Safety Factor posted:Oh my god You may be shocked to discover that the description of Detlef Sierck in Drachenfels pays an awful close resemblance to Kim Newman.
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Post 9-11 User posted:Oh, look, Chaos Knights now ride on well 40k sells more than fantasy so the obvious answer was to make fantasy more like 40k faaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrt
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Apr 13, 2016 19:29
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Syrnn posted:I just learned about Drachenfels sort-of-kind-of return in End Times, only to go on to learn that Drachenfels author Kim Newman perma-waifu'd Genevieve the vampire. Either that or his fangsona is a sixteen year old girl from Brittany. I'm not sure what you're saying here - (I don't get he whole waifu thing) but Genevieve was always 16 years old.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:38
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berzerkmonkey posted:I'm not sure what you're saying here - (I don't get he whole waifu thing) but Genevieve was always 16 years old. the guy has a 16 year old vampire character he writes throughout a bunch of books and into marrying someone that looks exactly like him
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Apr 13, 2016 19:40
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The books were really good for gaming lit, though.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:47
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richyp posted:That was the first thing my eyes were drawn to, I'm glad you said what I was because I had no idea what it was supposed to be. Also the it's hard to tell whether the Orcs are marching with or against the Chaos guys as they're all angled as if they're approaching the viewer diagonally rather than directly at each other That head is having such an amazing time. Look at it.  Just huge, grin. Everyone is serious and dour, but this one, it's just enjoying life to its fullest.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:52
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Syrnn posted:
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Apr 13, 2016 19:53
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Come on even the guy that installed that printer for the girl while she had sex with her boyfriend "knew" a woman.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:54
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Pawl posted:None of this is accurate. Sigmarines have individual identities and personalities (though they are as one-dimensional as almost everyone else in the setting) No they don't. AoS is a miniatures game first, and so the miniatures are the primary source when attempting to analyze the "character" of the world. You can't just write some flimsy fluff justification and call it a day; the models must necessarily be a reflection of the characters they represent. The Stormcast models very clearly depict a legion of nearly-identical, emotionless warriors where even their independent characters are faceless, so that's what they must be. Again, even a Space Marine tactical squad has more individual variety, and they have the added bonuses of 1) coming with unhelmeted heads to provide a bit of individuality, and 2) even when they're wearing helmets, the helmets suggest some emotion (an angry, scowling face). A Stormcast helmet looks like  .Heck, Space Marine armor itself has a lot of variety that is fairly easy to show off because the lines of the armor are much cleaner compared to Sigmarines. Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Apr 13, 2016 19:57
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Business Gorillas posted:the guy has a 16 year old vampire character he writes throughout a bunch of books and into marrying someone that looks exactly like him Just to make this clear, he writes the character throughout a bunch of different series he writes that occur at different times and settings but always have the same name and basic backstory/personality. Not just that he wrote a bunch of books featuring the same character. It's pretty much like if you play RPGs and you have that one friend that always wants to play the same character in any system, and he'll refuse to try anything that won't let him play his dual-wielding drizzt clone or whatever. Only this is with a character he clearly has a boner for.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:02
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Look man he's just trying to emulate Dante and his creepy beatification of a young girl he sorta saw in passing in a crowd once.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:04
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Avenging Dentist posted:Again, even a Space Marine tactical squad has more individual variety, and they have the added bonuses of 1) coming with unhelmeted heads to provide a bit of individuality, and 2) even when they're wearing helmets, the helmets suggest some emotion (an angry, scowling face). A Stormcast helmet looks like There's some variety, the guy on the bottom right has scrolls on his axe 
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Apr 13, 2016 20:06
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Mango Polo posted:That head is having such an amazing time. Look at it. It's a Nurgle head, of course it's having a great time.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:08
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richyp posted:There's some variety, the guy on the bottom right has scrolls on his axe Those actually look better like this at a glance But for real, if the Sigmarines had unhelmeted varieties to actually show they're humans in armor, a lot of issues with them would be resolved. For one, people could actually think of them as the "human" faction and there'd be far less confusion from casual browsers and older hands about what the hell they're supposed to be that are only answered in some secondary fiction outside the game line. They can't ever do it though because they designed themselves into a corner by making the helmets too small.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:13
