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 Fafnir wrote:

 Zingraff wrote:
Gor might be cool to have in an inquisitor's retinue. Anyone has any idea on how to use the model that way? I haven't yet had a chance to look at the current 8th edition rules for inquisitors.

He'd be cool to have in a retinue, but the Inquisition rules for 8th are beyond garbage, and probably the worst of any faction in the game. Most Inquisitor loadouts can't even be legally played anymore. You could take Gor as an Acolyte with a pistol and chainsword, and that's about it. But you'll have a very hard time justifying the use of that on the table.

Yeah, the tl;Dr of it is acolytes are WAY over costed for what they do, and inquisitors don't reealy do anything for your army other imperial factions didn't do better anyway

In theory inquisators SHOULD be perfect HQ's for imperial soup armies to rbing everything together. But they kinda fail to deliver that. They almost need a top down rewrite to make their place in imperial soup armies more clear.

I'm getting him as a bodyguard regardless. Maybe by the time I can play again the Inquisition won't be such a sad joke.

The fluff for the Astreus is so much better than the Cawl rubbish for the Primaris marines and the repulsor etc.

 Lockark wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:

 Zingraff wrote:
Gor might be cool to have in an inquisitor's retinue. Anyone has any idea on how to use the model that way? I haven't yet had a chance to look at the current 8th edition rules for inquisitors.

He'd be cool to have in a retinue, but the Inquisition rules for 8th are beyond garbage, and probably the worst of any faction in the game. Most Inquisitor loadouts can't even be legally played anymore. You could take Gor as an Acolyte with a pistol and chainsword, and that's about it. But you'll have a very hard time justifying the use of that on the table.

Yeah, the tl;Dr of it is acolytes are WAY over costed for what they do, and inquisitors don't reealy do anything for your army other imperial factions didn't do better anyway

In theory inquisators SHOULD be perfect HQ's for imperial soup armies to rbing everything together. But they kinda fail to deliver that. They almost need a top down rewrite to make their place in imperial soup armies more clear.

Give them: BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE IMMORTAL EMPEROR’S INQUISITION: If the Inquisitor is your Warlord, any IMPERIUM unit with a faction variable (<CHAPTER>, <REGIMENT> or similar) automatically replaces it with INQUISITION instead of any of the options normally allowed.
Allows the Inquisitor to order anyone around but also allows for space marine Captains to inspire guardsmen to be better shots, and guard Officers to order space marines to be better shots, and similar interesting interactions, while softly locking out the divergent chapters and named characters.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Lockark wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:

 Zingraff wrote:
Gor might be cool to have in an inquisitor's retinue. Anyone has any idea on how to use the model that way? I haven't yet had a chance to look at the current 8th edition rules for inquisitors.

He'd be cool to have in a retinue, but the Inquisition rules for 8th are beyond garbage, and probably the worst of any faction in the game. Most Inquisitor loadouts can't even be legally played anymore. You could take Gor as an Acolyte with a pistol and chainsword, and that's about it. But you'll have a very hard time justifying the use of that on the table.

Yeah, the tl;Dr of it is acolytes are WAY over costed for what they do, and inquisitors don't reealy do anything for your army other imperial factions didn't do better anyway

In theory inquisators SHOULD be perfect HQ's for imperial soup armies to rbing everything together. But they kinda fail to deliver that. They almost need a top down rewrite to make their place in imperial soup armies more clear.

Give them: BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE IMMORTAL EMPEROR’S INQUISITION: If the Inquisitor is your Warlord, any IMPERIUM unit with a faction variable (<CHAPTER>, <REGIMENT> or similar) automatically replaces it with INQUISITION instead of any of the options normally allowed.
Allows the Inquisitor to order anyone around but also allows for space marine Captains to inspire guardsmen to be better shots, and guard Officers to order space marines to be better shots, and similar interesting interactions, while softly locking out the divergent chapters and named characters.

Well, I guess my old Marine army is worthless. It was pretty much based around an inquisitor.

In other news, I noticed this in this month's WD:

We're working on rules for Hired Guns, Hangers-on, Bounty Hunters and Hive Scum.

There was also a bit about them having plans for more than 3 times as many additional models than there were in the original Necromunda. Do you guys think they'll be FW, like Gor, or GW?

They'll be FW resin

It’s a Specialist Game so Forge World only, unless they want to give up one of their quarterly allocation of sprue frames to make them instead of a gang kit.

From Facebook:

Absolutely love that Astraeus beast!! Gorgeous piece of kit inits ugliness. Really wants one. Mayb next spring.

Yet somehow not enough room to swing a cat transport any Marines.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yet somehow not enough room to swing a cat transport any Marines.

When you need all the guns but not the grunts.
All repulsive plates, without any ot the transport capacity! Astraeus super heavy tank, for only 200 prayers to the Ommnisiah.

How does the same team that writes the rules for the Falchion also write the rules for this thing? It's so bad on a rules level, do they have absolutely 0 conversation about anything they write?

