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 Hulksmash wrote:
Or Epic Armageddon which is still an amazing ruleset. GW can make good games and rules. It's been that that hasn't been the focus for so long we've forgotten that.

The majority of game designers responsible for those "good games" have long since moved on. Rick Priestley and Alessio Cavatore for instance.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Is that Ogor picture not just from the last Ogre Kingdoms army book? I recognise it I think.

It is. It's on the back of their magic cards.

I find it highly amusing that the OK magic cards has a picture of a brutish ogre running a blade through a wizard

Its a weird picture though, considering it really is a mutated birdman.
Before it could easily had passed as a deamonic sorcerer, but now, new information has come to light, so to speak.
The artwork dont really corespond to anything known unless its a tiny tiny lord of change.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
Or Epic Armageddon which is still an amazing ruleset. GW can make good games and rules. It's been that that hasn't been the focus for so long we've forgotten that.

The majority of game designers responsible for those "good games" have long since moved on. Rick Priestley and Alessio Cavatore for instance.

Doesn't mean they can't do it. They've shown they can hire and train good talent before so why not again. When there is a reason for them to make good rules (the right person in the right place realizing it's profitable) they are more than capable of making that leap I feel. But time will tell overall.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

The OK book was 4/5 years ago. I get that stuff is done in advance, but there's a difference between the WE book that was a year before AoS and the OK book that was the second book of 8th edition.

Did you consider that, perhaps, the Birdmen were something that got concepted before AoS and never got produced until now?

It could be a herald. I could mod for that easy.

 Fayric wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Is that Ogor picture not just from the last Ogre Kingdoms army book? I recognise it I think.

It is. It's on the back of their magic cards.

I find it highly amusing that the OK magic cards has a picture of a brutish ogre running a blade through a wizard

Its a weird picture though, considering it really is a mutated birdman.
Before it could easily had passed as a deamonic sorcerer, but now, new information has come to light, so to speak.
The artwork dont really corespond to anything known unless its a tiny tiny lord of change.

A Tzeentch Arcanite, in the parlance of our times, ya know...

Via -- I think , apologies if not -- Mexican ork on FB

Lady Atia - War of Sigmar is the source, they are for 30k. Next is a Boarboy 'Biker Nob' conversion and also a Megaboss one

For 30K, that's genius

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
Or Epic Armageddon which is still an amazing ruleset. GW can make good games and rules. It's been that that hasn't been the focus for so long we've forgotten that.

The majority of game designers responsible for those "good games" have long since moved on. Rick Priestley and Alessio Cavatore for instance.

Jervis Johnson wrote Epic Armageddon and Bloodbowl amongst others.

According to WIkipedia he wrote Advanced Heroquest and Blood Bowl, and contributed to Epic as well as some other games.

It's not a massive amount of output for 20+ years at GW but I think he has spent most of the time as a manager rather than a designer.

In fairness, GW haven't published many new games in the past 15 years and none of their designers have had much of a chance to get stuff out of the door.

That looks to be chainging under Rountree.

Year of Tzeentch eh Atia??? Didnt you say Rubrics etc might be ready in time for ETL?

 reds8n wrote:
Via -- I think , apologies if not -- Mexican ork on FB

Hmm, those Brutes are not as big as I expected. They're really not that much larger than regular 40k orks, so $50 seems like quite the price for these guys.

 Accolade wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
Via -- I think , apologies if not -- Mexican ork on FB

Hmm, those Brutes are not as big as I expected. They're really not that much larger than regular 40k orks, so $50 seems like quite the price for these guys.

40K Meganobz are $63 for three models.

 Accolade wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
Via -- I think , apologies if not -- Mexican ork on FB

Hmm, those Brutes are not as big as I expected. They're really not that much larger than regular 40k orks, so $50 seems like quite the price for these guys.

They're significantly larger than the plastic Black Orcs. The Megaboss is about the same size as Ghaz.

EDIT: actually, I need to clarify something. Is that 40k Ork a nob or just a regular grunt? Can't tell on that kit, but it has an effect on the scale.

EDIT AGAIN: still, nobs are 5 for $25, and these guys aren't really any bigger. Is the armor really worth twice the cost in $?


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 Ghaz wrote:

 Accolade wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
Via -- I think , apologies if not -- Mexican ork on FB

Hmm, those Brutes are not as big as I expected. They're really not that much larger than regular 40k orks, so $50 seems like quite the price for these guys.

40K Meganobz are $63 for three models.

Yeah, Meganobz are overpriced too. Although I think that has to do with how expensive they were as metal.

 Accolade wrote:
EDIT: actually, I need to clarify something. Is that 40k Ork a nob or just a regular grunt? Can't tell on that kit, but it has an effect on the scale.

