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chaos0xomega wrote:

kenshin620 wrote:

Also Golgfag's story is pretty funny! Hes "The most interesting ogre in the world"

I am so modeling him with a keg labeled 'XX'

Only 2 Xs

Dos Equis means two X's in spanish... DUH...

The alternative is 'XXXXXXXXXXXX' (12 X's or Doce Equis, but thats not obvious enough...)

Dunno if it's been posted or not, but Advanced Orders are up!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440004a&rootCatGameStyle=wh

chaos0xomega wrote:Dos Equis means two X's in spanish... DUH...

The alternative is 'XXXXXXXXXXXX' (12 X's or Doce Equis, but thats not obvious enough...)

Thanks, that explains absolutely nothing.

Hooray, advance orders. i don't think GW have put out this many models at once, I hope this is how they die the SOB!, that would be great.

I am kinda disapointed that DE took so long to be finished (Its still not). Same thing with Tyranids, its been a long while now.

Grey Templar wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Dos Equis means two X's in spanish... DUH...

The alternative is 'XXXXXXXXXXXX' (12 X's or Doce Equis, but thats not obvious enough...)

Thanks, that explains absolutely nothing.

Have you never seen a Dos Equis commercial!?

Watch and be enlightened:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dos+equis+most+interesting+man+in+the+world&aq=f

chaos0xomega wrote:Dos Equis means two X's in spanish... DUH...

The alternative is 'XXXXXXXXXXXX' (12 X's or Doce Equis, but thats not obvious enough...)

(Goldfag is surrounded by "beautiful" ogre women)
I dont always drink beer but when I do I prefer Doce Equis. Stay thirsty my friends!

kenshin620 wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Dos Equis means two X's in spanish... DUH...

The alternative is 'XXXXXXXXXXXX' (12 X's or Doce Equis, but thats not obvious enough...)

(Goldfag is surrounded by "beautiful" ogre women)
I dont always drink beer but when I do I prefer Doce Equis. Stay thirsty my friends!

Lol, I'm so doing it now, haha. I pictured it, and read it in the Most interesting man in the world voice, and it just sounded perfect...

Need to put 'Imported from Estalia' on there too

Ahhh, I get it now.

thats actually quite funny.

kenshin620 wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Dos Equis means two X's in spanish... DUH...

The alternative is 'XXXXXXXXXXXX' (12 X's or Doce Equis, but thats not obvious enough...)

(Goldfag is surrounded by "beautiful" ogre women)
I dont always drink beer but when I do I prefer Doce Equis. Stay thirsty my friends!

Now we need to do Golfag commercials, for Bugman's new brand of course.

When they say they have re-packed iron guts and the ogre troops what exactly have they done ?

Yugsor2011 wrote:When they say they have re-packed iron guts and the ogre troops what exactly have they done ?

They have gotten rid of the art on the front of the boxes, it is now the models on a back drop. This brings the ogres in line with the rest of the Warhammer and 40k ranges.

Not anything special really.

They made ogres pink so they're less offensive to mongols.

As a mongol, the only thing that offended me was the price tag of the codex

MaximusPrime wrote:I am kinda disapointed that DE took so long to be finished (Its still not)

DE had a very strong launch release and an amazing amount of support in their first year. I find it hard to gripe when GW are actually improving in this respect (if not in others).


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ShatteredBlade wrote: As a mongol, the only thing that offended me was the price tag of the codex

Welcome to Fantasy. Expect 40K to go down this route too come 6th Edition. It's a shame because I enjoyed collecting all the books, but it's not really feasible anymore. That said, the full colour hardbacks are kind of nice and it might stop me trying to collect every army that comes out

Surtur wrote:They made ogres pink so they're less offensive to mongols.

Seriously? This really cannot be the reason, there has to be some rationale with the change. I personally liked the old scheme as it showed they were not large humans, they were a separate race in their own right, now they just look like miniature versions of the average GW manager's meeting.

