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 Haight wrote:

Like it or not, it has a high propensity of being part of GW's strategy to keep WHFB alive and well. If you like the game, even if you personally don't like the idea of allies, you should really want SOME sort of ally strategy to succeed, because it's going to get people buying things again.

They already have that in the form of "Scrolls of Binding" and "Battlescrolls" when it comes to the big monsters.

Another reason for a introduction to a sort of allies system for fantasy on the most part if your army is one scheme for painting having a optional core from another faction would be a breath of fresh air honestly I have painted up 50 plaguebearers and at the moment my army looks very green with some smidging of detail.

 Kaligoth wrote:
Another reason for a introduction to a sort of allies system for fantasy on the most part if your army is one scheme for painting having a optional core from another faction would be a breath of fresh air honestly I have painted up 50 plaguebearers and at the moment my army looks very green with some smidging of detail.

You can paint them any colour you like. They are "chaos" so can be anything.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Haight wrote:

Like it or not, it has a high propensity of being part of GW's strategy to keep WHFB alive and well. If you like the game, even if you personally don't like the idea of allies, you should really want SOME sort of ally strategy to succeed, because it's going to get people buying things again.

They already have that in the form of "Scrolls of Binding" and "Battlescrolls" when it comes to the big monsters.

Yup. But that didn't work out real well. How often do you see people playing Storm of Magic ?

Personally, i never see it, and i see resistance to "supplemental" rules all the time. Half of it is prior abuse ; supplemental rules have a nasty habit of coming and going, eventual obsolescence, and being rejected by opponents for a variety of reasons spanning the understandable, to stupid, to good. Dogs of War anyone ?

The funny part is that scrolls were a really elegant way of keeping both camps happy ; people that wanted some allies got them, and those that didn't want them didn't see Lothern Sea Guard to the left of Mournfang Cav, with a VC lord on coven throne directing everyone (stupid examples used on purpose).

For this reason i'm hoping its a shift to core rules. Just me though.

Also Storm of Magic dipped its toes into the "more than one faction in a single player's army". Allies or mercenaries rules would be the equivalent, in comparison, to doing a cannonball.

I mean, apparently is WHFB does "allies", it will be in the form of The End Times books. Which, is okay by me, since its specific armies that make sense to fight alongside eachother, and it's by using the certain rules in the new book. It won't ever be like the Ally rules for 40k. (Or so we al hope)

I might be wrong, but isn;t there already a section on allies in the 8th edition book in the back? Don't own one any more (gave it to a charity shop) so can't check.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I might be wrong, but isn;t there already a section on allies in the 8th edition book in the back? Don't own one any more (gave it to a charity shop) so can't check.

For the case of team battles with more players but for 1v1 its not allowed