SLotU edition

>Previously in the Mortal Realms: >>95900755

>Official AoS website:
https://www.ageofsigmar.com

>Downloads, Rules Errata and FAQs:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/

>Tools
Warscroll Maker: https://lordbaconbane.github.io/aoswarscrollcreator/
List Builder: https://www.newrecruit.eu/
Army Reminders: https://aosbattleorders.co.uk/

>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:
https://aosg.github.io/

>Thread question:
What would Azyr theamed non-Order forces look like, if it wasn't the one off limits realm

>>95915955 (OP)
>What would Azyr theamed non-Order forces look like, if it wasn't the one off limits realm
Chaos lizardman/saurons would be cool

>>95916100
Azyr themed?
>>95915955 (OP)
Drogres

>>95916130
Chaos winning against order simps.

>>95916264
Drogors weren't Chaos

>>95916590
Ehh… they were and weren’t.

I've painted up a bunch of models for fun over the year, but now I want to commit to doing a full 2,000pt force. I've narrowed my choices down to Cities of Sigmar and Darkoath

Will we get Idoneth next week? Will we ever get it?

>>95917634
Apparently the possible slots are next week, July 12, or fucking August 2nd. I hate Horus Heresy so much it's unreal.

>>95917606
Cathay CoS comrade!
Wan Shui Wan Shui Wan Wan Shui Sigmar-u Huandi!!!!

>>95917606
Dark oath are probably more fun to paint. Can get some amazing proxies too. Cities probably has more of a future though.
>>95917634
Read the tide anon

Just got my Cathay pre order in. Fuck the grognards they are going on rounds.

>>95917805
ALL GLORY TO AGE OF SIGMAR
WAN SHUI WAN SHUI WAN WAN SHUI

>>95917805
I dont really care for the overall asthetic, I do want to steal the glaive off of that one longma character though. Might get a recast of her for bits.

>>95917827
The aesthetic is fucking amazing

>>95917810
All things in balance

>>95917832
the swirlies engraved on the weapon and arm plates and the ropes with parchment around the ankles actually pair extremely well with the lumineth cow spirits who have a lot of the same things.

i think a lumineth/cathay hybrid army could work

>>95917832
I dunno. I feel like they homogenized the aesthetic too much and the humans just look...idk. blocky. It doesnt appeal to me and i've binge watched romance of the three kingdoms like 2-4 times. Also read and watch xianxia and wuxia stuff, still not really for me. Ill gladly be looking forward to the 3d printing scene though, at least cathay will revitalize that.

>>95917860
> look...idk. blocky.

thats rank and flank doing its work to be honest. they prefer the tin soldier look, everyone in identical static poses, very little dynamism so you can simulate your rectangles. the only units allowed to have interesting poses are the ones that stand alone like big monsters or cavalry heroes.

>>95917753
no fuck that
>>95917786
I honestly like painting both about equally. Right now I think Darkoath has the edge, because I could include cool StD monsters. But yeah in the long term they'll probably plug the gaps in the CoS range and it'll end up a lot stronger.

OK fuck it I've almost finished my Cities Spearhead, I went ahead and order the army box. I hereby declare that I shall build and paint a full 2,000 pt Cities of SIgmar army, and purchase no Warhammer models not part of that project until my army is complete!

>>95917805
>one less Cathay player in TOW
Good, I'll hog the spotlight now.

To the guy claiming GW was just glazing Cathay in the advertising. The lore from their book reads like some of the worst most shameless fanfiction I have ever seen.

>>95918105
The “sigmar meeting Miao ying” bit is just fucking atrocious writing across the board.

>>95918105
I love Beijing Tianamen and soon so will you.

>>95918105
wrong thread

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫

Reminder that the Cathay models look so good because they worked off what CA made for TWW, leaving little room for GW's sculptors to fuck things up.

>>95918217
Reminder you're in a wrong fucking thread faggot

>>95918217
Yes the models do look gorgeous. And unfortunately I think you are right.

>>95918217
If they were good they would have been based on their actual good game.

Do we know why GW scraped webcomics after having multiple AoS and 40k ones through the years?

>>95918105
that just seems like a dry and impartial description of China vs. the west

>>95918247
fr bro where is my man guan yu? ya finna make a chinasty warriors army with no guan yu? crime

>>95918258
They seem to be in a real big limbo status with artists working in gw recently for some fucking reason. It’s a crime that Elliot left.

>>95918258
GW is notoriously shit to its in house artists and i cant imagine they were treating contracted sunday comic strip artists any better. add on top of that all of the bad will they fostered amongst the warhammer comics and comedic shorts community with the constant C&D and legal action against independent creators and i doubt anyones even willing to work with them anymore.

WHAT THE FUCK IT'S BEEN 15 MINUTES HOW THE FUCK DID I MSIS IT FUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>95918298
are those usd or CA prices?

>>95918306
CA Fenris Workshop

>>95918280
>>95918287
Surely it's not just that every comic artist on Earth doesn't want to work for them anymore

With the overwhelming success of Tzaangors, what random chaos dude should we throw into 40k only for them to compleatly overtake and ruin their faction?

>>95918298
I mean, it'll come back in stock. At worst you might have to wait a few months.

(I got my order in early, though I'm skipping the Sentinel/Balloon for now, it's not like I'd paint them right away anyways.)

>>95918320
Tzaangors are the only reason why I’m thinking about starting a ksons army desu.

Anyways throw in a uh…something like a gaunt summoner but for mechanical shit, have it star in chaos dwarves only to be a staple in csm.

>>95918334
>(I got my order in early,
Tell me which store so I can report them for allowing pre order early. Joking but still. What the fuck. I legit was like 10 minutes past midnight and every kit is sold out. What the actual fuck? I've never had this problem before.

>>95918342
>never had this problem before
Hello new friend

>>95918320
Ogroids replace space marines in Chaos Space Marines

>>95918208
Ancient Tzeetchian spell that makes Cathaian citizens mysteriously disappear

Oh, oh I’m angry now.

>>95918308
Anon I've never been able to figure out why people shop there, when other Canadian stores have a slightly better discount (I think it's like a 15% vs 20% deal or whatever).

Fenris maybe has a points system or something? But doesn't seem worth it over the other places.

>>95918363
Because a game that's been out longer has sold more copies than a game that's basically a glorified army dlc pack and had a rocky launch? Shocking.

Why does he make weak chined 40k tourists seeth so bad?

>>95918363
Three Kingdoms didn't sell any DLC. Warhammer Total War DLC sells very well.

>>95918416
>Three kingdoms didn’t sell dlc
GEE I WONDER FUCKING WHY

>>95918428
Because Chinamen don't buy DLC they buy gatcha boxes

So….how fucked is Death? Are they "fragmented but still very strong be careful" like, say, the Destruction tribes?

>>95918435
They’re organized but certain powers/mortarchs like to fuck each other over. I guess fec is the wild card considering how they’re delusion is highly based on…I forget if it’s based on their realm/environment or what have you, but the delusion can have them even work with order or chaos. Night haunt, sometimes works with ossiarch, or at least in campaigns, and obr can be neutral with anyone as long as they get the bone tithe/ don’t conflict with their goals. Soulblight is where you get the fuckery, and that’s as intended by Nagash.

>>95918435
They're a much bigger thread than Destruction

WHY THE FUCK WAS THIS SHADOW DROPPED AND NOT ANNOUNCED.

