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Lythrandire Biehrellian wrote:
 docdoom77 wrote:
Lythrandire Biehrellian wrote:
Wow! That was a lot of craziness. The harlequins in recent years were relegated to being a single unit, that couldnt fill a compulsory slot, that only had 3 weapon options and 3 overcosted characters. Now they have so much of their flavor back, and the ability to be fielded alone without going unbound, all of that is a good thing! If all you have is a single unit + characters, they even included a formation for THAT SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCE so you absolutely wouldn't have to buy more harlequins. How is that at all a cash grabbing scheme?
My .02


The problem with that formation is that you can't fit them in their own transport. Dumb.

Not worried about the transport, because that would mean you have to buy something new. They deliberately gave you an option to play a Harlequin unit, just like you used to, but with better rules, gear, and their own warlord table, using ONLY the models most people had if they bothered to get Harlequins. If they hadn't included it, people with just those models would be forced to buy other things to make an army out of them. I think that this may actually be GW throwing people a bone, if they wanna bother buying the codex. Also, unbound is a fantastic way to play, just don't be a jerk about it.

It's not them throwing anyone a bone. It's the opposite. If you happen to have a Troupe, a Death Jester, and a Shadowseer, then yes there's one formation for you, and you have to run them as a single unit. Literally any other combination of things will require buying a lot more models, because you have zero flexibility, just a bunch of fixed formations to choose from (and one very large and nearly fixed FOC). And if you don't have any Harlequins but you want to get on board, you can't just buy one troop choice and one HQ. You need at least one more character model unless you want to run your list Unbound, effectively squeezing an extra $20 out of anyone who buys in. This is intentional.

Look, call me a 40k vegan or whatever nonsense you want, but I'm pointing out the blatantly obvious: the Harlequin FOC and formations are more restrictive and more expensive than the CAD FOC or Allied FOC would be, and there is no reason this has to be the case. It's a conscious decision on someone's part. The existence of Unbound does not excuse this.

Be happy with things if you want, it's your money and your opinion. Just understand that your new sandwich has some s**t in it, and it's not just because "s**t sandwiches are the new 7th edition list building paradigm, deal with it", it's because s**t has a higher profit margin and GW doesn't mind feeding it to you if you'll pay for it.

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 DarkStarSabre wrote:


You missed the point by a mile.

Battleforged consists of detachments and formations. Individual codexes and supplements present alternative detachments which can still be used for a battleforged army.

So, really, people complaining that the Harlequins have a set detachment structure or formations as options for allying with them are missing the point.

Every example I gave? That's a battleforged army. Battleforged is not just Combined Arms and Allied. The other detachments also fit in there as well.

Unbound is no restrictions at all. Battleforged is restrictions according to whichever detachment you chose to use.

You can take multiple detachments in a Battleforged army, provided you are meeting the minimum requirements for each detachment - so yes, you can field an Eldar CAD, an Iyanden CAD, a Dark Eldar Realspace Raider Detachment and an Allied Detachment selected from the Haemonculus Coven supplement. You can add the Ghost Warrior formation and the Harlequin formations.

And still be a Battleforged army.


I wasn't really disagreeing with you, except in your earlier post you said:


I'm not understanding this absolute obsession with battleforged as a general concept.

The Combined Arms Detachment and Allied Detachment are simply detachments that have Objective Secured as a special rule associated with the,

Battleforged allows for Detachments and Formations - Unbound is essentially whatever you want, plus some formations. So, as long as you are following the structure your list is still Battleforged.


I was trying to provide insight as to why there is an "obsession" with battleforged -- using published detatchments and formations is the way to go, not Unbound, because the latter leads to abuse, and practically nobody to play with. I agree with you that Harlequins don't really have an issue with a playable formation as an ally in a Battleforged list.

I do understand that a lot of people wish there were formations that contained 0+ options (like Decurion). Give it another 5 years and it might happen; when there are two or three times as many Harlequin models, this would make more sense.


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 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:
And if you don't have any Harlequins but you want to get on board, you can't just buy one troop choice and one HQ. You need at least one more character model unless you want to run your list Unbound, effectively squeezing an extra $20 out of anyone who buys in. This is intentional.

Look, call me a 40k vegan or whatever nonsense you want, but I'm pointing out the blatantly obvious: the Harlequin FOC and formations are more restrictive and more expensive than the CAD FOC or Allied FOC would be, and there is no reason this has to be the case. It's a conscious decision on someone's part. The existence of Unbound does not excuse this.