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He's the one guy who's always having fun no matter what. He knows that GW's death approaches meaning 40K and AoS will enter a permanent state of heat-death. Good for you Nurgle.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:13
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thespaceinvader posted:It's a Nurgle head, of course it's having a great time. Nurgle head my rear end - that's Slimer.  (Actually, it looks like someone copied/pasted a squig head on there and colored it green.) Real stuff: Is this pretty much a death thread now? I was going through my TK stuff and need ideas for a solid 2000 point list for WFB 6th ed. berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Apr 13, 2016 20:17
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His shinguard is more badass too. To contrast this with Brets again look at these guys that are the rank and file of the army:  Each one has distinct different heraldry on their helmets and the painter is heavily encouraged to paint each one very differently (which admittedly was a nightmare). Then you have the Questing Knights where each model tells a story about their adventures.  With the Sigmar guys every one looks exactly the same baring weapons and maybe some more ornate shinguards. The entire faction is really bland and soulless and if it had no connection to Games Workshop no one would be defending it.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:20
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berzerkmonkey posted:Nurgle head my rear end - that's Slimer. The death thread is the anime thread isn't it. I thought this was the new KoW thread, the 40k thread is the new death thread and 30k thread is the current space marine thread soon to be new 40k thread? (For TK you mean for WHFB/9th Age or KoW's Empire of Dust?)
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Apr 13, 2016 20:21
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this is the warhammer mourning thread
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Apr 13, 2016 20:22
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Whenever I see the Questing Knights I really wanna know how that guy got that cabinet.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:23
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His quest was to kill the mighty Credenzar and his evil yet sturdy and functional demon army with very little assembly required.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:27
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richyp posted:The death thread is the anime thread isn't it. I thought this was the new KoW thread, the 40k thread is the new death thread and 30k thread is the current space marine thread soon to be new 40k thread? Oh sorry - I mean a TK list for WFB 6th ed.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:28
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Rulebook Heavily posted:Those actually look better like this at a glance You're just not very good at picking up on subtle human emotions. gently caress it, I'll make a chart for you.  Do you get it now?
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Apr 13, 2016 20:32
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Questing knights were awesome in general and that lute musician is one of the best models in the range. Considering questing knights were armed with great weapons, I like to imagine he beaned folks with that thing and eventually killed a monster through the power of music and blunt trauma.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:38
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Pfft, who wants those old boring goofy Knights when you could have the beautifully detailed, characterful, unique Stormcast Eter-  *FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART*
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Apr 13, 2016 20:41
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Bretonnia in general was pretty much the poster child for how Warhammer Fantasy might be cribbed together from a dozen other sources but sometimes doing that and then adding a little extra in their own direction produces something legit cool.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:44
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berzerkmonkey posted:Real stuff: Is this pretty much a death thread now? I was going through my TK stuff and need ideas for a solid 2000 point list for WFB 6th ed. i remember the tk 6th ed lists looking like - as many casters as possible - archer core and chariots - a burrowing unit or two - block of tomb guard - bone giant - small unit of carrion - casket then again in high school we all played gunlines so 
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Apr 13, 2016 21:00
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Mango Polo posted:You're just not very good at picking up on subtle human emotions. It's missing one for Landerig.
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Apr 13, 2016 21:21
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Mango Polo posted:You're just not very good at picking up on subtle human emotions. That's like a reverse of when I was teaching a class of autistic kids to try and read different facial expressions except every answer was "Happy" instead of every face being meh. Next time I lesson plan one of those lessons I might use the sigmarine faces to see what their answers are.
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Apr 13, 2016 21:42
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It was good to see Kim Newman branch out into acting in horror shows too though: And to think he did end up with a waifu and a baibu!
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Apr 13, 2016 22:05
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I don't know, FX? That looks an awful lot like reality TV.
