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 Monkeysloth wrote:
I like her design. The over the topness to wear greaves and gauntlets but regular clothes everywhere else is pretty Iron Kingdoms.

Nice to see someone finally got Ivy to wear something other than greaves, gauntlets and belts.

 LunarSol wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
I like her design. The over the topness to wear greaves and gauntlets but regular clothes everywhere else is pretty Iron Kingdoms.

Nice to see someone finally got Ivy to wear something other than greaves, gauntlets and belts.

Well clearly the owl is a respectable fowl in it's lands and she's dressing up for their outing.

Hungerford just posted this in facebook

One more day! One more day until the Keynote and the Wintertime Wasteland Kickstarter goes live! One more day until you get your first look at:
1.) Boomhowler the Destroyer
2.) Stonecold Black Bella
3.)**r* *** **n***
4.)*ss****
5.)****er*
6.)L**** the *****tt**
7.)Ko*** *** ***le
8.)Captain *****
9.)*****bo** *******
10.)D** & *****n, ******** Duo
11.)M***r ***** ****et
12.)Ol' ****
13.)B**kh***
14.)****les
15.)****un **e W*****
16.)S**** L**d ***** **dor
SOOOOOOON

Hmm... My predictions...

1.) Boomhowler the Destroyer
2.) Stonecold Black Bella
3.)**r* *** **n*** --> Bare Ass Gunman
4.)*ss**** ---> Assdude
5.)****er* --> Humpers
6.)L**** the *****tt** --> Limpy the Hambutter
7.)Ko*** *** ***le --> Kodak the Angle
8.)Captain ***** --> Captain Poopy
9.)*****bo** ******* --> Dirtyboot Potatoe
10.)D** & *****n, ******** Duo --> Dad & Dragon, Dangerly Duo
11.)M***r ***** ****et --> Motor Boaty Sunset
12.)Ol' **** --> Ol' Fart
13.)B**kh*** ---> Barkhand
14.)****les --> Bubbles
15.)****un **e W***** ---> Popgun the Waffle
16.)S**** L**d ***** **dor --> Sweet Lard Goopy Tudor

I hope you’re right.

And not a single capital X for Xerxis the able- challenged. Poor guy is never going to get a chance to walk fully upright on his own two legs, is he?

On the other hand it'll be a tough call between fielding Dirtyboot Potatoe or Sweet Lard Goopy Tudor. They both fill such similar rolls!

In want barkhands to just be some gobber with sticks glued to his hands.

 Monkeysloth wrote:
In want barkhands to just be some gobber with sticks glued to his hands.

Not with argus puppets?

 malfred wrote:
8.)Captain *****

Didn't they already announce Captain Gunnbjorn 2? I only ever played Captain Gunnbjorn, and I themed my army around him (by which I don't mean “take the best unit to make a list with him” but “only took units with guns and a militaristic look”) so I'd be glad to have a Captain Gunnbjorn 2.

 malfred wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
In want barkhands to just be some gobber with sticks glued to his hands.

Not with argus puppets?

That's clearly better.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 malfred wrote:
8.)Captain *****

Didn't they already announce Captain Gunnbjorn 2? I only ever played Captain Gunnbjorn, and I themed my army around him (by which I don't mean “take the best unit to make a list with him” but “only took units with guns and a militaristic look”) so I'd be glad to have a Captain Gunnbjorn 2.

Clearly it stands for Captain Jacks

Oh no :(.

Compiled keynote post. Feel free to post after this, but I'll be updating and referencing this post with whatever information and pics get
shared. I think I'm going to have to have separate other posts.

Entire stream




Announcement Video 1: IKRPG 5E Compatible

Penned by Matt Goetz (AWESOME) and takes place post-Oblivion. The IKRPG will
be released via kickstarter.

https://home.privateerpress.com/ikrpgRequiem/








Announcement Video 2: Minicrate Previews

Announcement Video 3: Monsterpocalypse
ppreviews of Mutates and Masters of 8th Dimension factions.

Announcement Video 4: Warcaster
Empyreans Faction, Human race vehicles

Announcement Video 5 : Warmachine and Hordes

Announcement Video 6: Riot Quest

When is the keynote and where can I watch it?

Edit: Nevermind, found it. It's in 5 minutes and you can watch it here: https://www.twitch.tv/privateerpress

yea for more RPG. Boo for being 5E. The system is so stale and boring and hate how we're in a repeat of 20 years ago were every damn game has to be d20 or no one will play it.

I missed the MonPoc video and most of the segment (curses!), but these Masters of the 8th Dimension are pretty cool looking.

that LE Striker is awesome.

