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That would be interesting but the problem is that Death/Chaos/Destruction would be in a race to screw each other over ASAP so I really can't see them working together in any way.

It's funny that the order is winning, as everything GW fluff wise is always the good guys being overwhelmed.

I can only imagine if you did the same for 40k (imperium vs whatever groupings of non-imperial types), the opposition would be annihilated by the 8 bajillion Space marine players. Though in the fluff the imperium is always doing badly.

A matter of perspective I suppose. I wanted to play Bloodbound but had my storm cast painted first.

 shinros wrote:

Requizen wrote:
I seriously doubt they'd put in Slaanesh as part of this, I think they have plans for him/her in the future. We'll probably see a campaign based around Slaanesh and Elf releases at some point down the road (not a rumor, just thinking aloud).

I think this will be the case. Honestly going by the comments I think GW is not "happy"? with how much order is dominating I think. Since I think they want the outcome to be more spicy so they can churn out more war stories and books.

They can churn them out even if order wins 100% games so why would they be not happy? They deliberately created fluff that ensures neither side can archieve total victory. They don't have to worry about results being too lopsided.

I actually think an order win would be the best result for the fluff. A dissapointing aspect of the story so far is the post apocalyptic nature of it all. The novels refer to all these wonderful civilisations that used to exist, but have been reduced to boring nothingness by chaos.
A new flourishing civilization would be a geat way to create a new human faction, with the actions of the players in this campaign built into its history.

tneva82 wrote:

 shinros wrote:

Requizen wrote:
I seriously doubt they'd put in Slaanesh as part of this, I think they have plans for him/her in the future. We'll probably see a campaign based around Slaanesh and Elf releases at some point down the road (not a rumor, just thinking aloud).

I think this will be the case. Honestly going by the comments I think GW is not "happy"? with how much order is dominating I think. Since I think they want the outcome to be more spicy so they can churn out more war stories and books.

They can churn them out even if order wins 100% games so why would they be not happy? They deliberately created fluff that ensures neither side can archieve total victory. They don't have to worry about results being too lopsided.

I doubt its about the story, I suspect its about making the campaign better. Right now its pretty clear that Order will win by a fair margin, and while the margin probably matters it certainly takes some of the thrill out of the competition. If they adjust things so an across-the-board Order win isn't guaranteed then it will be more fun for everyone -- even Order players.

Chikout wrote:
The novels refer to all these wonderful civilisations that used to exist, but have been reduced to boring nothingness by chaos.

To be fair, I think they are boring of nothingness because of Sigmar. What did Sigmar do to make them exciting before Chaos came in? Then again, can we blame Sigmar or blame Kirby? At least Mr Roundtree has made AoS exciting while Kirby failed miserably.

Davor wrote:

Chikout wrote:
The novels refer to all these wonderful civilisations that used to exist, but have been reduced to boring nothingness by chaos.

To be fair, I think they are boring of nothingness because of Sigmar. What did Sigmar do to make them exciting before Chaos came in? Then again, can we blame Sigmar or blame Kirby? At least Mr Roundtree has made AoS exciting while Kirby failed miserably.

I want to see more of Mannfred's castle Nachtsreik and what his get are doing. One thing I will say when kevin got more control there was a slight shift in the fluff and how it was presented. IMO.

 shinros wrote:

Davor wrote:

Chikout wrote:
The novels refer to all these wonderful civilisations that used to exist, but have been reduced to boring nothingness by chaos.

To be fair, I think they are boring of nothingness because of Sigmar. What did Sigmar do to make them exciting before Chaos came in? Then again, can we blame Sigmar or blame Kirby? At least Mr Roundtree has made AoS exciting while Kirby failed miserably.

I want to see more of Mannfred's castle Nachtsreik and what his get are doing. One thing I will say when kevin got more control they was a slight shift in the fluff and how it was presented. IMO.

Honestly I disagree. The age of Sigmar fluff has been consistent in its quality, at times great, at others not so much - but seeing as how the best information we have on the subject says that these projects are done years in advance, and I think its a little misguided to believe that Kevin's role as CEO had anything to do with the Age of Sigmar fluff (although depending on lead times it is possible.)

Neronoxx wrote:

 shinros wrote:

Davor wrote:

Chikout wrote:
The novels refer to all these wonderful civilisations that used to exist, but have been reduced to boring nothingness by chaos.

To be fair, I think they are boring of nothingness because of Sigmar. What did Sigmar do to make them exciting before Chaos came in? Then again, can we blame Sigmar or blame Kirby? At least Mr Roundtree has made AoS exciting while Kirby failed miserably.

I want to see more of Mannfred's castle Nachtsreik and what his get are doing. One thing I will say when kevin got more control they was a slight shift in the fluff and how it was presented. IMO.

Honestly I disagree. The age of Sigmar fluff has been consistent in its quality, at times great, at others not so much - but seeing as how the best information we have on the subject says that these projects are done years in advance, and I think its a little misguided to believe that Kevin's role as CEO had anything to do with the Age of Sigmar fluff (although depending on lead times it is possible.)

True, I can see your point.

