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angelofvengeance wrote: Looks like I'm not the only one who likes the brain rat lol. What better way to protect the little critter than a 9ft slab of death-dealing muscle?
It's okay, but I'd rather they have some sort of packmaster instead.
angelofvengeance wrote: Looks like I'm not the only one who likes the brain rat lol. What better way to protect the little critter than a 9ft slab of death-dealing muscle?
It's okay, but I'd rather they have some sort of packmaster instead.
I actually like brain rat! I think I'm even going to buy him... even though I don't own any skaven outside starter box and... Advanced HeroQuest
I think I've been buying so many Skaven lately to make up for the fact that I never got Advanced Hero Quest (or Warhammer Quest) as a kid.
I figure with the myriad of dungeon crawlers I've either got or will get eventually, I'll just make my own damn updated version of the games since GW won't ever bother.
Dungeon Saga might be a good fit for the rats once Mantic gets around to releasing it.
Poorly lit photos of my ever- growing collection of completely unrelated models!
Bi'ios wrote: a gun arm (even though the rat ogre doesn't shoot at all, but w/e)
The gun arm had rules in the Lustria campaign book's Pestilens army list. It's a filth/disease thrower.
Why it was(and still is) exclusive to that single army list is a mystery.
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Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
I think the cables, the drills for arms, the arm-mounted ratling guns, the telepathic little rat thing on the stormfiends back and their robot legs takes this much further.
I am quite sure most classic fantasy elements, like the high elves, lizardmen, dwarves, halflings, bretonnians and more will be purged, and we will be left with a quais-sci-fi game, where the different bubbles of reality that the factions floats around in, just represents planetary worlds in sci fi.
I do also think this was a step to far and even if in the past skaven always had crazy stuff going on, this last release is more like skaven in space than Skaven with some futuristc gear... Yeah they always had it but not spammed to this degree. The models look great if you take 75% of the gear off.
I wonder where's all this fervour surrounding the Lizardmen army being 'squatted' comes from?
They've not been fully wiped out, as far as I've read, like the minor factions in the fluff (Tilea) who did meet their end at the hands of the Skaven.
The Lizzies weathered a brutal onslaught and absconded in a giant space temple.
What's to say they're not going to land it on some Skaven and re-take what's left of the smouldering ruins of Lustria?
Ulthuan's disappeared beneath the waves and naggarond lies in ruin, though I've not heard anyone declate that the High Elves and Dark Elves have been squatted?
So far it sounds as though everything is fitting into the theme of the rumoured 9th edition where the races exist in small 'bubbles', separated from one another.
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Scrub wrote: I wonder where's all this fervour surrounding the Lizardmen army being 'squatted' comes from?
They've not been fully wiped out, as far as I've read, like the minor factions in the fluff (Tilea) who did meet their end at the hands of the Skaven.
The Lizzies weathered a brutal onslaught and absconded in a giant space temple.
What's to say they're not going to land it on some Skaven and re-take what's left of the smouldering ruins of Lustria?
Ulthuan's disappeared beneath the waves and naggarond lies in ruin, though I've not heard anyone declate that the High Elves and Dark Elves have been squatted?
So far it sounds as though everything is fitting into the theme of the rumoured 9th edition where the races exist in small 'bubbles', separated from one another.
Yeah because we know exactly where the Elves are now, whereas so far we haven't been told anything about where the Lizardmen will end up. Big difference between a land sinking and the race now being somewhere else, and a piece of land literally flying away into space. Combined with the uncertain future of Fantasy I can see why people are worried for the future of Lizardmen.
Scrub wrote: I wonder where's all this fervour surrounding the Lizardmen army being 'squatted' comes from?
They've not been fully wiped out, as far as I've read, like the minor factions in the fluff (Tilea) who did meet their end at the hands of the Skaven.
The Lizzies weathered a brutal onslaught and absconded in a giant space temple.
What's to say they're not going to land it on some Skaven and re-take what's left of the smouldering ruins of Lustria?
Ulthuan's disappeared beneath the waves and naggarond lies in ruin, though I've not heard anyone declate that the High Elves and Dark Elves have been squatted?
So far it sounds as though everything is fitting into the theme of the rumoured 9th edition where the races exist in small 'bubbles', separated from one another.
Yeah because we know exactly where the Elves are now, whereas so far we haven't been told anything about where the Lizardmen will end up. Big difference between a land sinking and the race now being somewhere else, and a piece of land literally flying away into space. Combined with the uncertain future of Fantasy I can see why people are worried for the future of Lizardmen.
People do remember there's Lizardmen in places other than just Lustria, right?
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Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
ImAGeek wrote: Actually no I had forgotten that. Good point.
