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 Talys wrote:
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?

Two LordS-Celestant.

In much the same way that multiples of an Attorney General is called: Two Attorneys-General ...(and not Two Attorney-Generals)

The LORD is the Rank, and Celestant is the honorific.


- This has been a friendly tip from your local language police.

Don't scour Slaanesh's taint, he/she likes it.

 Alex C wrote:
Don't scour Slaanesh's taint, he/she likes it.

You've ruined the cover of that WD in the best possible way.

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

Best Sigmarine joke yet!

Not the Skink Priest! Anything but the skink Priest!

That's a fine looking Librarian on the cover.

RacerX wrote:

Two LordS-Celestant.

In much the same way that multiples of an Attorney General is called: Two Attorneys-General ...(and not Two Attorney-Generals)

The LORD is the Rank, and Celestant is the honorific.


- This has been a friendly tip from your local language police.

Indeed Another good one (being Canadian) is Governors-General (the Queen's representative). I'll bet that most people say, Lord-Celestants though! (in the same way people say "Governor-Generals don't do squat!")

 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'.

I'd have to say it boils down to repetition and content. If someone says the same thing many times, and with little to add to the conversation, there's a much better chance people will see it as whining

And in the same way, if someone is just mindlessly saying "this is awesome" and not telling why it is, it can also be annoying.

There are a few people who also seem only be in the thread so they can continually piss all over the game. That gets old after awhile.

Mikhaila said it well and politely

Couldn't find the link for the white dwarf leak anymore but in the last picture it says" where has the dark prince gone" so Slaneesh is at least missing?

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Couldn't find the link for the white dwarf leak anymore but in the last picture it says" where has the dark prince gone" so Slaneesh is at least missing?

Or they've misplaced Kirby.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Couldn't find the link for the white dwarf leak anymore but in the last picture it says" where has the dark prince gone" so Slaneesh is at least missing?

Answer: Hiding in plain site.

"Once upon a time Sigmar came upon a maiden of supreme beauty and innocence being despoiled by a foul band of the followers of chaos. Slaying the minions of darkness, he reached forth his hand to aid her, but she recoiled from him. "No milord, i am not fit to touch you, let alone to look upon you! I am tainted by their foulness and shall never know the light again". So moved was Simar for her that he smiled gently and waited until finally she allowed him to carry him home to his realm. There, she slowly healed in body, and even more slowly in soul. But eventually she smiled again, and found happiness tending Sigmar's gardens, and helping to heal the injured warriors who fought endlessly in Sigmars name. She seemed to gather in Simars light, growing more beautiful, and many a warrior secretly loved her with all his heart, and would do anything she asked. But there was one, who noticed that at times it seemed almost that in the light of Sigmar, the lady cast two shadows. But he keeps his thoughts to himself...for now."

 mikhaila wrote:
Answer: Hiding in plain site.

That's a very interesting idea and drives me crazy trying to figure out the long con.

What's there to figure out? Slaanesh has the hots for Sigmar, it's clear as day.

Does the new Slaanesh have a "damaged" tattoo?

BobtheInquisitor wrote:Preston Jon, that was brilliant. Specifically, "Sigmarillion".

It's a good thing Sigmaron is volcanically stable. I'd hate to see everyone sprayed with hot Smigma..

BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
And at least Alexander's army wasn't armed with Alexandrite weapons forged at the Alexandrabulum while they were scouring the world looking for buried Alexandrium.

Stop it before you accidentally write a sequel to the Da Vinci Code.

Is it possible Sigmar has a vocabulary disability? Imagine if Hodor were a god who had to name an entire new world's worth of people, places and things.

This one time Bobtheinquisitor made me spew coffee two times in one page. Both exalted sir!

At first, I would have said people were just being sassy to say 'Sig Marines', they do look similar but different enough. Now I see they used the same asset, put a bow in its hands. Why does an archer need heavy armor? I could look past that, but not copy/paste armor. Armor could have been bit more sleek.

The chaos models got a unique look between most of them, why are the Sig guys all the same.

Want to see Tzeentch models so bad.

SIGMARILLION.

To be fair, it's been a sickness of GW naming conventions. Murderfang with his Muredclaws. I bet he even calls his mother "Murder".

How many "Blood" things are there with Blood Angels?

So what is in the new big book? Since the rules are just 4 pages, is it all fluff?

 Lockark wrote:
So what is in the new big book? Since the rules are just 4 pages, is it all fluff?

Maybe it's page after page of "All Sigmar and no Sigmar make Sigmar a Sigmar."

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Lockark wrote:
So what is in the new big book? Since the rules are just 4 pages, is it all fluff?

Maybe it's page after page of "All Sigmar and no Sigmar make Sigmar a Sigmar."

You sir, are on a roll! So funny!

The big book is filled with art, scenarios, a heartening tale of the sundering of the Old World, and the subtle but unalterable build up of Sigmar's reveal as a true Primarch.

It also has a behind-the-scenes section that takes us step by painfilled step through Games Workshop's completely uninfluenced-by-outside-sources development of Age of Sigmar. We read of Angels, dreams, and visions imparted to GW staffers and of the sweated furrowing of brows in their Sigmarian struggle to reach into the void - after having created it - and pulling originality from nothingness.

I don't really see the problem with all the Sigmar-stuff.
I've named three of my body parts after myself and I'm a minor deity at best.

Looking forward to seeing what comes after they've worked through the expansions on the core box contents.

