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Galaga Galaxian posted:A while back Mantic was teasing a new "post-apocalypse" game and one of the head guys tweeted a picture of a few minis of old, beat up 50s-60s cars from some other company and said they'd work great for the new game. This got a bunch of us excited it'd be a Mad Max styled game. I remember that. That loving sucked.
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Thundercloud posted:I remember that. Yes but on the flip side it means some other, better company might make it instead
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Say they're from Brettonia, Mi'ame Dauphins. Thank you. I was trying to work "Dauphin" in there somehow, but couldn't figure out how to do it. Didn't even occur to me to think of Bretonnia. Ashcans posted:How is there not a mad max racing/ chase game yet?
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berzerkmonkey posted:Thank you. I was trying to work "Dauphin" in there somehow, but couldn't figure out how to do it. Didn't even occur to me to think of Bretonnia. Games Workshop would prefer you didn't.
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Zaphod42 posted:One thing that's been bugging me, the core rules mention a tournament where the winner gets a wizard for a year, and wizards were a part of old bloodbowl, but the rules for wizards as inducements or whatever are nowhere to be found in the rulebook or the deathzone season 1. Guess we have to wait for season 2 for that Atlas Hugged posted:Games Workshop would prefer you didn't. 
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If it's not knights, sergeants and peasants, it's not a Bret team.
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On Mad Max, what about that Devil's Run game? I know basically nothing about it other than it appears to be vehicles and totally not riffing on Mad Max without the licence. I think it even includes an oil tanker.
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Ugleb posted:On Mad Max, what about that Devil's Run game? I know basically nothing about it other than it appears to be vehicles and totally not riffing on Mad Max without the licence. I think it even includes an oil tanker. Umm. How did I miss this KS? The box doubles as a tunnel tile. That's awesome.
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JcDent posted:If it's not knights, sergeants and peasants, it's not a Bret team. Yeah but really Dauphin is French nobility, which in the Warhammer world is the area in Southern Brittonia, since Brittonia isn't an island in Warhammer. So they're still looked at as Brittonian, but you could probably field a force of French warhammer fantasy as either, since they're not really strictly Brittonian either.
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I thought Brets WHFB were all French all the time, or are they more Arthurian? Is only Moussilon French? Because they stink since they're undead?
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JcDent posted:I thought Brets WHFB were all French all the time, or are they more Arthurian? Is only Moussilon French? Because they stink since they're undead? I'm pretty sure they're Arthurian, and I always figured Brettonia = Briton/Britain/Britannia seemed pretty obvious. They have like, knights of the round table, and their religion is based on 'the lady of the lake' which screams Arthurian. Their leader was apparently "Gilles le Breton" though which does sound overwhelmingly French, so I guess the answer is both.
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Remember that Britain control part of France for awhile, and loved using french as the official language of the court for a long time.
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Total Warhams has the nobles and knights be very, very French, while the peasants have a very working-class British twinge to their accents. King Louen is practically ripped from the Frenchmen scene in Holy Grail.
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That's perfectly in keeping with England after the Norman Conquest. Nobility speaking Norman-French, subjugated Anglo-Saxons speaking English.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:That's perfectly in keeping with England after the Norman Conquest. Nobility speaking Norman-French, subjugated Anglo-Saxons speaking English. Yeah, this is spot-on. In both cases where the 'English' held chunks of France, England was effectively led by a Frenchman at the time, so of course all the nobles under them (the more powerful/high-ranking ones at least) were French as well. First instance of this being William the Conqueror/Bastard (technically Normal) of course, who conquered England and put the Norman lords who supported into power, giving them English holdings. The second such occasion was due to Frenchie Henry II of the Plantagenet family inheriting the English throne. (This also led to the Hundred Years' War, as the French crown didn't want their former vassal -now the king of England- to hold huge chunks of France, and instead wanted to bring those lands back into the fold) So yeah, it makes perfect sense, really. I believe it borrows more from the latter of the two similar scenarios above as that took place during the later medieval period, where mounted knights, etc. (with the kind of weaponry used by Brettonia, from what I've seen) were all the rage. Major Isoor fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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The Brettonians are a mash up of Arthurian Knights with French nobility and pig-French names like Louen Leoncoeur. Plus Robin Hood.
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Does anyone play vassal epic anymore? I helped beta test it many years ago, it was pretty fun. I have a small imperial guard army but basically just to collect, I've never met anyone else that has epic models. I use them as proxies in battletech a lot.
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Zark the Damned posted:The Brettonians are a mash up of Arthurian Knights with French nobility and pig-French names like Louen Leoncoeur. Plus Robin Hood. In cannon they are also regressionists. They used to be (prior to 5th ed WHFB) a much more advanced civilization compared even to the Empire. Their nobles wore wigs, they had giant battleships and lots of cannons. The in-canon retcon reason for how they went from a force of 30 years war era armies to a bunch of Ye Olde Knights was that the previous society was too decadent and corrupt so Leon came along, seized the throne, and made everyone go back to the good old days of worshiping the Lady, hating guns and being chivalrous knights. Depending on your source this was either done because there's something super sinister about the Lady and she was protecting the industrialization of the forest, Leon is a crazy person, everything he did was totally cool and kosher and saved the nation or all of the above in different measures.
