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New series of 'learn to play' videos:
Play - Age of Sigmar
Made some changes to the opening posts :)
Play - Age of Sigmar
Made some changes to the opening posts :)
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I just started Slaves to Darkness yesterday. Two starter boxes, Archaon and Belakor is my welcome to AOS 3.0
Nice, hope you get on with them. They're a great army to collect, the fact you can run 30 model units of warriors is kinda bananas now and you can use a majority of their units in the mono god chaos armies too. So if 2 years down the line you wanted a Khorne force for example you could use your StD units as a backbone for that army as well. Plus this is a personal thing but I think the new chaos knights are some of the nicest models gw have put out recently.
Just waiting for my Dominion Stormcast....Out for delivery. F5, F5, F5.
It has arrived!
It has arrived!
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Launch steam confirmed for the 3rd of July too, hopefully get to see some more Kruleboyz.
Launch steam confirmed for the 3rd of July too, hopefully get to see some more Kruleboyz.
The Stormcast are going together smoothly except for Annihilators. Getting some annoying shoulderpad gap with each one.
Played a demo game at local shop today using Dominion armies. At first I thought the Stormcast were a little too strong, but those Orruks ability to mortal wound on 6s was nasty.
GW provided goodies. Keychain, artwork, and most important, card sleeves for the warscrolls. Was a good time.
GW provided goodies. Keychain, artwork, and most important, card sleeves for the warscrolls. Was a good time.
That's an interesting silhouette. Presume it's a new unit for the Kruleboyz. It would be good to have a big tough leader/monster model for the faction. As good as the mounted Killaboss is they don't feel quite special enough to be the centrepiece unit for the army.
Glad I got my hand on the Stormcast early---my box from GW still hasn't shipped. Anyone else pre-order have theirs ship yet?
I managed to get some boltboyz and a killaboss off eBay for a reasonable price. I'm content for now. Been on a bit of a greenskin binge these past few weeks.
I still want some Annihilators but those can wait.
Curious to see this weekend's reveal.
I still want some Annihilators but those can wait.
Curious to see this weekend's reveal.
Notably, Radukar's Court no longer need to be taken as a set, they've got their own points costs now.
That is a great model. But it feels so weird that this guy is the top Hammer of Sigmar. I'm so used to thinking of Vandus Hammerhand as the face of the Hammers.
I'm watching the Age of Sigmar stream and man, most of the stormcast all look the same to me. I don't know whether it's the stoic expressions or the similar armour across units, and sure, the same charge can be laid against space marines (who at least have forces broken up by a wide array of armoured support/specialised units over the last 30 years, admittedly I remember when it was really hard to make a marine army in the early 90s that didn't look the same as everyone else's). I really like that angel centrepiece model, and I think it's the height, the silhouette, the agility, that it's attacking, that it isn't the same stoic 'grounded' pose that the robes/loinclothes/tabards tend to give the rest of them. I really don't know how they managed to make Sigmar's magic-forged paladin suits of heroic storm energy and spirits of heroes, a really cool fantasy concept, just so… boring. A shame really when so many of the other AoS factions have a really cool vibe to the miniatures to match their original takes on Warhammer archetypes.
Agreed. I'm just now getting into Sigmar and starting with Stormcast, and while I love their lore, I am getting lost in the volume of units that look the damn same. I don't know how you spice it up, but I wish they came up with something...
Part of it is that they really should just consider many of the battleline units the same unit, but with the option of swords, hammers or bows. That way they wouldn't have to do such an exhausting amount of faux latin names for them that they blend into one. At least when Marines built up their identity the names were allowed to be generic enough to be descriptive (but those are verboten now because they're too hard to trademark). Assault Squads assaulted things, Tactical Squads were tactically flexible and Devastator Squads had big guns.
Considering 40k space marines for a minute, there is a significant difference in silhouette between the three flavors of current Mark X power armor: Tacticus (base Primaris Intercessor), Gravis, and Phobos. Gravis differentiates itself from Tacticus with a very different upper body, back, and hood over the head. Phobos stands out by changing the legs, especially from the knees down, and making the shoulders asymmetric.
The Stormcast armor design is very same-y in terms of helmets, chest plates, and greaves/boots. The different types may be scaled up or down, bit fatter or thinner, but they look basically the same. While the new set of armors do differentiate themselves from Liberators, Retributors, and Judicators by use of lots of cloth tabards and cloaks, that in turn makes them read similarly to Sequitors who originally stood out thanks to their additional cloth detailing.
