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Rule 34?

I think Altruizine meant 'a small flake of soot or other dirt or a mark left by one', but who knows.

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I dunno - the expression on that big skull is quite lascivious...

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Figurative language; it seems some people have spent too many decades reading nothing but rulebooks.
   
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No, just really not following what you're trying to say about the kit.

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Everything is smut if you try hard enough and believe in yourself.

Pwor! It's literally powered by blood. More edge than a circle.
   
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/06/27/kill-team-balance-dataslate-download-the-new-updates-today/
   
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I'm new to KT, and so a lot of the dataslate is existing changes. can i get a TLDR on the recent changes (and especially how they effect my main teams of wyrmblade, talons, and quins)?

she/her 
   
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I'm not a KT player either, but looking at the PDF, you need to read pages 1 & 5 - I don't see anything referencing "Talons", unless the name for that Kill Team has changed.

New changes are apparently marked with a * bullet point instead of a circular one, which seems a really bad way of doing it.

I don't see any new points raised for Wyrmblade or Void-Dancer Troupe, though.

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
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While I know casual players are free to ignore the dataslate changes, it irks me that the rules change every six months.
   
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Understandable, yet I am more irked my a game where I am very likely to lose just because one team is inherently stronger than another. So I appreciate the active effort to maintain a more level playing field.

However, if one plays casually and never gets really good with a given, strong team, then one need not keep up with these changes.

Henry R. 
   
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I am more upset that they bother to charge us money for a rulebook that lasts 6 months.

I have people in my group still using rules from there books that have actually changed *several* times since those were published.

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Plus the rulebooks can be pretty rubbish for non-rules content.

I have Chalnath and they can't keep the names straight and don't even explain why the battle for the Vedik system is called warzone Chalnath...

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Longtime Dakkanaut




Wait, there are rulebooks for KT?


Seriously, I liked rulebooks but in the era of living rules can't be bothered to buy them for any system I play. I wish GW went the route other games have gone (like Warmachine or ASOIAF) and offered free, always updated rules online or in an app with printable unit cards.

As much as I don't like reading on a screen, I dislike paying for and having a ton of paper rules that are already out of date on release even more.

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 Haighus wrote:
Plus the rulebooks can be pretty rubbish for non-rules content.

I have Chalnath and they can't keep the names straight and don't even explain why the battle for the Vedik system is called warzone Chalnath...


Yeah, that Chalnath thing gets me too. I think it's mentioned once, on the back of the book, that it's the sector of the galaxy it's all set in, but nowhere else.
   
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Gathering the Informations.

Chalnath came out as part of the first "season", where we kept hopping around different warzones.

We started with Octarius, then Nachmund then Chalmath then Moroch.

Most of them got articles in White Dwarf about the warzones. It felt like there was some issues with book printing.
   
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England

 Shakalooloo wrote:
 Haighus wrote:
Plus the rulebooks can be pretty rubbish for non-rules content.

I have Chalnath and they can't keep the names straight and don't even explain why the battle for the Vedik system is called warzone Chalnath...


Yeah, that Chalnath thing gets me too. I think it's mentioned once, on the back of the book, that it's the sector of the galaxy it's all set in, but nowhere else.

Yeah, the "Chalnath Expanse" is mentioned in the blurb on the back, and nowhere else. Really bad writing.

They also reference an agri world that is different to the one in the very same system. I think that was probably an earlier name for the agri world that got left in by accident.

A handful of nice art pieces at least.


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 Kanluwen wrote:
Chalnath came out as part of the first "season", where we kept hopping around different warzones.

We started with Octarius, then Nachmund then Chalmath then Moroch.

Most of them got articles in White Dwarf about the warzones. It felt like there was some issues with book printing.

A White Dwarf article is helpful, but doesn't excuse the poor lore writing in the main book.

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 ChargerIIC wrote:
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Longtime Dakkanaut




Don't you think such fluff pieces are now written by an AI, probably just redacted afterwards? It's just repatitive generic descriptions of repetitive generic events, even if these are supposed to sound "epic".

Well, of course they've always had, how to put it ...negative literary value, but now the same level (or lack thereof) may be achieved with much less effort with AI.

