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HBMC, thanks for the laughs and the candor.

I really do appreciate candor, and humor....and ....monkeys....

Anyways, Its sad that this codex is yet another dull reminder of the current financial position that GW could get out of if it tried, but steadfastly refuses to because they have a guy that thinks he knows what he is doing, but really has been in the business for far too long.

Thanks Jervis. Just because you could never beat Andy Chambers in a BATREP, you have to take it out on everyone else? Browbeat the rest of the dev team into your clouded view of how fun is made?

Pathetic, just like this codex.

110% fail in the fun factor. Not even Apocalypse could make this codex look good.

Posted By untitled on 08/14/2007 4:16 PM
My Exhaustive Review of the new Chaos Codex:

Its dull, not very well balanced and most of the variety has gone.

I don't think it really merits further discussion.

Untitled, you now have a title.


You will now be known as "Mentos, the Truth Maker".

Anything else is just two sides bickering back and forth.

Poster #1 "You're stupid!"
Poster #2  "No! You're stupid!"

Ad nausaeum until the mods decide to close the thread, which by my watch, wont be too long from now....

Posted By Yad on 08/14/2007 9:29 AM
I'm with you on this on H.B.M.C. I just recently bought (4 months ago) a chaos army off of Ebay, not having a clue about the new direction the Chaos codex was going in. I've got about 30 Deamonettes, 10 Plaguebearers, 10 Bloodletters, and a bloodthirster staring back at me now. I think I need to model them giving me the finger.... I've also got about 30 or 40 regular CSMs that I'd give to my daughter to play with if they weren't a choking hazard.

Ha! You bought my army from ebay? Sucker!!!

Just kidding.

Oh, I dont mind it either myself, but when little kids want to play with sharp pointy sticks with the big boys, invariably mommy gets involved when she sees little timmy crying because his feelers got hurt.

Insects have feelers? I thought they had antennae. *shrug* Ya learn something new everyday, I suppose.

well, I dont know if this will cheer you up at all, but phil kelly is doing orks.

Youre prolly not going to get klans, but its not like we have had them in the past anyways. cant miss something you never had.

So if you liked the eldar codex (which I do for the most part) then this could be seen as good news.

No Gav or Jervis touching it like a pedophile, ruining its innocence. That, atleast to me, is worth something.

Posted By Da Boss on 08/16/2007 12:38 PM

Posted By Abadabadoobaddon on 08/16/2007 11:55 AM

Posted By Ozymandias on 08/16/2007 11:02 AM

Hurrr! *snork* Fart!

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Have my babies.

Hey get in line, bub!

I have been trying for years and Abby's a tough one to trap.

One day, Abba-dabba-dooba-shamma-lama-ding-dong!

One day you will  be mine!

Posted By brettz123 on 08/16/2007 2:28 PM

 Funny how you all complained about Pete Haines and now he looks pretty good to a lot of you

I really really really hate to admit this, but  in some ways, youre right.

Actually, I still dislike most of his work, but with a few tweaks for balancing (i.e. not a total hatchet job like the new codex is), better editing, a spell checker for crying out loud, the older codex could have been made a decent piece of kit.

Ask for an inch, and they give you a mile...er...I think thats how it goes. Well, for GW, it certainly does.

Well, I am sure they playtested the Psychic power "Allure of Slaanesh" in the previous codex.



This is basically a doubling of the power, even in points cost, with a few changes. With the exception that the Allure of slaanesh has coherent rules and makes sense (note the leadership check the enemy must make).

So, obviously it means they playtested Lash of Fzorgle ..*snicker*

Go go Gavin Thorpe originality!

110% Fail!

Posted By Phryxis on 08/19/2007 4:59 PM

I think the fix for Fzorgle is to make it usable once per game. Then it'd be fair. That also puts it into context how broken it is right now: It's six times more powerful than it should be.

Agreed. Other things that are usable once per game:

• Necron Solar Pulse (whoah! Slow down! This power is broken!)
• Banners when revealed in various imperial armies (nice, but nothing exciting)
• The second weapon of Combi-weapons
  
• Hunter killer missiles (Whoah! More brokeness!)
• Failsafe detonators (admittedly pretty snazzy)
• Ejection system (meh)
• Etc....

Yeah, Lash of Fzorgle needs to be tamed, with a quickness.

Posted By beef on 08/20/2007 5:47 PM
what the hell are these frozell??

This is a "Frozell"...

profile.myspace.com/index.cfm

...whatever that is.

