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migooo wrote:

 Harriticus wrote:
If GW did ax Slaanesh over family friendly ness it will be interesting to see how the GW white knights defend this

Exactly how they defended the change from the metal deamonettes to the plastic

The Diaz daemonettes are better sculpts but they're honestly quite uninteresting, basically just naked ladies. The new ones are more interesting but unfortunately worse sculpts.

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:

number9dream wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
I've always found it strange that people are fine with things like Khorne who's aim is to kill and maim anything and everything, but the minute boobs are shown on a model everyone freaks out. It's a weird society where games based on just killing things is fine but human anatomy is some weird taboo.

Seems to be an issue more in certain countries than in other countries (like USA or Europe)

Some interesting links
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/features/galleryoftheday/14266-New-Warhammer-Fantasy-Most-Absurd-Ridiculous-Crazy-Rules

http://captiongenerator.com/48861/Age-of-Sigmar-interview

I would surely be upset, if slaneesh, would be replaced By PolyCarnus friends call him PC, the chaos god who feeds on the cries of those whom are offended by the slightest thing.

number9dream wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yeah but he's not. He's reaching his hand out to smack the mechanism that will, "chuck" the spear. *ahem*

Went through a dozen slang terms for chuck and didn't find anything worse than it being s derogatory term for white males 40+ years ago..

I guess it's some kind of euphenism but google isn't helping me out so it can't be overly widespread?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chucking

oh i thought hmbc was saying it had some kind of derogatory double meaning, but i realize his post was in reply to the guy mentioning the hitler salute. I know the common meaning for chucking, just thought ibwas missing some offensive double meaning.

Spoiler:

H.B.M.C. wrote:

number9dream wrote:
Went through a dozen slang terms for chuck and didn't find anything worse than it being s derogatory term for white males 40+ years ago..

I guess it's some kind of euphenism but google isn't helping me out so it can't be overly widespread?

Spear. Chucker.

It is

Oh yeah, i forgot about this stereotype.

Mymearan wrote:

migooo wrote:

 Harriticus wrote:
If GW did ax Slaanesh over family friendly ness it will be interesting to see how the GW white knights defend this

Exactly how they defended the change from the metal deamonettes to the plastic

The Diaz daemonettes are better sculpts but they're honestly quite uninteresting, basically just naked ladies. The new ones are more interesting but unfortunately worse sculpts.

I'll give you that. A nice medium between the two would be ideal.

I'm not going to say I need bewbs for slaanesh, but it should be seductive, and horrific like the species creature or Kerrigan

As soon as someone mentioned Malekith, I immediately went "oooooh that's what that symbol reminds me of!"

Slanesh got locked up by... Tyrion? The Great Horned Rat took its place I guess.

Mymearan wrote:

migooo wrote:

 Harriticus wrote:
If GW did ax Slaanesh over family friendly ness it will be interesting to see how the GW white knights defend this

Exactly how they defended the change from the metal deamonettes to the plastic

The Diaz daemonettes are better sculpts but they're honestly quite uninteresting, basically just naked ladies. The new ones are more interesting but unfortunately worse sculpts.

Love the Diaz sculpts - have quite a few but hard to get hold of more as very sought after. The new Daemonettes I am not as fond of but they are, I have found, quite in keeping with source material.

Of course GW tonned down the boobs on Daemonettes and then brought out the Medusea - which is also a great model, IMO

 prowla wrote:

Has this been posted already?

Spoiler:

Thank you. I think we needed that.

Forgive my bad memory, but was Warhammer Slaanesh as closely associated with the elves as 40K's? With the Dark Elf crown symbol in place of the classic Slaaneshi one, might we be seeing some sort of Khaine / Slaanesh fusion as the new Elven contribution to the Chaos pantheon? God of murder and excess? Murderous excess? Excessive murder?

 Vermonter wrote:
Forgive my bad memory, but was Warhammer Slaanesh as closely associated with the elves as 40K's? With the Dark Elf crown symbol in place of the classic Slaaneshi one, might we be seeing some sort of Khaine / Slaanesh fusion as the new Elven contribution to the Chaos pantheon? God of murder and excess? Murderous excess? Excessive murder?