My friend used AI to generate fluff intros to his YT Warmachine battle reports amd they looked exactly like GW fluff pieces.

https://youtu.be/5cHwmofC6f4?si=In-D943K7jT5k0bD - here is an example in the description (and also me, playing Cryx )
   
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Cyel wrote:
Don't you think such fluff pieces are now written by an AI, probably just redacted afterwards? It's just repatitive generic descriptions of repetitive generic events, even if these are supposed to sound "epic".

Well, of course they've always had, how to put it ...negative literary value, but now the same level (or lack thereof) may be achieved with much less effort with AI.

My friend used AI to generate fluff intros to his YT Warmachine battle reports amd they looked exactly like GW fluff pieces.

https://youtu.be/5cHwmofC6f4?si=In-D943K7jT5k0bD - here is an example in the description (and also me, playing Cryx )


Certainly, the background in the current codexes just 'remix' that from each previous iteration, moving words around in sentences and throwing in the odd synonym. I think an AI would actually be more creative than that.
   
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Genestealer Cults could get away with weird hands in art.
   
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I see all through this thread that new campaign sets get released and snapped up in minutes, yet, Termination is still widely available. Are people not interested in Genestealers vs. Space Dwarfs? Is it the boring terrain? Or did GW just make plenty this time?

Also, has there been any talk about when we might see a standalone KT box for the Night Lords?

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Genestealer Cults could get away with weird hands in art.


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 Aspiring Champion wrote:
I see all through this thread that new campaign sets get released and snapped up in minutes, yet, Termination is still widely available. Are people not interested in Genestealers vs. Space Dwarfs? Is it the boring terrain? Or did GW just make plenty this time?

Also, has there been any talk about when we might see a standalone KT box for the Night Lords?

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Genestealer Cults could get away with weird hands in art.




Only my personal opinion, but I skipped it because of the terrain. Previous releases gave you an entire table of corridors or gantry’s, etc. This one basically gives you two shoeboxes. Not only is it boring and lacking in coverage, they have no real compatibility with other terrain series and are also super easy to proxy or scratch build. Just not worth it.

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 Zed wrote:
*All statements reflect my opinion at this moment. if some sort of pretty new model gets released (or if I change my mind at random) I reserve the right to jump on any bandwagon at will.
 
   
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Same for me - the terrain didn't do it for me. The old corridors and the before that the warzone specific team was really cool and provided a lot for 40k and other games as well.
Now they separated the terrain out because of supposed player feedback - the new terrain with half height gantries isn't really new, it's similar to previous stuff, provides little cover and honestly can be easily scratch build.
The extra terrain in the team releases was really strange.
The latest was just the worst in an ever more downhill experience. It also didn't help that the new kill teams weren't as usable for me as the those in the space hulk themed boxes.

I was really excited when the rumors were about a jungle planet with more natural terrain - but the trees in warcry looked really weird, so maybe it's a good thing this didn't come to pass...
   
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They went from cool ork specific terrain and modular corridors to a pair of cubes that don't connect with other terrain. It would have been easy to make them slightly different to the point they could fit on the ridgehauler like the prometheum tanks do.
   
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Gathering the Informations.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
They went from cool ork specific terrain and modular corridors to a pair of cubes that don't connect with other terrain. It would have been easy to make them slightly different to the point they could fit on the ridgehauler like the prometheum tanks do.

Everything from this season was supposed to be Mechanicus based. The two cubes are Plasma Generatorums; things that are shipped between Forge Worlds to keep a kind of 'holy spark'.

The Hernkyn are there for them to keep an AI core active.
   
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Yeah guys that's my fault on Termination, I only bought one box instead of my usual 2-3

CoALabaer wrote:
Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
 
   
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/12/chalnath-dispatches-at-all-costs/

since it seems to be agreed that this pertains to the Vespids vs Scions rumor, i'm moving this here— very exciting, if this turns out to be true. really looking forward to seeing vespids done justice with modern sculpts

she/her 
   
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 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
really looking forward to seeing vespids done justice with modern sculpts

Yeah, they really need updated models. Hopefully other alien auxiliaries will be added later too.
   
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Gathering the Informations.

They can get updated models at any time.

I'd rather see new Kill teams than Kill Team being continually foisted off as a way to update old models.
   
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 Kanluwen wrote:
They can get updated models at any time.

I'd rather see new Kill teams than Kill Team being continually foisted off as a way to update old models.

But KT is great for both. You could have new Tau unit which is a new/old/only mentioned in fluff auxiliary unit.

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