Even the Annihilators, which I quite like and think do look pretty distinct, still use those same chest panels and same darn copy-pasted greaves.
In the big picture, I almost think the Stormcast face mask was a mistake. Helmets don't necessarily remove personality, but the Stormcast helm is meant to read as a human face, making them all look like the same guy. GW's designers are recognizing the demand for more personality with all these head options.
I think that's a really good point about the death-mask making them look more samey than, say, human knights or marines all wearing the same helmet
Considering that each Stormcast is custom-forged, I'd have taken the opportunity to have a bunch of different faces on the helmets. Sort of like they're modeled on their wearers.
Just had my Kruleboyz half of the Dominion box arrive. Initial thought, it's a little unfair that Hobgrots aren't battleline. Their is not a lot else they are good at. I hope that they are waiting to rule it in the battletome that they count as battleline troops of you are lead by a Kruleboy. Otherwise I can't see anyone taking them.
Seriously. I hope next time they do a survey people spam the shit out of them on wanting digital books, the full ones.
I use to buy quite a lot of digital books just to look at the art, lore rules etc for factions I don't play. Not going to do that now.
finally got a chance to watch this.
And this wave is just very samey in general, one troop type with 3 weapons, an elite version of that troop type (The praetorians with barely any change, and a heavy troop). Even the heroic characters are kinda similiar (only Yndrasta really stands out to me). No mounts asides from that one chariot, no fliers asides from Yndrasta. Compare it to say Stormcast 1.0 where you had flying units with prosecutors and a good centerpiece unit in Vandus followup with the Extremis chamber shortly after.
Even compared to space marines, space marines will get tanks, dreadnoughts and shit. This wave is just very very samey. It's just compounded by the krule boyz getting a ton of shit on mounts.
And I think samey works better in 40k as it's not nearly as fantastical (SEE what i did), when you have such weird shit as the idoneth etc. This almost seems like a very vanilla old word army.
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This is a good idea. A Stormcast is supposed to be a larger-than-life, deified version of the original person anyway.
My copy of dominion arrived, actually kind of impressed the sprues don't get damaged with how tightly they're packed.
Whit how tightly they're packed there's not a lot of room for them to shake about. It's taking them out without spindly bits getting caught on anything where damage is most likely to happen.
I got quite lucky with my Kruleboyz sprue, no visible damage other then the leader hobgrots sword was a little bent. It's a good thing you get two of those models in that pose so I will just use the other none damaged one to build them. They are all fairly chunky models so I guess they are fairly resistant to damage but given how Cursed City was for me I was still expecting more. All the Gutrippa spears are looking great which I am loving cos I was worried that they would be a damage hotspot.
I like the original helmets, but in doses. Having a full army with mostly the same exact stoic helmet gets dull. I like the idea of mixing originals with unhelmted heads, and maybe some custom ones like posted above.
Random question: does Sigmar have decals or anything of the like?
Random question: does Sigmar have decals or anything of the like?
Stormcast Eternals have decals but I think they only came with Soul Wars. I don't know if anyone else gets them but you might be able to find some custom ones somewhere.
This one I think goes too far in the other direction if it's still supposed to be a stormcast tbh. Needs some more fantastical coloring and iconography, much too mundane.Posted on Warhammer community. The stormcast are just so much better with a headswap.
The Stormcast schemes I like have always been the ones that make them look like rusted iron golems. Still fantastical, but with a more sinister and grimy edge.
(Not mine but probably what I'd try to replicate)
(Not mine but probably what I'd try to replicate)
Plus a Blood Bowl Goblin coin I'm going to use as a Bad Moon token.
On another note, I am curious if those rumours of Gloomspite Gitz being one of the earlier battletomes for 3.0 holds any weight. The majority of the range is still new or at least very well aged, but I'm a bit worried about picking up anything too old in case a newer and flashier update comes along less than a year later.
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AOS is really popular, I'd be surprised if it underperformed. Maybe this time they actually did make enough supply to go around.
I wonder what kind of stats they got when they tried "made to order" with Indomitus to insure everyone that wanted one, got one. Maybe they found out how many boxes they really need to make to avoid shortages and scalping.