Thats a 40k Nob from the current kit

 Kilkrazy wrote:
According to WIkipedia he wrote Advanced Heroquest and Blood Bowl, and contributed to Epic as well as some other games.

It's not a massive amount of output for 20+ years at GW but I think he has spent most of the time as a manager rather than a designer.

The list is terribly incomplete. Here are some other games:

*Adeptus Titanicus
*Space Marine 1st edition (2nd together with Rick Priestley)
*Advanced Space Crusade (and Tyranid Attack)
*the Wargame Series (Horus Heresy, Battle for Armageddon, Doom of the Eldar)

And that's without collaborations, expansions and codices.

Via Darnok on Warseer:

According to what I've been told, after next weeks Ghoul reboxing it should be the Silver Tower game the week after. So pre-orders on the 14th of May, release on the 21th.

Glory. This has the potential to really be something special

RazorEdge wrote:
Via Darnok on Warseer:

According to what I've been told, after next weeks Ghoul reboxing it should be the Silver Tower game the week after. So pre-orders on the 14th of May, release on the 21th.

Shower me in it.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Accolade wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
Via -- I think , apologies if not -- Mexican ork on FB

Hmm, those Brutes are not as big as I expected. They're really not that much larger than regular 40k orks, so $50 seems like quite the price for these guys.

40K Meganobz are $63 for three models.

To be honest, it feels like you're being charged for the Mega armoured Mekboy as well as the Nobz

For the love of god PLEASE be good Silver Tower. Better than Deathwatch. More minis. Cures Cancer. The whole package!


Err, maybe not, but I really want some leaks already before I get my hopes up too high.

Binabik15 wrote:
For the love of god PLEASE be good Silver Tower. Better than Deathwatch. More minis. Cures Cancer. The whole package!


Err, maybe not, but I really want some leaks already before I get my hopes up too high.

Yeah im ready to pounce on Tzeentch, my renegades are set, all I need is demons and rubrics, some sick af demon sculpts will change my wallet into a desert.

I'm in it for the potential plastic ogre hero. Currently no plastic options, though I understand they're easy to convert. Good to see more reboxings, hopefully more start collecting sets coming.

 unmercifulconker wrote:

Binabik15 wrote:
For the love of god PLEASE be good Silver Tower. Better than Deathwatch. More minis. Cures Cancer. The whole package!


Err, maybe not, but I really want some leaks already before I get my hopes up too high.

Yeah im ready to pounce on Tzeentch, my renegades are set, all I need is demons and rubrics, some sick af demon sculpts will change my wallet into a desert.

For me it was the name and description of the 99 Ravens* warband that was discussed as a potential clue to Silver Tower, Ted Beargon's Tzeentch drawings and the conversion of a "Carrion Crow" of Nurgle I did (plus the enemies in Bloodborne of the same name that crawl around on their bird bellies, which is creepy as hell).

Now I REALLY want an unpleasantness of proud ravenmen to fight the moulty murder of crows I'm building as a retinue for the big bad crow.

*With that name and patron god my version MUST have a twisted bit of background: There can and will be only 99 of them at any time. Summon deamons? Better sacrifice someone. A pink horror dies and turns into two blues? Someone drops dead or two members (or more!) merge into a mutant/spawn. A casualty? A limb will tear itself off and grow into a new cultist or beastman. I guess the chaos warriors have been REALLY lucky to get that far

Warhams-77 wrote:Lady Atia - War of Sigmar is the source, they are for 30k. Next is a Boarboy 'Biker Nob' conversion and also a Megaboss one

Yep these are mine. Currently working on my WB tacticals though. Giving the gore grunta guns on its sides isn't as easy as I thought, and I need some more dakkaguns. >.>

RiTides wrote:For 30K, that's genius

Thanks ^.^

You can follow my project at Battlebunnies over the next months ^.^

http://battlebunnies.blogspot.co.at/search/label/Orkimus%20Mekanikum

Brometheus wrote:Year of Tzeentch eh Atia??? Didnt you say Rubrics etc might be ready in time for ETL?

I said Tzeentch stuff should be ready for ETL^^

14th may is the day after payday, so that's probably gonna be preordered. Wonder if we're getting a battletome with the Ghoul stuff?

These guys look GOOD when painted in a less blinding colour scheme:

 Mymearan wrote:
These guys look GOOD when painted in a less blinding colour scheme:

I'm still not a fan, but that does look a lot better than the bright yellow.

 Mymearan wrote:
These guys look GOOD when painted in a less blinding colour scheme:

Spoiler:

They look boring in that scheme, IMHO. Orks (and Orruks) look best in their clan colors. GW just chose the wrong yellow for their orruks and should have used Averland Sunset instead of Yriel Yellow.