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 Melissia wrote:
Hell if anything, this release is closer to Windows 8 than any Apple release.

I can get behind this! Windows 8 was a great OS but a huge learning curve and a drastic change. However I think Windows 10 is a vast improvement and built on alot of things Windows 8 did and then made them better. So here is to hoping AoS will become Windows 10!

Hello fellow Sigmorons! Should we all mosey on down to the Sigmarina or perhaps hope upon our Sigmares and ride on down to the Sigmart to purchase a sack of Sigmarshmallows with our Sigmark currency?

So is that big awesome piece of artwork supposed to be Sigmar laying a beat down on Slaanesh?

This is the one I'm talking about:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI70NfZVAAIDr0s.png:large

Did they pass the vote to allow gay Sigmarriage in Sigmar yet?

 Vermis wrote:

gorgon wrote:

 Vermis wrote:
there's also been a bit of ranting about stuff like how crap KoW is, how dare KoW be mentioned here when ungrateful people want a balanced mass-battle alternative to AoS, good riddance to gamers who want that terrible, antisocial 'competition' thing, etc... (which goes to show that people taking a less-than-ecstatic review personally, is not that unusual a thing to expect)

That's some bizarre posting by you. You really believe all that?

Ladies and gentlemen: exhibit A.

Gorgon, not to say I and others disappointed by AoS aren't confrontational about it, but all I've seen you do is lash out at people who suggest AoS isn't all that and a bag of chips.

Remember, thoughtful critique and discussion wins over bitterness and fanboyism.

Which would be all well and good if half of the posts, by the same 10 people, did nothing but complain about the rules, the scrolls, the imbalance, the lack of points values, how much better KOW is, etc., ad nauseum. Saying it once or twice in a thread, ok, but every 3rd post? Come on. And how about actually playing the game? Most of the criticism was 'pre-release', so its not like anyone actually played before criticising based solely on "its GW".

I have played AoS, doing nothing more than showing up at my friend's house with a box of Brets, he had already picked some Orcs, including a giant, and the game went great. Easy play, quick to check rules (all 4 pages of them), tactical decisions across the board. We're planning to play more often, and develop a campaign.

So yeah, some people might actually like it having played it, without being 'fanboys'.

Why is it okay for people to say positive things about the game but when people say negative things it's just 'whining and complaining'? Some people might actually dislike it, without being 'whiners'.

 Spinner wrote:
I think the most annoying part about Sigmar tacking his name onto everything is that we already had something called a Sigmarite, and it wasn't a metal.



I mean, they were pretty metal in the figurative sense, but they tended to object if you made armor out of them.

Yes another difference was that the old one were awesome and the new ones are dumb.

I cant quite put a finger on why are they dumb though. I think it's something with the legs as it really stroke me when I saw that embarassing statue. Or maybe it's the pose, or the fact that they are space marines but nice, curved and infinitely less agressive, I dont know. Kills me tbh.

I know I will have the moment of enlightment and the reason for the dumbness of the designs will reveal itself to me.

Albino Squirrel wrote:
So is that big awesome piece of artwork supposed to be Sigmar laying a beat down on Slaanesh?

This is the one I'm talking about:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CI70NfZVAAIDr0s.png:large

Is that meant to be Slaanesh? Nothing like how I pictured him/her.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Why is it okay for people to say positive things about the game but when people say negative things it's just 'whining and complaining'? Some people might actually dislike it, without being 'whiners'.

Because most the whining has been based solely off of rumor.

WIth all these rebasing I was wondering that GW has not actually released any cavalry ovals correct?

 NAVARRO wrote:
WIth all these rebasing I was wondering that GW has not actually released any cavalry ovals correct?

Bike bases?

 Avrik_Shasla wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Why is it okay for people to say positive things about the game but when people say negative things it's just 'whining and complaining'? Some people might actually dislike it, without being 'whiners'.

Because most the whining has been based solely off of rumor.

Not really when the rules have been online for almost 2 weeks?


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 Jinx Magiga wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
WIth all these rebasing I was wondering that GW has not actually released any cavalry ovals correct?

Bike bases?

There are those smaller oval bases like the Skitarii sniper thingy, but I'm not sure you can buy them seperately.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

Spoiler:

From Adeptus Astartes on Facebook



and what looks like the beginning of the end for some older stuff

The Skink Priest is still available on the US site. I imagine availability via eBay will be possible too. I've noticed pricing is kind of weird now, some things way over priced as if they were genuine 40K Praetorian Guard while the same item is dirt cheap from somebody else. With some shopping, though, most things can be had for a good deal still.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Why is it okay for people to say positive things about the game but when people say negative things it's just 'whining and complaining'? Some people might actually dislike it, without being 'whiners'.

Namely because they say it every other post. Yeah you dont like it we know. Move along and let the folks that do enjoy it actually enjoy it instead of posting crap about it when you dont need to

What is this supposed to be?

The writing is so.... odd that it just doesn't even make sense.

Murderfang, Murderfang, Murderfang.... and Pickles the drummer.....

 Motograter wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Why is it okay for people to say positive things about the game but when people say negative things it's just 'whining and complaining'? Some people might actually dislike it, without being 'whiners'.

Namely because they say it every other post. Yeah you dont like it we know. Move along and let the folks that do enjoy it actually enjoy it instead of posting crap about it when you dont need to

So if people don't like something, they aren't allowed to talk about it, or discuss why? I get there's a few people who are over the top about it, but there's also a few people over the top positive about things that won't let anyone say anything negative. If people don't like it they should be allowed to say still. Saying something negative doesn't always equate to whining.

If you're happy with it all power to you. Others aren't. It doesn't matter to you what they think, and as long as they aren't breaking forum rules they can post what they want about it.

