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 Platuan4th wrote:
Heh, the new Formation has Deep Strike.

Deepstrike you can charge from

changemod wrote:
Dryads are on 32 bases, just to make sure that you can't rank them up the daemons round bases in a movement tray way if you use them as they come in box

I'd say subtle, but it isn't really.

If you want 25mm square bases, there should be people who would be happy to give you some. I think I have like, 3 shoeboxes full of squares, and like, a packing crate full of 25mm rounds that I will never use.

Anyone remember when the bases (annoyingly) came on sprues? I hated that. I could never cut them perfectly, and ended up having to fill and file edges of bloody *bases*.

 catharsix wrote:

Warhams-77 wrote:
That rumor is originally from Bird in the Trees (BOLS) who was wrong a lot in the past. Larry Vela posted it here first, then it went to the other sites:

http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?56937-Age-of-Sigmar-Rumor-Roundup&p=506925&viewfull=1#post506925

Would not get your hopes up yet based on these sources

Don't crush my hopes - that's GW's job

-C6

Well... where are those Berserkers on Molochs (lol, those german rumor fakers) for Khorne Daemonkin? Logic has not brought us multipart Deffkoptas either But let's hope, I join the crowd for some some luverly plastic Fleshhounds



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Games Workshop's blog calender is teasing "Warriors of the Storm" for Monday by the way. Just move the mouse over the 3rd of August and it is giving away monday's topic.

 Talys wrote:

changemod wrote:
Dryads are on 32 bases, just to make sure that you can't rank them up the daemons round bases in a movement tray way if you use them as they come in box

I'd say subtle, but it isn't really.

If you want 25mm square bases, there should be people who would be happy to give you some. I think I have like, 3 shoeboxes full of squares, and like, a packing crate full of 25mm rounds that I will never use.

Anyone remember when the bases (annoyingly) came on sprues? I hated that. I could never cut them perfectly, and ended up having to fill and file edges of bloody *bases*.

For Historicals players this used to be a rite of passage. You had to cut hundreds of rectangular bases from thick card, picture mounting board, cartons and so on -- then trim the edges neat and everything. I remember going into framing shops and asking for off-cuts.

Nowadays you just buy them ready laser cut in whatever size you need, in MDF, plywood of various thicknesses, and so on.

Young people these days, etc...

Soooo treelord aka treekin thing is for preorder again after a couple months?

Does anyone have a site they buy Round bases from? im looking for things from 25mm - 60mm Round and as close to GW looking as possible. The best deals I see coming out of Hong Kong, but im a little nerves to buy those.

OgreChubbs wrote:
Soooo treelord aka treekin thing is for preorder again after a couple months?

Yes, because he has a new hat base.

Chopxsticks wrote:
Does anyone have a site they buy Round bases from? im looking for things from 25mm - 60mm Round and as close to GW looking as possible. The best deals I see coming out of Hong Kong, but im a little nerves to buy those.

If you don't mind them being flat edged and laser cut, we sell some for pretty cheap. www.angrymojogames.com. Anything not listed can be whipped up for you in no time.

So I had a discussion and apparently we were wrong to assume skaven have taken over slaanesh spot and that the picture of the creature in the realm of shadow is the new "god" i.e a dark aelf fused with his dragon , so the symbol of the 4th god is actually a dark aelf semy dragon god.

So Malekith Malerion then?

So I don't think anyone's posted this yet but here's pics of the sprue for Retributors/Decimators/Paladins..

woot!!!
those glaives are so cool...
i like that they have really spiced up these sets compared to the starter models...

looking forward to seeing what they do with the Prosecutors box...
i like the wings, but want to see some different hemets, ones without the comet crests...

thanks for those pics, AoV...

cheers
jah

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
So Malekith Malerion then?

The merging produces a female actually, named Maleria.

FYI


http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/2015/08/01/age-of-sigmar-the-battle-for-the-realmgates-what-should-i-bring/

Greetings warriors, hail and well met.

As we eagerly await the imminent arrival of the full events pack for our Age of Sigmar LiberatorCampaign Weekend, we thought it would be good to whet your appetite with a few details of how the weekend will plan out so you can start making plans about what to bring.

The main question on everyone’s lips is: “What do I bring?” so we thought it would be a good idea to cover how you might go about deciding what mighty warriors to bring with you.

To begin with, you will be playing five games over the weekend, at two and a half hours each.

The amount of time you have to play the game is the only real restriction so bring whatever you think would get you a great game in that time.

We recommend bringing a wide variety of units, as there will be an equally wide variety of missions to play, based on how the weekend is going!

