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I don't care how silly they are as a concept- skeletons surfing on snakes has absolutely mademy day.

I was hoping that the 'big monster' part of the relaes would be the Bone Giant, but I'm not going to complain about the Sphinx. I can work with that.

(Also, why does every single GW thread on here have to turn into an economics debate? :( 's getting old, folks, and we're all just saying the same thing over and over and over and...)

Misguidance wrote:I don't care how silly they are as a concept- skeletons surfing on snakes has absolutely mademy day.

I was hoping that the 'big monster' part of the relaes would be the Bone Giant, but I'm not going to complain about the Sphinx. I can work with that.

(Also, why does every single GW thread on here have to turn into an economics debate? :( 's getting old, folks, and we're all just saying the same thing over and over and over and...)

Hey I tried to turn this one into a photoshop thread...

Misguidance wrote:I don't care how silly they are as a concept- skeletons surfing on snakes has absolutely mademy day.

I was hoping that the 'big monster' part of the relaes would be the Bone Giant, but I'm not going to complain about the Sphinx. I can work with that.

(Also, why does every single GW thread on here have to turn into an economics debate? :( 's getting old, folks, and we're all just saying the same thing over and over and over and...)

I for one like the Knights and if they're a decent price points wise, I think I'll grab a unit of them and 2-3 Sphinxes. Not sure about Tomb Guard. Hopefully my LGS will have the codex in by Saturday.

Hahah, very nice!

Lord Scythican wrote:

Misguidance wrote:I don't care how silly they are as a concept- skeletons surfing on snakes has absolutely mademy day.

I was hoping that the 'big monster' part of the relaes would be the Bone Giant, but I'm not going to complain about the Sphinx. I can work with that.

(Also, why does every single GW thread on here have to turn into an economics debate? :( 's getting old, folks, and we're all just saying the same thing over and over and over and...)

Hey I tried to turn this one into a photoshop thread...

And I applaud your efforts. Also, I really want to see that Thousand Sons... thing... made into reality.

...I wonder how much in the way of spare parts we will get in the Sphinx box? If thre is enough, I bet it would be a great place to get som scenery stuff and conversion bits.

Misguidance wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:

Misguidance wrote:I don't care how silly they are as a concept- skeletons surfing on snakes has absolutely mademy day.

I was hoping that the 'big monster' part of the relaes would be the Bone Giant, but I'm not going to complain about the Sphinx. I can work with that.

(Also, why does every single GW thread on here have to turn into an economics debate? :( 's getting old, folks, and we're all just saying the same thing over and over and over and...)

Hey I tried to turn this one into a photoshop thread...

And I applaud your efforts. Also, I really want to see that Thousand Sons... thing... made into reality.

...I wonder how much in the way of spare parts we will get in the Sphinx box? If thre is enough, I bet it would be a great place to get som scenery stuff and conversion bits.

I bet there is a lot. I know everything that I used in the mockup could be considered spare parts. I have a feeling this conversion will be a very popular one since the bitz will not hurt the model (if you do the option with the riders).

EDIT: I forgot the tail on the other pic.

TBD wrote:Every customer, no matter whatever you are buying, should demand to get the best value for his/her money's worth. That is what this is all about.

Ask your wife/girl-friend how many plastic toy soldiers are the best value for your money

march10k wrote:

Origin:
1650–60

Aye, but Calvin and Hobbes comics are the only place the term's been used in hundreds of years. I'd lay a dollar against your pastry of choice that the author's more familar with comic books than he is with 17th century English!

I doubt that 1 American comic is the ONLY place it's been used in hundreds of years.

I honestly can't believe that you're trying to argue this. The GW author got the word from the same place Waterson did: a Thesaurus. I doubt a newspaper comic that ended 15 years ago is where he got it from.

Can one of our British users say if Calvin and Hobbes even RAN in Britain, much less was popular?

I'm aware of Calvin & Hobbes, but I wouldn't say it was well known over here.

Kroothawk wrote:

TBD wrote:Every customer, no matter whatever you are buying, should demand to get the best value for his/her money's worth. That is what this is all about.

Ask your wife/girl-friend how many plastic toy soldiers are the best value for your money

I love it. Haha I have had this conversation with my girl many a time. "But babe, that is sixty bucks, that's a lot of money, don't you want a new guitar?"

Yeah I got my new guitar and a dark eldar raider. So I win!

Kroothawk wrote:

TBD wrote:Every customer, no matter whatever you are buying, should demand to get the best value for his/her money's worth. That is what this is all about.

Ask your wife/girl-friend how many plastic toy soldiers are the best value for your money

My wife says: Whatever amount keeps me playing.

She'd rather I play with little men than go out drinking or hanging around places where there are other women. She's a jealous type.

Come up with a dreadnaught Photoshop using the Sphinx kit now. I need to see how epic a 1k sons army could look.

march10k wrote:

Origin:
1650–60

Aye, but Calvin and Hobbes comics are the only place the term's been used in hundreds of years. I'd lay a dollar against your pastry of choice that the author's more familar with comic books than he is with 17th century English!

A simple Google search will show you just how colossally wrong you are. There's software, marketing plans and even a freakin' rock band called Transmogrify.

I've been a TK player for as long as they've existed as a distinct faction.

I had a big load of Undead as my first WH collection, and when the VC/TK split happened I went for the Egyptian looking guys.

I stuck with 'em through years of playing a Ravening Hordes list. Having a perfectly disciplined army of dopey skellies was fun. I even won a fair few games, largely from my opponents having no clue of how to handle the army. In fact, one game got me my first job as a Redshirt.

When they got an army book, I went all out and bought the mega army deal and a bunch of extras. I went conversion crazy and ended up with the cast of a Discworld book. GW at the time having a sense of humour and self-deprecation, I was even allowed by management to use my Seagull Carrion, Pharoah-led Assassins and Camel-riding Priestess in-store.