I do feel whenever they do Death fluff it's really good I don't know why overall I feel undead fluff has overall been good in their fantasy product. Or maybe it's just my undead fanboy-ism talking.

campaign update :

I like how GW are doing this.

Neat! I won't be able to play a game in the next couple days, but I bet they do this with Death and Destruction as well.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Looking forward to this. Might hold off the generals handbook until the Ogors come about as I imagine they will be quite a cheap 1000 point army. I am looking forward to the new colour schemes the most though, as Frostlords I hope some have icy skin or are covered in blue tattoos and

I have been running a pretty effective 1000 point list with beastclaw raiders being 1 hunter 3 yhetee 2 units of 2 mournfang and a thundertusk. 1000 points on the nose and pretty nasty. Comes in about $210 retail

 unmercifulconker wrote:

Whirlwind wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
There is only one God, and his name, is Nagash,

No it's not, we all know Nagash is a poncy upstart. There can only be one and that is because SETTRA RULES!

Ha, I completely forgot about Settra's fate. I wonder if he's gonna come back at some point of hopefully a new anti Nagash Tomb King army.

Settra story had so much potential, yet was completely mishandled/wasted. Was really hoping he would have been the chaos lord in the starter set of AOS.


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BTW, are they only considering the number of victories for the results, or the proportion of victories?. If it's the former, no wonder that order is dominating since it contains so much more factions than the other Grand alliance

New update on beast claw raiders.

https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/962

I really like the paint job they are doing with them. In the bonesplitterz battle tome one of their clans is from a tundra like area in the realm of ghur.

My GOSH this is so much want... I suppose I could have painted all of them this way to start with, but getting their own rules? ... impulse check needed.

 Uriels_Flame wrote:
My GOSH this is so much want... I suppose I could have painted all of them this way to start with, but getting their own rules? ... impulse check needed.

Bell of lost souls has another pic.

And I saw this on Facebook:

Even though they are repackaged I really like the painting scheme and theme they are going with here.

 reds8n wrote:
campaign update :

Awesome! Gonna be playing Chaos tomorrow (hopefully), so I will suggest this to the opponent!

 reds8n wrote:
campaign update :

I love this idea.

The polar/frost theme suits those Beastclaw models well.

If there's one theme I love, its ice!

Loving it more as since it'll be a low model count army with a large variation with bits, each model will feel like an individual character like in a warband or something. Think I will certainly do a 1000 point group of these. A Frostlord on Stonehorn and 4 Mournfangs is a whopping 840 already, maybe fill it with 4 Fenrisian wolves as Sabres or something. $123 retail, which should just be over £70 from a discount store, errrrmmm, BARGAIN!

Edit: Or, make it a lesser lord on Stonehorn and use the other rider as a Hunter on foot for 2 Sabres to stick with him. BOOOM.

Since there's going to be a distinction now between Beastclaws and Gutbusters, I wonder if either group will get new models at some point?

Half the fun of the ogres is that their parts are pretty much completely compatible across all the plastics, so once you have a few sets you can pretty much guarantee none of them look the same.

 streetsamurai wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:

Whirlwind wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
There is only one God, and his name, is Nagash,

No it's not, we all know Nagash is a poncy upstart. There can only be one and that is because SETTRA RULES!

Ha, I completely forgot about Settra's fate. I wonder if he's gonna come back at some point of hopefully a new anti Nagash Tomb King army.

Settra story had so much potential, yet was completely mishandled/wasted. Was really hoping he would have been the chaos lord in the starter set of AOS.


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BTW, are they only considering the number of victories for the results, or the proportion of victories?. If it's the former, no wonder that order is dominating since it contains so much more factions than the other Grand alliance

One of the swedish store managers said that buying a faction box nets you 20 points, while painting gives a score (not sure what it was) and playing only gets you 1 point.

 shinros wrote:
Even though they are repackaged I really like the painting scheme and theme they are going with here.

It is rather nice, i like they've gone away from the grey skinned ogres

 auticus wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:

Whirlwind wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
There is only one God, and his name, is Nagash,

No it's not, we all know Nagash is a poncy upstart. There can only be one and that is because SETTRA RULES!

Ha, I completely forgot about Settra's fate. I wonder if he's gonna come back at some point of hopefully a new anti Nagash Tomb King army.

Settra story had so much potential, yet was completely mishandled/wasted. Was really hoping he would have been the chaos lord in the starter set of AOS.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
BTW, are they only considering the number of victories for the results, or the proportion of victories?. If it's the former, no wonder that order is dominating since it contains so much more factions than the other Grand alliance

One of the swedish store managers said that buying a faction box nets you 20 points, while painting gives a score (not sure what it was) and playing only gets you 1 point.

If that's true, makes sense why Order jumped out to such an early lead with the Sylvaneth release. Kind of makes me think Destruction may be due for a boost.

migooo wrote:

 shinros wrote:
Even though they are repackaged I really like the painting scheme and theme they are going with here.

It is rather nice, i like they've gone away from the grey skinned ogres

They dropped the grey skin for ogres with the last WHFB Ogre Kingdoms army book which I believe was released almost five years ago in 2011.

 ImAGeek wrote:
And I saw this on Facebook:

Price quotes on this set?

And do we know ANY other army comps here?

Is it all mounted army?