Ouze wrote:BrassScorpion wrote:nearly all of Warhammer Fantasy is a shameless ripoff of World of Warcraft.
That completely ridiculous and fallacious statement has come up many times over the years. Warhammer was created in the mid-1980's, long before MMORPG or even the original Warcraft computer game. Warcraft from its beginning was a blatant rip-off of Warhammer, albeit a really well-done one, that is, if you liked chopping wood. A friend let me try the original Warcraft once, I was not into chopping and collecting wood and didn't buy it. I still buy Warhammer models though.
All fantasy games owe a debt to Lord of the Rings, including the first popular one, Dungeons & Dragons. All games after D&D owe a debt to it, it was highly influential on every fantasy game to come after it, including Warhammer.
Lowering the flying stand for the Stormraven may lower it's visibility to others, but the reverse is also true, thereby reducing it's ability to see and target enemy models. Funny how that usually gets overlooked. The laws of physics are out the window in most of
40K, but not so much in the line of sight rules.
1.) Successful troll is successful, with regards to
GWS ripping off wow
2.) Altering the flying stand to lower the profile of a model is modelling for advantage. Period. it's
cheating. The fact that it also has some drawbacks don't change the fact, at all, that as-altered, it will be able to gain cover that it is not entitled to. The fact that it can't target as well it irrelevant in it's transport role.
What about modeling my guard to kneel or be firing from a prone position? Is this also cheating? If I model my chibihawk lower to the ground because I want to make it look like it is landing or taking off? Or if I put jump marines on plumes of smoke that are 2 inches tall so they look like they are flying?
My point with all of this is that this is a hobby that typically encourages conversions and you are bashing someone and laying out claims of cheating because they want to do the same thing. His reasons may be different and he may get an in game advantage and/or disadvantage, but laying out that modifying the miniatures height for any reason as flat out cheating just isn't cricket.