I think the pink skin approach is purely to make them look better and thus sell more models.

Hmm I thought it was a revert back to the old ogre skin tones or something. Still its not like you cant paint your ogres any color you want

Surtur wrote:They made ogres pink so they're less offensive to mongols.

Ogres always used to be pink. Look at Bloodbowl art for the old school version of ogres.

Bloodwin wrote:

Surtur wrote:They made ogres pink so they're less offensive to mongols.

Ogres always used to be pink. Look at Bloodbowl art for the old school version of ogres.

They also never used to be fat-that-is-actually-loads-of-muscle, Great Maw worshipping, eastern-based Mercenaries* either. GW changed their flesh to accentuate the fact Ogres are not human, I can paint mine however I want, I just seriously do not get this backwards step.


*Okay they were Mercs in the past.

Love the new Ogre models, but it's hard to decide what to buy when there's no preview copy of the army book in stores. When GW decided to do away with "black box" model previews it would have been smart to at least continue army book previews. A lot of customers plan what and how much to buy based on game effects, point values, etc. Without that people will hold more of their money another week till they see the book. That's a marketing "no brainer", if you want the money sooner rather than later give stores a preview copy when the new range goes up for advance order.

Why is the codex so expensive? there can't be a price raise already?

Could someone explain it to me? I don't normally see fantasy prices

Marthike wrote:Why is the codex so expensive? there can't be a price raise already?

Could someone explain it to me? I don't normally see fantasy prices

They've been like that since the first 8th edition book. Also technically its called an Army Book, not Codex

Marthike wrote:Why is the codex so expensive? there can't be a price raise already?

Could someone explain it to me? I don't normally see fantasy prices

Hardcover and color.

kenshin620 wrote:

Marthike wrote:Why is the codex so expensive? there can't be a price raise already?

Could someone explain it to me? I don't normally see fantasy prices

They've been like that since the first 8th edition book. Also technically its called an Army Book, not Codex

Actually they did raise the prices on the army books at the time of the last price rise. Must be to recoup all of the Failcast inside them obviously.

Actually they made a price rise on the Tomb King army book several days after its release

BrassScorpion wrote:When GW decided to do away with "black box" model previews it would have been smart to at least continue army book previews. A lot of customers plan what and how much to buy based on game effects, point values, etc. Without that people will hold more of their money another week till they see the book.

And as most retailers would say I believe, people holding onto their money for an extra week doesn't mean they're going to spend it the next one... you end up with lost revenue that you'll never recover. I.e., when there's inclement weather (like the hurricane passing through our area currently ) businesses lose a lot of sales that are not made up.

Not having the army book in stores for people to look at is Going to make them lose sales... just insane.

It DID result in me buying a white dwarf to satisfy my curiosity, but in the end it makes me less likely to buy the army book, as I'll have lost the impulse buy craving for it by then.

New battalion: still worth the price, or has it gone all Tomb Kings?

Tomb Kings IIRC are exactly the same, this at least gives you two extra ironguts in place of gnoblars. If theres one thing you need its more ogres

(plus $105 vs $120 at full retail!)

Do we know anything about Ogre Magic other than the Passive and Signiture?

general break down,


Lore attribute is Bloodgruel. 2+ butcher gains a wound, 1 takes a str6 hit.

Sig spell is Stubborn. can be boosted to effect everyone within a radius.

Bonecruncher, same as before.

Bullgorger +1 Str. can be boosted to effect a radius

Toothcracker +1T, can be boosted to effect radius.

Trollguts, regeneration. can be boosted to effect radius.

Braingobbler. can be boosted to effect radius. same effect as before.

The Great Maw. Small template, scatters like a stone thrower. if it miscasts, our opponent gets to place it. Its an I test for each model. if passed, models take a str4 hit. if failed they take str6 hits that do D3 multiple wounds(IIRC) can be boosted to be large template.