 Kirasu wrote:
How does the same team that writes the rules for the Falchion also write the rules for this thing? It's so bad on a rules level, do they have absolutely 0 conversation about anything they write?

Did you see the Forgeworld indexes? Their rules team is an utter mess.

 Kirasu wrote:
How does the same team that writes the rules for the Falchion also write the rules for this thing? It's so bad on a rules level, do they have absolutely 0 conversation about anything they write?

You're talking about the same team that wrote that the Tiger Shark AX-1-0, a unit that is armed with 2 Macro weapons (weapons that can only be fired if the unit remains stationary unless it has the titanic keyword), is a flyer that has a minimum move distance and cannot stay still, and doesn't have the titanic keyword. They did not realize that this was a problem until pretty much the every Tau player on the internet pointed out to them that the Tiger Shark actually could not function as written. Forge World has jacked up their 8th edition rules writing so horribly in the name of jerking off to their power armor fantasy (Horus Heresy).

 GI_Redshirt wrote:

 Kirasu wrote:
How does the same team that writes the rules for the Falchion also write the rules for this thing? It's so bad on a rules level, do they have absolutely 0 conversation about anything they write?

You're talking about the same team that wrote that the Tiger Shark AX-1-0, a unit that is armed with 2 Macro weapons (weapons that can only be fired if the unit remains stationary unless it has the titanic keyword), is a flyer that has a minimum move distance and cannot stay still, and doesn't have the titanic keyword. They did not realize that this was a problem until pretty much the every Tau player on the internet pointed out to them that the Tiger Shark actually could not function as written. Forge World has jacked up their 8th edition rules writing so horribly in the name of jerking off to their power armor fantasy (Horus Heresy).

That power armor fantasy is their money maker.

The series that's last rules release was an utter mess of typos, missing rules, balance issues and the like of which no one had ever seen before (Though the Indices probably beat it with flaws, they were also all rushed in a short time frame).

Well, naturally heresy is thier money maker.
It's hard to justify throwing monies on units that liturally can't function in game.

And even when they do, FW canceled entire model lines because they didn't sell, missing that the reason they didn't sell was not because the models were not awesome, but the rules were worse than godamn possessed for several editions.

 BrookM wrote:
From Facebook:

This image shows brilliantly why I would never buy one. It just doesn’t look like it belongs in the same IP as the others.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:
This image shows brilliantly why I would never buy one. It just doesn’t look like it belongs in the same IP as the others.

Agreed. Not sure what happened at FW/GW in recent years but their vehicles have certainly taken a shift in a new direction aesthetically that I am not a fan of. Not sure when it started but I know when the Taurox came out I could hardly believe how bad it looked. Doesn't seem like it belongs in the setting at all. The only model FW has released in recent years that I like is the new Sisters of Silence vehicle. Its unique & I can definitely see the Sisters of Silence using them:

GenRifDrake wrote:
A REALLY big anti-air dakka platform

Yeah, its for when you have a friend that has something like a Thunderhawk or Stormbird who wants to game with it, and you want to ruin his day.

 Commissar Benny wrote:

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:
This image shows brilliantly why I would never buy one. It just doesn’t look like it belongs in the same IP as the others.

Agreed. Not sure what happened at FW/GW in recent years but their vehicles have certainly taken a shift in a new direction aesthetically that I am not a fan of. Not sure when it started but I know when the Taurox came out I could hardly believe how bad it looked. Doesn't seem like it belongs in the setting at all. The only model FW has released in recent years that I like is the new Sisters of Silence vehicle. Its unique & I can definitely see the Sisters of Silence using them:

That is because the Kharon is properly Grimdark. This new hover tank looks like something from like Heavy Gear or something. Not at all Grimdark!

The Astraeus to me looks like it was clipped out of a simple RTS video game (something like Supreme Commander). But then I dislike the Repulsor tank or whatever also.

I liked Jes' original sketch but the end result leaves a lot to be desired. Combined witht he mediocre design of the dread and it's probably a good thing I won't be building a Primaris army --- the aesthetic direction is pretty bad at the moment.

Courtesy of Warhammer Community.

They are not bad, but are just another slighly different kind of Space Marine Commander.

Not too keen on the Fatmarine look:

Those are some very nice Space Marines, I love this Space Marines, especially how they look like Space Marines and are in Power Armour.

This image shows brilliantly why I would never buy one. It just doesn’t look like it belongs in the same IP as the others.

QFT. How FW can swing between gems like Culns Dreadnought and this clusterfeck is beyond me.
Would fit in with 90s GI Joe toys.....

 zedmeister wrote:
Not too keen on the Fatmarine look:

Finally a marine that’s not constipation faced, but he gets objectified as fat. Women really don’t have a chance if space marines are judged for their looks .

I just think it is a mediocre sculpt with an awful paint job.

Awful, really?

I can certainly accept that you might not like the style, but it's a well painted miniature.