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In truth Khorne misses slaanesh. Actually, it would be ironic if the quest of rescue was made by khornates and slaaneshis. "I-it's not like I wanted to help you, b-baka!"

Lord Kragan wrote:
In truth Khorne misses slaanesh. Actually, it would be ironic if the quest of rescue was made by khornates and slaaneshis. "I-it's not like I wanted to help you, b-baka!"

"I missed you bro! I mean? Sister? WHATEVER!"

Time for more BLOODSHED like old times! Khorne misses his eternal enemy to fight. Each god has a brother god they mainly face in the great game I do wonder if deep down khorne may actually miss the dark prince as you said. I do think it would be cool/funny if khorne did aid in his/her release somehow.

Lord Kragan wrote:


They're also talking about how they're putting hobby advice back into the books. Painting, weathering, sub-assembly and basing tips. Talk about a blast from the past.

If true, this would be a huge improvement. I often remarked on how lacking in the content the newer books are compared to their predecessors.

Let's just kill this tangent before we get people posting anime memes and fake japanese gibberish...

 Mymearan wrote:
Let's just kill this tangent before we get people posting anime memes and fake japanese gibberish...

Yes, that can be a whole thread on it's own.

 Mymearan wrote:
Let's just kill this tangent before we get people posting anime memes and fake japanese gibberish...

 DarkBlack wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Let's just kill this tangent before we get people posting anime memes and fake japanese gibberish...

Yes, that can be a whole thread on it's own.

Indeed, on a serious note it would be interesting for all the gods to converge upon Ulgu for various reasons.

 DarkBlack wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Let's just kill this tangent before we get people posting anime memes and fake japanese gibberish...

Yes, that can be a whole thread on it's own.

Indeed, on a serious note it would be interesting for all the gods to converge upon Ulgu for various reasons.

I'll say this, mostly so I can point to it in future when someone starts whinging I'm too negative about AoS and never ever give it a chance: Having gone through the WD, I really like the Kharadron Overlord models, enough that I'll genuinely consider buying the Start Collecting box for them when it eventually shows up.

I don't think I'll ever give even the tinest crap for AoS' fluff, but if they keep putting out factions this visually striking and interesting and stop trying to call back to the IP they wrecked to bring it out, I might be able to bring myself to enjoy the game system in the way I enjoy non-GW game systems(as an occasional gameplay/social diversion).

 Yodhrin wrote:
I'll say this, mostly so I can point to it in future when someone starts whinging I'm too negative about AoS and never ever give it a chance: Having gone through the WD, I really like the Kharadron Overlord models, enough that I'll genuinely consider buying the Start Collecting box for them when it eventually shows up.

I don't think I'll ever give even the tinest crap for AoS' fluff, but if they keep putting out factions this visually striking and interesting and stop trying to call back to the IP they wrecked to bring it out, I might be able to bring myself to enjoy the game system in the way I enjoy non-GW game systems(as an occasional gameplay/social diversion).

This is music to my ears, Yodderz!

I too can't wait for them. The Battletome is going to be such a joy to read as all the fluff is so new and uncharted territory. The Grundstok Mercs in my Order army will be a welcome addition too!

 Bottle wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
I'll say this, mostly so I can point to it in future when someone starts whinging I'm too negative about AoS and never ever give it a chance: Having gone through the WD, I really like the Kharadron Overlord models, enough that I'll genuinely consider buying the Start Collecting box for them when it eventually shows up.

I don't think I'll ever give even the tinest crap for AoS' fluff, but if they keep putting out factions this visually striking and interesting and stop trying to call back to the IP they wrecked to bring it out, I might be able to bring myself to enjoy the game system in the way I enjoy non-GW game systems(as an occasional gameplay/social diversion).

This is music to my ears, Yodderz!

I too can't wait for them. The Battletome is going to be such a joy to read as all the fluff is so new and uncharted territory. The Grundstok Mercs in my Order army will be a welcome addition too!

It's the regular line infantry that made me look again, I love the shonky pressure suits.

Honestly I think I could have liked AoS a lot more if GW hadn't shat on WHF with the End Times nonsense and if we'd been getting stuff like this right from the start rather than Orcs But Slightly Bigger, Slayers But Now Their Tattoos Are Literally Metal, and Oh Look Yet More Khorne.

 Mymearan wrote:
Let's just kill this tangent before we get people posting anime memes and fake japanese gibberish...

yeah I am already pretty lost by some of the terms used

Has there been any further information released about the rules for the Overlords?

Pre Order date for Battletome?

all I've heard is that its not this saturday, but most likely the 15th

I also heard it's not this weekend and will be the weekend after for pre-order

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Has there been any further information released about the rules for the Overlords?

The Warscroll for the Monopoly Man leaked - I saw it on Twitter. Quite interesting, but it's the other models I am interested in.

Yeah it's the Blades of Khorne stuff first. This month is going to be an expensive month.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Has there been any further information released about the rules for the Overlords?

I have the White Dwarf on me right now. Extrapolating from the battle report.

Kharadron Ironclads have access to artifacts which can do stuff, one of them turns a weapon into The Last Word, which can fire whenever an enemy ends a charge within 1/2" of the ship.

