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Charlz Guybon posted:Makes sense if the rumors I heard about the 9th edition are true and they're going to explicitly tie it into the 40k universe. Christ, this is just retarded enough to be a thing that GW thinks is a good idea.
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Mordja posted:And here's their followup, this time they're talking about the units: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/19/total-war-warhammer-units/ GOTY
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Mordja posted:And here's their followup, this time they're talking about the units: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/19/total-war-warhammer-units/
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Mordja posted:And here's their followup, this time they're talking about the units: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/19/total-war-warhammer-units/ I think that CA, like dear departed relic, just get Warhammer on a fundamental level that you just won't find with too many companies. We must treasure that. 
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Kaza42 posted:It's actually a housecat that's jumped up on the table and is knocking over all of your minis. Chaos monstrosity is just how the people see it Excuse me, but that's not very wysiwyg 
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I'm... cautiously optimistic about the Empire's take on interpolitics. The fact that you _are_ Karl Franz, and you are the de jure head of the Empire has the potential to do away with a lot of the stupidity of the previous system where you had to play a balancing act because there was no way to get around the fact that you were both your own party within a faction, supposedly vying for power, and also the omniscient controller of all the resources of your faction. They just need to shamelessly rip off of CK2 in that regard, where it the "you are the king, not the kingdom" stance allows for the type of inter-factional murdering that we all want without having to stop and balance some bullshit invisible scales while the politics AI plays an entirely different game than you.
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Could someone summarize the End Times deal? Did they really blow up the world? What are they replacing it with? Googling gave me a bunch of 40 page manifestos in intricate detail
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^^^^^^ End Times as I understand it: Rocks fall, everyone dies except Chaos, because the writers loving love Chaos. MARY SUE VICTORY. I haven't read the second RPS link posted, but the first one does make me wonder what the Dwarf mechanic will be. Grievances in the book being quests you have to fufill? (seems boring, but I guess gives you a reason to fight). Having to fight the monsters down below while still dealing with the overworld? Depending on the rewards you get, could lead to some unique-ish fights and work out okay. I don't really know how they could pull something suitably Dwarfish off and still make it interesting, since their whole deal on the strategic level is being stick in the mud traditionalists.
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victrix posted:Could someone summarize the End Times deal? Did they really blow up the world? What are they replacing it with? Yeah, it's blown up. Who knows, probably more Warhammer Fantasy worlds where things are slightly different.
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I would love the The CK2 Thing in warhammer but how would it work for orks (or skaven , man the spy system would be overloaded)
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Wonder if you're going to be Grimgor in this then, or just a customizable up and coming Warboss etc.
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Hihohe posted:I would love the The CK2 Thing in warhammer but how would it work for orks (or skaven , man the spy system would be overloaded) Unless they have some amazing new staff that didn't work on Rome 2 / Attila I'll be skeptical as gently caress of the political system until I see it in action. I have a hard time imagining anything other than a slightly streamlined version of what they have for dynasty management right now. Or to put it another way, if they implement something that isn't total dogshit I'll be pretty impressed.
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Rakthar posted:Unless they have some amazing new staff that didn't work on Rome 2 / Attila I'll be skeptical as gently caress of the political system until I see it in action. I have a hard time imagining anything other than a slightly streamlined version of what they have for dynasty management right now. Honestly the whole "lets have a different set of mechanics for every faction" idea puts me a bit on edge just from how awful so many of the R2 campaign mechanics were. I wouldn't be so full of malaise about it if they had at least been honest and acknowledged how bad poo poo was since maybe then I'd think they tried to learn from it, but they kept up a dumb PR spin machine about the whole thing while they were trying to rebuild it, to the degree I was wondering if they were trying to get the game elected to office.
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victrix posted:Could someone summarize the End Times deal? Did they really blow up the world? What are they replacing it with? Chaos goes on one of their trademarked "gently caress the world" campaigns but this time doesn't get beat up and actually fucks the world up for realsies this time. They cast a superspell and the realm of chaos spills entirely into the material world and the world ends. A lot of the more well known characters die throughout the event (told through several books) and some are kind of just left lingering as the world ends and you're not entirely sure what happened to them [edit] that's it, GW has not really bothered to inform us of what's next or if there is a "next" Zzulu fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jun 19, 2015 |
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Zzulu posted:Chaos goes on one of their trademarked "gently caress the world" campaigns but this time doesn't get beat up and actually fucks the world up for realsies this time. They cast a superspell and the realm of chaos spills entirely into the material world and the world ends. A lot of the more well known characters die throughout the event (told through several books) and some are kind of just left lingering as the world ends and you're not entirely sure what happened to them No one is left lingering, the world is flat out destroyed entirely ("Twisted by unnatural energies, it dissolved into nothingness.") as it is consumed by Chaos and then the Chaos Gods gently caress off elsewhere to destroy other realities. The only thing that survives is "the glowing essence of what had once been a man" floating in darkness. Most people assume it is Sigmar's essence/soul/power or whatever. As for what's next, who knows? Something called "Age of Sigmar" is coming out early next month. No one knows what it actually is since GW does not provide any actual information or previews on upcoming releases until literally a week before they come out.
