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group of us bought 7 copies, you could say we're embracing it.

Got my copy ordered. Played first game last night (Dwarves vs Lizardmen) and it was a lot of fun.

Can't wait to see all of the redesigned races over the coming months.

Ordered mine Saturday after getting a few fun trial games in with my beastmen.

Seemed to be a bit of interest in the LGS after people saw me and my opponent actually having fun playing it instead of just listening to all the naysayers on the internet.

I would order the starter is the Sigmarites were against something other than yet more Chaos. I have been looking to get into some GW fantasy for a while, and I think I might instead go on Ebay and get the Skaven from the Island of Blood as the solid basis of an army.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Preordered on Sat, along with the novel.. mostly for my two boys initially, as neither of the starting forces interest me. Waiting to see how some of the other new factions will look.. over the next year -ish.

Please let me know what you think of the novella.

 JamesY wrote:
Yeah I'll be buying it, plus 5 copies of wd to get a unit for £12. Looking forward to something new, having another option to play, new aesthetics, and painting that big ass lizard!

Really 5 Copies? I have searched everywhere and its sold out. Except for ebay sharks selling it for £20-£30.

optrgrow wrote:
group of us bought 7 copies, you could say we're embracing it.

That's putting it mildly lol. Holy feth that's a lot of models!

Yep, preordered. I think it looks fun, accessible, quick to play and uses all the models I love (the GW WFB range). WFB couldn't sustain itself financially so this is the way forward.

Gonna proxy a game in this weekend and see how it plays.
Really liking the full warscrolls rules and updates. Think I'll run dwarfs Vs lizzies.

 BigRedStandingBy wrote:

 JamesY wrote:
Yeah I'll be buying it, plus 5 copies of wd to get a unit for £12. Looking forward to something new, having another option to play, new aesthetics, and painting that big ass lizard!

Really 5 Copies? I have searched everywhere and its sold out. Except for ebay sharks selling it for £20-£30.

You cannot even get it direct from GW any more, it is sold out on the web store, well physical copies anyway.

I am looking forward to the 8am opening from my local GW for the pre-orders this saturday, just annoying that I have to go to London in the afternoon for a friends birthday.

Yeah despite some of the doom & gloom voiced on here, the Stormcast Eternal Liberators are proving to be quite popular!

Ordered a Double Eternal Starter off Ebay today. Really looking forward to it.

After some debate, I decided to order mine based on the opinion of someone I've gamed with for decades who has playtested the new system and found it entertaining. We will be instituting some balance system between us, but we've always done that in both fantasy and 40K.

I would love to buy it, I really wish I could. I just don't have the money+ the nearest people to me only play 40k. It really does look so cool though I would recommend getting this as soon as possible for everyone else!!


Cheers, C66

 Cobra66 wrote:
I would love to buy it, I really wish I could. I just don't have the money+ the nearest people to me only play 40k. It really does look so cool though I would recommend getting this as soon as possible for everyone else!!


Cheers, C66

Looks like the set give you 2 nice sized armies for some fun games. So when you do have the money hopefully you can convince some of your 40k friends to give it a go.

Positive posts only? Hugboxes help no one.

Any I doubt I'll get the box but I am going to get all the Khorne minis. Those things are awesome.

Yes. Positive posts only. Because complaining about GW is a boring and unproductive discussion that has been milked to death.

Yeah I'll be going halfsies with a mate, mostly for those awesome looking Khorne models
But otherwise Im excited to play it and see how (and if) it works as a game.

I quite like it, the no points costs is silly but I do like the look of the Stormcasts thingies. I know they were meant to bring in space marine players form 40k but I like them anyway.

 Chaos Rising wrote:
I quite like it, the no points costs is silly but I do like the look of the Stormcasts thingies. I know they were meant to bring in space marine players form 40k but I like them anyway.

GW are (sort of) balancing the game out in stores.. which looks pretty sensible

I just placed my order, mostly for the models. I waited for some of the Khorne painting videos on GW youtube channel to go up so I could see if I needed any more paint. Turns out I do, and got some more red and flesh colours to go with it.

