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Leperflesh posted:My initial enthusiasm for getting to put my tomb kings back on the field has been dampened considerably by several months of being unable to actually buy the rules for this game Just use https://www.whfb.app/ . This game is nigh unplayable as a beginner without the benefit of easily searchable and hyperlinked text anyway.
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How do you feel about epubs? They put the game up on their digital store, probably because of the shortages. Last I checked there were 4-5 copies in the various LGS's around me too. I can check if they're still there.
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Geisladisk posted:Just use https://www.whfb.app/ . neat
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Lucinice posted:oh sorry I misrembered. moths posted:Murderous is still weirdly situational. A lot of DE get it who'll never use it, but it's a silver lining on the corner cases where you have to use a hand weapon. I don't have a particular dog in this fight since I don't own or intend to buy any witch elves models. I don't feel that DE are a particularly strong army if you exclude their dragon option, but that's not based on any experience, I still haven't managed to actually play a game of Old World yet. But it's just so low-effort. Lots of other armies get rules which do widely apply, like Orcs get choppa bonuses when charging. Would it have made Witch Elves, Executioners and a few characters too good if they re-rolled 1s to wound with other non-magical weapons? Or even exclude characters, just give it to Witch Elves and Executioners as a bonus.
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Issaries posted:What is the even point then. Character sniping rules are lame as hell anyway, they shouldn't be reliable.
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I've only had one game with them, but DE felt pretty solid overall. They're fast and killy, and feel satisfactorily mean. I suspect Murderous originally applied to everything. That would feel overpowered, and restricting it to single hand weapons was a last minute balance fix. That way it keeps some of the flavor without breaking the faction. But it doesn't make sense without the "before" photo. Pure speculation though. Witch Elves and Corsairs both have access to 2x hand weapons, which might be too good for regular+ troops if they're rerolling all their 1s.
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I have been proxying my Evil Space Elves as Evil Regular Elves. They do end up playing well, even without official support. My main complaint is mostly that it is thematically silly to have to put away one of your weapons to use your Murderkill Extramurder Murderblade special rule.
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      Group shots of the gang so far:    The wizard was a ton of fun to paint. I essentially went with whatever weird whim I had for color choice since it's what Tzeentch would do. Nice mix of techniques too. Wet blending, glazing, even a little stippling on the swirly green orb on the staff. All things I can take forward with this army. I'm currently building more chaos warriors, but my next painting project will be 10 dogs. They should be nice and quick and they'll be see a lot of use as chaff garbage in my lists. Poor little guys.
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I need a vibe check - I want to get into TOW and I have a ton of Beastherd minis that aren't GW. In your own experiences, for local casual game store games, does anyone care as long as everything is based correctly for TOW?
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The only place that will care is a GW store, IME.
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Count Thrashula posted:I need a vibe check - I want to get into TOW and I have a ton of Beastherd minis that aren't GW. In your own experiences, for local casual game store games, does anyone care as long as everything is based correctly for TOW? LFGS will usually be chill afaik, just don't be That Guy that plays there but buys everything hobby related online. So if you just buy some paint or whatever in the shop now and then, you should be fine.
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Count Thrashula posted:I need a vibe check - I want to get into TOW and I have a ton of Beastherd minis that aren't GW. In your own experiences, for local casual game store games, does anyone care as long as everything is based correctly for TOW? IME the OW community is even more accepting of 3rd party than AOS or 40k because a) it's all super generic fantasy stuff and b) you literally cannot buy like 80% of the models in the game from GW and even the ones they sell are all out of stock. The overwhelming majority of OW armies I've seen posted in the discords I'm in are majority or entirely third party.
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Sweet. Thanks all!
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I would go so far as to say if your FLGS crowd demands official Games Workshop minis, you should find a different FLGS. The game is niche enough. More players is more better.
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moths posted:I've only had one game with them, but DE felt pretty solid overall. They're fast and killy, and feel satisfactorily mean. Good to hear they're fun to play. It looks like Corsairs are rather second-best to spearman as a sort of core (relatively) cheap unit to hold the line, due to worse saves for higher cost, while Open Order is nice for mobility but worse for winning combats. But they're the only core infantry I've got so I'll be trying out a unit of 24 with the Banner of Har Ganeth. Hopefully they'll throw enough attacks to stay in the fight.
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I wasn't sure where to ask about this since it's not Age of Sigmar. I work at a shop and we had a trade come in with some lead Oldhammer. I have no idea what era this is from, except that it's probably pre-1988, and my internet searching was fruitless. Does anyone know what is in this, aside from the obvious label which has zero info about it I can find? Someone wrote C42 on it in pen but that's Battlecars.
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Acolyte! posted:I wasn't sure where to ask about this since it's not Age of Sigmar. I work at a shop and we had a trade come in with some lead Oldhammer. I have no idea what era this is from, except that it's probably pre-1988, and my internet searching was fruitless. Does anyone know what is in this, aside from the obvious label which has zero info about it I can find? Someone wrote C42 on it in pen but that's Battlecars. It looks like it's this, from that site the C series was 1983-1987 E looking again there's some wings in there too? So one of the other chaos monsters must be in there https://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=C27_Chaos_Monsters_%28Citadel%29 ro5s fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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It does appear to be C27. Thanks a lot!