 ImAGeek wrote:


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 Jinx Magiga wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
WIth all these rebasing I was wondering that GW has not actually released any cavalry ovals correct?

Bike bases?

There are those smaller oval bases like the Skitarii sniper thingy, but I'm not sure you can buy them seperately.

By the pictures we have seen for gobbos and lizzies it seems that those fat ovals from the Skitarii are the ones going forward... I cannot find them on sale though.

 Cruentus wrote:

 Vermis wrote:

gorgon wrote:

 Vermis wrote:
there's also been a bit of ranting about stuff like how crap KoW is, how dare KoW be mentioned here when ungrateful people want a balanced mass-battle alternative to AoS, good riddance to gamers who want that terrible, antisocial 'competition' thing, etc... (which goes to show that people taking a less-than-ecstatic review personally, is not that unusual a thing to expect)

That's some bizarre posting by you. You really believe all that?

Ladies and gentlemen: exhibit A.

Gorgon, not to say I and others disappointed by AoS aren't confrontational about it, but all I've seen you do is lash out at people who suggest AoS isn't all that and a bag of chips.

Remember, thoughtful critique and discussion wins over bitterness and fanboyism.

Which would be all well and good if half of the posts, by the same 10 people, did nothing but complain about the rules, the scrolls, the imbalance, the lack of points values, how much better KOW is, etc., ad nauseum. Saying it once or twice in a thread, ok, but every 3rd post? Come on. And how about actually playing the game? Most of the criticism was 'pre-release', so its not like anyone actually played before criticising based solely on "its GW".

I have played AoS, doing nothing more than showing up at my friend's house with a box of Brets, he had already picked some Orcs, including a giant, and the game went great. Easy play, quick to check rules (all 4 pages of them), tactical decisions across the board. We're planning to play more often, and develop a campaign.

So yeah, some people might actually like it having played it, without being 'fanboys'.

What's with this "10 people", I see lot of new names coming and bashing it which warms my heart btw. I also talked with quite a few nerds live and on the phone making my last orders also on the net and I have yet to meet a single person that was not already into GW, excited for Age of Sad. The two most popular reactions btw are "why blow that world" and "that's embarassing" about the rules. Anegdotal ofc but kind of fits with the comments section here and there lol.

GW went bonkers with tbis release, noone tells you that you cant enjoy but if you're expecting the critique to stop, well I predict 10 years after GW bites the dust it might get calmer heh.


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 Motograter wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Why is it okay for people to say positive things about the game but when people say negative things it's just 'whining and complaining'? Some people might actually dislike it, without being 'whiners'.

Namely because they say it every other post. Yeah you dont like it we know. Move along and let the folks that do enjoy it actually enjoy it instead of posting crap about it when you dont need to

Yeah you like it we know. Move along and let people vent and stop promoting a crap company when you don't need to.

Works both ways as you see. Also unless someone is breaking a rule, he/she can bash sth as much as damn well pleases. Freedom babe.

Thank god for the ignore button

 Xyxox wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

Spoiler:

From Adeptus Astartes on Facebook



and what looks like the beginning of the end for some older stuff

The Skink Priest is still available on the US site. I imagine availability via eBay will be possible too. I've noticed pricing is kind of weird now, some things way over priced as if they were genuine 40K Praetorian Guard while the same item is dirt cheap from somebody else. With some shopping, though, most things can be had for a good deal still.

Aren't those models quite old?

What is good about it?

Its looking pretty insane, and not much more then someone's private project run amuck.

 Grot 6 wrote:
What is good about it?

Its looking pretty insane, and not much more then someone's private project run amuck.

The models are very well detailed.

That's about all the good I can say about it.

Yet ANOTHER RULE #1 reminder in this thread.

OK everyone?

I hope The Lord Celestant of that Blue and Gold Eternal Stormhost is named Sigmarneus Calgar.

It might be a great idea to go further with this and put every negative poster in this thread on ignore. Imagine that beautiful world where grass is green and Age of Sorrow is well received, just a few clicks away from you.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
From Adeptus Astartes on Facebook

This White Dwarfs tagline needs a Tobias Funke image saying "out of context".

 prowla wrote:


I'm a bit disappointed with the whole aeon/whatnot that has passed since the destruction of the Old World. They could have made it so that the AoS occurs pretty much immediately after the End Times, picking up the remains of the races that have somehow escaped the destruction, and having the remnants of the OW as one of the worlds they fight upon.

And if it's like 1000 years after the OW, does it make AoS = WH1k?

They need the time for the redesign to make sense. If all the factions are supposed to look unique and IP protectable (whatever they think works) and not just like some grimdark variation of traditional fantasy themes (like they did until now) then that gives all their armies a reason to look different from the oldhammer armies. While you get to use your old armies with the existing free rules then new variations probably won't have units that map 1:1 onto all the old stuff you already have. That way they get to sell you new elves with a distinct aesthetic, name, and rules while still telling you that your old army is viable although not really supported with new releases.

Saint know if up...

 Haight wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
From Adeptus Astartes on Facebook

This White Dwarfs tagline needs a Tobias Funke image saying "out of context".

I mean he is just going to scrub that thing until it is spotless.

I picked up WD76 yesterday -- It has some really nice photography in it.

My thoughts are that the Sigmarite box is awesome, but the Lord Celestant is not my cup of tea. I don't like the shredded warcloak thing, and why on earth would anyone have a sword in one hand and a Warhammer in the other?

The pike guy on WD77 looks way cooler, IMO. And I like the model beside him.

There is a really cool painting of Azyrheim, the Sigmarite capitol city in WD76. The Dice Shaker and 3" Measuring Tool are... strange.

Random thought:

Two Lord-Celestants, or Two Lords-Celestant?