WHY THE FUCK IS IT IN EVERY LGS EXCEPT MY

>>95918571
Do you think in life the little guy was a kid, a midget or a grot?

>>95918838
…I don’t think orruks/gits go to nagash after death…I think?

>>95918838
Othar was a trans-man and was split in half while pregnant.

>>95918841
Gitz go to the Moon, according to 1 version of the story.
I have no idea where orrukz go after death, but they believe in some kind of ghosts according to that 1 blurb about a shaman telling his tribe he has contact with the old boss to make them do what he says

>>95918247
This fucking game, now that's a fucking videogame.

How are you planning to cope with Cathay selling out immediately?

>>95918983
by visiting my flgs and ordering some for an aos army

>>95918983

>>95918999
No coping strategies to recommend?

>>95918983
My LGS got a grand total of 5 boxes. Meanwhile Kill Team was 10 boxes at the beginning that increased to 20. Just saying.

>>95916100
>Chaos lizardman
Seraphons are all about PLANS. Don't we already have a chaos faction that's all about PLANS?
>>95915955 (OP)
Dunno, some fortress city of Destruction-aligned Ogroids? Town where somehow every citizen is a disciple of Tzeench? Castle ruins with FECes eating themselves in eternal danse macabre?

>>95918983
Alcohol and porn.

>>95917935
Good luck, anon. I used to have about 2k of CoS, now I'm lucky if I can hit 1800.

>>95919062
There’s no need to lie.

>>95919095

>>95918999
But wasn't it revealed that he did think about him very much?

>>95919146
Most memes are taken out of context anon

>>95919146
>>95919157
Wait until you realize 99% of those are fucking wrong because the whole point of the scene is that he sees better without glasses

>>95919094
That's not so bad; my admech went from 3k points to a little over 1500.

>>95919109
>fake Italian screenshot
You will still be able to use your AoS models in TOW once they are rebased.

>>95919209
>You will still be able to use your AoS models in TOW once they are rebased
What has anything to do with it

>>95915955 (OP)
Soon

>>95919173
I had to throw Gotrek and a Steam Tank into my list to make 1800pts. The two of them alone are like 600 of that.

>>95918878
seek help

>>95918571
I still think this is a reused NH test model. Skull faces are normal for them, meanwhile flying isn't normal for skeletons

>>95919302
>I still think
no, you don't

>>95918983
Same way I did with all the ToW releases, go to my LGS and play AoS and be surprised the once in a blue moon I see someone playing TOW

>>95918105
TW:WH players when they're forced to read the lore first hand instead of being fed by sloptubers

>>95918105
Was this written by the CCP?

Tell me Anons, did I get the hat right? >>95915434

>>95919459
fuck off

>>95918298
Here I am sitting in the UK trying to figure out if I want these enough to order. Plenty left in stock on the websites I use

>>95919505
GMG just put up the kit reviews if you want to take a look at the sprues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_3Sb1WmhI&ab_channel=GMGGamesWorkshopGames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy-Hj8d4KDI&ab_channel=GMGGamesWorkshopGames

>>95919525
Cheers anon I'll give them a watch

>>95919459
go ask your bot how to kill yourself

>>95919459
Not enough gromzins to be authentically Sumetran

>>95918320
I wish Tzaangors were good in DoT.
Currently, you have to spin too many plates at the same time to make them worthwhile

Hi, does anyone have the 2nd edition Battletome of the WarClans Orruks?

>>95919443
Yes, china's sensitivity team and seal of approval is credited on the back of the arcane journal.

>>95919596
Every pre-order of Cathay is more social capital for the people's republic so they can export even shittier movies.

>>95917805
I didn't think it through at first but I suppose the battalion box has steelhelms, cavalry and some cannons in the box too.

>>95919596
Yeah, super lame but also easy to ignore, it's not like I've ever felt like my dudes need to be 100% in line with official GW lore.

>>95919761
>but also easy to ignore
There's literally nothing else in their fluff.

>>95919795
>Cathay isn't perfect, actually
Holy fuck, that was hard, literally impossible to headcanon, you're so right anon.

>>95919824
Some people prefer to avoid discarding 100% of the actual fluff when headcanoning

>>95919844
"An external threat draws away defenders from a province, and an ambitious lord of a neighboring province takes advantage to increase his own holdings, believeing the defenders doomed. When the defenders return, they find their homes taken by others, who refuse to give up their new resources. The dragons are busy elsewhere and cannot mediate, and soon the conflict draws blood when the son of the original lord is killed by a bullet fired from the ramparts as he tries to negotiate. The two provinces go to war with each other."
Zero contradictions with existing fluff. Also works if you wanted two dawnbringer settlements fighting in AoS.

>>95919459
>slop
>tripfag
lol lmao even

>>95919588
Are demons still the default?

>>95919865
>Zero contradictions with existing fluff.
Anon you basically ignored everything about the people of Cathay and how they don't have conflicts between each other and how they are always considerate of the needs of each other and so on

Fantasyfag grognard here. Haven't given a solitary shit about AoS since launch. Does it have any decent lore or factions that aren't just old things with serial numbers filed off? Everything still just infinite unconnected realms with no stakes or scale?

>>95919918
>Does it have any decent lore or factions that aren't just old things with serial numbers filed off?
Yes
> Everything still just infinite unconnected realms with no stakes or scale?
It hasn't been since maybe six months after launch

>>95919897
No, I didn't. The ambitious lord moves in because he expects the defenders to lose (and it's not necessarily an unreasonable expectation, it's deliberately not established whether he has reason to believe so or not), and then I create the conflict when an important figure is assassinated (deliberately hinting that a third party is responsible for this, not the Cathayans themselves, because there's precedent for outside forces tricking the Cathayans into infighting). The son being killed when he tries to negotiate in good faith is casus belli, and the Cathayans are also established as very proud, to the point that it causes problems for them, so when accused of killing the son, the ambitious lord will obviously deny that he is responsible, at which point conflict becomes inevitable.
>nooo they would just talk it out!!!
Your son is dead, and his killer has stolen your lands and denies culpability. Wars have been fought for far less.

>>95919897
>ignored everything about the people of Cathay and how they don't have conflicts between each other and how they are always considerate of the needs of each other and so on
source: Ministry of Cathayan Truth

>>95919946
>Wars have been fought for far less
Not in Cathay according to the fluff. In fact the fluff is explicit about these kind of things happening everywhere except Cathay.

>>95919918
Katakros and the Ossiarchs have very cool lore. Undead civilization builders constructed from bone and infused with a collection of lesser souls to give them sentience far beyond normal undead, and Katakros himself is just a very entertaining character.
>His underlings calls him the Undefeated, and he himself doesn't bother correcting them despite knowing he's been defeated several times
I recommend their 2nd edition battletome and the Wrath of the Everchosen campaign book for more fluff on them.

>>95919959
Anon, the AJ literally has a story about Cathayans being tricked into fighting each other.

>>95919865
>Zero contradictions with existing fluff.
The nation is in harmony and without intercine conflict, your headcanon contradicts that.

>>95919973
It really doesn't. It's explicitly a very small skirmish that ends very fast. Nowhere near an actual conflict between two groups.

>>95919966
Thanks. Never been much of a fan of undead factions (Tomb Kings, Necrons, Vampire Counts can be fun enough), nor the general god-tier fuckery that is Nagash, but I'll give those a glance. From what I've seen the elves are just an unsalvageable mess unfortunately.
Maybe that's my biggest issue with AoS. It does "too much" with everything. But more power to those that dig it.