We cant tell you what a Fzorgle is, however. You have to be "Cool" and "Hip" to know what the reference is to.

Though by reading the posts, I am sure you might be able to figure out the context and act like you know whats going on, thus you can think of yourself as "Cool" and "Hip" by proxy.

Kinda like this Joke:

One crisp October morning, while taking my usual morning constitution down the Kurfurstenstrasse, I spied my old friend Casimir Malevitch, the renowned Suprematist painter, sitting on a bench. Noting that he had a banana in his ear, I said to him, "Excuse me, Casimir, but I believe you have a banana in your ear."
"What?" he asked.
Moving closer and speaking quite distinctly, I repeated my previous observation, saying, "I said, 'You have a banana in your ear!' "
"What's that you say?" came the reply.
By now I was a trifle piqued at this awkward situation and, seeking to make myself plain, once and for all, I fairly screamed, "I SAID THAT YOU HAVE A BANANA IN YOUR EAR, YOU DOLT!!!"
Imagine my chagrin when Casimir looked at me blankly and quipped,



Oh, what a laugh we had over that one.

See? By pretending you know whats going on, you can be "Cool" and "Hip" as well.

Now laugh, damn you!

Posted By Dragonmann on 08/23/2007 11:23 AM

I have the defense from Fzorgle!!!

IG conscripts...  nobody in their right mind wants to move a unit of 50 models, and so what if they do..

If I was a person who had no scruples and used Lash of Fzorgle, I would be the happiest chaos player around to see my opponent deploy a unit of conscripts.

I move that unit (spreading them out very wide...very  very wide) so that I can assault them.

Now LOS is blocked for the rest of your IG and your hamstrung (as I use the conscripts to sling shot my way into the rest of your lines, while keeping the conscripts locked into combat with piddly things like...daemons).

Good game.

Posted By bigchris1313 on 08/24/2007 7:28 PM
I love the Mordheim book.

But Tuomas Pirinen's Warhammer Fantasy Battles: 6th Edition runs a close second.

PS: He also co-wrote Mordheim, IIRC.

Judging by reading my old white dwarfs from around 1999, I think we can thank Toumas for being the originator and primary force behind Mordheim.

Those white dwarf articles were great. Oodles of ways to play skirmish Fantasy before the more refined Mordheim book came out.

Posted By Abadabadoobaddon on 08/26/2007 4:50 PM

Posted By beef on 08/24/2007 7:18 PM
I say change with the times but if you really cant (and there is a few of you like this) Then Good luck with that.  Its a dinosaur thing to do.  And we all know what happenened to them. . .

Do you like dinosaurs?  'Cause I like dinosaurs.  My favorite is triceratops.

I like archaeopteryx.

Posted By Cyphillis_Kane on 09/02/2007 9:04 AM

Posted By malfred on 09/02/2007 6:42 AM

Posted By CiaphasKane on 09/02/2007 5:25 AM

When I read this over at the B&C,

AND....there goes your credibility out the window.

At least I read HBMC's entire synopsis before discrediting him.

I'm not surprised you failed to notice the parts in my own rant ins aying that much of the "review" was contradictory, and in many cases, blatantly incorrect.

Oh, and also, I'm not sure where the source for "JJ's kid is mentally challenged" comes from, but I've seen a -lot- of mention from it here on Dakkadakka, which shows really weak intellect.

Back onto the "review", the few attempts to show the "good side" of the chaos codex were laughable. The contradiction between Khorne being a mindless killer and not having any martial prowess, and then ripping on havocs being able to take IoK was my favorite. (Teeth of Khorne anyone?)

I'm seriously done here. Three posts and I already feel sick.
However, at DG.org I had a good reason to be. *thin smile*

Cyphillis- Kane, over and out.

Heh. Well, we now have proof that Jervis' son posts (or posted) here now.

110% fail.

But its cool that he defends his extra chromosomes. You have to be protective of those precious things nowadays. Us pesky Dakka thieves might try and steal them for our own nefarious ends....

The interforum warfare is simply slowed, as "CiaphasKane" has shown us today.

I am sure that the mods on Warseer and B&C might find your posting habits here to be very interesting.



warseer.com/forums/members/ciaphas-cain.html

www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php

For a ****** *******, youre kinda childish.

Its like pooping in your neighbors backyard.
Sure, its not your backyard, but you can still smell it, and you wouldnt want that person in your yard, thats for sure.