GreenMarine posted:Battle report! Tonight I played two matched play games against a friend's minotaur list. Legit not asking this to be a smug dickhead, but how on Earth do you transport those things with gigantic gossamer wings? Or do you just play exclusively at your home?
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Drone posted:Legit not asking this to be a smug dickhead, but how on Earth do you transport those things with gigantic gossamer wings? Or do you just play exclusively at your home? Like this: I drill a 1/8" hole in the bottom of the base (these are solid resin bases) and put in a 1/8" magnet. The case contains racks with metal plates. The models don't move at all when transported. The stormcast are a sort of worst case army to transport because of the 40mm bases, so this case will carry 72 stormcast models. It carries a poo poo ton of 40k models.
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# ? Feb 8, 2017 08:28 |
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# ? Feb 8, 2017 08:29 |
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Also, the tablewar case is great for storing large armies out of the way where my wife won't get so annoyed...
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# ? Feb 8, 2017 08:30 |
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GreenMarine posted:Battle report! Tonight I played two matched play games against a friend's minotaur list. These models look fantastic.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 02:55 |
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I'm looking to paint some undead dudes. Are hex wraiths strictly better than black knights? I like the black knight look but they look especially terrible from their warscrolls
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Booyah- posted:I'm looking to paint some undead dudes. Are hex wraiths strictly better than black knights? I like the black knight look but they look especially terrible from their warscrolls Unless I was fielding the one Deathrattle formation I wouldn't field black knights no.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 04:37 |
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Also to add some picture content to this thread, here are some of my Seraphon And a bonus blood bowl team I did.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 05:14 |
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Nice seraphon. I particularly like the gem backed dino and the little red guy.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 05:20 |
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Is that a RingPop?
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 06:55 |
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Pvt.Scott posted:Is that a RingPop? I don't think it would be the best idea to lick it, but I won't stop you
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 00:40 |
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GreenMarine posted:Battle report! Tonight I played two matched play games against a friend's minotaur list. Your friend's labyrinth bases are neat.
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 01:09 |
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My FLGS is throwing prize support at us to make AoS happen. Might push the Hinterlands ruleset back at them. Regardless I am never going to use half the stuff I bought back for Fantasy. Anyone need some NIB Tomb Kings stuff? I still have some left I'd like to sell: 2 x NIB TK Batallions NIB Metal Screaming Skull Catapult NIB Skeletal Horsemen Assembled Metal Screaming Skull Catapult missing some crew and accessories 2 x Assembled Warspynxes MISSING CREW 3 x Metal Carrion need TLC Open but complete King on Chariot 6 x FC Ushabti w/ Great Bows assembled, primed, needs a little TLC
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 20:58 |
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e. nevermind we already chatted about this a few months ago, LOL. Lemme know if you decide you'd take a super low price on the carrion!
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GreenMarine posted:Battle report! Tonight I played two matched play games against a friend's minotaur list. Thanks for sharing! That was a nice, concise pair of battle reports. That Tablewar case is probably the way to go with those models - I think the winged guys are really neat but I wouldn't trust them in most foam. Black_Nexus posted:And a bonus blood bowl team I did.
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Leperflesh posted:e. nevermind we already chatted about this a few months ago, LOL. Lemme know if you decide you'd take a super low price on the carrion! Yup I'm trying to rid myself of the rest now.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 00:02 |
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SRM posted:Thanks for sharing! That was a nice, concise pair of battle reports. That Tablewar case is probably the way to go with those models - I think the winged guys are really neat but I wouldn't trust them in most foam. The empire kits have some of the coolest little bits
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 02:32 |
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Is the Sylvaneth battalion that lets you cast twice with every caster as bullshit as it looks?