Opinions on Tamiya Limonene? I know it takes longer to fully cure, but other than that does it work as well as regular stuff?

>>95918983
wrong thread

>>95919865
Freeguild are colonial settlers clashing with one another over land like Israel-Jordan
Cathay is a one state Chinese utopia directly overseen by gods, there is no internal conflict

this was definitely intentional, they are exactly the same size and proportion as mega gargants, and almost the same pose too

>>95920208
>megagargants army that's just cathay sentinels
pretty cool
but I would believe the size and pose are incidental, I think it's more that this is the new standard for a giant thing, since it's the limit of their sprues and a tested price range

>>95920217
>and a tested price range

its almost $100 cheaper than a mega gargant. $127 vs $215

Well Cathay has sold out instantaneously in all markets even though it was produced in larger numbers than any AoS release this edition since Skaventide. Tick tock, Shitmarcels, what will you do now TOW is conclusively proven to be far more popular than AOS?

>>95920240
That means they're going to add upgrade sprues over the years, doesn't it?

>>95920259
maybe, who knows. old world stuff is just cheaper overall though than main game products, with the exception of that chinese spy balloon model, shits like $160 for a 130 pt model lol

These are my predictions for events that will occur in future issues.

1. The identity of the Celestant Prime is revealed, and to everyone's surprise, it's not Karl Franz, but just some generic character. GW tricked us all.

2. Vlad von Carstein returns with Nagash's help, "kills" Mannfred, and takes his place as the new mortarch.

3. The Bonesplitters and the Beasts of Chaos return, completely new and reinvented. The Bonesplitters are no longer part of the Destruction, they are now part of the Order, "The Fists of Sigmar," and the Beasts of Chaos are now part of the Destruction, with Kragnos as their new god, "The Crushing Hooves."

4. The Duardin gods return with their children, and a new Duardin faction, "The Reborn of Iron and Stone," is formed.

5. Archaon kills one of the Four Chaos Gods, possibly Khorne, and takes his place as the new God of Chaos.

6-Sigmar travels through time to the past and stops the end of times, creating a new timeline apart from Age of Sigmar called Warhammer Fantasy The New Rebirth (this will only happen if The Old World fails or rather when it fails because it will fail)

>>95920250
>Sold out everywhere
>Lgs I buy from has loads in stock still

>>95920259
Yes

>>95920271
Will you stop? for fuck's sake it reads like you're a teenager trying to imitate bot slop.

>>95920275
Same. 26 Boxes.

>>95919918
GW has done at least some work in grounded each of the realms a bit. Cosmologically speaking, each of the realms are not actually infinite, just fuckhuge, it would take a lifetime to travel from one end to the other. Additionally, only a fraction of each realm is actually habitable, as the further you travel away from the centre the more saturated with the realms' respective magic the land becomes, and thus aren't really habitable. Reality tends to break down around the edges, it's not a pleasant place to be. Hysh' edge is so bright it could permanently blind a god, and people that travel to ghyran's edge can get stuck in a permanent hellish cycle of giving birth, etc.

Anyway, the centres of all the realms are where civilization is most concentrated, where the narrative and battles mainly takes place. GW has released maps for each of the realm's heartlands where you'll find the forts & cities of major factions, etc. For aqshy for example, this is the 'great parch', probably the setting's most detailed piece of land, for ghur this is the 'ghurish heartlands' (picrel). Similar maps exist for each of the realms except for azyr I think, since that's gw's no fun allowed realm (at least for now).

I enjoy both of fantasy and aos for their settings, but for different things. Fantasy for a """"""grounded""""""" single world, similar to ours where most regions and factions have relatively 1 for 1 real life equivalents, with easily recognizable races and cultures drawing on popular fantasy and historical tropes. Age of sigmar for a semi-mythical world taking place on norse-myths-inspired realms where magic is an everyday occurence and the consequences that brings. Gods walk the earth, but they can be slain (as happens with grimnir), and this obviously effects the everyday people. Try to enjoy it as it's own seperate thing, gw pitched it as a replacement of fantasy but frankly that's a shit way to engage with aos and it'll fail tremendously if you try to do so.

>>95920250
>Well Cathay has sold out instantaneously in all markets

Made me look. 6/10 bait.

>>95920285
I DON'T ROBOT-BOT-RO- TO -TRON ERROR FAILURE.........PERMANENTLY CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

>>95920310
Will the maps of the mortal realms be updated?

>>95920372
yeah probably

Is there any map that shows the entirety of a mortal realm and not just a part?

>>95920463
a few
this is hysh

>>95920487
this is shyish

>>95920493
this is aqshy

>>95920372
Yeah they get updates as the timeline moves on. Eastern portion of the great parch >>95920390 got all changed as the vermindoom burst into existence and corrupted the land or whatever.
I think the ghurish heartlands and the ghyran maps changed too, since in both those realms the landmasses themselves are sort of alive/changing, with them moving closer to "eat" each other in ghur, and sprouting new tiny islands and peninsula in ghyran.
>>95920487
>>95920493
>>95920493
Oh shit I didn't know that, I thought we only had those cosmological maps where you can't really make out any details

>>95920487
>>95920493
>>95920496
I mean a complete map with details, names, regions, places, and not a map with almost nothing on it.

>>95920623
Then no, we don't have completely detailed maps of places the size of multiple earths.

>>95920648
maybe we will have one in the very very distant future.

Since the 40k series is just around the corner, do you think we'll ever have a series or movie set in Fantasy or AoS?

>>95920736
>40k series is just around the corner
I've been hearing this for 5 years from 2-3 dofferent studios

>>95920736
highly highly doubt it, movies are a big resource investment, and basing one on either aos or fantasy would be a pretty large risk i think; unlike 40k

>>95920736
There is actually a teased Aos show, although I think it’s still limited to warhammer plus. None of that hammer and bolter shit either, think something like pariah nexus

>>95920749
>None of that hammer and bolter shit either
I doubt any GW project will have a proper budget

>>95920736
"Just around the corner" is doing some liberal work there

>>95920736
GW seem confident about the new SCE series and Neave multimedia promotion (those toys) so I don't see why not down the line

>>95920748
>>95920749
>>95920758
Wouldn't they be able to make a movie of the caliber of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit or a series like The Power of Rings?

>>95920811
What? I don’t know. I’m not following what you’re putting down.

>>95920811
Yes, after Zuckerberg buys out Games Workshop

Who supports me in releasing an animated series based on the Age of Sigmar Roll Models minicomics?

Are there any books that are set in the realm of chamon? Is there a map for it too?

What era of AoS do you think is worthy of a battle bible? The very end of the 1st edition? The complete 2nd edition? I feel like I prefer the 2nd edition in terms of rules design, the imbalance was introduced with overpowered battletomes but the core rules were great.

>>95920877
Why just one when you can have them all?

If the mortal realms were a world

>>95920883
what is a battle bible

>>95920952
pretty cool actually

>>95920926
Yeah I’m just looking for a close up of it. I’ve already seen aqshy and ghyran.

Question, does anyone know the base sizes for the following heroes? Printed pic related for myself and two friends but I got no bases (used them all for trench crusade)

Looking for base sizes of a bloodwrack muedusa, a idoneth tidecaster and a magister on disc.

