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OhDearGodNo posted:Skeletons should be a universal death unit honestly. Are they not? Skeleton warriors are a generic death troop choice and skeletons show up in models across all the subfactions, but I think he's referencing the Deathrattle keyword.
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Honestly how the Nagash Battletome is doing Allegiance abilities this way more or less answers the faction squish I was talking just talking about.
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So people that are playing Death already: I literally have every single death model and/or unit in a box or on sprues somewhere in my pile. Assuming points and rules aren't changing in the new book, what should I be building/painting first?
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TKIY posted:So people that are playing Death already: I literally have every single death model and/or unit in a box or on sprues somewhere in my pile. From how the new book is set up you will want Nagash and the Mortarchs.
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TKIY posted:So people that are playing Death already: I literally have every single death model and/or unit in a box or on sprues somewhere in my pile. I doubt units themselves will change very much but that we're probably getting lots of new formations, alliance abilities, and synergies so it's hard to know what will be good/useful?
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Jan 6, 2018 21:55
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mango sentinel posted:I doubt units themselves will change very much but that we're probably getting lots of new formations I doubt this. They seem to be downplaying them as shown by the fact that many of them are not legal in matched play anymore. We may be going the route of Stratagems soon enough.
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MonsterEnvy posted:I doubt this. They seem to be downplaying them as shown by the fact that many of them are not legal in matched play anymore. We may be going the route of Stratagems soon enough. I think they just wanted to ditch the compendium battalions as part of trying to bury compendium stuff in general. Every battalion that has been printed in a Grand Alliance or Battletome book is still valid and the GHB 2017 even added some battalions for a couple factions with older battletomes.
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Danimo posted:I think they just wanted to ditch the compendium battalions as part of trying to bury compendium stuff in general. The start collecting battalions are not legal ether anymore.
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Jan 7, 2018 04:02
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TKIY posted:So people that are playing Death already: I literally have every single death model and/or unit in a box or on sprues somewhere in my pile. Skeletons, maybe a wight king and a necromancer? It's hard to say at this point, but you really can't go wrong with these 3 I'd think.
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TKIY posted:So people that are playing Death already: I literally have every single death model and/or unit in a box or on sprues somewhere in my pile. Mortarchs should be helpful. Also can you send some of this stuff over to me. I am joking, unless you are willing to.
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I played a good game today, my Spiderfang Grot army against a Soulblight army. I forgot to take pictures but here's one my opponent took. We played the Starstrike mission from the GHB17, as I'd gotten a bit tired of the randomness of the Open War cards (still a cool way to play though). I won the game. 720 points of my opponent's army is dedicated to an allied Arkhan and 400 summoning points for Mourngul (so as to keep Soulblight allegiance), and my Spear Chukka allies got hot and killed Arkhan before he could successfully summon the Mourngul. I need to really get going on these spiders and finish them so I can post the army itself.
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Neat! Thanks for sharing. I just picked up the GH2017 today and I'm really impressed with the bones they threw to almost every army. The Allegiance Abilities and such for my Free Peoples are kind of insane, and I look forward to seeing how they do in my first AoS tournament at the end of the month. I'll have to rejigger my list a little bit though, it's only a 1500 point tournament so I'm still in the 200 points for allies bracket, which means either my cannon or Wildform wwwwizard are staying home.
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SRM posted:Neat! Thanks for sharing. I just picked up the GH2017 today and I'm really impressed with the bones they threw to almost every army. The Allegiance Abilities and such for my Free Peoples are kind of insane, and I look forward to seeing how they do in my first AoS tournament at the end of the month. I'll have to rejigger my list a little bit though, it's only a 1500 point tournament so I'm still in the 200 points for allies bracket, which means either my cannon or Wildform wwwwizard are staying home. I hope they eventually give you the ability to get cool ablites for taking your Free People with other old Empire units. Someone pointed out to me a potential reason for the faction divide. Namely that it was done to show off numerous groups and fluff in the new setting, and they did not try to make any of them equal or balanced towards each other because the initial rules had no balance. The GH came to bring Balance to the game. But the issues of how split some factions were still caused issues. If future battletomes are more like Legions of Nagash then this will change the game for the better. I also hope that Malign Portents comes with a shakeup of the core rules. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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MonsterEnvy posted:I hope they eventually give you the ability to get cool ablites for taking your Free People with other old Empire units. I have a feeling my Greatcannon and Reiksguard are going to remain garbo forever, but I've been using the Greatcannon as the Dwarf Cannon from the Ironweld Aresenal list and it's a pretty flat upgrade when you factor in the rerolls it can get from an Engineer. But yeah, a Battletome: Flouncy Shirts and Feathered Hats would be real nice.
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I'm probably gonna pull the trigger on a Death army once the battletome comes out. I doubt I'll ever play with it but I still like to plan the structure of my army. Its the first faction to get a tome that I'm actually interested in at all, the work to throw old grogs a few bones is having an effect I guess. I was initially mad at the death of the Tansylvanian vampire, bats, ghouls theme but its been long enough to accept it. Just wanna buy a Garden of Morr and populate it with some spooky ghosts, a wight king, necromancers and skellies. Zombies and vampires can get lost, I'm over 'em.
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Jan 7, 2018 19:35
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Would chaos warriors painted green with rusted weapons look Nurgle enough? Like, without any conversion.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Would chaos warriors painted green with rusted weapons look Nurgle enough? Like, without any conversion. That was generally the look of Nurgle Warriors before they got their own models.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Would chaos warriors painted green with rusted weapons look Nurgle enough? Like, without any conversion. Totally. If you had extra Blightking bits to mix in that could enhance the look of the unit but it'd be completely fine and look super good.