If you go by Wounds limit per scroll, you'd have to categorize Scrolls - limiting all scrolls to e.g. 20 wounds would be pointless as some units profit from 30+ wounds in it.

So e.g. have three categories, small, medium, Horde or...Troop, Regiment, Horde (haha!) and change the wound limit according to said category, sth. like:

Troop: 1-10
Regiment: 10-20
Horde: 30-50

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Chaos Rising wrote:
I quite like it, the no points costs is silly but I do like the look of the Stormcasts thingies. I know they were meant to bring in space marine players form 40k but I like them anyway.

GW are (sort of) balancing the game out in stores.. which looks pretty sensible

I don't like this, because that contradicts the very idea of their own pre-set formations in a way - the Empire one requires you to get 3 units of state troops and it is impossible with that suggested rule, because the warscroll can duplicate once, making it two units of state troops. It would be different if they counted as separate scrolls (i.e. - two units of halberdiers and two units of swordsmen being legal), but now they don't - they're all rolled into one scroll for (in)convenience.

Now I know that you are free to adjust these rules as you see fit, I can read, thanks, but what I am kinda gripping about is that they seem to not think about what they write. I think it was same with Beastmen formation and gors and I believe that upping the limit to 3 for infantry wouldn't really hurt them and it wouldn't make them contradict themselves. Especially that (as I said in other threads) those formations seem to be pretty balanced and look like they'd make great battleforce contents for instant tournament-ready armies like the Skirmishes for By Fire and Sword game.

I see what you're saying, but for the purposes of big battles those guidelines don't seem too bad??

AoS currently doesn't work for big battles - well, it does work, in theory, but when was the last time you saw someone field 150+ Ork Boys in 40k?

Well, I'm absolutely looking forward to buying the starter set.
The miniatures look fantastic.
The rules for them can only be found inside the box - typical GW.

Found a seller on ebay selling for $90.75 including priority shipping. So I grabbed one. I'm excited. Plus the individual models are so pretty that I don't mind grabbing one since I would have grabbed the book off ebay anyway.

 Klerych wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Chaos Rising wrote:
I quite like it, the no points costs is silly but I do like the look of the Stormcasts thingies. I know they were meant to bring in space marine players form 40k but I like them anyway.

GW are (sort of) balancing the game out in stores.. which looks pretty sensible

I don't like this, because that contradicts the very idea of their own pre-set formations in a way - the Empire one requires you to get 3 units of state troops and it is impossible with that suggested rule, because the warscroll can duplicate once, making it two units of state troops. It would be different if they counted as separate scrolls (i.e. - two units of halberdiers and two units of swordsmen being legal), but now they don't - they're all rolled into one scroll for (in)convenience.

Now I know that you are free to adjust these rules as you see fit, I can read, thanks, but what I am kinda gripping about is that they seem to not think about what they write. I think it was same with Beastmen formation and gors and I believe that upping the limit to 3 for infantry wouldn't really hurt them and it wouldn't make them contradict themselves. Especially that (as I said in other threads) those formations seem to be pretty balanced and look like they'd make great battleforce contents for instant tournament-ready armies like the Skirmishes for By Fire and Sword game.

Maybe the formations count as Warscrolls themselves? At least maybe they are intended to.

 JamesY wrote:
Yeah I'll be buying it, plus 5 copies of wd to get a unit for £12. Looking forward to something new, having another option to play, new aesthetics, and painting that big ass lizard!

I did the same trick with the White Dwarves and am giving the magazine to friends(keeping the figs, though)who haven't played fantasy in a while. They are planning on giving it a go again and are excited to see the direction the game is taking. Most are old Chronopia players and they like how the HtH phase mirrors that game.

The more I read into it, the more excited I get for it. I can't wait until they really start backing up this fluff. They could really go in some cool directions with this. (and an entire army made up of pure mummies or skeletons? Hell to the yes.)