>>95920982
Idk the first two, but dick rider should be on a 40

>>95920959
Think about all the rules of a game collected in a single file with all the erratas and FAQs applied. Basically offline Wahapedia in a form of a book.

>>95920877
From what i recal pic rel was the site of the OG Tzeentch demonic outbreal with Gaunt Summoner sneaking in among wizards ment to contain the magnet gryph godbeast and fucking up the ritual to toar a hole in reality leading to Tzeentches Maze

The seraphons, the mawtribes and the beasts of chaos need new miniatures, how about some based on the Total War Warhammer models?

>>95921037
>and the beasts of chaos

Is there a reason IDK don’t have a spearhead box?

>>95920952
that looks like nonsensical shit

>>95921058
They went to The Old World and there they will stay, never to return.

>>95921080

>>95921077
theyre about to get a new one with 10 reavers, 6 eels, and a king

>>95921115
This is acceptable

Would an Age of Sigmar game based on World of Warcraft work or would it be another flop like Warhammer Online?

>>95921083
Just like Gitmob innit

>>95921077
They do. It might still be sold as Vanguatd, but it's the same box.
Plus they're getting a 2nd one with a King kit

>>95921137
I don't think any new MMO can work, the market isn't just oversaturated, it's actively recieding

>>95917805
It you guys' army anyway, looks nothing like a fantasy army.

>>95921137
>looks at current wow
>looks at xiv
>looks at the new age mmo or whatever
>looks at dune
MMOs are built for failure it seems

>>95921137
MMO would not work. A single player or 4+ player team "shooter" game could work. A real time strategy game could work.

>>95921178
it mogs those ugly legacy armies so hard, its unreal. cant wait to play them in TOW and mog those shitters

>>95920952
>>95921080
The Mortal Realms are pointless. I mean, they're huge, and I doubt we'll ever see them in their entirety. Only the small parts they've shown us are on a continental scale. I mean, four editions have passed, and we're still in the same territories, and the changes they've undergone have been minimal. So this map is what the Mortal Realms should really look like: not flat worlds, but continents connected to a single world.

>>95921178
Jesus, it looks like someone playing a normal sized army against a 10mm scaled army.

>>95921265
>So this map is what the Mortal Realms should really look like
No, it shouldn't.

You don't need 90% of the realms to matter for the same reason 90% of the world doesn't matter, and t

>>95921178
>3+ setpiece behemoths before more than one infantry option
Not WHFB

>>95921204
Didn't they make an AoS strategy game already that flopped hard?

>>95921178
How big are those sentinels, could they work as mega gargant proxies, since they're quite a bit cheaper ?
>>95921265
>four editions have passed and we're still in the same territories
>they changes they've undergone have been minimal
I think you need to update your knowledge of 1st edition maps anon

>>95921319
>>95920208

>>95920736
>>95920811
I wouldn't like him to make a Warhammer Fantasy series or movie because they would adapt them for "modern audiences" and the changes made to them would be enormous and that would really anger the fans and if you don't believe me just look at the "modern" changes they made to The Old World.

>>95921319
is that an age of sigmar map?

>>95921380
yes

Priming my models in grey was a mistake. Probably gonna have to double prime it with black.

>>95921369
Changes? What changes? I don't see any changes. You're just making things up.

>>95921426
Why's that? Grey if very often better than black actually

Will we ever see a Man O'War-style naval battle game based on Age of Sigmar?

>>95921178
I haven't seen/played a game of ToW, where skaven don't roll over and die as soon as they get into combat
GW undercooked their rules in ToW as hard as possible
>>95921319
I'll take crackhead scribbles of first edition over the boring and unutilized maps of modern AoS. Mainly because they're funny

>>95921426
Another W for zenithal gang

>>95920982
You could have just googled it and gotten the answer instantly

>>95921335
Don't know how I missed that, good to hear. They're a LOT cheaper. I assume mega gargants come with a ton of options and bits that inflate the price ? Gw says the sentinels only contain an extra faceplate and differently shaped blades. Still, quite the difference. Thanks anon.
>>95921380
Yes lol. Age of sigmar at launch had some truly bizarre maps, and art in general. That's one thing I really can't blame grogs for hating, along with some of the naming conventions.

>>95921520
>I assume mega gargants come with a ton of options and bits that inflate the price ?
Yeah, I honestly wouldnt mind the gargant kit if it had different leg/feet posing but nope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ykg8Scrd1w
I knew the assembly process was going to be a pain for at least the balloon, surprised the sentinel was too.

Gargants and ogors are races composed entirely of males like orruks and grots, and if they are not, where are their females because they do not have official miniatures or images.

>>95921569
>they do not have official miniatures od images
Also what the fuck anon I was thinking about this topic like an hour ago and now I see somebody post about ?

>>95921588
>No ogre gf to ride...

>>95921569
>where are their females
at home, cooking and tending to the kids, as their religions dictate for them

>>95921312
Making an RTS game with tragically bad controls/mechanics is a death sentence, no matter the IP. Don't forget that even Dawn of War 3, part of a beloved series of games in a far more popular IP crashed and burned instantly because of poor gameplay.

Personally I think they should do something slightly more niche like an AoS strategy RPG or 4x game, just because those are a lot harder to fuck up but still sell pretty well.

>>95921650
Just make a souls clone with a stormcast. Even soulslop like Mortal Shell and Lords of the Fallen (the first) were successful enough for sequels.

>>95921588
I have mental powers

>>95921613
sexist, down with the patriarchy

>>95921592
Maybe in the future we will see those big, fat and sensual women

btw, it's not really an important rumor, but Whitefang reactivated today to say that Chorfs will get their own hobgrots instead of sharing with KB. Do with that what you will.

Also there's apparently a rumor that BB is getting a new edition around Sept-ish with a lot of new teams/expansions planned to try and force BB players to spend more money. I bring it up only because it could impact AoS scheduling/expectations for this year if that's taking up the late summer slot.

Will we be able to see more updated and improved fantasy war machines like this in the other races?

>>95921551
The balloon looks alright for the most par,t going by some of the other videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYADlPfy9Mo

>>95921592
In the novel they joke about them being husband and wife but she says he's not big enough for her

>>95921817
Yeah I'm actually kinda liking the balloon more after seeing the in depth breakdown. Still that's a big and expensive project for another day. The Sentinel at least is easy to paint even if it's a pain in the ass to assemble. The Balloon is gonna be a huge pile of partial assemblies finished off with massive transfer decals.

It does look cool though, I'm really liking the look of the full pirate build especially.

>>95921847
well now I need to read the novel...

>>95921816
The steam tank of the Stormcast Eternals

Cathay Battalion sold out in US already. This is bullshit it wasn't even up an hour ago I was checking. Can't find any FLGS that'll ship to me with it in stock.

>Cathayan battalion box sold out in the US after a mere 4 (FOUR) hours
>GW literally has to give away AoS army boxes
Where is your god now, Sigmar scum?

>>95922039
It wasn't even up for an hour, they put it up later than usual for some reason

They called me a liar, a disinformer, a child, and a troggoth, but I was telling the truth, and here's the proof. The Orruks pirates are coming.

Any Lumineth players here?
Which heroes are regularly taken?

I'm making a Cathay as Lumineth army and need to know what sort of 3d prints to do for all the Lumineth things not easily proxied by official Cathay models.

