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 Gamgee wrote:

Everyone complains about my Tau Gunline until I bust out the XV 8 spam with Farsight.

So you showed everyone that Tau are not a boring because instead of deploying a huge line of shooting that points and clicks at any unit it wants gone, you deepstruck a huge blob of shooting that points and clicks at any unit it wants gone?

Man, you really showed them! Now everyone surely sees how Tau are such a complex army where everything is possible!

I don't dislike any factions, they all bring something to the table. Now there are certain factions that tend to have players I dislike, namely making cheese lists and exploiting broken units. But that's unavoidable, no matter how massively or slightly something is buff those people will take it.

I don't get the complaints of "all your army does is move/shoot/assault" or "all your army does is shoot at stuff" and "all your army does is charge". It's like, what else can they do? That's kind of the game, right?

 clamclaw wrote:
I don't dislike any factions, they all bring something to the table. Now there are certain factions that tend to have players I dislike, namely making cheese lists and exploiting broken units. But that's unavoidable, no matter how massively or slightly something is buff those people will take it.

I don't get the complaints of "all your army does is move/shoot/assault" or "all your army does is shoot at stuff" and "all your army does is charge". It's like, what else can they do? That's kind of the game, right?

I think some are expecting a little variation.
Like while Tau are shooty, they don't expect them to just stand in one place gunlining, they'd expect some movement, positioning and so on, along with maybe the Kroot actually doing their fluff job of handling close combat instead of just being another shooty unit. (Just as an example, I'm sure there are others)

Necrons are not designed to look like terminators.

They are designed to look like skeletons.

The terminator is also designed to look like a skeleton... because it is a skeleton.


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You cannot make a metal skeleton that does not look like the terminator. Since it is one.

 SirDonlad wrote:

It could have been a wonderous time for SM and eldar players which mimicked the epic games of old with knights pitching into each other with supporting units clashing among them. but no, the stick of warding hit the eldar 'dex

Ward left a long time ago (and my honest stab in the dark here) mainly because I assume it was the bashing he received and still revives to this day is also why codex writers names do not show up on the codex's anymore.

Ward was an IoM lover at heart.

No what the Eldar codex got was the stick of Kelly

AFAIK Ward disliked the Elves but Kelly really likes them.. And guess who did the last eldar codex and who has not been left GW?

Yeah..


Fluffwise I guess I really dislike the whole concept of "You can't really beat the Tyranids" mainly because to me Chaos has that under its belt and whilst Necrons convey that vibe, to me they will never achieve their goal because they have only just woken up and by then its too late imo. Apart from those, nothing else really bugs me apart from "Mortarians Heart" but that doesn't exist... right?

Yeah Kelly loves the Space Elves. He and his coworkers said as such in the WD that came out at the same time as the 5th Ed DE 'dex.

That said, I'm quite surprised he buffs Craftworld Eldar so much but not DE, since he apparently likes DE way more because of their evilness.

 happygolucky wrote:

 SirDonlad wrote:

It could have been a wonderous time for SM and eldar players which mimicked the epic games of old with knights pitching into each other with supporting units clashing among them. but no, the stick of warding hit the eldar 'dex

Ward left a long time ago (and my honest stab in the dark here) mainly because I assume it was the bashing he received and still revives to this day is also why codex writers names do not show up on the codex's anymore.

Ward was an IoM lover at heart.

No what the Eldar codex got was the stick of Kelly

AFAIK Ward disliked the Elves but Kelly really likes them.. And guess who did the last eldar codex and who has not been left GW?

Yeah..


Fluffwise I guess I really dislike the whole concept of "You can't really beat the Tyranids" mainly because to me Chaos has that under its belt and whilst Necrons convey that vibe, to me they will never achieve their goal because they have only just woken up and by then its too late imo. Apart from those, nothing else really bugs me apart from "Mortarians Heart" but that doesn't exist... right?

I thought it was pretty well known that as far as 40k goes, Necrons are Ward's favorite faction. Also, Ward LOVES elves. I mean, at least in Fantasy. I've heard that he was the one who came up with "Battle Focus" as a rule, so he clearly was gunning for Eldar a little bit.

Nids, I play nids and I came here to play a trash troop based swarm army not goddamn FMC flying circus.

 happygolucky wrote:

Ward left a long time ago (and my honest stab in the dark here) mainly because I assume it was the bashing he received and still revives to this day is also why codex writers names do not show up on the codex's anymore.

Ward was an IoM lover at heart.

No what the Eldar codex got was the stick of Kelly

AFAIK Ward disliked the Elves but Kelly really likes them.. And guess who did the last eldar codex and who has not been left GW?

Yeah..

Matt Ward constructed a series of mysterious obsidian towers in and around nottingham with the intention of seperating all 'haters' from his work and life.

Phil Kelly exposed the towers to the warp and when activated they instead seperated Matt Ward's work and life from GW

All that remained was a necron codex, a grey knight codex, the tatters of a WhFB rulebook and a mythical +1 cudgel - The Stick of Warding.

Tis' an ancient weapon with the power to rend a race's fluff asunder and shall be the doom of all things material. It's form is made of pure warp energy and distorts reality around it - gems upon its pommel contain daemons of marketing, whispering to the wielder and drives them to acts of depraved madness; no plotline can stand against it's power and physics bend to it's weilders will.

"Now i am become time, the destroyer of worlds" - First weilder of the stick of warding

DaPino wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:

Everyone complains about my Tau Gunline until I bust out the XV 8 spam with Farsight.

So you showed everyone that Tau are not a boring because instead of deploying a huge line of shooting that points and clicks at any unit it wants gone, you deepstruck a huge blob of shooting that points and clicks at any unit it wants gone?

Man, you really showed them! Now everyone surely sees how Tau are such a complex army where everything is possible!

Very complex. Many ways to shoot person. From far distance. From close distance. From above. From below. Much study to the theory of shooting.