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Finally got a 1st game in today. I like most of it, it feels very mobile and there's a lot more back and forth in combat than any edition I've played before. Magic's a bit fiddly with 3 different timings and once you're in combat wizards feel like they've got a lot less to do. It was pretty quick too - 3 hours for a 2000 point game including setting up/clearing up while looking stuff up. An orc victory over dark elves too, which felt pretty much impossible in older editions 
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is there any word on if they'll release the basic orc/goblin kits in their own boxes rather than the battalion?
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Apr 20, 2024 08:21
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They just went up for two week preorder today in aus. Alongside the battalion which was delayed here.
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Apr 20, 2024 09:10
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ro5s posted:Finally got a 1st game in today. I like most of it, it feels very mobile and there's a lot more back and forth in combat than any edition I've played before. Magic's a bit fiddly with 3 different timings and once you're in combat wizards feel like they've got a lot less to do. It was pretty quick too - 3 hours for a 2000 point game including setting up/clearing up while looking stuff up. An orc victory over dark elves too, which felt pretty much impossible in older editions Nice! Can I ask what worked and didn't in your opponent's dark elf army?
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Apr 20, 2024 21:29
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Genghis Cohen posted:Nice! Can I ask what worked and didn't in your opponent's dark elf army? Let's see what I remember Good
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Honestly I was really helped out by my doom diver scoring three direct hits on the heavy infantry - the black guard and executioners both went down to attrition that wouldn't have been there if my shooting hadn't been so lucky.
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Apr 20, 2024 21:53
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ro5s posted:Let's see what I remember Thanks for replying, glad to hear about Black Guard and Executioners! I have heard the same thing about shooting from several quarters. The crossbowmen especially, it seems like you are hitting on 5+ in the absolute best case (in the open, multi-shot would be 4+, then you will practically always be either moving or over half range). More often on a 6+ and on a 7+ or even worse if there's any cover to consider. Might try some shades, but that's as much for a few high-WS great weapon attacks into a flank as it is for the actual shooting. Scout skirmishers seem like a big boon to positioning.
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Continuing to chip away at my army. This time: Dogs!    And the army so far:    The warhounds were kind of fun to paint, but they aren't great models and have more going on than I'd really want for 6 point trash. All of them have horns, pustules, weird little tentacles, etc. I experimented with some techniques for quicker blends between flesh and mutations. I didn't want to completely phone them in because these things will be in most of my lists, but I also didn't want to spend too much time on them as they're really just meant to get in the way and die. I think I managed to strike a nice balance and I'm happy with how they turned out. I've got 10 more that I'll paint in the future and I'll get some more fur colors into the mix. Maybe some two tone ones as well. Next up: More warriors!
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Apr 27, 2024 19:56
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I actually really liked painting the dags for similar reasons. Cheap, so I didn't want to put a lot of time into them, but lotsa weird poo poo going on, so they were a good place to try some things out before doing them 'for real'. Though of course, I am also the psycho waiting for the Forsaken to be re-released as 30 aren't enough for me.
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Robert Facepalmer posted:I actually really liked painting the dags for similar reasons. Cheap, so I didn't want to put a lot of time into them, but lotsa weird poo poo going on, so they were a good place to try some things out before doing them 'for real'. Though of course, I am also the psycho waiting for the Forsaken to be re-released as 30 aren't enough for me. Anyways, the Orcs and Goblins made-to-order wave is hitting next week: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/28/sunday-preview-white-dwarf-500-and-legions-imperialis-hardware/ So that's the shaman on wyvern from 1993, the marauder giant, a black orc boss, river trolls, and, most importantly, two sets of stone trolls. I am 100% going to get the trolls even though I don't play goblins yet. And won't for a while. I just love those sculpts and don't want to miss out on them. I'm also tempted to get the marauder giant just because I know how much of a collector's item it's been in the past.
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Literally same. I’ll grab the trolls because those sculpts are sensational, then I might do the giant to make a fun diorama piece for
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Apr 29, 2024 00:59
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the trolls are such great old models but if a set of six of them costs less than $125 i'll eat my superfluous second magical hat
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just so i'm not just making GBS threads on GW: I really do love those old trolls. They are just the right mix of rangy and sinewed and very very dumb. The models look perfectly like the kind of creature that lives under a bridge and survives on eating what they strangle with those big expressive hands, but could definitely get outsmarted by a goat. They're mean and stupid and pathetic, which has always been the sweet spot for both the Perry brothers in particular and Citadel/GW badguys in general. I still wonder, to this day, if he decided to eat the rock or throw it.
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Safety Factor posted:Continuing to chip away at my army. This time: Dogs! Great looking force mate! Makes me heavily consider rebasing my AoS chaos army.
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Silhouette posted:God I hate those empire lion face shields that came with the 6e box set. They've always bothered me because the Empire always used heater, kite and buckler shields, but for 6e all of a sudden the starter box packed them with giant dome shields with lion iconography which has nothing to do with anything imperial. Just baffling imo Yes! They were a baffling design choice that made zero sense in the aesthetic, and were never expanded upon. I still have mine and might use them as Pirazzo's Lost Legion DoW guys in a Lustria setting the future.