$40. https://store.privateerpress.com/exclusives/stryker-archon-morrowan-archon-alternate-sculpt

 Monkeysloth wrote:
yea for more RPG. Boo for being 5E. The system is so stale and boring and hate how we're in a repeat of 20 years ago were every damn game has to be d20 or no one will play it.

I'd feel worse about it if the IKRPG hadn't been so horrid. What works in a wargame doesn't work for an RPG. Especially if you want to keep PCs alive through a single encounter without an absurd amount of min/maxing.

5e is a little boring, but at least it isn't a struggle to keep a party intact long enough to have a campaign.

Voss wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
yea for more RPG. Boo for being 5E. The system is so stale and boring and hate how we're in a repeat of 20 years ago were every damn game has to be d20 or no one will play it.

I'd feel worse about it if the IKRPG hadn't been so horrid. What works in a wargame doesn't work for an RPG. Especially if you want to keep PCs alive through a single encounter without an absurd amount of min/maxing.

Obviously people's views on rules are different, I liked them, but PC survivability wouldn't be something I'd ever expect to be an issue in that game as you get points to spend on healing all over the place.

 Monkeysloth wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
yea for more RPG. Boo for being 5E. The system is so stale and boring and hate how we're in a repeat of 20 years ago were every damn game has to be d20 or no one will play it.

I'd feel worse about it if the IKRPG hadn't been so horrid. What works in a wargame doesn't work for an RPG. Especially if you want to keep PCs alive through a single encounter without an absurd amount of min/maxing.

Obviously people's views on rules are different, I liked them, but PC survivability wouldn't be something I'd ever expect to be an issue in that game as you get points to spend on healing all over the place.

General character creation spits out characters with DEF and ARM around 12. Maybe 14 if you push it. With extreme system mastery you can forgo lots of other necessary things to have one up at around 16 or 17. Enemy MAT, RAT and POW make those numbers trivially easy to beat, so PCs are constantly going down if you're anything by the book.

This is much like the wargame (unsurprising since its a minor adaption), but for an RPG, I find that non-tenable.
Like many of the WHFRPGs, I find the endless parade of incompetence uninteresting and terribly unfun.

Riot Quest season 2 kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/privateerpress/riot-quest-wintertime-wasteland

Voss wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
yea for more RPG. Boo for being 5E. The system is so stale and boring and hate how we're in a repeat of 20 years ago were every damn game has to be d20 or no one will play it.

I'd feel worse about it if the IKRPG hadn't been so horrid. What works in a wargame doesn't work for an RPG. Especially if you want to keep PCs alive through a single encounter without an absurd amount of min/maxing.

Obviously people's views on rules are different, I liked them, but PC survivability wouldn't be something I'd ever expect to be an issue in that game as you get points to spend on healing all over the place.

General character creation spits out characters with DEF and ARM around 12. Maybe 14 if you push it. With extreme system mastery you can forgo lots of other necessary things to have one up at around 16 or 17. Enemy MAT, RAT and POW make those numbers trivially easy to beat, so PCs are constantly going down if you're anything by the book.

This is much like the wargame (unsurprising since its a minor adaption), but for an RPG, I find that non-tenable.
Like many of the WHFRPGs, I find the endless parade of incompetence uninteresting and terribly unfun.

That is the exact opposite of my experience and I ran it for years. As players kill things they get feat points to heal back up and do other things. But to each his own. My group breaks 5E easily too. They took out a CR 14 dragon at level 6 in one turn (party of 5).

Announcement video 2: Minicrate Previews

The new Monpoc stuff looks great. Riot Quest is whatever but the sculpts are injecting some great variety into Warmachine. Still not sold on Warcaster, but the latest announcements look like they'll really help the game feel fleshed out and give the factions some identity to get people off the fence.

Announcement Video 3: Monsterpocalypse




Drakan Armada - Protectors Faction of Space Dragons
*Zybanos- Classic two headed dragon. Got Flank and Spotter and ultimate weapon rules.
*Rastaban- Monster that does Power dice manipulation. Strafe- Fires off stuff from his wings that hit multiple targets?

Zerkalo Bloc - Destroyers Faction of Russian Invaders from Another Dimension
*Evil/Cold War reflection of the G.U.A.R.D.
*Voyaka first look.

Legion of Mutates - Protectors Faction of giant animals (especially animals not already represented)
*Kasander/Kysander (spelling) giant lion man. Monster.
*Other monsters planned include a Wolf and a Rhinoceros
*Other animals scattered throughout the faction
*Scientists who have found out how to alter people to fight the Monsterpocalypse (process described as taking a pill)
*Bashers are frontline unit (Hippos)
*Blasters are elephants with Rocket Launchers
*Other pop culture/animal stuff

Masters of the 8th Dimension - Destroyers Faction of really weird geometry
*Deeper reality - 9th Dimensionals move between universes, so this is the 8th dimension (I don't quite get it)
*Pinpointed the Monsterpocalypse as a main conflict, so they want to smooth things out.
*Voider - Ranged unit that is a sphere with weird shapes spin around it.
*Facilitator - Specialist unit in the blister. Seems like a support model. Distracted by talk of taking pills to become an elephant with a rocket launcher.
*Preceptor Monster - no real talk about what this does yet.

