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GaroRobe wrote: Sure is a lot of lore around Beastgrave. What are the chances GW is going to move this story forward via an Underworld competition? Whichever warband of the 8 this season wins the tournament accomplishes their goal, that sort of thing.
Skinks win, they trick the mountain to destroy themselves. Lumineth calm it, orruks kill it, Hedonites turn it into the chaos diety, etc.
Doubt it, but it would be so dam cool if they did.
They tried that with Eye of Terror and Storm of Chaos.
Sadly, people on the internet got salty when it turned out both campaigns were won by the side with the greater number of players, because that’s how averages tend to work.
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If memory serves;
The Chaos won the Eye of Terror campaign and GW had to say basically they won the ground war but not the space war to explain why this didn't result in a race for Terra.
And in Storm of Chaos, the grand sweeping narrative of Order vs Chaos was won by... the Orks! So they had Grimgor rock up, kicking the snot out of Valten and Archaon then just wondering off after making both of them look like weaklings XD
So for me they were both fiascos for the opposite reason, an unexpected faction won but GW didn't follow thorugh and booked a Dusty finish to expain why Chaos and Orks didn't technically win or change anything XD
The Nemesis Crown or Medusa V campaigns are examples of how you handle a campaign like this well, including not promising earth shattering consequences.
The Eye of Terror thing was legit; Imperial battefleets absolutely pasted chaos in the BFG half of the campaign. Not really surprising since the imperial fleet composition was specifically designed to counter chaos-aligned raiders and the speed advantages chaos had weren’t super useful when trying to besiege or defend a planet.
"Three months? I'm going to go crazy …and I'm taking you with me!"
— Vala Mal Doran
More recently, didn't AOS do that with the cities in the realm of life? Forces of order overwhelming won the three or so campaigns/battle compilations, so the cities weren't destroyed by chaos or orruks and were allowed to expand in the lore.
With AOS/Underworlds, the lore is constantly expanding. So it shouldn't matter who wins Beastgrave, since otherwise, it's unlikely to ever be resolved, despite the plot expanding in other places.
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Yeah they have done it before with AoS and despite numerous people absolutely insisting it would be ret-conned or never referred to again the results were incorporated into the lore. For the Seeds of Hope in a pretty big way too. Greywater Fastness which was held by the slimmest margin (the margin of victory seems to have been reflected in the fluff) has featured in numerous stories since, with the desperate measures they went to in order to survive having significant ramifications.
The Malign Portents campaign the players did not ultimately have an affect on the end result (Necroquake) which imo worked fine because GW sort of implied from the start that it was inevitable. What did matter was the things that happened along the way, many of which have not been particularly relevant since but some have been explicitly referred to and are implied that they will matter in the future (we have yet to see if/how much this will play out, but IMO we could have Daemon Prince Khul if a different option had been taken *shakes fist*).
jullevi wrote: I would love to get my hand on Khagra's Ravagers before Seraphon. They were supposed to be released 5 weeks ago but I don't know any shop in Finland that received any. But hey, at least we got our first wave of Codex: Death Guard this week.
I got my preordered one at the beginning of the March. Batch was small and barely covered orders so nothing hit the shelves or so I've heard.
Let's hope things get better soon.
On the note, very excited about Seraphons and definitely make an pre-order. I've been waiting like... 2 seasons.
ooooh. Why couldn't they all have mouths that cool?
Full reveal this Saturday
Also
Spoiler:
FIIIIIIISH
It looks like a squig-fish.....Squish , Not a very threatening name
Bone reaper looks ace though.
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
Man, that is one sweet OBR. I wish I the whole range had faces like that. He looks genuinely disturbing rather than like he was an extra from Masters of the Universe.
Just combine them into the ultimate skellie. Though maybe the Chickenwalker guy's hands would work better. His soul-totem thingy is a bit cooler, since it has a nicer looking ghost
Kiwis' online shop has this weeks preorders up, and we have finally our full 3D preview of the full warband. They surely bring foward The Great Plan.
They cost $75 NZ, and only uses two sprues, which makes the plan of Crendor (WoW and no WarhammerCrendor) of buying like 5 boxes something reasonable.
And, for 225 points, we can send the Starblood Stalker to the battlefield of the Mortal Realms. They have the Keywords COALESCED, THUNDER LIZARD, which surprised me a lot because I expected them to be neutral.
CMLR wrote: Kiwis' online shop has this weeks preorders up, and we have finally our full 3D preview of the full warband. They surely bring foward The Great Plan.
They cost $75 NZ, and only uses two sprues, which makes the plan of Crendor (WoW and no WarhammerCrendor) of buying like 5 boxes something reasonable.
And, for 225 points, we can send the Starblood Stalker to the battlefield of the Mortal Realms. They have the Keywords COALESCED, THUNDER LIZARD, which surprised me a lot because I expected them to be neutral.
225 points may seem hefty but they're actually not that bad. Not as ridiculous as the obviously mispriced Morgwaeth's Bladecoven (which gives you a Hag Queen with a better weapon for LESS points than a Hag Queen plus some bodyguard chaff. Whoops.) but not that bad. The only major downer here is the Thunder Lizard keyword. You get a Priest who can use his command ability of +1 to hit on the Stalkers for free, an entire unit that can deploy and ambush and a Saurus oldblood with a decent number of attacks who functions as a Ld boost for them.
Initial impressions
Skinks are skinks. Eh. The core unit of 4 models isn't that special or amazing. They can deploy in ambush. Have meh damage and attacks. Suspect their sole purpose is to be chaff for the Chameleon Skink.
Kixi-Taka - Standard Skink Priest with one bonus wound - actually,that's important as the Coalesced keyword means they deduct 1 damage from all attacks that hit them. Have the 2 standard Priest abilities. The roll of a 3+ save boost (that becomes 2+ on Starblood Stalkers - AND turns them into a 4+ save for the buckler skinks - that might be useful). Command ability is free if used on Starblood Stalkers - so not too shabby. Makes them very self sufficient as a blob.
Klaq-Trok - Saurus Oldblood with a worse save but 1 inch more movement. No command ability. BUT he gets to deploy in ambush with the others so you can throw the mini murder machine of attacks into something fairly quickly.
Thunder Lizard is probably the worst bit. Pointswise they seem efficient? Depends on how much you value that ambush.
Kainen is awesome. The rest are okay I guess (for OBR), the yelling one looks pretty derpy. Not my favorite Warband of the season, but I’m not a huge fan of the OBR heads, so I think I’m not the target audience for this one.
, Not a very threatening name 
