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  1. 3 minutes ago, TheMuphinMan said:

    So far this year *(not counting shadespire because I don't remember which warbands came out when)

    Chaos: 11 new things; 2 new sculpts for existing units (GUO, beast of nurgle),  6 new units (Lord of blight/affliction, pusgoyle blightlords,  spoilpox, sloppity,  Darkoath Warqueen),  1 new scenery /spell model (gnarlmaw), 1 new battletome (2 new allegiances, nurgle and chaos dwarves)

    Destruction: 1 single moonclan model

    Death: 24 new things; 1 named character variant for existing sculpt, 1 new sculpt for existing unit (black coach), 14 new units, 3 spell/scenery models 2 battle tomes (5 new allegiances).

    Order: 30 new things; 3 new variant warscrolls for old existing sculpts (slaughter queen on cauldron/foot, avatar of khaine), 20 new units (6 DoK, 14 ID, 10 SCE), 4 scenery/spell models (SCE endless and ID boat) and 3 Battletomes (3 new allegiances)

    Considering the limited scope of death (all of them serve Nagash except some FEC who fled from Nagash) compared to order (each faction serves it's own god with little overlap and the entire GA is just allies of convenience), Chaos (6 different gods that all hate each, then Archaon and people/goats that worship chaos in general) and even destruction (Great Maw's Ogres and Gorkamorka's Greenskins) death did really well this year.

    that's for QUANTITY.

    Now for QUALITY: death battletome: da best of da best. Nurgle army and stuff: superb release one of the biggest armys, numerous builds especially when considering side effects (skavens, everchoosen/archaon, slaves...) . 2 nice new armies with tomes one being 100% fresh and new (IK). I didn't like the lore and mini of IK but I recon they are wonderfull and the armys works well . Nighthaunt was also a splendid release by making it also death/LoN compatible (half  of units included in LoN. Superb synergies. Did I say LoN is da best? . A wellcome refresh of SCE. Last: a full refresh of the game with AoS 2, GHB (tweeks and summons that didn't break the game)  and Magic.

    2018 is already the best AoS year.

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  2. I have boxes of soul wars (3) and a tempest of soul. Is it worth getting rid of one of soul wars box to get one sequitor box and one evocators box? (in term of number of miniature, that gets me 31 seq and 11evo but one less balista  (3) and 5 less catigators)

     

  3. Well, it is now clear that GW is fishing.

    Fishing new games and systems around miniatures and how to play them. GW is spreading out dangerously in many  ways, with different systems (around the same miniatures) and different games (around new miniatures and/or scales). That doesn't reassure me on the shedule of new factions for both 40k and AoS. Add to this, that they have some serious production issues and many "refresh this or that" (read: rebox but not re-create) that needed serious redo.

    I hope that they now stop the "lets do more game race" now and focus on their core job (miniatures creation) around their core games (AoS and 40K)

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  4. What we actually can clearly see on the Wrath and Rapture teaser is: slanesh daemonettes, bloodcrushers, bloodletters. 

    Knowing that slanesh has been more or less officially anounced for end 2018/start 2019, that means that we also get an additional and NEW sprue (= a new character or a fresh bigger unit ). I'm not a big fan of khorne daemons and we already have the SC (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Start-Collecting-Daemons-of-Khorne-2018) meaning nothing will be really new on this side...

  5. 19 minutes ago, Skabnoze said:

    I actually like that Age of Sigmar has lots of relatively small allegiances.  I think armies like Deepkin or Daughters of Khaine are just about the right size.  

    As I can aggree for a standalone tiny faction, for me the right size (=the best size) is the LoN size. Some of other tomes are almost there: stormcast, nurgle. With this size of battletome, you have  a big variety in units, in strategies, in lore, in many things. And by just adding on or 2 units to you collection, you can have immediatly new builds.

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  6. I thought that evo (drac or foot ) could only cast empower:

    "This unit is a Wizard while it has 2 or more models. It can attempt to cast one spell in your hero phase, and attempt to unbind one spell in the enemy hero phase. It knows the Empower spell. It cannot attempt to cast any spells other than Empower, but any number of units of Evocators can attempt to cast Empower in the same hero phase."

     

     

  7. I hope that we'll see an "all-in" goblin faction with maybe an emphasis on nigh gobs (oups and oups, grots and moon clans). There are so many nice and fun units fro all of them: giant spider mounted by several archers/lancers, catapults (2 differents ones!) , archers, mounted spiders and wolves,  fanatics (what a nice surprise for your oponent charging !!!), squigs (giants, mounted, wild etc....) , magic, etc...

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  8. 1 hour ago, dmorley21 said:

    I'm pretty sure it was determined way back in this thread that allies can't use their command abilities

    what? I know that you can't use command trait, but command abbilities you can, spending CP, can't you?

  9. Is the battleforce box a nice start? it contains

    1 Tzaangor Shaman
    20 Tzaangors
    3 Tzaangor Enlightened
    3 Tzaangor Skyfires
    20 Kairic Acolytes 

    If I go down this route, what do I need? (objective 2k points to fight my own other armies : sce, death, nh which all are competitive)

  10. 6 hours ago, Skabnoze said:

    One thing that I don't really expect for Moonclan is much of an emphasis on ranged combat.  Night Goblins have never been great bowmen - even for Goblins.  This seems to especially be the case in AoS.  Maybe they will create a ranged unit of squigs like existed in Warhammer Online - like a smaller unit version of the Forgeworld Squig Gobba.  But otherwise I would not expect much for ranged weapons.  I could be wrong, but that has never really been much of a thing for Night Goblins (they live in dark caves after all) and I doubt they would really change that.

    you don't remember the night gob catapult of flying guys :P A nice pice of (deadly) fun;)

  11. Lets grab some facts:

    - few entries

    - old miniatures (some of them look even older compared to actual GW top miniatures)

    - no machine or ranged

    I don't see how this army will diffenciate from other fast and furious melee ones...

    But:

    - chaos aligned: choice of 4 main gods means alllied to other chaos factions. But what can they add different to what we already have?

    In the end of the day: I love that we have new battletome but I hate missing opportunities. They could have done it with the all NON ALIGNED chaos factions at once: beasts+slaves+overchosen, then we have a huge opportunity to refresh our army (but without refresshing the miniatures...)

    my feelings are a bit balanced with a tendency to (a light) negativity.

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  12. It really looks cartoonesque to me. Like the orticulus before the new nurgle reveal. The horticulus was the only one  so cartoonesque. lets hope this one will do so.

    BTW, I have for more than 20 years the old trolls (all of them, in metal) and they look far better in my taste.

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  13. 1 hour ago, raketjan said:

    Anyone consider the bull being a REALM specific endless spell. The realms got special rules and spells and stuff, the bull could be an aqshy specific endless spell, or maybe ghyran...

    of course we already know!!! it is the realm of marketing!

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  14. 2 hours ago, PlasticCraic said:

    only Ironjawz had new models, and that was a relatively small release

    Pleonasm...lol . This probably the Battletome with the fewest entries ever.

    So many things could be done with green skins. My old orcs catapults , orcs archers, night goblins,  flying nigh gob catapult, gob on wolves, orc ballista and so many other things are  waiting for you GW to do something green!

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