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# ? Feb 12, 2017 23:31 |
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GreenMarine posted:Battle report! Tonight I played two matched play games against a friend's minotaur list. This was highly entertaining and I love the wings on your guys.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 00:38 |
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Well if I have one thing to say about Age of Sigmar. It's setting is way way less interesting then the Old World.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Well if I have one thing to say about Age of Sigmar. It's setting is way way less interesting then the Old World. The setting in AoS really kinda bums me out, to be honest. I love the old fluff behind several races, with the Ogres(A Big Surpise™) being probably my favorite. I landed on them because they're arguably, a totally neutral race most of the time, just caring about gettin' them some food/gold. Like yeah they were still grimdark but it was so loving over-the-top that I couldn't take it even remotely seriously. Between the fact that they worshipped a giant not-sarlacc and also sometimes a volcano, and their love of just doin' a fight and eating LITERALLY EVERYTHING. Then AoS happened and I know nothing of their current fluff standing because I can't really find anything. I still want to try AoS, though I admit I'll probably have to commission somebody else to to paint my poo poo, but the setting shift is just so BLAND. On that note, I have a battalion box and some mournfang cavalry. What would be the ideal way to arrange that for a quick game? I'm guessing 1k points, I have an irongut I've used as a tyrant stand-in before.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 04:09 |
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The Old World was crusty, dark, and brutal. It ruled. I even liked the elves! I never like elves.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 06:08 |
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The Old World gave us Vermintide.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 06:31 |
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I read the first AoS book, and there weren't any people in it. There's no people in the AoS world. Just warriors of Chaos/Sigmar/Elf fighting each other over control of themed areas. It's like the 40k line, "there is only war", but literally, there is nothing but war
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Guy Goodbody posted:I read the first AoS book, and there weren't any people in it. There's no people in the AoS world. Just warriors of Chaos/Sigmar/Elf fighting each other over control of themed areas. It's like the 40k line, "there is only war", but literally, there is nothing but war This is the part where someone chimes in that "you can totally play AoS as if it takes place in the Old World!" which defeats the purpose by still rewarding GW for destroying a setting and offering a massive dump on a plate as its substitute.
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Guy Goodbody posted:I read the first AoS book, and there weren't any people in it. There's no people in the AoS world. Just warriors of Chaos/Sigmar/Elf fighting each other over control of themed areas. It's like the 40k line, "there is only war", but literally, there is nothing but war The world has no grounding in reality whatsoever, and while there have been hints and artwork of the world regular joes still live in, I have an awful hard time relating to the setting. In 40k you have agri-worlds and forgeworlds supplying food and weapons to the Imperium. In The Old World you had all the farmers and forges you'd expect from renaissance/medieval Europe, and the world, fantastical as it is, has a logic to it. In the Mortal Realms, who's baking the bread? What poor schmuck is tending cattle while actual factual gods are throwing lightning bolts everywhere? I hope they do expand the lore to include the average joes because, while they're mentioned and obviously playable, I have no idea what the Empire dudes are doing in the setting. Drone posted:This is the part where someone chimes in that "you can totally play AoS as if it takes place in the Old World!" which defeats the purpose by still rewarding GW for destroying a setting and offering a massive dump on a plate as its substitute. That's me! The thing is you're not giving GW a drat thing by playing their free game. You totally can play AoS and treat it like a historical wargame, it's what my group does and we have a lot of fun with it.