Ignoring the ultra-casual degeneration of he game itself and focusing on the setting and narrative, what do you think is the worst failure? Is it the failure create a cohesive map / location for the setting?

>>95922056
Wow, that's even worse for AoS than I thought. Our time is probably very limited.

I didn't remember Gorko and Morko looking so good.

>>95922072
>what do you think is the worst failure?
We both know it already, my son

the four? not five gods of chaos

Are the new grave guard easy to assemble?
>>95922159
I know tzeentch is morally bankrupt in the other settings, but slaanesh is the one whose currently in stasis.

>>95921783
Oh thanks anon, just checked it out. Very weird, seems like the perfect dual army kit but maybe gw's accountant spreadsheet autism is now extending to factions within the same game too...

He also said Khul ascended is getting a model "much later than we would like"
>>95922033
Here in europe it's all still there except for the arcane journal (?) And the fucking dice (????). The two i would have expected to sell out the very last.

>>95920982
i hope you printed in ABS like flexy resin, that shits gonna snap if its the old school glass brittle stuff

>>95922190
TOW Dice are always one of the first to sell out for whatever reason, maybe due to their collector FOMO nature.

>>95922175
It's a refrence to a warhammer day graphic that Wazowski-ed Tzeentch

Slaanesh-chan's art is very... wait a minute

>>95922212
all the dice sell out because they go for 2-3x their retail price on ebay pretty much immediately. always buy the dice if you can, and you can just resell them on ebay, its free money

>>95922212
>>95922233
The beastmen ones are still there, and those actually look great. To each their own but the cathay ones look like shit. Is there extra fomo because its a new army? Or does nobody giving a shit about beasts extend to their dice too ?

>>95922255
>Or does nobody giving a shit about beasts extend to their dice too ?
Probably this. Like Beastmen are really strong in TOW and Wood Elves are trash, but tons of Wood Elf shit is still sold out vs almost nothing for Beasts, even though BoC are a newer release.

Pretty crazy to be hearing the death knell of Age of Sigmar this release weekend.

>>95922276
tbf you could buy almost all of the Beastmen models in AoS, so if anyone wanted to get them probably got them at the start of TOW

I guess something all duardin have in common is greed.

>>95922294
>TOW's savior is an army that never existed in WHFB
I agree with you anon, this is clearly the approach TOW needs to hone in on. Get rid of all these worthless legacy factions and focus on new video game inspired armies the people care about.

>>95922320
I guess something anglos have in common is an obsession with overrepresenting blacks in their media.

>>95922333
britain has a white minority so, yeah?

>>95922396
No, they don't it only appears so because if you watch their media it looks like South Africa demographically.

Anyway, AoS is dying but really because GW has priced themselves out of the range of most players and there’s no secondary fanbase to prop the IP up. Oh well, it’s just the way the world is now.

>>95922333
Bong's government has been taken over by foreigners that hate their guts.
They'll jail a brit for nasty words but turn a blind eye to violent gangs that can't even speak English

>>95921650
>with tragically bad controls/mechanics
controls/mechanics would be a problem if people bought the game

people didn't buy the game

>>95922404
2021 was 81%, down from 86% (74% excluding white foreigners) in 2011 but every other demographic basically doubled

>>95922433
Well that and the 4E rules being so bad they're not even worth paying attention to. GW really fucked up when they greenlit "simplifying" the game. Now people would rather play spearhead exclusively because anything is better than the core game.

>>95921650
>>95922482
This. That's a bad cope. DOW 3 peaked on steam with 25.5k players at once, RoR peaked at just over 1500 players on steam at once. It didn't sell.

>>95922484
Very grim, anglos will serve as an example for the rest of the world of what not to do. First people to accept an ideology that leads to their suicide.

>>95922433
idk, in my opinion the idea of spending £100 for an entry isn't bad and Spearhead is tailored to that. The only issue is most people being comp cunts and I doubt newbies are tolerated outside of that format like it's 2k or spearhead or nothing - that's what would make it too expensive but I don't think GW cares as long as they get the initial spearhead capture

>>95922482
>Actually shitty games always sell like hotcakes and people only find out they suck later on
Very rarely happens, only with super-hyped games/deceptive advertising and RoR was not a hyped game.

>>95922509
I meant 74% for 2021 but no it's probably a normal trend in late stage capitalism, look at America and latinos

>>95922535
America and Latinos were both unironically always multiracial multiethnic societies. Latin America way more so than the USA but the UK was an " ethnostate " consisting of the Anglos and Gaellics. Now it's been overrun by Pakis, Indians and Africans. Where the police hide Muslims raping English children to defend the optics of multiculturalism ( not bullshit this was actually admitted institutionally )

>>95922482
People will look for reviews if they're uniformed usually.

>>95922560
Map of non-Hispanic white %
You're on copium or named Jose. America was no more mixed than England, save the distribution of French, Dutch, etc white people and natives.
The reason Texas and California were assimilated was because they lacked a mexican population

>>95922489
This is something I try explaining to people but it’s hard to grasp intuitively. That is: when a game developer (wether it’s board games, war games, video games, etc) simplifies the game, they are NOT doing it for the players, they are doing it for THEMSELVES. It’s a a clear symptom / red flag of the competency crisis setting in. The developers themselves no longer have the ability to keep track of and properly develop / manage the complex ruleset so they dumb it down progressively. Model wargamers are NOT casual gamers, NEVER buy that bullshit narrative that someone is trying to attract “casuals”, it’s the DEVELOPERS who are the casuals! It’s not just GW, it’s the ENTIRE gaming industry. The same reason why studios can’t make real AAA games anymore inspite of ridiculous budgets is the SAME reason why GW keeps getting worse and their games - the quality of the developer pool has dropped off a cliff.

It starts with ONE

1E, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter no points to buy
Keep that in mind, I designed this game
With rules so inane, ALL I KNOW
AoS is a terrible game
Watch it fail now and who's taking the blame
Watch it bankrupt a whole company
Double turns tick away, IT'S SO UNREAL
Didn't look out for TOW
Watch AoS go right out of the window
Trying to hold on, d-didn't even know
I wasted my time just to be REPLACED WITH TOW

Paypigged, every release I'd buy
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to be will eventually be
A memory of a time when I played Sigmar

I PLAYED SIGMAR, AND GOT SO FAR
BUT IN THE END IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER
I HAD TO FALL, TO LOSE IT ALL
BUT IN THE END, I JUST PLAYED FANTASY BATTLE

>>95922581
>he doesnt know that latins are considered white now in America
I dunno how to break this to you chief. It was a slippery slope after considering Italians white.

>>95922599
Is /twg/ that dead right now?

>pre-order RoR physical
>loved Stormground despite it being janky
>wait months after the digital release to get it
>give up after 10 mins because the controls were complete trash and it felt like throwing blobs at one another with little strategy
It's such a shame

>>95922666
You can tell whoever worked on the cinematics/campaign pored a lot of love into the game. Probably it was brought down by some retarded game director who would accept no feedback that he was on the wrong path, that's usually how it goes.

>>95922666
yeah they made some really confusing and unnecessary decisions with the gameplay that made it really unfun and anti-convention seemingly just for the sake of it.

also the story mode was shockingly difficult. i failed several of the missions past 4 or 5 multiple times, there were non-obvious gimmicks that if you didnt jump on them quickly you would just lose within 5 minutes of starting the mission

story itself was great though, like not just great for age of sigmar but legitimately good, especially the time bending nature of the tzeentch prophecy, probably the best lore implimentation of tzeentchs schemes i've ever seen

>>95922320
>newfriends dont remember the edits

>>95922599
Like the PS3, at my LGS AoS has no gaems.

