could be neat too.

    @flemingmma yeah embracing the brokenness might be pretty fun too! Do you use those cool cards that you posted on the narrative forum?

    Not yet, i finished them after i took a bit of a break from the gaming table and since then i've been playing d&d

    For those who would like to use them however

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JgmUWQdrUAQEneqfq8yhNbQx-YAOUSbj/view?usp=sharing

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    Male and female representation in GW models

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    15 minutes ago, xking said:

    There is nothing wrong with sexuality and I'm pretty sure that there are humans in the Mortal realms that worship Sigmar is a God of sex, virility and male fertility. Typical ancient sex cult stuff.

    What my favorite things stormcast have over Space Marines, is that they still have sexual desires and are capable of having sex. 

    I failed to adequately portray sarcasm here methinks

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