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Marauder Giant pre-orders are up! "Only" £50, which is less than I was expecting. Ordered some stone trolls as well.
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Gambrinus posted:Marauder Giant pre-orders are up! "Only" £50, which is less than I was expecting. The classic stone trolls are so iconic, if I had any interest in O&G I would get them as well.
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May 4, 2024 12:33
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I couldn't resist and got the marauder giant and six stone trolls. If/when I ever get around to orcs and goblins I'm sure I'll be able to source more if I need to. Six will probably be enough for a night goblin list, but the troll horde looks like a lot of fun too.
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Thought the Old World people would appreciate Louise's attempt at making the worst looking Old World model look a lot better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joj4qacyxHc
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Great video, fun look at seeing what you can do with a paint job.
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Xpost from the mini painting threadro5s posted:Then I did some Old World. Retvrn to goblin green
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ro5s posted:Xpost from the mini painting thread Nice! I'm digging out my old O&G myself, it's a mix spanning stuff from the late 80's to the current Night Goblin range. I'll probably end up getting the MtO trolls as those are some of the bigger holes in my middlehammer collection.
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lilljonas posted:Nice! Thanks  I’ve got a bunch of stone trolls on the way just because they’re so characterful  Theoretically I could run a troll horde between them, my river trolls and I think I’ve got a few common ones in a box somewhere.
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I'm not the biggest WFB Nostalgia Guy and I think most these old models they've been digging out of retirement just look bad (not saying you're wrong if you like them, they're just not for me), but good lord these old stone trolls are fantastic. They look like cartoons, in a good way. Whoever did that sculpt absolutely knocked it out of the park.
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Geisladisk posted:I'm not the biggest WFB Nostalgia Guy and I think most these old models they've been digging out of retirement just look bad (not saying you're wrong if you like them, they're just not for me), but good lord these old stone trolls are fantastic. They look like cartoons, in a good way. Whoever did that sculpt absolutely knocked it out of the park. It was, like much of that era's best sculpts, the Perry Twins. It's like they almost never stray away from plain humans, but when they do, it of course ends up great.
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I don’t play Old World but honestly might buy some of those trolls just for the fun of painting up.
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Aly Morrison and the Perrys did the best work Warhammer has ever seen.
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serious gaylord posted:Aly Morrison and the Perrys did the best work Warhammer has ever seen. 
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Don't forget Trish but  .
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lilljonas posted:It was, like much of that era's best sculpts, the Perry Twins. It's like they almost never stray away from plain humans, but when they do, it of course ends up great. Of course it's them. It's a real shame for warhammer enjoyers that the Perrys are extremely specific in what they like, and what they like is historicals. Imagine all the loving awesome models we'd have if they'd spent the last twenty years cranking out extremely awesome fantasy stuff.
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As a historicals enjoyer, I'm comfortable saying that they've elevated that whole industry by themselves. Pre-Perrys, historical minis were dire by default.
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moths posted:As a historicals enjoyer, I'm comfortable saying that they've elevated that whole industry by themselves. The perry twins, pretty much singlehandedly, lowered the cost of entry of several of the most popular periods tremendously with their plastic kits (Napoloneics, ACW, Medieval Europe, Early Renaissance Europe). They have had, IMHO, a huge part in making 28mm historicals affordable and making smaller scales (10-18mm) less popular, for good and for bad. I dug through my attic and I have two old river trolls, one missing a head, and three old stone trolls. Together with the various 3D printed trolls, I might be able to push a troll list if I get one of each troll pack. Hmmm....
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lilljonas posted:The perry twins, pretty much singlehandedly Literally, in Michael's case
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Cthulu Carl posted:Literally, in Michael's case 
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Cthulu Carl posted:Literally, in Michael's case 
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Cthulu Carl posted:Literally, in Michael's case 
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Michael Perry fuckin owns so hard Dude blew his hand clean off with a loving cannon and instead of retiring, just duct taped a spatula to his stump and became an even better sculptor
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The nice thing about the trolls is that they're not really charging any more than if you purchased the current plastics.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:The nice thing about the trolls is that they're not really charging any more than if you purchased the current plastics. The MTO trolls are cheaper now than when they were last on sale. I bought the stone trolls from GW in 2012 and the receipt in my gmail inbox sez they were £13.80 each, whereas now they're 3 for £35 EDIT: and the ones I bought over a decade ago still haven't been painted, I shoulda waited and instead invested that money in buttcoin
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The thing is, the AoS trolls are also quite good. Lots of character, good faces, fun details like the one with a nest and baby bird on top. But the Perrys just knocked it out of the park with the 90s ones so nothing else compares. Found this pretty good article on the history of trolls in WH, might be of interest: https://medium.com/@eric.seri/trolls-warhammer-unit-chronicles-5b636878f9cc I hadn't realised that the Perrys had done a range of trolls in the early 80s as well, and you can see the throughline. Those big John Bauer noses but without the cuddliness. 
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That was a fun read, thanks for posting it
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