Slaanesh is associated with the Elves, but not in the "ELVES CREATED HIM/HER!" way.

Slaaneshi Cults played basically the most important part of The Sundering, as Morathi and Malekith used the justification/accusation of individuals being members of the Slaaneshi Pleasure Cults to go after their enemies before they were ready to attempt to try for the mantle of Phoenix King.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Vermonter wrote:
Forgive my bad memory, but was Warhammer Slaanesh as closely associated with the elves as 40K's? With the Dark Elf crown symbol in place of the classic Slaaneshi one, might we be seeing some sort of Khaine / Slaanesh fusion as the new Elven contribution to the Chaos pantheon? God of murder and excess? Murderous excess? Excessive murder?

Slaanesh is associated with the Elves, but not in the "ELVES CREATED HIM/HER!" way.

Slaaneshi Cults played basically the most important part of The Sundering, as Morathi and Malekith used the justification/accusation of individuals being members of the Slaaneshi Pleasure Cults to go after their enemies before they were ready to attempt to try for the mantle of Phoenix King.

Hey that cannon is dead. Sigmar swung his hammer and killed 30 years of background. That has been erased from the recordbooks thus no longer true

 namiel wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Vermonter wrote:
Forgive my bad memory, but was Warhammer Slaanesh as closely associated with the elves as 40K's? With the Dark Elf crown symbol in place of the classic Slaaneshi one, might we be seeing some sort of Khaine / Slaanesh fusion as the new Elven contribution to the Chaos pantheon? God of murder and excess? Murderous excess? Excessive murder?

Slaanesh is associated with the Elves, but not in the "ELVES CREATED HIM/HER!" way.

Slaaneshi Cults played basically the most important part of The Sundering, as Morathi and Malekith used the justification/accusation of individuals being members of the Slaaneshi Pleasure Cults to go after their enemies before they were ready to attempt to try for the mantle of Phoenix King.

Hey that cannon is dead. Sigmar swung his hammer and killed 30 years of background. That has been erased from the recordbooks thus no longer true

It's not "dead", it's just "The World Before Time".

 Kanluwen wrote:

 namiel wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Vermonter wrote:
Forgive my bad memory, but was Warhammer Slaanesh as closely associated with the elves as 40K's? With the Dark Elf crown symbol in place of the classic Slaaneshi one, might we be seeing some sort of Khaine / Slaanesh fusion as the new Elven contribution to the Chaos pantheon? God of murder and excess? Murderous excess? Excessive murder?

Slaanesh is associated with the Elves, but not in the "ELVES CREATED HIM/HER!" way.

Slaaneshi Cults played basically the most important part of The Sundering, as Morathi and Malekith used the justification/accusation of individuals being members of the Slaaneshi Pleasure Cults to go after their enemies before they were ready to attempt to try for the mantle of Phoenix King.

Hey that cannon is dead. Sigmar swung his hammer and killed 30 years of background. That has been erased from the recordbooks thus no longer true

It's not "dead", it's just "The World Before Time".

Sigmar smote the warhammer world just as Gandalf did the balrog on the mountain side

 namiel wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Vermonter wrote:
Forgive my bad memory, but was Warhammer Slaanesh as closely associated with the elves as 40K's? With the Dark Elf crown symbol in place of the classic Slaaneshi one, might we be seeing some sort of Khaine / Slaanesh fusion as the new Elven contribution to the Chaos pantheon? God of murder and excess? Murderous excess? Excessive murder?

Slaanesh is associated with the Elves, but not in the "ELVES CREATED HIM/HER!" way.

Slaaneshi Cults played basically the most important part of The Sundering, as Morathi and Malekith used the justification/accusation of individuals being members of the Slaaneshi Pleasure Cults to go after their enemies before they were ready to attempt to try for the mantle of Phoenix King.

Hey that cannon is dead. Sigmar swung his hammer and killed 30 years of background. That has been erased from the recordbooks thus no longer true

It still happened. AoS is just set after it.

 namiel wrote:

Sigmar smote the warhammer world just as Gandalf did the balrog on the mountain side

That doesn't mean that the Balrog never existed though, now does it?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 namiel wrote:

Sigmar smote the warhammer world just as Gandalf did the balrog on the mountain side

That doesn't mean that the Balrog never existed though, now does it?

