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Check the timestamps. Looks like they get discussed. We’ll find out for sure in a few days.
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"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Gw hasn't been removing much units in aos3 so only surprise is razorgor as it doesn't seem to be on sale. Other 2 have been safe all the time as still on sale.
Good stuff. I'm sure GW is urgently trying to get AoS stuff out the gate knowing that the summer is going to be their big chance to convince people that 10th 40k isn't going to be 'more of the same' overbloated 9th edition.
And to the FW stuff... well, hard to be motivated to buy some of those models when half of them were hold-overs from Fantasy and then the handful of brand new things were so freakin expensive and niche. But hey, that's FW for you.
FW is likely clearing house to focus entirely on TOW.
In the meantime, I just hope more kits get updated plastic. Still praying for new Grave Guard and Black Knights...
Not sure about Black Knights, they aren't that old and duel kit with Nighthaunt. I could certainly see Grave Guard getting an update because they are showing their age quite a bit now and whilst they are in the Getting Started set, GW is pushing those out for Vanguard.
Varhiests getting an update would be nice too and those along with the zombie dragon/terrorgiest and ghouls could be a big update for Flesheaters (I mean that's basically the entire flesheater army right now)
Heck it would be cool to see the corpse cart get an update and if it did I'd love to see it pulled by ghost horses since when they fragmented vampires and took all the other ghosts out into Nighthaunt the Mortis Engine (and other builds) stands out as looking rather odd when its surrounded by ghosts and the rest of the Vampire army has none.
grave guard need an update for sure imho.
they dont mesh well at all with the new skeleton warriors.
black guard could use an update but arent that bad. personally i'd love to see them get an update as the nighthaunt hexwraiths are one of my least favorite units in the army due to how they look.
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Overread wrote: Yeah random can be neat but at times an army can have so much that you can't really work with the random.
Agree. It's still random enough that stuff like a risky charge can exist, but it's not so totally random that strategic planning becomes impossible or your whole plan ruined by a couple of bad rolls in a row.
Reading a second hand report, but according to the Battle Report on Warhammer+ that pitted the new BoC vs. new GG, there was no use of summoning on the BoC end of things.
Could just be that the player didn't partake in that particular mechanic, or its gone outright. Which I'm fine with, as only a few armies should be making use of summoning imo. The player did use the Allherd subfaction mechanic, which replenishes units.
Bestigor with 2 wounds though!
I'm pretty excited for the BoC book, myself.
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"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Im down with BoC getting special rallies as additional outflanking parties come in, etc. But yeah, full on summoning is not my favorite mechanic and even less so outside of actual daemon summons.
I would still like to see the day where summons are still in the list but at a reduced cost, and can be closer than 9" within their limited summon ranges.
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Today's article clears up what a Morghurite Chaos Spawn is: it's a special form of Chaos Spawn that gets unlocked for Gavespawn armies, and has less-random movement as well as additional abilities:
This unique formation unlocks a sacred trio of Morghurite Chaos Spawn – though they still count as separate units for army construction purposes. These formless fiends sport more reliable Move and Attacks characteristics than normal Chaos Spawn – befitting a Battleline unit – and have strange new abilities of their own, such as flesh-melting Spews of Corruption.
The sculpts are still bad, but that scheme does a lot to hide the especially bad heads, while the normal studio scheme accentuates the problem areas
Yes, they do look slightly less derpy with this paint scheme, but the designer definitely works part time designing McDonalds happy meal toys.
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
2023/01/26 23:58:40
Subject: AOS N&R (Battletome Roadmap, 2023 Sneakpeak pg 119)
The sculpts are still bad, but that scheme does a lot to hide the especially bad heads, while the normal studio scheme accentuates the problem areas
Yeah, low contrast between skin and fur to make it look more like the skin is furry and the patches are just thicker areas does wonders for the mini. Always mystified me why they went in the opposite direction.
In other news, spawn with decent stats? Hm, maybe they will have a golden age of being worth half the points you pay for them
The sculpts are still bad, but that scheme does a lot to hide the especially bad heads, while the normal studio scheme accentuates the problem areas
Yeah, low contrast between skin and fur to make it look more like the skin is furry and the patches are just thicker areas does wonders for the mini. Always mystified me why they went in the opposite direction.
It's amazing what happens when you don't look like you outlined every individual muscle with black.
In other news, spawn with decent stats? Hm, maybe they will have a golden age of being worth half the points you pay for them
Hey, Thousand Sons Chaos Spawn rock!
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"There are no problems that cannot be solved with cannons." - Chief Engineer Boris Krauss of Nuln
Kid_Kyoto wrote:"Don't be a dick" and "This is a family wargame" are good rules of thumb.
In AoS silly! There were times in WHFB where they were useful after all.
They aren't necessarily bad in AoS either, when they are spawned for free during the game. But as something you pay points to bring in the list they've always sucked and sucked HARD. I remember when spawn were a meaningful threat of their own accord, rather than meat shield chaff one slaps down for free or not at all.
Spawn really need multiple 'tiers' or some other variance of power level. Because one spawn isn't equal to another any more than one human follower of Chaos is. A Chosen will beat the snot out of Marauders all day
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New slann, new mounted skink on cold one, new saurus which possibly are warriors, but I'm not totally sure yet because the dewclaw on ten of the buggers at the same time but why not.
I'm betting on an army set Seraphon. Maybe not announced tonight and later on instead, but I want to believe.
2023/01/27 05:55:37
Subject: AOS N&R (Roadmap, 2023 Sneakpeak p119, FAQ/Metawatch p123, BoC + GG's preorder date of 1/28)
CMLR wrote: New slann, new mounted skink on cold one, new saurus which possibly are warriors, but I'm not totally sure yet because the dewclaw on ten of the buggers at the same time but why not.
I'm betting on an army set Seraphon. Maybe not announced tonight and later on instead, but I want to believe.
Also more unrevealed. In a surprise this is a summer order so next battletome after gits will be kharadrons(might have just as well admitted it...)
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Tim the Biovore wrote: Kroxigor are No Longer Available alongside the resin Slann, so here's hoping that's a sign
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2024 painted/bought: 109/109
2023/01/27 07:10:11
Subject: AOS N&R (Roadmap, 2023 Sneakpeak p119, FAQ/Metawatch p123, BoC + GG's preorder date of 1/28)
I almost don’t care for the Slann because he looks too animated for a lazy frog boi. I just liked the whole sitting motionless thing they had going before.
Otherwise I’m glad I didn’t jump into lizards a month or two ago when I was tempted to with all this new stuff coming. Obviously new Saurus were needed more, but hopefully a new Skink kit too.
2023/01/27 08:09:30
Subject: AOS N&R (Roadmap, 2023 Sneakpeak p119, FAQ/Metawatch p123, BoC + GG's preorder date of 1/28)