So I had to build my own Sphinx and use the Scorpion rules for it because some moron decided that an army obviously based on Egyptian pantheism shouldn't have a Sphinx despite said army having a Sphinx in Warmaster. So I couldn't participate in small lunchtime skirmish games due to having to take two expensive characters. I had the finest generals in the game, orchestrating devastating flank charges with a 100% success rate in breaking and wiping out units prior to hibernation.

It was Skull Pass that put them into hibernation. I always wanted a pure Night Goblin army (none of this 'using NG figures to crew regular Goblin artillery' malarky; if you don't chew mushies and live in a cave, you're not in my army) with a load of pet Trolls, and here was my chance. I loves my little unpredictable gobbos. Vaguely herding them towards enemies and waiting for something horrible to happen to someone else was a far more enjoyable game experience than advancing a cavalry line, forcing through an 'incantation of charging you in the ass' through sheer weight of numbers, and sweeping up the board. But I knew that some time there'd be a new release of the Khemri massive, and I'd get back in the chariot to civilise the savage races.

Hmm.

I think I'm going to start saving up to build these Skull Pass leftovers up into the Spider Tribe goblin army I promised myself...


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Platuan4th wrote:

march10k wrote:

Origin:
1650–60

Aye, but Calvin and Hobbes comics are the only place the term's been used in hundreds of years. I'd lay a dollar against your pastry of choice that the author's more familar with comic books than he is with 17th century English!

I doubt that 1 American comic is the ONLY place it's been used in hundreds of years.

I honestly can't believe that you're trying to argue this. The GW author got the word from the same place Waterson did: a Thesaurus. I doubt a newspaper comic that ended 15 years ago is where he got it from.

Can one of our British users say if Calvin and Hobbes even RAN in Britain, much less was popular?

All I can say is that it was stocked in bookstores as much as The Far Side, it was fairly well-known amongst my circle of friends, and that a number of that circle (myself included) loved C&H to pieces. Wouldn't be astonishing if this was where the GW designer first encountered the word.

I just tend to bring up economics, as that's part of the incentive to buying new models. If I can get the new plastics for $41.25 USD, or the old metals at the same quantity for $45 USD, and I prefer the old metals more, it... doesn't give me much incentive to get the new plastics.

I still intend to try getting some of the Stalkers, as I love the models, but then I was originally thinking of a second box. With them as they are now? Just a single box is all I really have space for in my budget. I don't think it's much a problem to talk about economics when it's relevant, just a problem when you jump in a thread, go "Guardsmen were 20 for $30 :V", then jump back out after causing the damage.

Wonder whether the new Undead will keep the "Arrows always hit on 5+" special rule? The "Numbers mean your low BS won't matter!" comment leads me to believe a resounding "No".

Minsc wrote:Wonder whether the new Undead will keep the "Arrows always hit on 5+" special rule? The "Numbers mean your low BS won't matter!" comment leads me to believe a resounding "No".

I think I read in the Incoming article that the 'no modifiers to hit' rule still holds true. Cant' confirm it though, since the Incoming article seems to have vanished from GW's site.

Can someone confirm? Anyone?

They look horrid.

Those Sphinxes are beautiful creations, and while the Skeleton surfers look pretty ridiculous you can still make the other type of Snake

I like the skeletons. I really dislike the snakes.

While the sphinx looks impressive, I don't think it really blends well with a TK army.


I suppose all that I can say for the moment is that the new models alone aren't necessarily going to be enough to cause me to pull out my old TK army and make the jump to 8th edition.

I think we all need to remember where GW growth comes from. If models look childish, think for a minute... Perhaps they are going for a 12-16 year old demographic to try and get young people playing the game. Maybe these models were supposed to look cool to a 12 year old who will start with Tomb Kings and play warhammer for the next ten years. It is smart for them to design some armies for young players who will later switch over to a more mature looking army.

-Jim

@ my FLGS I herd that the book is not ready yet and will not be included with the models in the black box. Can someone confirm this please.

I'm loving all the models, personally.

I mean, the Sphinx just looks COOL.

I think they could have done a lot better on the new army book cover art, though.


Damn...I may have to start ANOTHER army....

Does anyone know if the scorpion is still around? He is still for sale on the website, but I don't see the model anywhere in the pics that just came out.

-Jim

JimLofa wrote:Does anyone know if the scorpion is still around? He is still for sale on the website, but I don't see the model anywhere in the pics that just came out.

-Jim

If you look on the Tomb Kings Return on GW's site, there are two scorpions in the upper left corner, painted black.

Any news on the new rules for magic and how it works for em?
Sorry if it's already been posted, but this thread is tl;dr.

Lore of Nehekhara:

So, it does a minor restoration (not bad!) with every successful casting, in addition to the regular effects.

... In turn, they lost immunity to miscast, immunity to Winds of Magic reliance, and are probably going to be looking at casting values.

So-so. I liked that Nehekharans didn't miscast and had unique stuff, but if Orcs are losing their unique miscast table they might as well lose their own. This would, if I recall right, leave only the Ogres now with their own miscast table, which works because the BRB version of miscasts is nowhere near as terrifying (IMO) to Ogres as it could be.

Speaking of spells, don't forget to pre order early if ya want those spell cards.. they'll be gone before the army book is even out if it's like every other army

Deep striking Hellblaster Volley-snakes....I can dig it....

New use for my Arcane Legions Sphinx....double dig it!!!

Grimgob wrote:@ my FLGS I herd that the book is not ready yet and will not be included with the models in the black box. Can someone confirm this please.

Same here! They said they will ship it out when they finish printing it.