>>95922581
>The reason Texas and California were assimilated was because they
Were violently invaded and rebellions were crushed.

>people bitch and bitch about how OP Cathay is
>batreps came out
>they're actually balanced
Interesting.

>>95922948
literally not age of sigmar. you are in the wrong general

>>95922948
Batreps with armies played for the first time aren't good ways to judge powerlevels. I am not saying Cathay is OP, going off just reading rules isn't a good metric either. It will take a few months of tournament play until they are " figured out " and their real powerlevel is clear.

>>95922942
Wrong, California was purchased because the Spanish failed to settle California and the nascent Mexicans less so.
Texas basically broke off after the majority white farmers felt threatened by Mexico's abolitionist policies starting a war a Mexico lost.

>>95922948
I want Cathay to be OP, just so that Bretonia eats shit again

>>95922972
>the 1846 war never happened
These are the people that have internet now.

Remember that Sharty doxx revealed /tg/ jannies are ruining generals on purpose

>>95923015
Brettonnia is only gonna eat shit when Meow gets released and she does the green knight bit but better.
Actually, I have an unbuilt Morath. The temptation is there.

>>95923015
>>95923038
Bretonnia isn't good because of the Green Knight. He's strong but the Pegasi Knights/Pegasus lords are broken strong.

>>95923073
>>95923038
i thought nobody played the game

>>95923085
I play both and Cathay is cool because it makes a good proxy for the really ugly new CoS range.

>>95923038
She's a lot worse than the GK because she can't charge the turn she teleports.

>>95923114
Yeah people were freaking out about the D3 wounds being healed but if she can't charge that turn it's a massive drawback. If you're healing her you aren't using her and she's 1/4 of your army.

>>95923033
give me a quick rundown of everything related to /tg/

but give me roughly 25% of wrong info

>>95923124
Yeah the sequencing is just a bit too painful and she loses to the regular dragon lords (until the chaos nerf comes in) and to the stuff that kills them (e.g. poison archer spam and bretonnian killer dukes). I'm sure good players will pull off some insane plays with her free movement but in a game largely lacking objective-based play I don't think she's as good as been anticipated on the field. I still think she might see a lot of play in competitive lists because she is quite hard to kill if played carefully, given she gets to teleport back into human form when you kill the dragon, and that's potentially a lot of points denial over your opponent.

On the other hand the longma general guys, balloons and cannons are completely cracked just at base rate. It's very amusing to me competitive TOW is way more of a centrepiece game than AoS. I legitimately think there might be a competitive TOW list that is like:
>double lvl 4 shugenga
>3 balloons
>cannons to taste
>minimum size unit of jade warriors to carry the anti-flying standard
>all the rest of your core points in one unit of jade lancers with ambushers that use the balloon ambushers buff to stay off the board until as late in the game as possible to deny the enemy VPs

>>95923278
You already can't do that because you are limited to one lvl 4 wizard in a 2k list now with the matched play guide. Are the balloons special? Cause now spec is limited to 3 and rare to 2.

>>95923323
OK, I guess you keep the non-illusionist shugengan at level 4 and just make the other one level 3. That's actually better because you can afford a second ogre loader and third cannon.

Wait a minute this isn't the wfg thread!

>>95923337
Yeah I checked you can only have 2 balloons because they are both rare unless you take a magistrate as your general for a third one to be counted as special but that's probably not worth it.

>>95923349
It honestly doesn't really matter who is the general of the 3 characters here so doing that is fine.

Can I take a mercenary Mega-Gargant and the Stumblefoot Gargant Regiment of Renown in the same army at the same time?

I knew the new ghb would be dogshit with the flowchart secondaries, but wasn't expecting the threads to die so fast that people start talking about wfg instead

>>95923490
4th is a disaster. Might as well talk about a better game while waiting for 5th.

>>95923490
>>95923496
I think 4e's standardisation of rules text and abilities was totally fine, but I need to psychically wring the neck of the guy who keeps writing weak-ass army abilities and "on a 3+" shit. Armies that were fun just suck ass or are reduced to mono-builds now. It literally feels like the people writing army rules don't give a fuck.

>>95923475
Nah, army of renown’s can’t take regiments of renown sadly.
>>95923490
New book is honestly fun, at least for now. The discussion seems to be in isolated places now though, It also doesn’t help that 4chan is in a lul.

>>95923490
It's either that or talking about the Chinese dragon waifu and her perfectly fair army with no oversights.

>>95922210
theyre durable, did a wee bit of testing, as long as you dont try to use them like bouncy balls they should be fine.

Man I don’t really wanna pay $45 for an ogroid shaman, any good proxies?

>>95923569
Taking a Megagargant in a non-SoB army turns it into an Army of Renown?

>>95923805
Oh I completely misread your question, still, no. They’re both considered regiments of renown, and can only run 1, by the rules at least.

>>95923490
>spam shit even though people tell that to gtfo
>"i wouldn't expect people to talk about shit"

>>95923830
aw man. I really wanted two Gargants.

All the Cathay art in the book is absolutely incredible. Shame the lore reads like some of the worst fanfiction ever written.

>>95923862
Run the bigger one

>>95923868
I want the real Cathayan art

Cheng you're in the wrong thread. Go shill somewhere else

>>95923892
I am proxing them as CoS you faggot. They look much better than the ass tier new range both in terms of models and overall art direction.

>>95923868
>>95923882
>>95923906
SOUL.

>>95923906
And i'm not buying from Temu, so your family isn't eating this week

>>95923941
Hate all you want the art is kino. The artistic direction mogs CoS so hard.

>in Fantasy, Sigmar fucked Miao Ying
>in AoS, Sigmar fucks Morathi
Man's got a thing for monstrous immortal women doesn't he.

Played an rtt today with my ladz because I actually play games, went 2-1 only losing to my mate running an absolutely disgusting cities list, though I still got within 6 points of him by bullying him off the centre until I was tabled. New ghb is great, battleplans were interesting and the new battle tactics are way better than the old system.

>>95923947
Bing Bong i'm trying yo help you go check tbe fucking catalogue and post your trash where your work camp marshal ordered

>>95918298
CHINA STRONK

>>95923962
Racism isn't allowed outside /b/, take your hate out on the CoS designers not on Cathay for being human kino.

WHY IS EVERY CANADIAN FLGS OUT OF STOCK OF MOST THINGS AAAAAAAAAAAA I DONT WANNA PAY FULL PRICE

>>95923976
>Racism isn't allowed
Neither is announcing reports

>>95923976
>he's lactose intolerant

>>95924003
I didn't report you because I am not a pussy nor did I say I was reporting you. Just letting you know the rules

>>95923954
>in Fantasy, Sigmar fucked Miao Ying
TOW isn't fantasy, it's an alternate setting like AoS.

>>95924022
>>95923976
>>95923947
>>95923906
>>95923868
I thought people were joking when they said Cathay doesn’t feel very warhammery, but here we are. The arts not bad but, it’s just…boring? At least it’s new art, it’s more than I can say that tzeentch is gonna get.