Oz's plan goes out to end of 2021.
*Hints at a bee/wasp monster.
*Combiners perhaps
*Buildings for factions without factions.

Announcement Video 4: Warcaster

Wave 2 for Warcaster will be on Warcaster




Empyrean Faction release
*One of the reasons the worlds were empty for Iron Kingdom folk to expand into was because the existing races had uploaded themselves into robot bodies.
*Therefore, Empyreans are aliens/robots
*Artwork shows vertical skyships.
*Power level of civilization - capable of changing the orbits of galaxies
*Box will have light warjack (Daemon), weaver, squad, solo
*Sentinel - Arm, Arm, Chest hardpoints (chest beams)
*Oculus- Weaver channels spells for the warcaster
*Different usage of arcanessence than human factions (unspecified)
*Fulcrum - Support solo that shoots and moves stuff around.
*Factotum - Mechanic solo
*Sabers are the Infantry -
*Strikeforce - Standard (gun/melee)
*Vanguard - Combat (double melee)
*Guardians - Heavy weapon
*Infantry all(?) have an extra tentacle attack


Human Factions - Wave 2 will release Vehicles
*New artwork of heavy warjacks like the Continuum's and Ironstar's. Some other stuff.
*Vehicles have one fixed weapon and a hardpoint
*Vehicles have a maneuver choice. Slow down, increase defense, move faster and do other things.
*Marcher Worlds Razorbat. Gatling guns fixed. Blazer, Talon mk2 (anti air rocket launcher), slug cannon optional weapon on the turret.
*Ironstar Interceptor. Bike. Little Machine guns that are fixed and an optional cannon. Special rule in play test is the ability to do two maneuvers.
*Continuum Scythe. Fixed weapon giant blade (cuts people while moving). Optional guns (necrophage and two new guns)
*Empyreans Zenith. Soul pilot(?). Optional weapon is on the top.

No official announcement on shipping dates for Wave 1.
Being packed right now.

 LunarSol wrote:
Riot Quest is whatever but the sculpts are injecting some great variety into Warmachine.

Maybe I'm just getting used to Riot Quest's aesthetic, but I really like most of the Winter Wonderland models. With the first season, I either loved or hated the models, with nothing in between. In s2, I like or love most of the models, and don't actively hate any of them. I still don't know that I'd feel comfortable using them in Warmachine because they are so theme-breaking - it's kind of like including the Wonder Twins in The Dark Knight Returns.

Zenith

Announcement 5: Warmachine and Hordes




Convention exclusive model
*Alternate morrowan archon - Coleman Stryker 39.99 on the online store

Legion of Everblight
*Everblight creates his own kind of archon to counter the Infernals and gods.
*Takes Bethayne and Belphegor and merges and unmerges again and again them to make the Virtues race
*Virtues aren't Nyss
*Virtues are 3 man unit models
*Virtues synergize with each other
*Blight archon
*Scheduled for September (Bethayne/Blight Archon)
*Traditional CID playtest isn't happening.
*No one is encouraged to playtest. They will not take battle reports for this playtest.
*Legion CID- Rules come out ...no reports. All Theory and List building.(not ideal)
*Legacy Changes to Children of the Dragon and Oracles (some units named missed it)
*Shooting for next week Wednesday CID and forums 7/15

Trollbloods
*Dhunian worshippers of Trolls and Farrow make a theme force- Vengeance of Dhunia
*Guns and God theme force

Merc Minion
*Death Archons have started arriving on the battlefield (embodiment of slaughter and carnage)

Grymkin
*Defiled Archon - Grymm took down a Menite archon and tortured it for millenia in a time warp
*Menofixes are upside down and screaming faces for wings
*A mockery of the True Law on the spear that it reads to enemies it impales
*Getting a Dragoon Isaiah the Dread Harvester
*Head comes off (he throws it at people) and makes Dread rots with its pumpkin head

Next Warmachine Bloc

Retribution of Scyrah
*House Ellowury (sp?)

Crucible Guard
*Drugs are bad

More stuff in 2021, some really big models.

Squeeeeeeeeeee

Ok I'm glad I didn't back Warcaster now - because those new warcaster models are fantastic and just what I'm after! No more choices now I just need to be able to buy the tentacle robot beasties!