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I've done a ton of researching-ancient-minis work in the past, so I am disappointed that ro5s saw your post first. lostminis is one of the key resources for doing that ID stuff because it has ranges of minis from several hundred companies, but anything made by citadel/GW is easy mode because there's also http://www.solegends.com/citadel/index.htm Stuff of Legends is specifically a citadel/GW focused site. Here's what it has for C27: http://www.solegends.com/citc/index.htm Click each C27 link to see both the catalog and sometimes photos of the minis themselves. That's the guy with the axe and sword and two heads I believe, http://www.solegends.com/citc/c027troll/index.htm "Chaos Troll" and also either "Chaos Harpy" http://www.solegends.com/citc/c027harpy/index.htm or "Chimera" http://www.solegends.com/citc/c027chimera/index.htm. My money's on the harpy. I think you already know this but all Citadel minis before 1988 contain lead. They're fine to handle, just wash your hands after before you put them in your mouth, and don't give them to kids. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/14/sunday-preview-darkoath-marauders-old-world-orcs-and-more/ There are a ton of Old World models up for pre-order next week. We're looking at mostly orcs and goblins, but there are a number of bretonnian and tomb king models as well, such as Elisse Duchaard and the remastered casket of souls. There's also a bretonnian decal sheet which looks pretty good and I hope they put out more for some of the other factions.  The new AoS marauders are also dropping. There's no reason they can't be used for Old World as well. I know I'm planning on picking some up down the line, but I've got enough to work on for now.
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Bringing back the old Night Goblins is a vibe. Maybe it's part of the expanded scope they mentioned a few weeks back?
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whodunit posted:Bringing back the old Night Goblins is a vibe. it just seems like GW is anal about what models are meant for AOS or the TOW even if some of those models came from fantasy originally or would fit the setting Also I'm just sittin here every day waiting for dwarf news, I NEED IT Lucinice fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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Yeah, somebody in a suit at GW who is very bad at business has decided that there can be no overlap between AOS and OW models. I'm sure they think it's a good idea. It's why Beasts got booted out of AOS.
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Geisladisk posted:Yeah, somebody in a suit at GW who is very bad at business has decided that there can be no overlap between AOS and OW models. I'm sure they think it's a good idea. It's why Beasts got booted out of AOS. It's appearntly because the Main Studio, and the Specialist Studio have a rivalry that prevents them from synergizing. Namely that if you say buy some modern Chaos Warriors for use in Old World, only the main studio gets credit. It's why the Horus Hersey stuff stopped being useable in 40k, because buying that stuff for use in 40k was only giving credit to the Specialist Studio.
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I wonder if the reason why that neat new Orc shaman isn't on the release schedule yet, is cos of people like me who went "ooh that'd be a nice kruleboyz shaman - it's even got its own potgrot", setting off all the chips on all the shoulders
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Marmaduke! posted:I wonder if the reason why that neat new Orc shaman isn't on the release schedule yet, is cos of people like me who went "ooh that'd be a nice kruleboyz shaman - it's even got its own potgrot", setting off all the chips on all the shoulders I thought the new shaman was already up.
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Nope. The special character shaman isn't up yet and considering we're just about to get Elisse Duchaard for Bretonnia it'll probably be a little bit longer. Maybe he'll drop alongside the made-to-order wave with all of the classic trolls. I don't even play orcs and goblins (yet), but I need some of those stone trolls.
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Also for some reason the plastic Orc bosses are not available in Canada are they available elsewhere?
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MonsterEnvy posted:Also for some reason the plastic Orc bosses are not available in Canada are they available elsewhere? games workshop's distribution is hopelessly hosed
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Cease to Hope posted:games workshop's distribution is hopelessly hosed Not in an out of stock way, they are just not on the site. But from checking they are on the site (and in stock) on the UK site.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Not in an out of stock way, they are just not on the site. But from checking they are on the site (and in stock) on the UK site. yeah it's true for the US too. lots of TOS SKUs are just not listed for one country or another
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MonsterEnvy posted:I thought the new shaman was already up. Nah, and I just checked the GW webstore to see in case I was wrong, and jeez that was a chore and a half.
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The amount of asterisks at the bottom of a release article saying which countries are delayed on what part of an army are wild these days
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Yeah just checked the announcement “These products have been delayed in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the USA, and Canada.”
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Yeast posted:The amount of asterisks at the bottom of a release article saying which countries are delayed on what part of an army are wild these days This week is pretty tame, they only got up to **.
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Exactly one month ago today a friend asked me if I wanted to play some Old World, it seemed neat and he had found his old minis deep in his basement. I replied that sadly I did not have a Old World army. Since then I have painted many dwarves.     
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I had a go at roughly combining Wargames Atlantic's Conquistadors kit with some old Empire bits I still had in a bits box, plus some crudely-made 25mm bases hacked out of milliput because the LGS was out of proper plastic bases. 25mm is the new standard for human models, right? Figured I might continue on with this and try to make a more Spanish-themed Empire army. Maybe Marienburg? Sudenburg? Something out of Lustria?
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Ofaloaf posted:I had a go at roughly combining Wargames Atlantic's Conquistadors kit with some old Empire bits I still had in a bits box, plus some crudely-made 25mm bases hacked out of milliput because the LGS was out of proper plastic bases. 25mm is the new standard for human models, right? IIRC Estalia is warhammer notSpain so they’d be a good choice
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Geisladisk posted:Exactly one month ago today a friend asked me if I wanted to play some Old World, it seemed neat and he had found his old minis deep in his basement. I replied that sadly I did not have a Old World army. Hell yeah, that's some progress  The purple scheme looks great. If I have one complaint it's that the third party guys kind of tower over the GW sculpts which is an odd thing to say for dwarfs. Those look like the Skull Pass models and they were tiny to begin with. It won't be that noticeable at table level though.
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