>>95924075
Cathay was made with no involvement from the original artists who authored Warhammer Fantasy (retired or disinterested in involvement) and was made to entertain video game devs who wanted something momentous to sell a game on
It could not be more antithetical to what Warhammer is

>>95924093
Good, they had ample time to make it and Nippon but every time they decided not to because samurai movies weren't trendy or whatever and instead did stuff in 40k.

>>95924109
Tau are an abortion too

>>95924075
I am a grog but I think the art is fantastic and much better than the art we got for TK/Brets at the start of TOW. Feels proper Fantasy like the older more realistic art. The lore is absolutely terrible and I hope China invades Taiwan soon so they can retcon them into being an interesting faction and not just an anglo apology for the Opium wars.

Remember when Blanche made Kheradron after watching ships sail into the horizon and imagining said ships in the sky?
Those were the day

>>95924141
What armies don’t have Blanche concept art?

>>95918983

I already have 2 battalion boxes and some heroes pre ordered.

gonna use them in AoS tho

>>95924204
>2 battalion boxes
You greedy slut I can't even find 1

>>95924194
Depends how specific you want to be. I know he designed Stormcast, KO, Nighthaunt and Gitz

>>95918983
>>95924204
You fuckers, now I can't get my TOW army.

This dude will probably be my Light of Eltharion stand-in for my Cathay as Lumineth army

>>95924314
Looks like unfitting crap, you might as well go play warmahorde or something

>>95924334
Cathay originally had a monkey king

>>95924339
That sounds retarded, especially considering he’s supposed to be an adaptation of wukong.

>>95924339
I know, still does, but your choice of design and sculpt for it is fucking SHIT

>>95924314
I'd say at least pick a pose that's vaguely in-line with the original's profile.

>>95924400

That's just like, your opinion man.

I like him, and the other similarly styled minis I'm going to use for various Lumineth heroes that don't have a Cathay model analog.
Fairly realistic military plus extravagant heroes is very on brand for an army based on Chinese folklore imo.

>>95924447
>That's just like, your opinion man.
And my opinion is objectively correct and better than yours.

Your shit will never look like anything that belongs to warhammer, not even aos.

The Cathay haters in here today are just salty they spent money on that ass ugly CoS range instead of waiting for glorious Cathay.

>>95924486

I'm not very concerned about others liking my armies, they often trigger people like you.

>>95924525
Yeah, you have terminal shit taste, "people like me" are simply those who are not putting up a façade to pretend your stuff is anywhere close to passable.

>>95924540

ok, I'll continue doing my thing regardless and you can continue to be mad about it.

>>95924429
No.

>>95924525
For the record I think your Monkey King proxy is very cool. What colors are you choosing for your Cathayans? I have seen some really nice Jade colors. The jade/pink looks really nice.

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>>95924571

Thanks anon
Jade will be in there somewhere but am still unsure of how prominent it'll be or what colors to pair it with.
I'll have some extra models to experiment with once I get my battalion boxes, which should be fun.

That Jade and pink looks very nice indeed.

>>95924604

Chinese legends and folklore are also Taiwanese legends and folklore, Cathay is not the CCP.

The copy-pasta never actually worked.

>>95924626
>Cathay is not the CCP.
So why are skulls illegal in cathay? that's only a thing of the CCP.

>>95924644
The dragon emperor is haunted by what happened to Nehekhara, in particular Nagash.

>>95924644

That's a Chinese culture thing since long before the revolution, so it makes sense that Cathayan armies don't feature skulls on display.
Also do you really want every army covered in skulls?

>>95924674
>That's a Chinese culture thing since long before the revolution
That's not even close to being true.

>>95924674
>Also do you really want every army covered in skulls?
Also yes.

>>95924604
Fuck the CCP. In this house Cathay is supreme and Chang Hai Shek is the eternal emperor.

>>95924730
>loser man who's rump state was not consulted
I knew YinYin worship lowered IQ.

>>95924730
Getting Chinese into Warhammer Fantasy was the best thing ever for the fan art

>>95923947
Cathay doesn't have a single weird little guy.

>>95924730
>>95924775
Miaoposting hours?

>>95924730
>>95924801
Did GW give a date for her release? I preordered the battalion box today but she's the first thing I want to get next

>>95924674
>Also do you really want every army covered in skulls?
A bit yeah

>>95924806
No, I am guessing it is going to be whenever they release the second AJ for Cathay

>>95924791
Peak

>bulk purchasing
I was semi joking about people sellling their shit after a while but people really are gonna flood eBay with their used kits.

>>95924863
They’re really great. We need an army of Tulpas.

>>95924826
So she's a wave 2 kit for a second wave they haven't revealed?
Guess they wanted people to know she was happening to get the early buy-ins.

Nagash is so fucking tuff dudes, what he lacks in skin he compensates in drip.

>>95924879
All we know about a potential wave 2 so far is that she is in it and they are getting a second journal. Anything else is speculation. But yeah looks like it.

>>95924897
How do I get a beard made out of bone

>>95923961
You're baby blue ironjawz anon right ? Man this army looks so fucking cool on the table like that, what's the recipe for the armour if you don't mind me asking ?
>>95924791
What the fuck is that guy supposed to be anyway ? Like a big gargoylian ?

>>95924910
You gotta eat a girl out like a rack of ribs

>>95925025
>What the fuck is that guy supposed to be anyway ?
iirc it's some spooky boi you only see on the brink of death.

>>95925025
It's called a Corpus Somni. They don't really explain (many such cases!). Basically he's praying to guard souls during the war, and if you hear the skeleton's flute, your death is near - so not hearing it is a good thing.

>>95924900
I could see adding Zhao, some peasants, some infantry gunners, and an alchemist. One army of Infamy for each dragon sibling. Would make for a pretty complete feeling army.

>>95925101
What are the odds they'll add stuff not in TW?
I'm holding out hope for monkey warriors.

>>95925123
Basically 0. They still have 2/3 of the actual Cathayan roster to add that is in TWW

>>95920275
Is that the UK store that is notorious for showing stock they don't have, then let you buy it, only to cancel the order a month later?

>>95922039
>New asian theme army long overdue for decades
>vs
>C3PO space marine fantasy army
Gee I wonder why

>>95925388
That reminds me, I think there's a real chance there won't be Stormcast in the next starter. I know it's way too early to speculate, but I think GW realizes they can't push Stormcast anywhere near as hard as they push Space Marines, and they can't keep expanding the biggest army in the game even more.

>>95922039
And why would I care?

>>95925422
Zero chance they're not in the starter, but I think you're right about Stormcast not expanding forever if Sacrosant getting squatted is anything to go by.
Personally I think Stormcast not hitting SM levels of popularity is the best thing that can happen to this game.

>>95925447
I had a vision. AoS 5e starter bad guy faction is Bonereapers. Good guy faction is Cities, but with a focus on Arch Knights. Arch Knights on foot, Arch Knights on Demigryphs, Arch Knight champion on Gryphon.

GW needs a mostly armored easy to paint good guy faction in the starter, and there it is.

Has GW ever done this much high effort photography on a product page on their website? These are taken from the battalion box. Seems like more than the white background AoS has always gotten.

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>>95925554
And just proof that it's the actual product page and not some random promo shots from advertising. Wtf is this effort? I thought they were a side game?

>>95925564
Well they actually give a shit about Cathay.

>>95925537
Either it's a big push to grab the chinese market or a return to form.

