Atlas Hugged posted:

My space dorfs are fabulous.

TheChirurgeon posted:

It's a mixed bag. The first book is a campaign book for the fall of Cadia. It has some good stuff in it--a new list for combined SoB/Black Templar armies, which helps both and makes enough sense, some mediocre stuff--there's finally a detachment for taking both types of AdMech+Knights, but you have to buy three loving books to do it, and some bad stuff--there's a new deck of cards you can play with that has WACKY WARP STORM EFFECTS every turn that no one will ever bother to play with.

Supposedly they're moving away from codexes and more toward just doing a bunch of campaign supplements that update armies along the way. It's not the dumbest idea ever, but it'd be insanely expensive to buy them all, since each release is another $60 book. The rumor is GW isn't going "full sigmar" on 40k, but probably taking some cues for it when 8th edition releases at some point this year.

TTerrible posted:

I can't believe they're going through with it after the reception end times and AOS got

TheChirurgeon posted:

Yeah they definitely aren't scaling back the number of books, but nothing in the new supplement is essential. The rules basically cover 3 new characters and 2 new ways to play existing armies. I have no idea if any of the rules are any good. But then, there's the rub--if they're good enough that you need them, they're forcing you to buy yet another $60 book. If they aren't, then they are wasting everyone's time with lovely rules. This wouldn't be so bad if the core rules and codexes were free or at least much less expensive; then I could get behind repeated purchases of campaign books, which tend to age much better than the codexes/rulebooks.

Guy Goodbody posted:

It is unpainted. GW models don't look very good unpainted and without glue either

Bistromatic posted:

google news suggested an article to me about PETA asking GW to remove fur clothing from their games and i thought it had fallen for some parody site but it turns out:

http://www.peta.org.uk/blog/peta-warhammer-fur-free/

LordAba posted:

Just want Rowboat Girlyman? Too bad! Have him in a special package with 2 other shits! Double the price!

Moola posted:

Southern Heel posted:

Do you not think, that maybe, possibly - a game specifically not designed for tournaments or regulated play like Chess - a game that is centred around lore, artwork, jokes about Thatcher and football hooligans - maybe, just loving maybe - you could tell your opponent to not use the virus grenade/strategy card? Or that if you bought an entire army of Warp Spiders to the table then you could just say 'Congratulations dickhead, you won the pissing contest now I'm going to go play with someone else' ? Do you need every single combination that could be put together to give you an advantage over your opponent explicitly written in the book for you?

I mean poo poo, if you want that kind of thing play Chess, or Go, or Warmachine or whatever - because especially with RT/2nd if you think like that you're going into the whole experience with a mindset that is diametrically opposed to the spirit of this particular game. I'm reading about historical wargaming and frequently they don't have army lists, they don't have points. Frequently there's the expectation that one side is going to lose from the outset. You can be damned sure these people take the game seriously but this slavish devotion to loving over your opponent by taking and making the most broken poo poo you can find from a game where, regardless of your particular proclivities and the recent shoe-horning, the intent and spirit is most definitely along a fun, casual, narrative game between friends.

Southern Heel posted:

Saint Drogo, your point about certain combinations being frankly just better than others is also a good one. I don't think this is a game suited to any kind of pickup-game, because you're right that it IS unbalanced.

Lord_Hambrose posted:

It is really weird to want a moratorium on long, thought out posts. We can all get really passionate about Games Workshop (both for and against, granted) so sometimes we can't help but let our passion for the Hobby free.

TKIY posted:

Come on now, in KoW war you are tracking whole units who have bases touching and homogenous weapon options. In 40K/AoS you are tracking individual models each with their own weapon selections.

Hardly the same thing.

Irate Tree posted:

berzerkmonkey posted:

I got a set of Runewars for free at Adepticon and immediately sold it. The giant chunky movement trays and pile of rulers and stat cards behind every unit look kind of terrible, to be honest. I did not, however, realize that the models were on individual round bases. I thought they were attached to the bases in a KoW fashion.

And yeah, that painting guide would not have been free were it from GW.

Yeah, those are definitely some kickass skellies. I would have thought they would have used regular skeleton sprues for this, rather than new sculpts. Sadly, it will probably be like $50 for a box of like 8.

EDIT: Also, I loving hate calling skeletons "deathrattles." :inchoate rage: