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 PenitentJake wrote:
So, yes... By DEFAULT, it does go the way you say: I can capture planets as a GSC player and not tell you, my Tau opponent which planet I'm attacking, and you can do the same for me. This is GW's DEFAULT because it's the least invasive way for each player to forge their own narrative without imposing anything on their opponent.

Well, it's their default because it's a low-effort way to write it, and GW's way to drip-feed books throughout the edition means it's hard to link rules to books that haven't released yet.

All that stuff you talked about sounds very cool, but it's also essentially a whole load of homebrew. It's cool, so I will praise your work if I saw this campaign in action. What I would not do is praise GW, because this is you doing the work, not them. I will judge Crusade on the material provided. Homebrew absolutely is narrative play's best friend and I will in no way speak ill of it, the point is more that I could homebrew in any game out there, so there's not much point factoring it into an assessment.

No_Marines_Here wrote:
Do we reckon those skulls and rocks will be modelled onto the bases? They don't seem to be in line for slottas on the models themselves.

Recently in starter boxes GW do bases with holes, rather than slottas, and skulls and rocks like that are generally for plugging the holes in cases where the base has 2 holes but the model only has one peg i.e. on one foot. My money's on that

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Forget the ears, you guys are missing the important part; the anti-cat helmets are back.

Clearly stated by someone who does not own a cat . Mine will still fling them off the table sideways. Cats are the proof that the earth is not flat, if it was we'd all have been knocked off or tripped up and stumbled off the edge already

Billicus wrote:

No_Marines_Here wrote:
Do we reckon those skulls and rocks will be modelled onto the bases? They don't seem to be in line for slottas on the models themselves.

Recently in starter boxes GW do bases with holes, rather than slottas, and skulls and rocks like that are generally for plugging the holes in cases where the base has 2 holes but the model only has one peg i.e. on one foot. My money's on that

Models with big feet/contact points can do without base details to make more room for the peg, but smaller models benefit from a rock/skull/etc for more contact. So even small one peg models need rocks.

I think multi-hole bases start at 40mm, so probably not grots. But you are correct that one peg models on larger bases get little extras to fill the gap.

You're totally right, on little bases there tends to only be the one hole.

I bet smaller ears are a tradeoff to avoid undercuts and allow better alignment on sprues. I'm betting grots will be one of those etb sprues that is sold separately later like negron warriors and termagants

I cant make heads or tails about the stream time again... How many hours until showtime? All these letter salads..

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
I'm betting grots will be one of those etb sprues that is sold separately later like negron warriors and termagants

I'm expecting the same for the boyz, probably just ten models with two head options each. There's no need for multiple options now that choppas and shootas are the same unit.
But if a nob is included, that would make it impossible to create a twenty man unit. So the boss nob might just be a separate character that can join boyz mobs.



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 tauist wrote:
I cant make heads or tails about the stream time again... How many hours until showtime? All these letter salads..

Two hours from now if I remember right.

Yup. 19:00 UK time, and as I type it’s 17:04

cheers doc

Since the current Codexes are cafrrying on into the next edition, it follows that Crusade must get at least a mention in the new rulebook, else there'll be pages that mean nothing. Same with combat patrol; since each Codex has one listed, the rules for it must be in the main book.

Of course, the 11th edition Codexes may do away with Crusade when they get to being done, but they wouldn't fully can it until at least 12th if they did that.

Ok, tonight... the odds are 20:1 that there are no technical issues.

 Shakalooloo wrote:
Since the current Codexes are cafrrying on into the next edition, it follows that Crusade must get at least a mention in the new rulebook, else there'll be pages that mean nothing. Same with combat patrol; since each Codex has one listed, the rules for it must be in the main book.

Of course, the 11th edition Codexes may do away with Crusade when they get to being done, but they wouldn't fully can it until at least 12th if they did that.

You do realize they could just put both Crusade & Combat Patrol on the Community Downloads page (Crusade is already there), right?

Alright people I wanna nice, clean dispersal this time!

Somebody wake up 'Doc...

Live now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTSpDSQe0s

That guy in the background on the stream is possibly the shittiest drawing of an Ork GW have ever published.

 Nazrak wrote:
That guy in the background on the stream is possibly the shittiest drawing of an Ork GW have ever published.

You are going to get someone who personally knows the artist and is convinced they are really good and you can't possibly say that.
But yes.

Why do they keep saying "frame"? It's a sprue lads.

No Snakebite transfers? BOO!

Show the damned models!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Show the damned models!

Yeah they're really dragging this out, even by their usual standards. I'm off to the pub and I'll look at it all later.

That’s betterer!

Dakkarig? Nah mate. I’m still gonna call it a Waaagh Walker.

Really like the Wartrakk. Warboss is neat.

Wartrak!

and since there are Crimson Fists transfers, this is now the 'Battle at the Farm' launch box :-)

Happy the Big Boss returns. Well. I say returns. Pretty sure something similar existed in 2nd Ed?

Regardless, a mid-level fighty lad is welcome.


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Also Grot ears look better in the not-quite 360.

It all comes down to control of that farm. Only a year to go...

Grot Orderly wins the preview thus far. And may win it outright.


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Nice speaking over each other there lads.

Super happy with these Orks for sure. I've got a lot of rebasing ahead though...

That's not an original wartrakk!

That is not an original Wartrakk!


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Oh snap!

The Dakkarig...that's nice.