This weekend is completely focussed on playing games in a fun and friendly manner – our objective is to enjoy Warhammer at it’s best – players chatting, having a great time and a narrative theme to drive the objectives of each game. Don’t worry about what you bring too much – just aim to bring things you and your opponent will enjoy playing with and against and you won’t go far wrong. Not to mention that we will be throwing so much extra randomness into the mix that winning should be a low priority – just kick back and enjoy the ride!

That’s all for now but there will be more to come over next week – tune in Monday for our next update as we go over the background of where you are fighting and how wars in the Realm of Shadow will differ from the Realm of Metal, Fire and all the rest!

See you soon,

The Warhammer World Events Team

.. soo ..errr....

yeah.

Best tournament rules ever.

laughable. Shamefull that GW has fallen so low.

Forgive me if I'm being naive but isnt there a difference between a campaign weekend and a tournament. The former being a narrative event which this is, the latter being a heavily competitive environment.

I genuinely can't see any point to that style of play. I literally cannot fathom who would find it entertaining. And don't anyone give me that "lulz get lost competi-droog, narrative gamers love this gak" because I'm primarily a narrative gamer.

"Bring what you like, and don't worry about playing the game because we'll be throwing in so much additional random stuff that the rules will be utterly meaningless!" isn't even a fething game any more, it's literally what you do as a little child when you run around with your mates shouting "pchew pchew" and arguing over whether you got shot or if your super-mega-shield makes you invincible.

There's seriously a large enough group of people out there who're willing to pay GW prices to relive their experience of a primary school playground with a room of other adults?

 Melcavuk wrote:
Forgive me if I'm being naive but isnt there a difference between a campaign weekend and a tournament. The former being a narrative event which this is, the latter being a heavily competitive environment.

This isn't a narrative event. Narratives still require structure - imagine you went to a film, it was billed and advertised as a standard summer sci-fi actioner; sure, it's not high art, but it should be fun. Then about ten minutes in, half the cast suddenly go from being human to being aliens with bright blue skin. Twenty minutes in, the characters names all change. By the hour mark, you're watching a spy thriller with rayguns which for some reason is set in an Old West frontier town and the baddies are French Revolutionaries bent on dominating the world by controlling the global supply of ketchup. Maybe you'd be one of the handful of people thoroughly stoned enough to watch through something like that and enjoy it, exclaiming "lulz, so random brah" or whatever, but I'm pretty sure most folk will think "what the feth was that?!".

If I was playing a narrative scenario with someone and some clown in a GW shirt jumped in with a manic, probably drug and/or fear-induced grin on his face belting out "LOL RANDOM EVENT LOL HALF YOUR ARMY DEVELOPS A POX AND DIED LOL RANDOM LOL" or the like that's not going to enhance the story being played out. It's hard enough to extract meaningful narrative from the barely-structured shambles of the basic AoS rules, an event which advertises as a feature that everyone can bring anything they like and touts massive additional randomness making your actual choices on the table pointless...it's just mad. Utterly, utterly bonkers.

 Melcavuk wrote:
Forgive me if I'm being naive but isnt there a difference between a campaign weekend and a tournament. The former being a narrative event which this is, the latter being a heavily competitive environment.

But there isn't any narrative or campaign by the looks of things. There's no story you're acting out, or narrative structure. Just a random collection of games with random stuff thrown in for the hell of it.

Any more information about Sylvaneth?
I always wanted to start a wood elf army.
Will GW release more models and units in the next weeks?

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Melcavuk wrote:
Forgive me if I'm being naive but isnt there a difference between a campaign weekend and a tournament. The former being a narrative event which this is, the latter being a heavily competitive environment.

But there isn't any narrative or campaign by the looks of things. There's no story you're acting out, or narrative structure. Just a random collection of games with random stuff thrown in for the hell of it.

I might be remembering a different event then, i know i read one a while back that was meant to have lasting narrative impacts on the setting.

 Yodhrin wrote:
I genuinely can't see any point to that style of play.

Seriously?

I get that there are people who won't like this approach, but you really cannot see the point? Have a few beers, push some models round the table and roll dice? Absolutely no stress over rules or tournament placings, just a laid back weekend playing a few games?

You really cannot see why there may be some people who find that attractive?

 Yodhrin wrote:

it's literally what you do as a little child when you run around with your mates shouting "pchew pchew" and arguing over whether you got shot or if your super-mega-shield makes you invincible.

Be fair here - we all play with toy soldiers.

To an outsider, what you do may seem little different to what kids get up to (granted, your armies will appear larger and better painted, but that is the extent of it). Not knocking you or gaming here, it is the same in many male-dominated hobbies.

