Shame about your group, hope you can find a game soon. Been playing WnG digitally on and off for the last half year with my group and it's a lot of fun. It can't quite replace my love of the FFG rpgs but its fun and being so rules light it works well online.
Thanks. Maybe I'll get to play it one day but it's just not in the cards for me right now.
I believe the Black Shield is extra. It cannot replace a veteran since that would reduce their number below 4.*Hey guys,
I'm having tons of fun creating my deathwatch veteran kill teams. Tons of options, cosmetics, equipements, lore... its good fun mixing modeling, painting and visual narration.
But I have so many question that are still blurry about the Deathwatch rules.
For example, the Black Shields, the rules say this :
Does it mean, I have to have 4 veterans and one Sergeant per squad of 5. Yes.
But the Black Shield ? Can I replace one veteran for one Black Shield? Have a squad of 3 vets, one BS and one Sergeant ?
Or that BS has to be a sixth member ?
If I'm reading this right, every squad needs no fewer than 4 Vets and 1 Sergeant, so the Black Shield would have to be a 6th member if you're trying to keep squad size as low as possible.Hey guys,
I'm having tons of fun creating my deathwatch veteran kill teams. Tons of options, cosmetics, equipements, lore... its good fun mixing modeling, painting and visual narration.
But I have so many question that are still blurry about the Deathwatch rules.
For example, the Black Shields, the rules say this :
Does it mean, I have to have 4 veterans and one Sergeant per squad of 5. Yes.
But the Black Shield ? Can I replace one veteran for one Black Shield? Have a squad of 3 vets, one BS and one Sergeant ?
Or that BS has to be a sixth member ?
Whaaaat, GW selling models in a super inconvenient package? Never.
Hey guys,
I'm having tons of fun creating my deathwatch veteran kill teams. Tons of options, cosmetics, equipements, lore... its good fun mixing modeling, painting and visual narration.
But I have so many question that are still blurry about the Deathwatch rules.
For example, the Black Shields, the rules say this :
Does it mean, I have to have 4 veterans and one Sergeant per squad of 5. Yes.
But the Black Shield ? Can I replace one veteran for one Black Shield? Have a squad of 3 vets, one BS and one Sergeant ?
Or that BS has to be a sixth member ?
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I think we likely will. The way Kislev is an early focus for Total War III, being led by the same concept art and with both products being shown off bit by bit this year makes me think it's all being developed in tandem. Which is smart given that's where a healthy portion of the enthusiastic WFB crowd is now.
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Skeleton Horde on a white base primer is excellent. I love that paint.
That's true, part of it was that they could shed anything they didn't want to keep, I think it's fair to say Araby and pygmies and loads of other old obscure but ropey shit from the 80s and 90s isn't coming back (like hobgoblin wolf riders = Ghenghis Khan). For the same reason, we're unlikely to see 40K Praetorian Imperial Guard regiments in pith helmets shooting space orks from hastily erected outposts in references to the Zulus vs colonial British any more either. AoS was mostly to create a new high fantasy setting not limited by set borders on one continent that required several races to move through the Empire to fight each other though, and a ton of place and unit names they couldn't claim copyright on, and clearing out a huge range of old models they didn't want to make any more and weren't selling. But sure, also the opportunity to clear the decks of a load of old stereotyped fantasy background crap (that, to be fair, either hadn't had models at all or hadn't had them for 25+ years) from a world with a ton of connections to ours and had amassed so much shit since being a garage operation in 70s wasn't a bad thing either.
Gotta agree with LTWheels. Total War is built, fundamentally, on clashing infantry lines. Cavalry flank, ranged units fire over, but those infantry remain at the core. 40k is anachronistic, but it's still sufficiently modern as to not mesh well with the core systems of Total War combat. They'd have to totally revamp tactical combat, and at that point, might as well call it something else.
See, that part is solvable without too much difficulty, I think. For each planet, use the county model that TW3K used, where there's a primary settlement and various secondary population centers and points of interest. Armies land by detachment and have to fight their way across the planet from there, unless you go through the lengthy process of re-embarking them to orbit. Taking the full planet opens up options for development that you would otherwise lack, and some planets would be more complex and harder to take than others. Planets would be consolidated into systems, which in addition to having their own points of interest beyond planets that you can use as fortifications or asteroid mining or what have you, would be connected to each other by Warp currents that dictate what routes you can take (or prefer to take, maybe you could have a movement mode where you can take the slow-but-direct route to bypass systems). It's certainly a more complex model than what most TW games have used so far, but not by nearly as much as the tactical combat.
Mechanicus has a ton of fans, but I tried it and it just wasn't there. Been spoiled by Firaxis I guess, XCOM just plays so smoooooth.
And it's still not worth it at £24 a year to upkeep to me. I suppose if you make multiple armies a year and buy all the books and only care about the rules, then maybe it is? To me it makes sense to just buy the couple of codices I want and keep an eye out for the FAQ updates.
Yeah, given that you need to buy the books to see the codices it really should've been free. I mean, the army builder is behind the paywall too, right? That's just dumb.
My army builder for 30 years is a pen and a notebook. I've generally found my maths with an open army book and a pen is stronger than all the messed up-options in these digital list builders that I find produce a really cluttered output
It is fine now. Worth the money? Not sure, but it showcases the codexes effectively fo free (if you bought the physical copy)
I subscribe and usually get it a day before my local supermarket does. Maybe write in and ask them if they could let you know? Here It's
Says that it's up for pre-order this weekend, so you'll probably get it next weekend?