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Well we know for a fact that the Lady was in fact up to sinister poo poo so that's one theory proven.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Well we know for a fact that the Lady was in fact up to sinister poo poo so that's one theory proven. Given the number of writers and the subtle changes between editions, I don't really have an issue picking and choosing what you consider to be canon. I stick with 5e for Bretonnians and that Lady wasn't sinister.
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End Times is the last nail in that coffin, and in all of the other coffins. End Times suck is what I'm saying. It would be nice to have peasant arquebusiers and maybe fielding immobile, unreliable cannons.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:In cannon they are also regressionists. They used to be (prior to 5th ed WHFB) a much more advanced civilization compared even to the Empire. Their nobles wore wigs, they had giant battleships and lots of cannons. The in-canon retcon reason for how they went from a force of 30 years war era armies to a bunch of Ye Olde Knights was that the previous society was too decadent and corrupt so Leon came along, seized the throne, and made everyone go back to the good old days of worshiping the Lady, hating guns and being chivalrous knights. Depending on your source this was either done because there's something super sinister about the Lady and she was protecting the industrialization of the forest, Leon is a crazy person, everything he did was totally cool and kosher and saved the nation or all of the above in different measures. Isn't it canon that the Lady is a wood elf? Kinda makes sense that Wood Elves wouldn't be too hot about industrialization. Also - In Warhammer: Total War all the Brettonnians sound like Monty Python frenchmen. It's great.
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Some stuff about Adeptus Titanicus coming out of the Warhammer open day: https://battlebunnies.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/adeptus-titanicus-news.html quote:- Adeptus Titanicus is delayed (it was originally planned to be released around february). Not being rushed out. Might be out before the end of the year.
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I've never played Epic but if they release decent quality plastic titans I'll buy a few of them just for collecting's sake.
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Some more BB stuff confirmed, inc this guy: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1KL80BWIAEWm7W.jpg There's a plastic Ogre plus Varag, Morg, Griff and Zug are back, and a Reikland Reavers box. Apparently season 2 is April, next year sees Dwarfs in January and Goblins in April plus more star players and new pitches.
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Zark the Damned posted:Some more BB stuff confirmed, inc this guy: That Dwarf roller rules.
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Roller rules, love the Dwarf team's aesthetic and I'm super tempted to get some later this month. But then I remember they're Dwarfs and the worst team to play as/against in BB.  Really interesting to see how far ahead they are with releases after that month of silence following the release. Curious if that has to do with Titanicus being pushed back. Super happy that they're doing the team starters and big guys in Plastic.
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Zark the Damned posted:Some more BB stuff confirmed, inc this guy: That's an amazing roller sculpt  Kinda worried if it'll fit on the table though, that thing looms over its base. Next to another big guy... may not be room
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Zaphod42 posted:That's an amazing roller sculpt Agreed. I really like the look, but it looks huge and has to fit onto a board...
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Couple of better shots of the new releases, Roller looks a little bit smaller: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/01/03/warhammer-world-new-years-open-day/
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SteelMentor posted:Couple of better shots of the new releases, Roller looks a little bit smaller: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/01/03/warhammer-world-new-years-open-day/ This is also the first we're seeing of the plastic dwarf team, right? First I've seen em. Looks good, but I don't really play dwarves. Gimme elves  Ah well, I'll get by on humans and skaven for now, close enough. But I dunno, even in those other angles the Deathroller looks loving huge and next to like Morg'n'Thorg or a Black Orc or a Troll or Ogre or whatever, not sure there'd be any room! In love with it as a model though, may get one even though I don't play dwarves just to paint it up.
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Zaphod42 posted:But I dunno, even in those other angles the Deathroller looks loving huge and next to like Morg'n'Thorg or a Black Orc or a Troll or Ogre or whatever, not sure there'd be any room! That's ok, no one ever hires Morg anyway. 
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Look at the size of the bases and at how much mini is spilling over the sides of them.
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We saw the plastic dwarves before. They were incredibly acrobatic.
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That Deathroller is idiotic. They just released a bigger board. I thought the world would be safe from base overhang reaching a point where it turns into square overhang for at least a year. I guess not. Also, I wonder what the price tag on that thing is going to be. Also: Zaphod42 posted:Gimme elves I'm close to jumping back in after not playing for years but I need some High Elves. RN Estudio has a decent-looking team but it doesn't really blow me away. And they can't match the prices of GW's plastic sprues, obviously.
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Zark the Damned posted:Some more BB stuff confirmed, inc this guy: Yay Gobbos! But I would really like to see some current team variant sculpts to help fill things out (I'm looking at you, Skaven.)
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berzerkmonkey posted:Yay Gobbos! Apparently FW is working on that, booster packs for the starter sets in resin with different sculpts.
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