 Yodhrin wrote:
This isn't a narrative event. Narratives still require structure

It will have structure and a story line (and I would not be surprised if the effects of this weekend start popping up in the fluff). It won't just be a bunch of random things going on - GW are really quite good at this type of event.

 ImAGeek wrote:

But there isn't any narrative or campaign by the looks of things. There's no story you're acting out, or narrative structure. Just a random collection of games with random stuff thrown in for the hell of it.

There will be a story, and you would not be playing for the hell of it. As I said above, GW is really quite good at this kind of event.

It has a structured storyline, but you can just bring whatever the hell you want..? Structured storyline, but 'we will be throwing so much extra randomness into the mix..'? Doesn't seem all that structured. And this is going to affect the fluff?

The mortal realms drown in war and we are getting stuck in here at Warhammer World. Prepare yourself as we experience war in all the Mortal Realms with our very first Age of Sigmar Warhammer Campaign Weekend. You will play games in fantastic locations that you have never seen before as the Age of Sigmar gives us a whole new universe to play in.

We will be telling the story of the wars which are occurring as Sigmar sends his Stormcast Eternals to conquer the Mortal Realms. You will be fighting for Chaos or Order (using any army you like) and finding out what happens as the weekend progresses. With unique scenarios, unique warzones and permanent consequences for our Warhammer Campaigns, this weekend is not to be missed.

- See more at: http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/events-hall/gaming-events/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/#.dpuf

Why do they call this a tournament?

 ImAGeek wrote:
It has a structured storyline, but you can just bring whatever the hell you want..?

I think the Mortal Realms are big enough that they can handle any army. Can't see a good reason for them to limit the first event for the game.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Why do they call this a tournament?

Umm, I don't believe they have. Where did you see that?

They call it a campaign weekend, i cant see the word tournament on their event pack. If its there i over looked it otherwise its player having assigned that word

I've spoken to people who've gone to their other events. They report that they are great fun, as long as you don't worry about winning too hard. I don't know that I'd go to that event - I like fluffy, but I also like structure - but I know people who would like it. Of course, they are all 40k players, so currently they lie beyond GW's nefarious anti-balance stance.

Hahahahahaha that "tournament" rules... I cried... such a trainwreck, pure comedy gold. Thanks GW you are now officialy a tt gaming clown.

There is a significant portion of community that searches for a hidden stroke of genius in the AoS rules and I guess this clears a lot as far as their intent goes.

MongooseMatt wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
I genuinely can't see any point to that style of play.

Seriously?

I get that there are people who won't like this approach, but you really cannot see the point? Have a few beers, push some models round the table and roll dice? Absolutely no stress over rules or tournament placings, just a laid back weekend playing a few games?

You really cannot see why there may be some people who find that attractive?

I for examle really absolutely cannot see how anyone can find that attractive. I'd either just drink beer and have fun or drink beer, play one of a thousand proper games out there and have fun. It's a waste of energy to even put miniatures on a table for such pewpewing nonsense imo not to say push them anywhere, especialy that they added "so much randomness". LoL sorry I just laughed again just writing that.

But yes really I don't know why anyone would do that. It's not rpg, it's not narrative, it's not a contest - it's just bad from every perspective except buying citadel miniatures and meeting others who do that.

 Yodhrin wrote:

it's literally what you do as a little child when you run around with your mates shouting "pchew pchew" and arguing over whether you got shot or if your super-mega-shield makes you invincible.

Be fair here - we all play with toy soldiers.

To an outsider, what you do may seem little different to what kids get up to (granted, your armies will appear larger and better painted, but that is the extent of it). Not knocking you or gaming here, it is the same in many male-dominated hobbies.

But one of the main things that separates it from pewpewing kids arbitrarly pushing toys off the table are rules that are to provide a fair competition and require certain level of brain work. Kids don't care about that, adults do

Plumbumbarum wrote:

But one of the main things that separates it from pewpewing kids arbitrarly pushing toys off the table are rules that are to provide a fair competition and require certain level of brain work. Kids don't care about that, adults do

Wargames with a "meta-game" of list-building around them do not, by definition, provide a fair competition. The two are mutually exclusive. As long as the slight chance exists, that the (slightly) better player with a (slightly) worse list loses against a (slightly) worse player with a (slightly) better list, any notion of "competition" is an illusion. You can never be sure that any victory or defeat was due to skill or "meta".


And people who want that kind of brain-stimulus you speak of, would go compete in a chess-tournament. Wargames cannot possibly cater to that.