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I know I've asked this before, but I must ask again. How are they still in business with that model? Privateer Press teases out new models and art all the loving time and gets everyone in a frenzy for their next release. How can you drive business without showing off what you have coming?
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Excelsiortothemax posted:I know I've asked this before, but I must ask again. How are they still in business with that model? Privateer Press teases out new models and art all the loving time and gets everyone in a frenzy for their next release. How can you drive business without showing off what you have coming? Something of a mix between Stockholm Syndrome and Battered Spouse Syndrome...
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IP that would be a nerd candy multimedia empire if they sold it rather than toys.
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Kanos posted:Christ, this is just retarded enough to be a thing that GW thinks is a good idea. This is just going back to how it used to be. The Old World was just a planet somewhere in our galaxy, and thus part of 40k.
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Kanos posted:Christ, this is just retarded enough to be a thing that GW thinks is a good idea. This could be complete bullshit, but from what I heard is that basically, one of the ruinous powers gets immediate buyers remorse and recreates the planet in the eye of terror to dick around with. Astartes who were lost within the eye crash on the planet, but they've been lost for so long that they've lost their memories aside from the fact that they were made to protect mankind and become a techno-barabarianesque knightly order of the Empire.
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Charlz Guybon posted:This could be complete bullshit, but from what I heard is that basically, one of the ruinous powers gets immediate buyers remorse and recreates the planet in the eye of terror to dick around with. Astartes who were lost within the eye crash on the planet, but they've been lost for so long that they've lost their memories aside from the fact that they were made to protect mankind and become a techno-barabarianesque knightly order of the Empire. Astartes can't reproduce though, so they aren't going to last long...
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Skandranon posted:Astartes can't reproduce though, so they aren't going to last long... Apothacaries can probably harvest gene seed and clone organs if their battle barge crashes mostly in tact.
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Ojetor posted:No one is left lingering, the world is flat out destroyed entirely ("Twisted by unnatural energies, it dissolved into nothingness.") as it is consumed by Chaos and then the Chaos Gods gently caress off elsewhere to destroy other realities. The only thing that survives is "the glowing essence of what had once been a man" floating in darkness. Most people assume it is Sigmar's essence/soul/power or whatever. Well a bunch of characters kept ascending near the end there and I'm not sure what that meant and you had stuff like Sigmar wrestling with Chaosman into the warp and poo poo as the world was destroyed Excelsiortothemax posted:http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/06/age-of-sigmar-rumor-tidalwave.html [edit] that "leak" is amazingly weird quote:I had the chance to look thoroughly through the proper Age of Sigmar rulebook (the one that consists of three books) yesterday evening. Spent my time with the three books and ignored the novel in favour of the real interesting things. So I cannot fill in the blanks there. But maybe I have the opportunity to look at the rulebook and novel again and hopefully the age of sigmar box, too. But now I have a way clearer picture what’s coming and I’d like to share with you because I am very (!!!) excited, but I cannot provide any photos for obvious reasons. So if you don’t believe me, I don’t blame you. But please don’t attack me personally. If it's true it's basically really an entirely new setting Zzulu fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Jun 20, 2015 |
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I laughed out loud when I went to GW's website and saw the price for 10 little plastic men. What in the ever loving gently caress, who is buying this poo poo. I guess I should thank them, they mean I get to play Total Warhams!
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Assuming that is legit it sounds like they've trashed the entire old setting and are building a new setting within 40k Which makes no sense at all and I can only assume that there's a new person in charge of Fantasy over at GW who wants to 'make his mark' and thinks this was a really good idea.
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Skandranon posted:The new setting sounds like crap. At least CA didn't get roped into making Total Warhammer for that.
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What the hell is the point of Warhammer Fantasy if there's no pike-and-shot armies, I ask of you?
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Making a bad game? Pike and shot is the raddest thing.
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Warhammer Fantasy is defined by mustachioed gents in floppy hats and slashed sleeves beating the poo poo out of Cthulhu, goddamnit. And without orky orks, who is going to punch boring Chaos Lords in the dick and walk off laughing?
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Zzulu posted:The triumvi-rat Literally the only good thing in that leak. Wow, is that awful.
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Games Workshop has 2 problems: a) They're losing revenue. b) They aren't getting new players into thier games. Instead of looking at thier situation and realizing that the reason for both is thier mind shattering pricing structure and that there are other, cheaper games to play, they've decided the issue is with the setting of thier games, and scrapped that. You just have to look at this thread and read how people react to the background of the various factions and how the little stories they've built around certain units or characters draw people in to realize they've taken an axe to thier already sinking boat. Old players will be pissed off at the gutting of the setting while new players will wonder what happened to all the cool poo poo they heard about.
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