Be happy with things if you want, it's your money and your opinion. Just understand that your new sandwich has some s**t in it, and it's not just because "s**t sandwiches are the new 7th edition list building paradigm, deal with it", it's because s**t has a higher profit margin and GW doesn't mind feeding it to you if you'll pay for it.


I think your argument falls apart at the "GW wants you to spend $20 more". 40k is a silly expensive game to play, and if you're considering allying in Harlequins, buying one more Shadowseer or Death Jester isn't even going to make a rounding difference on cost of the army. Besides, there are several other alternatives --

- For the Shadowseer, you can kitbash one using the extra upper torso and parts you get out of Troupe, plus bits from Eldar or Dark Eldar.
- You could buy an old DJ or Shadowseer; they are plentiful, and often quite cheap, and still, beautiful models

I will wholeheartedly agree that 40k as a hobby is an expensive one, but Harlequins are not particularly more expensive than any other models that GW sells. The Heroes are about the same price, and the troops are about the same price (as other similar kits). At least with GW, if the price of Heroes bothers you, simply build them out of other troop models, as reasonable-looking, identifiable, and acceptable substitutes for most can be built using common parts. This is not the case with nearly all other games.

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 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:
Look, call me a 40k vegan or whatever nonsense you want, but I'm pointing out the blatantly obvious: the Harlequin FOC and formations are more restrictive and more expensive than the CAD FOC or Allied FOC would be, and there is no reason this has to be the case. It's a conscious decision on someone's part. The existence of Unbound does not excuse this.

Really? So if I wanted to just field a couple of units of Skyweavers and a Voidweaver as an ally, it would be cheaper for me to be forced to take an HQ choice and a Troops choice that I didn't want by using the Allied Detachment instead of just taking the formation that allows me to field exactly the units that I wanted by using the Faolchu's Blade Formation

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I'm just a little confused by these arguments.

Before, you wanted to take Harlequins as allies:

Your army + Codex: Eldar + Eldar HQ of choice + Eldar Troop of choice + Harlequin Troupe + Shadowseer + Death Jester (for a maxed out unit...also, you only got 2 kisses and 2 fusion pistols in the troupe box)

Now:

Your army + Codex Eldar: Harlequins + Harlequin Troupe (with many much options) + Shadowseer + Death Jester

Soooo...You end up ahead by losing the Eldar HQ and Eldar Troops choice tax. I fail to see how that is more restrictive or more expensive than the previous way of getting the same unit into your army.

So, my 2 cents here: You can't field a CAD army of Harlequins. You couldn't before. But NOW you can add other units and elites, gain more benefits, and basically do whatever you desire within the confines of their new formaition rules. You're gaining so much more than we had as Harlequins fans. How is this not better?

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 Ghaz wrote:
 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:
Look, call me a 40k vegan or whatever nonsense you want, but I'm pointing out the blatantly obvious: the Harlequin FOC and formations are more restrictive and more expensive than the CAD FOC or Allied FOC would be, and there is no reason this has to be the case. It's a conscious decision on someone's part. The existence of Unbound does not excuse this.

Really? So if I wanted to just field a couple of units of Skyweavers and a Voidweaver as an ally, it would be cheaper for me to be forced to take an HQ choice and a Troops choice that I didn't want by using the Allied Detachment instead of just taking the formation that allows me to field exactly the units that I wanted by using the Faolchu's Blade Formation


What if you wanted to field a single troupe?

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 Ghaz wrote:
 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:
Look, call me a 40k vegan or whatever nonsense you want, but I'm pointing out the blatantly obvious: the Harlequin FOC and formations are more restrictive and more expensive than the CAD FOC or Allied FOC would be, and there is no reason this has to be the case. It's a conscious decision on someone's part. The existence of Unbound does not excuse this.

Really? So if I wanted to just field a couple of units of Skyweavers and a Voidweaver as an ally, it would be cheaper for me to be forced to take an HQ choice and a Troops choice that I didn't want by using the Allied Detachment instead of just taking the formation that allows me to field exactly the units that I wanted by using the Faolchu's Blade Formation

If you happen to want to field exactly what's in one of the formations, obviously the formations are great. But what if you don't want to field exactly that? What if you don't want to field exactly what's in one of the handful of formations, or use the bloated FOC where the only option is "how many characters do I want to add?"

I never said the formations shouldn't exist - formations are fine if you want to give people perks for fielding interesting combinations.

My point is (and I think I've made this very, exceedingly clear): the formations (and the Harlie FOC) are inflexible, and even at their cheapest are more expensive than an Allied detachment could be if all you want is a low-cost addition to a Battle Forged army. There is no reason the Harlequins should be denied access to a normal CAD or Allied Detachment, or at least an equivalently flexible FOC if they absolutely must be special snowflakes with no HQ option. They


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I'm just a little confused by these arguments.

Before, you wanted to take Harlequins as allies:

Your army + Codex: Eldar + Eldar HQ of choice + Eldar Troop of choice + Harlequin Troupe + Shadowseer + Death Jester (for a maxed out unit...also, you only got 2 kisses and 2 fusion pistols in the troupe box)

Now:

Your army + Codex Eldar: Harlequins + Harlequin Troupe (with many much options) + Shadowseer + Death Jester

Soooo...You end up ahead by losing the Eldar HQ and Eldar Troops choice tax. I fail to see how that is more restrictive or more expensive than the previous way of getting the same unit into your army.

So, my 2 cents here: You can't field a CAD army of Harlequins. You couldn't before. But NOW you can add other units and elites, gain more benefits, and basically do whatever you desire within the confines of their new formaition rules. You're gaining so much more than we had as Harlequins fans. How is this not better?

You assume that anyone who plays Harlequins wants to add both a Shadowseer and Death Jester to a single Troupe (and wants to run them all as one unit instead of splitting the characters off). What if they want to run a single Troupe and a Solitaire? That sounds extremely reasonable and perfectly fluffy, and costs less actual money, but it's impossible without going Unbound. That really shouldn't be the case.

You can say "well they gave you the old option, plus a bunch of larger formations that have to be purchased all at once to use, so you should be happy." But this is a brand new mini-dex with a lot more unit options (which is good) and instead of giving you the freedom to choose those options as you see fit, they've intentionally messed with the way you select an army list so you're basically forced to buy units in larger blocks.

This may sound like a pedantic rant, but a greater emphasis on formations and special FOC's with high minimums and few options means you are less able to choose your units a la carte. It's a kind of gradual increase in effective unit size as far as list building goes, and that's the kind of thing that helped kill fantasy by making it even harder to start a new force. You're right, Talys, 40k is an expensive hobby already. Best to just gradually make it even more so at every turn, that really brings in new players.

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 Paradigm wrote:
Were I writing the rules, I'd write them for the 90% that embrace their spirit, say to hell with the other kind of person and hope the community did the same.
Cool, but when writing rules what you should be doing is making them as clear and concise as possible. Spirit means nothing if the rule has 20 different interpretations. Rules are a form of technical writing. They need to be accurate.


 Azreal13 wrote:
What if you wanted to field a single troupe?
This whole damned problem would have been solved by GW including one extra bit in the Harli box (a big glaive) and writing an entry for a "Great Harlequin" HQ choice.

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Or, you could just field one troupe. If I wanted to just field an army of one farseer and a 5man squad of dire avengers, I can't without being unbound due to the fact that I need a primary detachment and the allied detachment cannot be one. They have given all the flexibility in the world, LITTERALLY with unbound. The detachments and formations are there to show how the army fights when they attack in force. It doesn't matter to what you attribute the notion laziness, or a desire to let you play in the sandbox, the option is there, and people ignoring it doesn't make it go away.

   
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No, but people refusing to play it smacks it right in the face.

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Not sure if this has been posted but what are the ally charts for harlequins?
   
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 Bronzefists42 wrote:
Not sure if this has been posted but what are the ally charts for harlequins?


It was in the first of the Harlequin White Dwarf issues. Both other Eldar types are Battle Brothers, Imperium and Tau are Allies of Convenience, greenskins are Desperate, everyone else Come the Apoc.
   
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 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:

That's garbage. It's a blatant cash grab:


You say that as if GW isn't a private company providing a purely luxury product while operating in a free market environment... cause it's not like you can proxy, or even need to buy the product at all..

Haven't we figured out everything GW, PP, Mantic etc. does is a cash grab?

I mean come on, these guys ain't runnin a charity!

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For a "pure cash grab" it has some of the best models they have made in a long time.

Got solitaire yesterday (don't play Harleys but love the look of him) and he is a great model.
   
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 scuzz_bucket wrote:
 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:

That's garbage. It's a blatant cash grab:


You say that as if GW isn't a private company providing a purely luxury product while operating in a free market environment... cause it's not like you can proxy, or even need to buy the product at all..

Haven't we figured out everything GW, PP, Mantic etc. does is a cash grab?

I mean come on, these guys ain't runnin a charity!
Every company is trying to make money, a "blatant cash grab" is typically the name assigned to things done to make money with less than the expected effort or at the expense of customers instead of their benefit.
   
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 scuzz_bucket wrote:
 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:

That's garbage. It's a blatant cash grab:


You say that as if GW isn't a private company providing a purely luxury product while operating in a free market environment... cause it's not like you can proxy, or even need to buy the product at all..

Haven't we figured out everything GW, PP, Mantic etc. does is a cash grab?

I mean come on, these guys ain't runnin a charity!


This tired old thing again, can't we take it to "a farm in the country?"

Running a private enterprise for profit =/= cash grab.

Trying to manipulate customers into spending money, and not being subtle about it = cash grab

PP, Mantic etc do a much better job of fostering an idea of ownership of their product beyond a simple purchase, people enjoy the product, like the public face of the company and consequently are happy to spend money with them.

GW constantly clumsily do stuff that makes customers feel taken advantage of, manipulated and patronised, and then refuse to communicate to explain themselves, even when that may alleviate the ill will. Hence the PR clusterfeth that is modern GW.

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AllSeeingSkink wrote:
 scuzz_bucket wrote:
 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:

That's garbage. It's a blatant cash grab:


You say that as if GW isn't a private company providing a purely luxury product while operating in a free market environment... cause it's not like you can proxy, or even need to buy the product at all..

Haven't we figured out everything GW, PP, Mantic etc. does is a cash grab?

I mean come on, these guys ain't runnin a charity!
Every company is trying to make money, a "blatant cash grab" is typically the name assigned to things done to make money with less than the expected effort or at the expense of customers instead of their benefit.


First World Problems

Haha, 'the SM dex is such a benefit to my life, but that new harly dex is at my expense, screw them!' cause we need both to eat.

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There's an awful lot of unbound/cash grab talk and not a lot of news in here.

Can't believe we don't have the WD for this week yet... Anyone seen it on the interwebs somewhere?

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 scuzz_bucket wrote:
AllSeeingSkink wrote:
 scuzz_bucket wrote:
 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:

That's garbage. It's a blatant cash grab:


You say that as if GW isn't a private company providing a purely luxury product while operating in a free market environment... cause it's not like you can proxy, or even need to buy the product at all..

Haven't we figured out everything GW, PP, Mantic etc. does is a cash grab?

I mean come on, these guys ain't runnin a charity!
Every company is trying to make money, a "blatant cash grab" is typically the name assigned to things done to make money with less than the expected effort or at the expense of customers instead of their benefit.


First World Problems

Haha, 'the SM dex is such a benefit to my life, but that new harly dex is at my expense, screw them!' cause we need both to eat.


So is your internet and computer....but what does that add to the discussion?

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Well I have purchased some. I usually wouldn't touch GW but these models are very, very nice.

I am a little annoyed about the odd force organisation, but its roughly what i was gonna get anyway.

There is a lot of fun to be had with painting these though. The rules don't seem to be that bad either.
   
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 Eldarain wrote:
There's an awful lot of unbound/cash grab talk and not a lot of news in here.

Can't believe we don't have the WD for this week yet... Anyone seen it on the interwebs somewhere?


Discussing the intentions behind providing the product the thread concerns is completely on topic, fishing for rumors however..


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 quickfuze wrote:
 scuzz_bucket wrote:
AllSeeingSkink wrote:
 scuzz_bucket wrote:
 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:

That's garbage. It's a blatant cash grab:


You say that as if GW isn't a private company providing a purely luxury product while operating in a free market environment... cause it's not like you can proxy, or even need to buy the product at all..

Haven't we figured out everything GW, PP, Mantic etc. does is a cash grab?

I mean come on, these guys ain't runnin a charity!
Every company is trying to make money, a "blatant cash grab" is typically the name assigned to things done to make money with less than the expected effort or at the expense of customers instead of their benefit.


First World Problems

Haha, 'the SM dex is such a benefit to my life, but that new harly dex is at my expense, screw them!' cause we need both to eat.


So is your internet and computer....but what does that add to the discussion?


I dont know, youre the one who brought up my computer and internet, you tell me.