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Apr 13, 2016 22:48
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Question 1: Whose face is the Stormcast Eternal death-mask supposed to be, Sigmar has a beard. Question 2: Skinty McEdger posted:Well while Sigmar was off hiding and licking his wounds Nagash actually became the most powerful entity in existence and nearly took out chaos all on his own. And then Archon killed him when he was on the verge of his great victory (because of course he would). So now having recovered from being killed Nagash is pissed and wants to kill everything. Meanwhile Sigmar seems to be blissfully unaware that Nagash might not just want to hang about in his realm. So Archaon is capable of killing Nagash, the God of Death. At the end of the day isn't Archaon just a really strong and angry viking with a magic sword, a magic helmet (though I think Grimgor broke the magic jewel in their token gesture of letting Grimgor "get some good hits in and make Archaon have to use one of his panic button moves" before killing him off) and a magic three headed chimera horse? Like yeah he's favored by the gods but doesn't he actively reject ascending into a demon prince for Reasons? How is he even still alive? Oh and he can apparently control what mutations he/his horse gets because he rejected the horned rat in a very rude manner, and it just didn't manifest an extension of itself onto his horse, instead of getting angry and giving him some lovely rat-based mutations with negative affects. If he hates the Horned Rat so much he should wear a pink armband in memory of the old, good god. Liquid Dinosaur fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Rulebook Heavily posted:But for real, if the Sigmarines had unhelmeted varieties to actually show they're humans in armor, a lot of issues with them would be resolved. The Bretonnian models prove you don't even really need bare heads (although it can help). Here's the minimal set of things GW could have done to make Sigmarines decent:
This gives you interesting figures with a lot of character and actually helps to reinforce how death as a Sigmarine causes you to lose a part of yourself. Also make other unit types like those griffon puppies. Why they still haven't done a boxed set of those is beyond me. In the hands of a competent team who worked together properly, you could make a good game out of most of the core ideas in AoS. But instead, GW made it. Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Apr 13, 2016 23:10
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Does Archaon have a personality? Motivation? I just looked up info on him and I guess reading a book made him so angry he felt like ending the world.
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MrSlam posted:Does Archaon have a personality? Motivation? I just looked up info on him and I guess reading a book made him so angry he felt like ending the world. No, he's basically a complete non-entity. GW mistaken people being bored with him being bland with thinking he's not 'awesome' enough, so they feed him some more actually interesting characters to try to make people actually like the guy and have everyone talk about him more, which just makes it worse. He's basically maximum Poochy.
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MrSlam posted:Does Archaon have a personality? Motivation? I just looked up info on him and I guess reading a book made him so angry he felt like ending the world. He plans on destroying the universe, taking the current pantheon of Chaos gods down with it, and remaking it in his own image. Not sure why.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:So Archaon is capable of killing Nagash, the God of Death. At the end of the day isn't Archaon just a really strong and angry viking with a magic sword, a magic helmet (though I think Grimgor broke the magic jewel in their token gesture of letting Grimgor "get some good hits in and make Archaon have to use one of his panic button moves" before killing him off) and a magic three headed chimera horse? Archaeon is now so powerful that even the chaos gods are afraid of him, and pay him tribute. No really. They keep sending their mightest warriors and demons to kill him, but he keeps defeating them. Despite this they still work with him, but are afraid that he might one day turn on them. For his part he has decided it is his destiny to kill the chaos gods, and prays for the power to end chaos. In answer to his prayers he has reoccurring visions of him killing Sigmar. Half of the knowing Slaanesh followers (ie not the slayer dwarfs) think he's is Slaanesh reborn, and worship him as their new god. The other half worship a random Keeper of Secrets. Oh and this guy who is so powerful that he can murder the god of death and who the chaos gods terrified has a statline.
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Apr 13, 2016 23:30
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Skinty McEdger posted:Archaeon is now so powerful that even the chaos gods are afraid of him, and pay him tribute. No really. They've really pulled out the stops on 'But we keep making him more powerful! Why doesn't anyone like him yet!?' haven't they.
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Apr 13, 2016 23:33
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One day Archaeon will take off his helmet, and beneath will be Roman Reigns.
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Night10194 posted:They've really pulled out the stops on 'But we keep making him more powerful! Why doesn't anyone like him yet!?' haven't they. There's no breaks on the Archaon train, but the saddest part is that they're only building him up so much in order to have a hero rise and slay him later in a big moment (only to revive Archaon later, surely) I just hope the hero is an Orc
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