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Yeah the reason my friend and I haven't played storm of magic yet is because it seems too gimmicky. I mean even our 8th ed. magic phases are bonkers. Anyway, serious question: If you have more than one wizard using the same lore, is it possible for both of them to know the same spell or would you re-roll the spells?
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Turtle Dad 420 posted:Yeah the reason my friend and I haven't played storm of magic yet is because it seems too gimmicky. I mean even our 8th ed. magic phases are bonkers. Only the signature spell can be duplicated. This creates the ability to game the spell allocation system to your advantage. For instance when playing a skaven plague lore list it is customary to roll your priest first, swapping powerful spells for the basic sig spell in order to make them available for your seer.
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You can have duplicates if someone is a Loremaster or knows specific spells as standard though.
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Aug 11, 2011 12:33
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Just finished these guys so I thought I'd post them here. Just started painting the next 20 with bows.
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Deino posted:Played my first Storm of Magic game, today! The fulcrums and the ability to have individual wizards battle each other has a very cinematic feel (though it was kind of silly to have my Engine of the Gods sitting on a whirling typhoon of magical energy). One downside I felt was the effectiveness of many of the units provided by SoM. My ally's Chaos War Mammoth was defeated in a single round of combat thanks to lack of impact hits and only resolving a total of three wounds upon the unit of Nurgle-marked Chosen it'd charged. A Dragon had also charged some of my Warriors, taken down rather efficiently thanks to a Scar-Vet with Great Weapon. It just feels like many of these huge, devastating-looking monsters should be a lot more effective than they seem to end up being. The modification to the magic phase, allowing for 4d6 dice for winds of magic rather than the normal 2d6 was a welcome change though, and the cataclysmic spells were a lot of fun to play with. Spawning a Blood Forest beneath a unit of Chaos Knights was very Think about how epic that Scar-Vet is. Tales will be sung about him for generations.
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Aug 11, 2011 14:12
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when combined with Awakening of the Wood.
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:Think about how epic that Scar-Vet is. Tales will be sung about him for generations. He will return home the same soldier he departed as and fall into his unfeeling slumber with the rest of saurus kind.  Saurus know no glory.
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Aug 11, 2011 17:39
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richyp posted:Just finished these guys so I thought I'd post them here. Just started painting the next 20 with bows. How did you base that movement tray? I've been trying to come up with a good idea for my VC army and that looks really nice.
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TarDolphinorShark posted:How did you base that movement tray? I've been trying to come up with a good idea for my VC army and that looks really nice. Pretty straight forward, I have some sand and a handfull small slate chunks mixed together in a pot. Slather the edge of the base and the goblin bases in watered down PVA, then tip the sand mix over the lot and press in a few pieces of larger slate on some of the bases and on the front of the tray. Leave it about 20 minutes then spray prime everything to fix it in place. Painting wise it's just a lot of liberal drybrushing from Leather Brown to Sand Yellow, applying a heavier drybrush on the larger chunks of slate.
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Thanks for that. Looks like I need some slate to break up.
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Here are some photos of my Dark Elf army. It's about where I like an army to be. It has at least one of everything (except Cold One Chariots and Manticore), which lets me try out many different kind of lists.      Will start painting my new Bretonnians next. I'm putting them off because the idea of painting each knight in a different scheme seems annoying. It's hard to paint factory style when everyone has a different set of colors.
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Uberskooper posted:Here are some photos of my Dark Elf army. It's about where I like an army to be. It has at least one of everything (except Cold One Chariots and Manticore), which lets me try out many different kind of lists. Protip for bretonnians: For each unit do all the knights in a combo of 4 or 5 colors that don't clash (black, brown, yellow, red, white and whatever metallics for instance) and just alternate what parts are which colors on each model, introducing a new color here and there on a few select models to help them stand out. The unit will be cohesive without looking like clown barf and taking 7 years to paint. I went into my brets thinking I was going to get really creative, but I'm not bachtere. Not by a long shot. It takes a lot of planning to ensure that you don't end up with a silly horrorshow of color.
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Wasn't the Tamurkhan book supposed to come out last month? I can only find a picture of the cover on the forge world site. edit: apparently its been delayed, but look what I found: http://sciborminiatures.com/en_,monstrous_news.php?id=919#i/2010/big/moskal_general_green06.jpg Not a viking fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Aug 12, 2011 |
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Yesterday I played an awesome 1000pts battle against Skaven, we both hadn't played fantasy in about 3 months so we were a bit rusty. Lists were: High Elves Lvl2 mage with Silver Wand and Annulian Crystal, Lore of Life 20 Lothern Sea Guard with shields and Full Command 17 Sword Masters with Full Command 10 White Lions with Full Command 1 Great Eagle Skaven 1 Warchief 1 Engineer?, lvl 1 mage 2x50 slaves or something like that, both with Mortar Teams Warp Lightning Cannon 8 Gutter runners We rolled for meeting engagement, I got to deploy first and deployed my entire army in cover and a short to the middle as possible. First mistake, against templates it doesn't matter that I'm in cover. I'm not gonna make a battle report of this since I didn't take any pictures, I will give some highlights. We played the first 3 turns while I was marching my way across the board to him, his cannon and the mortars had 3 full turns of shooting without missing or blowing up, that sucked. My Lions were reserved because of the mission and never left the backfield since that's were the gutter runners came on. They took 1 casualty while the runners danced around them for 4 turns, he forgot about the 2+ save vs. shooting. The eagle got zapped by a spell right before he managed to do anything usefull. The real heroes were my mage and the sword masters, the mage got the Throne of Vines of that my opponent never dispelled. That gave me a big bonus on all the other spells I had (regrowth and toughness bonus) for the entire game. This fact alone resulted in me ressurecting my sword master several times from the brink of death. They tore both the slave blocks completely apart while the mage supported them. In turn 4 I finally managed to kill the mortar teams and the cannon lost 2 turns of shooting, that's when I started killing the slaves and he conceded at the end of turn 5. I liked how things went down but I reckon he won't let me use regrowth or throne of vines again since he knows their power now. We play again tomorrow and I'm thinking about using Lore of Shadows, although I'm not to sure on that being usefull.