Frigates and Ironclads can transport, Gunhaulers can't.

Arkanauts can deploy on foot.

Code addenda form skyport "Traits". Barak-Zilfin can reroll to hit and to wound rolls of one against flying targets, all skyvessels get a 6 for run moves, and their skyvessels ignore mortal wounds on a six.

Passengers aboard a skyvessel disembark when it's destroyed, some of them die, but it looks like a decent chance for them to live.

Skyvessels have detonation drills (the afflicted unit cannot attack until the end of the combat phase), Gunhaulers can have frag charges for close quarters. No exact rules on the frags.

Navigators can release an aetherstorm, causing flying units to only move half range if they're within 18" of the navigator.

Most things in the army have Movement 4.

Aethermatic volley cannons presumably have 5 shots, 10 with The Last Word against chargers.

Skyvessels can drop bombs on chargers.


That's all we know so far, I believe. It's not very specific, and mostly "Well no gak" tier stuff.


Addendum:

I'm interested to see how melee oriented armies will deal with the Balloons O' Doom.

 Verviedi wrote:

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Has there been any further information released about the rules for the Overlords?

I have the White Dwarf on me right now. Extrapolating from the battle report.

Kharadron Ironclads have access to artifacts which can do stuff, one of them turns a weapon into The Last Word, which can fire whenever an enemy ends a charge within 1/2" of the ship.

Frigates and Ironclads can transport, Gunhaulers can't.

Arkanauts can deploy on foot.

Code addenda form skyport "Traits". Barak-Zilfin can reroll to hit and to wound rolls of one against flying targets, all skyvessels get a 6 for run moves, and their skyvessels ignore mortal wounds on a six.

Passengers aboard a skyvessel disembark when it's destroyed, some of them die, but it looks like a decent chance for them to live.

Skyvessels have detonation drills (the afflicted unit cannot attack until the end of the combat phase), Gunhaulers can have frag charges for close quarters. No exact rules on the frags.

Navigators can release an aetherstorm, causing flying units to only move half range if they're within 18" of the navigator.

Most things in the army have Movement 4.

Aethermatic volley cannons presumably have 5 shots, 10 with The Last Word against chargers.

Skyvessels can drop bombs on chargers.


That's all we know so far, I believe. It's not very specific, and mostly "Well no gak" tier stuff.


Addendum:

Welp, I'm happy!

Saw BoLS preview of the blades of khorne book. A formation that I think is new sounds interesting: Gore-Pilgrims consists of a bloodsecrator and 2-3 slaughterpriests with 1-2 of both bloodreavers and bloodwarriors. In this formation the priests get to re-roll their dice for the prayers and their signature blessing while, if they are within 8'' of a bloodsecrator widden the latter's ability radious by 6''.

 TalonZahn wrote:
I'm interested to see how melee oriented armies will deal with the Balloons O' Doom.

Quite easily according to the battle report as most of the balloons were taken down by large packs of ghouls

 endtransmission wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
I'm interested to see how melee oriented armies will deal with the Balloons O' Doom.

Quite easily according to the battle report as most of the balloons were taken down by large packs of ghouls

Did they stack themselves up, like World War Z style, to reach into the sky?

I mean, what's the point of having a balloon if anyone on the ground can reach up and hit it?

If I was in a balloon and and someone on the ground was hitting my balloon... I'd.... go up?

That is a cool image though.

But yeah, I was expecting this. Fliers aren't unreachable to ground troops like in 40k.

 TalonZahn wrote:

 endtransmission wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
I'm interested to see how melee oriented armies will deal with the Balloons O' Doom.

Quite easily according to the battle report as most of the balloons were taken down by large packs of ghouls

Did they stack themselves up, like World War Z style, to reach into the sky?

I mean, what's the point of having a balloon if anyone on the ground can reach up and hit it?

If I was in a balloon and and someone on the ground was hitting my balloon... I'd.... go up?

Going by fluff, it seems to be assumed that melee models have means to reach or haul down flyers in some manner. Bloodreavers are repeatedly described as throwing grappling hooks, blood warriors throwing their weapons, etc. Or in other words, it's assumed some narrative reason comes into play. So if this battle were written in fluff form, I suspect that yes, the ghouls would be described in such a manner. Which is totally badass imo.

I'm fine with some type of explanation to handwave away immunity for being airborne.

Although I would expect it plays into their defense numbers/wounds or something.

terry wrote:
all I've heard is that its not this saturday, but most likely the 15th

That just seems odd, as pre-order for the warscroll cards is supposed to be the 8th. So we could order the cards a week before the Battletome? Hopefully we'll get some more concrete info as the week goes on. I'd really like to at least get the Battletome pre-ordered this weekend and have it by the 15th.

It's odd that they released the faction without releasing any models or at least a date. Do you think they were pressured because of leaked images and so had to rush the project?

Heard on another forum that someone confirmed via twitch that no pre-orders for Kharadron Overlords would be this weekend. Rumored earliest pre-order will be the 15th for battletome and a few items, with more available for pre-order on the 22nd.

I wonder if there was a production issue somewhere in the chain at the last minute.