 Dentry wrote:
The big book is filled with art, scenarios, a heartening tale of the sundering of the Old World, and the subtle but unalterable build up of Sigmar's reveal as a true Primarch.

It also has a behind-the-scenes section that takes us step by painfilled step through Games Workshop's completely uninfluenced-by-outside-sources development of Age of Sigmar. We read of Angels, dreams, and visions imparted to GW staffers and of the sweated furrowing of brows in their Sigmarian struggle to reach into the void - after having created it - and pulling originality from nothingness.

I get this weird feeling that Sigmar will end up being one of the two primarchs-of-whom-nothing-can-be-spoken. This would leave the other as a fallen primarch yet to be revealed in the AoS fluff.

 mikhaila 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'.

I'd have to say it boils down to repetition and content. If someone says the same thing many times, and with little to add to the conversation, there's a much better chance people will see it as whining

And in the same way, if someone is just mindlessly saying "this is awesome" and not telling why it is, it can also be annoying.

There are a few people who also seem only be in the thread so they can continually piss all over the game. That gets old after awhile.

If people don't want to be exposed to differing viewpoints, they can feel free to lock themselves in a room and turn off their computer. I don't particularly enjoy the folk in this thread who've been snidely delighting in the disappointment of others who enjoyed the previous game differently, but apparently pissing all over other people is cool beans, while pissing on an inanimate product is monstrous grognardery worthy of shaming.

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

You have to buy one box of Skitarii for every cavalry model you have ;-)

Yeah, I'm holding off rebasing cavalry just yet. They will look terrible on bike bases imo

 Yodhrin wrote:


If people don't want to be exposed to differing viewpoints, they can feel free to lock themselves in a room and turn off their computer. I don't particularly enjoy the folk in this thread who've been snidely delighting in the disappointment of others who enjoyed the previous game differently, but apparently pissing all over other people is cool beans, while pissing on an inanimate product is monstrous grognardery worthy of shaming.

Unfortunately, this thread isn't -about- the previous edition. It's supposed to be about AoS News, Rumors, at least according to the title. There's nothing 'news and rumors' about how badly someone hates the new game that they feel the need to post their opinion over and over again. There's an entire section devoted to WHFB where folks can take that chatter to. Like it or not, AoS is here. WHFB is a discontinued edition. No amount of resentment or finger-pointing on either side is going to change that.

Like Mik said, there's a handful of people who are -frequently- bashing on AoS in this thread, upping the noise ratio quite a bit. I've seen far more of that than anyone pissing in the cornflakes of the 'oldhammers' who enjoyed the previous editions. Hopefully at some point those people will get over it and move on.

When you try to look at it from the outside through an objective lens, GW is making a pretty big leap here - and to me, they should get props for that. The -could- have taken the easy way out: WHFB 9th edition! Change a paragraph here or there! Tidy up this spot! Make this section more confusing! Birth out a new BRB for $100, and start the army book cycle all over again! That would have been the -safe- bet for them, but 'safe' wasn't working. They decided to mix things up, and here we are. Yeah, the fluff is really weaksauce so far, and the rules have at least three enormous holes big enough to drive a herd of rat-ogres through. Everyone has different ideas what they -could- have done different/better. But what we got is what they've settled on, and it ain't gonna be changing anytime soon.

I don't know about you, but I am keeping my 8th ed book. If any of the WHFB folks I've met want to play - I will more than happily break out my books and play. But there -is- also fun to be had in AoS. So far, it's -just- interesting enough (despite itself) that there are many who enjoy it, too. Some people like the new figs, and it will be interesting to see in a few months just how much they 'catch on', if at all.

 mikhaila wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Couldn't find the link for the white dwarf leak anymore but in the last picture it says" where has the dark prince gone" so Slaneesh is at least missing?

Answer: Hiding in plain site.

"Once upon a time Sigmar came upon a maiden of supreme beauty and innocence being despoiled by a foul band of the followers of chaos. Slaying the minions of darkness, he reached forth his hand to aid her, but she recoiled from him. "No milord, i am not fit to touch you, let alone to look upon you! I am tainted by their foulness and shall never know the light again". So moved was Simar for her that he smiled gently and waited until finally she allowed him to carry him home to his realm. There, she slowly healed in body, and even more slowly in soul. But eventually she smiled again, and found happiness tending Sigmar's gardens, and helping to heal the injured warriors who fought endlessly in Sigmars name. She seemed to gather in Simars light, growing more beautiful, and many a warrior secretly loved her with all his heart, and would do anything she asked. But there was one, who noticed that at times it seemed almost that in the light of Sigmar, the lady cast two shadows. But he keeps his thoughts to himself...for now."

Were this that story from? =O

 Bottle wrote:

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

You have to buy one box of Skitarii for every cavalry model you have ;-)

Yeah, I'm holding off rebasing cavalry just yet. They will look terrible on bike bases imo

When the Blood Angels tacticals were first released on 32mm bases it took a few months before GW released the 32mm bases (a pack of 10) individually. They have been almost constantly sold out though, in the UK at least.

But yes, Skitarii ovals all the way for my cavalry. Hopefully they will be out soon, or a 3rd party company will release a similar type base.

Aragnarok, I would love it if they turned Baseball into Football...so long as they keep the bats.

It's hard not to be sad that they destroyed the Old World with so much of it unexplored. There's so much I wanted to see there that I probably never will. For example, I'd rage-laugh-cry myself into a hernia if they released a Cathay force for Age of Sigmar.