>>95925597
D...don't give me hope

>>95925572
Releasing Cathay was a risky move. Warhammer Fantasy is ridden by grogs with mentality 'old-good, new-bad' and people that don't buy any models. It's no wonder GW is doing everything they can to sell them.

>>95925537
I feel like they might've thought they'd need to put more effort into advertising the distinctly high fantasy Chinese army to the game full of grogs that hates everything new.

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>>95925625
Clearly paid off. In the NA webstore the battalion was sold out in 5 minutes. Even the gaudy faux jade dice sold out lmao.

>>95925537
damn those look like a pain in the ass to paint

>>95925572
My guess? A serious attempt to get the Chinese hooked on plastic crack.
I have no idea what the Chinese market is in relation to GW, is there one?

>>95925493
cities is like the opposite of easy to paint, and play. The entire range is still half island of broken toys as well, lots of old kits.

if it's ever not Stormcast (and I doubt it ever will be), then I would say Seraphon or Slaves as possible replacements.

>>95925643
You know nothing child.

>>95925735
>The entire range is still half island of broken toys as well, lots of old kits.
Given that Old world is going to take those kits back at some point that's not a long term issue.
Not wrong about the ease of paint & play though, even if they make a box full of arch-knights at that point that'd just be stormcast jnr.

>>95925735
>The entire range is still half island of broken toys as well, lots of old kits.
That can easily be fixed by giving them a starter faction size range update and squatting the old stuff
>cities is like the opposite of easy to paint
I literally said it would all be Arch-Knights

>>95925789
Nah fuck that, get the religious part of cities in there, maybe some disgraced wanderers too. Cloth is easy as fuck to paint, more than armor.

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>>95925829
This is why fans don't get hired

>>95925829
There should be more Cult of the Wheel representation in the army. It's a very fun and unique part of the lore, and there's no point in giving the Pontifex a model if you can't run a culty army.
But I'm not sure what that would be outside of Battle Priests. Flagellants would be an easy answer but it's not like Cities needs a second super cheap squishy melee infantry option

>>95925857
It should just be an army of all black women, to match the theme

Cities should all be Zulu expies running around half naked rushing at the enemy using enveloping tactics and unloading a barrage of missile weapons as they close in. You can still have granny granting a buffy aura.
Simple, straight to the point, no bullshit.

>>95925863
I just figured out why you people are so tiresome. It's not that you're racist, it's that you think racism is a substitute for a personality.

>>95925863
Make them sexy anime black women.

>>95925857
I'd kill for a full unit of bolt brethren.

>>95925883
>making fun of anglo black worship is racism
kek

>>95925898
What would they do in the game, cheap squishy shortrange shooting? That's an open niche in the army, at least

>>95925914
Yeah, sure. "Black worship".

>>95925915
I was thinking a glass cannon counter charge unit that hides behind the steelhelms, but that might be better for another unit.
Could also be a tarpit that slowly kills itself and whatever it's trapped with all the lightning they shit out.

>>95925936
Yes, and Cathay only solidifies it. The blacks in AoS and fantasy aren't there because it fits. It's done as a DEI metric. Hence why they have 0 blacks in Cathays range because having them would be disrespectful to Chinese culture (which they explicitly wanted to respect). They show no qualms stuffing blacks into Euro cultures. Keep that head in the sand and calling people who notice this " racist ". Doesn't change reality.

>>95925944
you really have your own narrative of this. Anyways, no one asked.

I wish the TOW thread would stop sending their retards here

>>95925952
You stated I was racist. I explained why I am not racist and just making fun of mentally ill black worshipping whiteoids.

>>95925959
1. Im not the original poster
2. No explicit mention of races until you decided to make it about it
3. please stop projecting

>>95925959
>I just went on this unhinged racist rant, look how not racist I am for seething over toy soldiers painted with wrong paint

It's been explained over and over again that the lore of AoS leads to racially diverse factions, and we are several steps removed from the European inspirations of the factions so complaining that they don't match the racial demographics of IRL countries is very silly.

But still, these guys made racism their personality so we keep going over this dumbass argument over and over again in to infinity.

>>95925970
>noticing is raaaaaacism bro!
You're like those anglos that covered up the pakis raping the kids and called the people noticing racists.

He's still going at it. All of this because one faction of humans in a game is not painted like another faction of humans in a different game and setting.

>>95926002
No actually they are doing it for Bretonnia and Empire in Old World too. But not China, hence why I called it out as a double standard due to DEI.

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>>95926007
They literally talk about how important it was to get the various Cathay skin tones right. And then they shove blacks in Euro inspired cultures. You can ignore reality, but it's screaming in your face.

This is the retard people think I am because I want uncensored moe weebshit videogames back.

>>95926007
Go back to the TOW thread, they love you, they miss you. Go home.

>>95924806
The youtubers who got review copies were pretty sure Miao and the second book will release in two months or so.

>>95917753
>Comrade
How can a simple word like this be so thoroughly soiled?

I’m surprised there isn’t a Harry Potter reference anywhere in warhammer

>>95918983
Steering clear of you cum spilling everywhere will be enough.

>>95925025
Cheers, they've been speed painted so individually up close they look pretty rough, but they do hang together on the tabletop. The blue's VMC prussian blue, andrea blue and sky blue all just roughly drybrushed on.

>>95926721
GW were boomers and are now millennial so there's no interest in children's lit

>>95926007
AoS and CoS are not WHF empire you retard

>>95926754
Thanks anon, I might try a similar scheme on my gits

What are the sizes of the miniatures? Are they to scale? Which are the largest? I'm referring to the AoS miniatures, in case you're wondering.

>>95927481
1:60th scale, they are not all in scale, biggest are about 5-6 inches tall but those are Titanic monsters and most are much smaller.

Are Cities and LRL the only good options for Cathay proxying in AoS?

>>95927516
nah you could probably make any of the armies that have a sort of traditional army build work, like slaves to darkness, khorne, bonereapers, etc. cities and LRL are just the two most obvious, but i would actually say cities isnt even that great because it doesnt have a good proxy for miao ying.

I just know the Sunday preview in a few hours is gonna cuck blindoneth fishkin again

>>95927516
cities and lrl aren't good options either

>>95927616
lrl has everything except the cannons, but you can use the cannons as ballista easy enough

>>95927516
LRL are Aelves not human

>>95927632
and the lantern, and a generic hero on flying monster.

Can you feel it? It's so close, it's under the shadow of your walking heel.

>>95927652
the hero on monster is almost the exact same size and type of creature as this guy or his generic version.

lantern=floating terrain piece+foot wizard of your choice

>>95927637

Elves are fantasy asians and you know it

>>95927717
nah that was like 10 years ago

Lumineth fit better than cities for Cathay proxying I think

Jade warriors = wardens
Jade warriors 2h option = bladelords or stoneguard
Jade lancers = dawnriders
Cannon = ballista
Banner guy = banner guy
Horse guy hero or Longma = lord regent
Terracotta giant = maaaaybe cow mountain if it fits on the base, if not then mega gargant mercenary.
Lantern = terrain feature
Yiao ming = slap both versions on the same base and you got a better Teclis.

3D print the rest I guess.

>>95927816
not 100% sure this is accurate, this sites been wrong before, but it looks like you could use the sentinel as either a mega gargant or a cow mountain convincingly

>>95927856
Fairly sure Mega is taller than Teclis

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>>95927897
please stop talking about Cathay