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SRM posted:Totally. If you had extra Blightking bits to mix in that could enhance the look of the unit but it'd be completely fine and look super good. Would the scale look alright? Aren't Blightkings bigger than warriors?
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After weeks of overthinking I finally started my first army. Picked up the dwarf half of Skull Pass (minus the pony cart) and a gyrocopter for $60 on eBay today, and still have more than half of my self-imposed budget. I'm thinking Ironbreakers and a box of the newer warriors or a second Skull Pass set should round things out and keep me painting for months. Now I want that dang pony cart.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Would the scale look alright? Aren't Blightkings bigger than warriors? I'm figuring the heads and some random bits and bobs could be worked in there. Their heads don't look appreciably bigger than Chaos Warrior heads, so as to emphasize how bulky their bodies are.
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:After weeks of overthinking I finally started my first army. Picked up the dwarf half of Skull Pass (minus the pony cart) and a gyrocopter for $60 on eBay today, and still have more than half of my self-imposed budget. I'm thinking Ironbreakers and a box of the newer warriors or a second Skull Pass set should round things out and keep me painting for months. Ive got a pony cart you can have for shipping, sounds like youre in the US though so shipping might not be worth it from the UK.
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Anyone know how hard it would be to chuck the chaos knights on the horses from the LotR Morgul Knights? I know LoTR are a bit smaller than hams scale, but I’m aiming to go for nurgle knights so an emaciated look is actually good, I’m just wondering how much trouble I’ll have getting the riders to sit on them at all
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Miles O'Brian posted:Ive got a pony cart you can have for shipping, sounds like youre in the US though so shipping might not be worth it from the UK.
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If I were to go through the horror of rebasing my old fantasy army, what are my best options for getting bulk round/oval bases in the US?
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Solemn Sloth posted:I know LoTR are a bit smaller than hams scale, I think the chaos knights will be bigger than the horses. If you flip the LotR figures on eBay, you'll likely get more than enough for plastic chaos knights.
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Solemn Sloth posted:Anyone know how hard it would be to chuck the chaos knights on the horses from the LotR Morgul Knights? If you put WHFB figures on the LOTR horses it will look like they're riding ponies.
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That’s what I thought, thanks. Anyone have suggestions for zombie/emaciated horses to chuck the knights on? Ideally something similar to the Harbinger of Decay’s Mount (not skeleton horses like undead have)
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SpikeMcclane posted:If I were to go through the horror of rebasing my old fantasy army, what are my best options for getting bulk round/oval bases in the US? eBay. Just do a search for "25mm round miniature base" or whatever size you need. They come from China, but you'll get 100 for like $8 shipped. If I remember correctly, it only took like a week and a half to get mine.
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berzerkmonkey posted:eBay. Just do a search for "25mm round miniature base" or whatever size you need. They come from China, but you'll get 100 for like $8 shipped. If I remember correctly, it only took like a week and a half to get mine. Yeah, they're usually the right height too. There's cheap GW ones sometimes too.
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https://malignportents.com/story/story-two/ New sort story that seems to be implying new death unit.
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Also on the Malign Portents site is the "Traveller's Guide to the Mortal Realms," which gives a decent explanation of what the Realms look and act like - and it's much better than MSPaint-ripoffs of Norse 9 Worlds art. In reading the stuff and seeing how GW is explaining things, it almost seems that Malign Portents is an AoS v.1.5, where they come out with the details that should have been in the background of the game all along. MonsterEnvy posted:https://malignportents.com/story/story-two/ quote:The Knights Excelsior bring to battle crackling chains of celestial lightnings. ‘For the Glory of Sigmar!’ is their motto. The battlegrounds in their wake are left scorched and smoking, scoured of all life so that the taint of Chaos is eradicated entirely.
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Jan 9, 2018 19:37
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AnEdgelord posted:Why is a Stormcast merking random farmers? I quote again: quote:The battlegrounds in their wake are left scorched and smoking, scoured of all life so that the taint of Chaos is eradicated entirely berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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berzerkmonkey posted:I quote again: Oh I know that they aren't pure white good guys, this is Warhammer we're talking about, I just thought it seemed like a waste of time for a warrior-hero chosen by a living god to fight monsters, daemons, and worse to go around blowing up random farmers.
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AnEdgelord posted:Oh I know that they aren't pure white good guys, this is Warhammer we're talking about, I just thought it seemed like a waste of time for a warrior-hero chosen by a living god to fight monsters, daemons, and worse to go around blowing up random farmers. Yeah, though I think AoS is going to be moving away from Sigmar being actively involved to him being more of a distant brooding figure, and having the Stormcast Chambers act more like Space Marines in their autonomy and the way they deal with the huddled masses.
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I know most Stormcast are typically more noble and good then the typical space marine. But there are assholes in their numbers.
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Can’t wait for the introduction of chaos storm cast
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Solemn Sloth posted:Can’t wait for the introduction of chaos storm cast AoS hasn't really explored the "corruption" aspect of Chaos nearly as much as 40k or even WHFB did, I don't know if thats an intentional decision or a function of the setting being so you but its always felt weird in its absence. So yeah I wouldn't mind the idea of a few Chaos Stormcast here and there. It should probably be used sparingly though, a few here and there rather than full on CSM style legions.
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