I doubt they'll get rid of the Southlands Lizards either since Nagash is to their north. It looks like they're really just eliminating the East and the West so that everything concentrates on the two middle continents.
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You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
ImAGeek wrote: Actually no I had forgotten that. Good point.
I doubt they'll get rid of the Southlands Lizards either since Nagash is to their north. It looks like they're really just eliminating the East and the West so that everything concentrates on the two middle continents.
Hopefully. I wouldn't put anything past them but I hope they don't get rid of the Lizardmen.
Scrub wrote: I wonder where's all this fervour surrounding the Lizardmen army being 'squatted' comes from?
They've not been fully wiped out, as far as I've read, like the minor factions in the fluff (Tilea) who did meet their end at the hands of the Skaven.
The Lizzies weathered a brutal onslaught and absconded in a giant space temple.
What's to say they're not going to land it on some Skaven and re-take what's left of the smouldering ruins of Lustria?
Ulthuan's disappeared beneath the waves and naggarond lies in ruin, though I've not heard anyone declate that the High Elves and Dark Elves have been squatted?
So far it sounds as though everything is fitting into the theme of the rumoured 9th edition where the races exist in small 'bubbles', separated from one another.
Yeah because we know exactly where the Elves are now, whereas so far we haven't been told anything about where the Lizardmen will end up. Big difference between a land sinking and the race now being somewhere else, and a piece of land literally flying away into space. Combined with the uncertain future of Fantasy I can see why people are worried for the future of Lizardmen.
We do know where the Lizards have gone, though... they're aboard a temple shaped rocket ship!
For me, this is the big difference between being written out of the fluff, as has been the case with the poor Tileans and being given an opportunity to be written in during a later book.
"Archaon, reveling in his moment of glory, standing upon the ashes of Altdorf was unceremoniously crushed, along with his evil army by a giant asteroid filled with Lizardmen"
Scrub wrote: "Archaon, reveling in his moment of glory, standing upon the ashes of Altdorf was unceremoniously crushed, along with his evil army by a giant asteroid filled with Lizardmen"
Ork roks, but better.
Oh da grand ol' Duke of Ork
'e 'ad ten fousand boyz.
'E marched 'em up to da top ov da hill
an den dey made some noise!
An wen dey woz up dey woz up!
An wen dey woz loud dey woz loud!
An wen dey woz both up an loud
dey made all da grots go deff!
migooo wrote: But the lizards have no direction without the Slaan They often revert to barbarism like in the Dragon isles.
The Slann often give few or no instructions. It is largely skink priests interpreting their yawns and belches.
Yep. In the absence of Slaan, Skinks tend to take charge.
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
Tbh having just read book IV - the Lizardmen are in a better place than the Dwarves - they are being systimatically eradicated from all their holds...............
Its amusing that Archaon is only now attacking when there is virtually nothing left to fight........except perhaps the lands of the Far East and the Undead.
Describing book IV to a friend:
Lots of Elf-things, Man-things, Green-things, Dwarf-things, Lizard-things, Chaos-things, Frog-things and false-traitor Skaven Die-die
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I AM A MARINE PLAYER
"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
Hulksmash wrote: I kinda love the brain rat. I'm glad whoever green lights these things is working for GW
Who run skaventown?
Master blaster run skaventown.
Bust a deal, face the Doomwheel!
"The 75mm gun is firing. The 37mm gun is firing, but is traversed round the wrong way. The Browning is jammed. I am saying "Driver, advance." and the driver, who can't hear me, is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret and see twelve enemy tanks fifty yards away, someone hands me a cheese sandwich."
Gav at Irresistible Force in Brisbane has four copies of the hardcover on his counter, and they're for sale.
Re: Lizardmen.
Holy crap, they fought well. They certainly gave better than they got, its enough to make me feel proud to be a Lizardmen player.
Survivors:
Spoiler:
Re: survivors, there are two groups. There's the group that went in the space temples, this includes ALL of the slann, lots of skink attendants, and misc others. The second group of survivors, led by (ascended?) Kroq-gar, are in the bubbles that Kroak made.
Since all the special characters that we know survived ended up in the bubbles... I'm guessing that the bubbles come back, but the space temples don't.
Therefore, future lizardmen would be slann-less.
Oh, and skaven looters found a magic radio, suggestion that they were hearing the voices of elves/eldar.
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I wanted to get in on fantasy for 9th, but I am worried that my purchases wont be in the new books, and my area dosent stay in old editions, no matter how much better they may be. How do I even know what I can buy? This has got to be costing them as much money in model sales as it is generating in book sales if not more.
warhammer 40k mmo. If I can drive an ork trukk into the back of a space marine dread and explode in a fireball of epic, I can die happy!
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