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Asking about rumours in a news and rumours thread seems equally, if not more so, on topic that talk about if something is or isn't a cash grab.
   
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 ImAGeek wrote:
Asking about rumours in a news and rumours thread seems equally, if not more so, on topic that talk about if something is or isn't a cash grab.


Thats why im not a mod, and if the cash grab discussion is equally on topic with what you brought up, whats your qualm then?

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 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:


You assume that anyone who plays Harlequins wants to add both a Shadowseer and Death Jester to a single Troupe (and wants to run them all as one unit instead of splitting the characters off). What if they want to run a single Troupe and a Solitaire? That sounds extremely reasonable and perfectly fluffy, and costs less actual money, but it's impossible without going Unbound. That really shouldn't be the case.

You can say "well they gave you the old option, plus a bunch of larger formations that have to be purchased all at once to use, so you should be happy." But this is a brand new mini-dex with a lot more unit options (which is good) and instead of giving you the freedom to choose those options as you see fit, they've intentionally messed with the way you select an army list so you're basically forced to buy units in larger blocks.

This may sound like a pedantic rant, but a greater emphasis on formations and special FOC's with high minimums and few options means you are less able to choose your units a la carte. It's a kind of gradual increase in effective unit size as far as list building goes, and that's the kind of thing that helped kill fantasy by making it even harder to start a new force. You're right, Talys, 40k is an expensive hobby already. Best to just gradually make it even more so at every turn, that really brings in new players.



Fair enough.


On topic: Looking forward to picking up three boxes of the bikes tomorrow to add to the two troupes I've already got! I'm excited that the army is starting to take shape. I hope the painting guide points out a decent and somewhat simple way of doing the diamond pattern.

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here is what I plan on doing (with varying colours)

floridaminiaturepainting.blogspot.co.nz/2015/02/harlequin-player-step-by-step-tutorial.html

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 scuzz_bucket wrote:
AllSeeingSkink wrote:
 scuzz_bucket wrote:
 CalgarsPimpHand wrote:

That's garbage. It's a blatant cash grab:


You say that as if GW isn't a private company providing a purely luxury product while operating in a free market environment... cause it's not like you can proxy, or even need to buy the product at all..

Haven't we figured out everything GW, PP, Mantic etc. does is a cash grab?

I mean come on, these guys ain't runnin a charity!
Every company is trying to make money, a "blatant cash grab" is typically the name assigned to things done to make money with less than the expected effort or at the expense of customers instead of their benefit.


First World Problems

Haha, 'the SM dex is such a benefit to my life, but that new harly dex is at my expense, screw them!' cause we need both to eat.
We're on an internet forum talking about little man dollies. Everything we talk about is a first world problem. Every company is out to make money, that doesn't even need to be mentioned because it's blatantly obvious, but a distinction is made between "blatant cash grab" and "just going about the business of making money".
   
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I suspect the fourth WD issue will have an example battle. My guess is it's against a Slaanesh themed army, which would be my preference as I also have a collection of them.

Reviewing the Formations again, I finally bothered to read one more carefully and discovered the limitation of one unit getting the Hit & Run re-embark rule rather than all units. I have to admit that dampened my enthusiasm a little bit, but it's still a nice little trick to pull off on your opponent.

Favorite formation: the one that grants rerolls of 1s for invul saves. Huge!
Least favorite: The skyweaver/voidweaver formation. Not because it's weak. Rather, I like infantry too much.

I have to say I like the incentive GW built in to selecting a Troupe Master as the warlord. It has the same number of wounds as the SS and DJ, so no loss there. The added benefit of rolling fully on all Harlequin warlord tables combined with the Flip Belt rule granting 2+ LO,S! to it make it a very solid equivalent to a standard HQ. Fluffy and effective.

   
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There have been no leaked pics of the upcoming White Dwarf yet. Maybe there isnt much new in it we havent seen already and people dont care to post it. The new Deathjester and Shadowseer are still to be released. There is a well done comparison of the new and old models using last weeks White Dwarf photos on The Elder Thoughts blog.





@Tannhauser

There was a sprue comparison photo of the Starweaver and Venom on Warseer but I could not find it. The Starweavers canopy is between 0.5 and 1 cm larger on each side if you center the Venom canopy on top of it. I hope that helps.

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I found the Starweaver sprue pic. By Eversor on Warseer

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Gosport, UK

I like how similar they made the DJ and SS. They've even kept the little shurikens in the base on the DJ.
   
 
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