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H.B.M.C. wrote:

BrookM wrote:...but then again I play for fun.

I'd like you show me someone who doesn't play for fun.

BYE

A lot of people around here and the places I go in the UK seem to stick to the stuff that wins games instead of you know, fielding models because they look good or have rules that appeal to you. For example I use Kommandos because of their background and the militaristic models, even though a lot of people find them crappy. Other people always give me the whole "ugh drop them and field something proper or just give your nobs klaws instead of big choppas" blah blah blah.

Fun also doesn't come into the equation of tournament play from my experiences. They just want to play the damn game as quickly as possible and get their effing trophy.

I also can't help but notice that IA 6 doesn't feature any rules for the Minotaur, so would this mean that we'll now have to wait another year for its rules?

You would be correct. There's something very... unfinished about this book. I know Warrick says that, being the middle part of a trilogy, it has no real beginning and no real end - and that's fair enough - but I can't help but feel that they didn't really have enough for a full book, or for some reason didn't want to include the Nurgle stuff.

The first one of these was chock full of stuff. This one just seems to be a vehicle for making the Reaver as popular as ever.

I just really wish it didn't take them a year to do each book. I want to get to IA8, as I hope it's either a Guard/Eldar/Orks book, or an AdMech book.

BYE

I'm inclined to agree that it's an annoyance that we're stuck in Vraks for another two years. If we're lucky, something interesting will come of it. Chaos Marines, Daemons, Daemonhunters, perhaps, and of course the much-awaited daemon engines.

But yeah, I want to see Orks in the limelight. Or Necrons.

Vraks 3 will have Nurgle, some random Imperial vehicles such as the Minotaur and daemonic engines, such as the FW version of the Brass Scorpion and their Keeper of Secrets. Imperial Armour 8 will most likely revolve around the Imperium versus Orks judging from the upcoming Ork conversion packs and kits. This is something the designers over at FW have time and time again: each IA campaign book will be told from the perspective of the Imperium.

I really want the next book (even if it's a two-parter), to be about a war between the Imperium and the Eldar, who then have to join forces to fight the Orks.

Those could even be the parts, giving you a book of new Imperium stuff (I'm fine with the Imperium-centric POV as well), as well as the backlog of Eldar stuff (so their current Eldar range, plus whatever new stuff they come up with), and then the next book has the arrival of the Orks, with all the Ork stuff they do (Fighters, Bomberz, Squiggoths, etc.) plus loads of new Orky stuff, plus new Imperial and Eldar anti-Ork stuff.

It has loads of potential and would also clear a massive backlog of existing models.

BYE

still havent resieved my book :(

Imperium and Eldar teaming up on the Orks? That is so cliché! I'd prefer to see it end this time round by both of them double-teaming on the Orks only for the Imperium to break the truce at the end of the battle and backstab the Eldar.

On an unrelated IA note, I do hope that FW produces models that won't seem out of place due to rules; like the carapace armour toting Krieg guardsman with vox caster in the command squad.

Just to ask, how do the new Renegade Rules measure up to the old lost and the damned rules?

Completely different.

The Renegade list is just Spiky Guard w/a few Berzerker units thrown in for fun. The epitome of Warick's obession with Copy/Paste really.

BYE

True, at least they kept the random LD values for most Renegade units, that one is a fun addition to such an army, especially when your commander has Ld 5 and some suicide squad has Ld 10.