I was being facetious but touché

Mymearan wrote:
The Diaz daemonettes are better sculpts but they're honestly quite uninteresting, basically just naked ladies. The new ones are more interesting but unfortunately worse sculpts.

Just naked ladies, except for the faces, hair, arms and legs. Got regular butts though. The plastics didn't change much, other than being crap by comparison. Got rid of the horn/tentacle "hair" but added tails and odd clothing. Made the faces more Buffy vampire-ish. Dunno what's interesting about that.

I think the Diaznettes are some of the greatest sculpts GW's ever released, with an uncharacteristically subtle and cohesive design. I thought it was very appropriate for Slaanesh to have a more elegant aesthetic like that. Plus of all the intended-as-sexy minis out there they're one of the few that actually work, which I think Juan Diaz deserves some credit for.

The Horrors of that same generation were pretty awesome too.

WD leaks from naftka & /tg

http://imgur.com/a/xfKw1

Well, they at least mention the Dark Prince (aka Slaanesh), so it's not like they're retconning him/her/it/schlim out of existence. I'm guessing that might become a part of the evolving story for the game.

guru wrote:
WD leaks from naftka & /tg

http://imgur.com/a/xfKw1

Was the old Warhammer planet always named Mallus or is this a new thing?

Also, can anyone tell if any of the woody models are new? I'm no expert.

Just did a quick review of the starter set, along with a few thoughts on where I think the game might be going;

https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/age-of-sigmar-is-it-any-good/

 lord_blackfang wrote:

guru wrote:
WD leaks from naftka & /tg

http://imgur.com/a/xfKw1

Was the old Warhammer planet always named Mallus or is this a new thing?

Also, can anyone tell if any of the woody models are new? I'm no expert.

Never heard it called that before. But it's awfully close to Malleus, which is Latin for....HAMMER.

guru wrote:
WD leaks from naftka & /tg

http://imgur.com/a/xfKw1

After reading through all that.

I really, really like the new lore and setting. It pays homage to the old while giving a new restructured world that isn't just the real world with fantasy factions slapped in it. It also leaves TONS of room for homebrew/custom content/minor factions.

The whippy sticks in the box set are incredible:

Am I reading the Liberator Warscroll correctly that if just one model is equip with a shield the whole unit gets to reroll 1's?

Im really not liking this split weapon profile and then have split models with split weapon profiles in the unit.

https://www.facebook.com/DesignbyTuomasPirinen/posts/1620250038223421

Apologies if this has been posted already.

For those that didn't know, Tuomas Pirinen was the father of Warhammer 6th edition -- A rule set most considered the golden age of Warhammer -- One that was ruined by bad army book design and power creep.

 Therion wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/DesignbyTuomasPirinen/posts/1620250038223421

Apologies if this has been posted already.

For those that didn't know, Tuomas Pirinen was the father of Warhammer 6th edition -- A rule set most considered the golden age of Warhammer -- One that was ruined by bad army book design and power creep.

It was posted already but no need to apologize!

This thread moves fast, and a lot of the interesting stuff gets buried and lost quickly...

Amen to that Tuomas:

"If you don't like the rules, I absolutely get it. Please don't take it out on the people that do like them. As gamers we've never had as much choice and quality to choose from when it comes to feeding our gaming habits.

Thoughtful critique and discussion wins over bitterness and fanboyism every time."

number9dream wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yeah but he's not. He's reaching his hand out to smack the mechanism that will, "chuck" the spear. *ahem*

Went through a dozen slang terms for chuck and didn't find anything worse than it being s derogatory term for white males 40+ years ago..

I guess it's some kind of euphenism but google isn't helping me out so it can't be overly widespread?

Did you google "spear chucker"?

So we've got
Sigmar
Sigmaron - his castle
Sigmarite - mined from the remains of the old world (Mallus)
Sigmarabulum - the forges where they make weapons

Is this going to end up like murderfang with murderclaws?

Chopxsticks wrote:
Am I reading the Liberator Warscroll correctly that if just one model is equip with a shield the whole unit gets to reroll 1's?

Im really not liking this split weapon profile and then have split models with split weapon profiles in the unit.

I don't think you can mix weapons, apart the great weapons.