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SRM posted:The world has no grounding in reality whatsoever, and while there have been hints and artwork of the world regular joes still live in, I have an awful hard time relating to the setting. In 40k you have agri-worlds and forgeworlds supplying food and weapons to the Imperium. In The Old World you had all the farmers and forges you'd expect from renaissance/medieval Europe, and the world, fantastical as it is, has a logic to it. In the Mortal Realms, who's baking the bread? What poor schmuck is tending cattle while actual factual gods are throwing lightning bolts everywhere? I hope they do expand the lore to include the average joes because, while they're mentioned and obviously playable, I have no idea what the Empire dudes are doing in the setting. wait, you're playing historicals with aos rules? this is somehow the most baffling admission in this already insane thread
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SRM posted:That's me! The thing is you're not giving GW a drat thing by playing their free game. You totally can play AoS and treat it like a historical wargame, it's what my group does and we have a lot of fun with it. This would be true if one didn't buy any AoS products. On a Games Workshop P&L statement, there is no line that divides 40k sales, AoS sales, and "AoS but they're just using our models to play in a different setting!". AoS miniatures sales, to a Games Workshop financial report, equate to the market saying "AoS, both miniatures and the lovely setting, is what we want!" Honestly I think AoS would have gotten far better treatment had the End Times not happened, or at least had they happened differently. Or if GW just tried to sell it as a setting-free wargame.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 07:52 |
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He means that he plays games set in the "historical" old world with Age of Sigmar rules.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 07:55 |
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MasterSlowPoke posted:He means that he plays games set in the "historical" old world with Age of Sigmar rules. oh drat, there goes a fabulous mental image of someone carefully going through their miniature collection and deciding whether huskarls are best used to proxy the slaughterbound goredrinkers or the murderheart bloodtrepreneurs
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 08:39 |
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Last I checked battles in the Old World were historically fought in block regiments with tactics that focused on flanking maneuvers.
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SRM posted:What poor schmuck is tending cattle while actual factual gods are throwing lightning bolts everywhere? I hope they do expand the lore to include the average joes because, while they're mentioned and obviously playable, I have no idea what the Empire dudes are doing in the setting. Last I read, Empire dudes are literally Sigmar citizens larping; like there are civilians who dress up as Empire dudes and then fight with their equipment and stuff because... they think it's cool? It's supremely lol worthy
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 15:27 |
nah they redid the fluff to put more emphasis on the Freeguild (Empire), now they're the guys doing most of the work while the stormfronts are shock troops who win a battle then piss off leaving the normal humans to defend and build. it's a big step up from the starting point of 'welp i guess there are some humans too LOOK SIGMARINES WITH HAMMERS ON THEIR HAMMERS' even if they still have no identity compared to the old factions and just cosplay in frilly shirts and write KF in giant letters on stuff for no reason.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:He means that he plays games set in the "historical" old world with Age of Sigmar rules. Moola posted:Last I read, Empire dudes are literally Sigmar citizens larping; like there are civilians who dress up as Empire dudes and then fight with their equipment and stuff because... they think it's cool?
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Moola posted:Last I read, Empire dudes are literally Sigmar citizens larping; like there are civilians who dress up as Empire dudes and then fight with their equipment and stuff because... they think it's cool? That seems like it's old 80s GW taking a piss or having a piss (idk how you guys use this term but it's a funny term) and it would be great as background material but they probably implemented it way wrong and missed the point. The idea of a realm that's grown so bored in its safe reality bubble taking up arms to parade around is great.
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SRM posted:Yeah that Just lol if you want to play Brets or Tomb Kings, who were both pretty big in the lore of the Old World.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 17:47 |
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god drat the Old World is so much cooler a setting than warcraft paladins in space... which is I guess just warcraft paladins
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 18:04 |
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SRM posted:God that's goofy as hell It's worse than that. The citizens were dressing up as Empire and Brettonia and fighting each other with sticks because the end of the old world was so traumatic to them that they became completely delusional and refused to embrace the new world.
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# ? Feb 13, 2017 19:56 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It's worse than that. The citizens were dressing up as Empire and Brettonia and fighting each other with sticks because the end of the old world was so traumatic to them that they became completely delusional and refused to embrace the new world. lol. owned, nerds.
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Moola posted:god drat the Old World is so much cooler a setting than warcraft paladins in space... which is I guess just warcraft paladins The only cool Warcraft paladins were the Blood Elves. They had captured some Naru(or what the gently caress ever the floating glyph guys are called) which they siphoned light energy from. The siphoning was torturous for the Naru, naturally. None of this upright, holy bullshit, just stolen power. You could see some npcs draining one of the holy glyph bastards in the BE capital city, pretty much in the open. It was a little vignette that looped over and over. Blizzard took that scene out and I think the BEs stealing their power was retconned or is just not mentioned any longer. I want to know who complained and got that changed. Bunch of sensitive jerks.
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