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lockdar posted:2x50 slaves or something like that, both with Mortar Teams Skavenslaves can't take weapon teams.
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I went home last week and dug out an old army I collected years ago, my first Warhammer army; Dogs of War. I've been thinking about them recently after I finished my Ogres and now I think I'll spruce up the painting on them and start fielding them as a counts-as Empire army, with an awesome mercenary theme. My question is, what does an Empire army list look like nowadays? My DoW are made up of Empire, Dwarf and Regiments of Renown models. I have:
More unusual counts-as' maybe : Organgun -> Helblaster Bearmen -> Flagellants Halflings -> archers/huntsmen Johann and Wilhelm -> wizard and captain/general Paycart -> War altar of Sigmar! I love the idea of prayers of greed  The only one I'm stuck on is the slayer pirates... They're so cool but dunno what I could field them as. So anyway, what sort of thing should I be fielding as Empire? Not really looking to make a tournament list, but something rounded. I think I've got enough models to go to at least 1500, but what should I have at lower values? Am I missing anything obvious? I used to have a unit of disgraced Bretonnians as cavalry but I sold them to a friend, are the empire cavalry worth their points? edit; formatting
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ActionZero posted:Skavenslaves can't take weapon teams. Hence "or something like that" you loving idiot.
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pork never goes bad posted:Hence "or something like that" you loving idiot. Yes thanks I do possess basic reading comprehension, I was trying to be helpful by pointing out that as slaves can't take weapon teams it must have been the "or something like that" (I would guess either 2 sets of clanrats or 1 clanrats and 1 stormvermin as it makes the points about right) you loving idiot. ActionZero fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Aug 14, 2011 |
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New Daemons poo poo is on advance orders. New finecast Bloodthirster and Lord of change, as well as a decent battleforce. No finecast/plastic plague bearers though? http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440004a&rootCatGameStyle=wh
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Aug 13, 2011 02:10
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Looks like one of the more useful battalions.
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ForKhorne posted:New Daemons poo poo is on advance orders. New finecast Bloodthirster and Lord of change, as well as a decent battleforce. No finecast/plastic plague bearers though? That herald looks pretty rad
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Boiled Water posted:Looks like one of the more useful battalions. Battalion vs Battalion there aren't many that measure up to it competitively on paper. Those are all great choices.
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I never understood how people played undivided chaos or demons. I feel it totally destroys the feel of the army if you don't religiously play everything as one mark. That being said, I'm an inch away from buying a box of chaos warriors just so I can spend hours converting Nurgle chosen, considering I just bought the last thing I need for my O&G.
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I can't say I enjoy any of the newer Demon releases in the past few years. Just something about their aesthetic that really doesn't appeal to me at all. I don't really like anything in the characters section except for Lord of Change and perhaps the Masque. Pretty much all the plastics are not for me. Some of them are... acceptable, but that's not what I'm looking for in an army.
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Aug 13, 2011 05:01
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The new plastic bloodletters are the best bloodleters.
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Business Gorillas posted:I never understood how people played undivided chaos or demons. I feel it totally destroys the feel of the army if you don't religiously play everything as one mark. The fluff no longer cares about strife among the gods when it comes to incursions in the mortal realm. No incursion could happen unless there was a significant truce.
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moths posted:The new plastic bloodletters are the best bloodleters. This is true, but they are still less than great. Posing, variety and general detail are all passable but lacking.
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moths posted:The new plastic bloodletters are the best bloodleters. I respectfully disagree with your statement, sir!  
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Business Gorillas posted:I never understood how people played undivided chaos or demons. I feel it totally destroys the feel of the army if you don't religiously play everything as one mark. I like the thinking but, but imagine an all khorne WoC army. Then imaging the magic phase.
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Another guy for my little goblin army.
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I'm a selling my empire army, so if you want a cheap empire army then lookee here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3431000
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Boiled Water posted:I like the thinking but, but imagine an all khorne WoC army. Then imaging the magic phase. Back when I played in high school my friend played an all-Khorne army and it absolutely crushed magic phases. I'm assuming they got rid of the free dispel dice you get for each unit with the Mark of Khorne you have? EDIT: I have a bunch of tidbits lying around from my old Skaven and Vampire Counts armies (some are converted and painted, others are entirely beaten up) if anyone's interested.
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Business Gorillas posted:Back when I played in high school my friend played an all-Khorne army and it absolutely crushed magic phases. I'm assuming they got rid of the free dispel dice you get for each unit with the Mark of Khorne you have? Why yes they did. I don't think you can get the much needed dispel dices for an all khorne army without sorcerers.
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spacegoat posted:Oh man, I am starting the countdown til the giant ant that makes up this guy's codpiece becomes a whole giant insect army and they pull me back in.
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Aug 13, 2011 21:55
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Just take all my loving money. Take it all.
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Holy poo poo. My games budget just went through the roof. Those first three are amazing
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spacegoat posted:Wow.
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That is a really really good paint job.
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I believe this may be the first time I've literally dropped my jaw at an 'Eavy Metal paintjob. A lot of their work is good (especially when compared to my own, lovely painting). But on that fire-breather and the warlord-ish dude? drat.
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