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Warhammer Fantasy Battles: Gesundheit; Sneeze of Mystery

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    It looks like a 3d Blanche painting! I love it.

  • ZedarZedar Registered User regular
    Ugh, why do they put this stuff up for pre-order 5 days after my birthday?

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  • DayspringDayspring Registered User regular
    Some of those ships look amazing

  • SJSJ Registered User regular
    No fucking Orcs. What the fuck.

  • DayspringDayspring Registered User regular
    Looks like an Araby ship in there, though. I think.

  • MorskittarMorskittar Registered User regular
    GW posted a video and more in-depth preview of the game and captains.

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  • SJSJ Registered User regular
    Not gonna lie, might have to pick this up. Looks really fun.

  • DraevenDraeven Registered User regular
    that is looking kind of sexy, wonder if this is a testor so to speak seeing if there is actual interest in a real ship to ship game like t his.

    Morskitter wrote "Spikes, choppas, tentacles, magic? Can't hold a candle to Sergeant Pimp here."

  • MorskittarMorskittar Registered User regular
    It does. I like that it looks to have a healthy dose of proper age of sail combat, some Warhammer ridiculousness, and lots of detail.

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  • SJSJ Registered User regular
    Wanna hit a ship with that giant fuckoff hammer, no lie.

  • MorskittarMorskittar Registered User regular
    I look forward to a broadside or three.

    I also like that there's what appears to be some Marienburger mutant pirate. Neat.

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  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    I am getting this thing. Already sent an email to the warstore. If I don't get a response tomorrow morning I'll order it from gw.

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  • 12gauge12gauge Registered User regular
    I preordered at midnight, will take it as a christmas gift for myself - means I will have to wait for nearly 3 months before opening though...

    Luckily I have enough of a backlog already to paint so I should be fine.

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel Deus Vult! OsloRegistered User regular
    I cannot wait to find out what Blood Sharks do.

    Fuck off and die.
  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    The warstore emailed me back to say that they might not get any copies and that if they do they'd find out during the week. Just gonna order it from gw.

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  • PrimePrime Registered User regular
    Got a question RE the battle standard bearer. If he is in a large unit, in this case a horde size unit. Where do you measure the 12" for the reroll leadership tests? The edge of the unit his is in or the battle standard bearer model?

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  • Mr_RoseMr_Rose Registered User regular
    Prime wrote:
    Got a question RE the battle standard bearer. If he is in a large unit, in this case a horde size unit. Where do you measure the 12" for the reroll leadership tests? The edge of the unit his is in or the battle standard bearer model?

    It's always from the model, regardless of the size of unit it's in (or not).

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  • riven5riven5 Registered User regular
    Hey guys, first time posting regarding WHFB. A friend of mine mentioned that he wanted to try it out sometime and asked if there was a MapTools -like program for doing so online. I play WM/Hordes occasionally via Vassal and I was wondering if any of you know of a module for it that is up-to-date at all? Or if there is another program that simulates the game?

  • SJSJ Registered User regular
    I'm not sure if there's a Vassal module up for it or not, GW clamps down on that kind of shit pretty quickly.

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  • DraevenDraeven Registered User regular
    http://www.universalbattle.com/
    this is as close to a fantasy online gaming system you can use. They say its for what ever games but tends to just always be fantasy games being played.

    Morskitter wrote "Spikes, choppas, tentacles, magic? Can't hold a candle to Sergeant Pimp here."

  • PrimePrime Registered User regular
    Can someone do me a favour, I'm miles away from my figures and need the rough height of a goblin and or standard rank and file orc. Can anyone give a good guess or actual measure it for me?

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  • MorskittarMorskittar Registered User regular
    An orc is somewhere between 3/4" and 1" off the top of my head. The current basic plastic goblins are probably a little over half an inch.

    Metric heights and accuracy are nowhere to be found here.

    GW is driving my friends and I into a bit of a froth over Dreadfleet. The battle report today looked awesome - orders, craziness, and lots of detail and in-game decisions to be made.


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  • DraevenDraeven Registered User regular
    http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=18300021a

    First turn action in a dreadfleet game. Seems like a pretty fun game.

    Morskitter wrote "Spikes, choppas, tentacles, magic? Can't hold a candle to Sergeant Pimp here."

  • MorskittarMorskittar Registered User regular
    I've finally accepted the fact that I suck at 8th and with the new skaven book. I'm soething like 0-8 or 10. Maybe one win in the last year.

    Other than adjusting unit sizes upward, I'm still fielding an armies right out of 4th-7th. I suspect that's the root of the problem (that and relying on setting up redirects/flanks at the expense of aggressiveness).

    I think it's probably time to dust off my Empire or build out some Ogres to reset fundamentals.

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  • AsherAsher Registered User regular
    I hear that Skaven are pretty damn powerful in 8th, so maybe you need to address the more serious issue of why:
    A: The Council of 13 keeps sending you defective Cannons, slaves, warriors, Grey seers etc.
    or
    B: Why the Horned Rat has forsaken you. In which case suicide is probably the best option.

  • MorskittarMorskittar Registered User regular
    I've twice used bound unicorns as speedbumps in Storm games. In one, high elves were forced to kill one.

    Option B doesn't seem likely after that.

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    Awesome thing I noticed with the Throne of Chaos book - Scrolls of Binding for unridden Toad Dragons and Carmine Dragons. I was hoping for a White Dwarf release for them, but hey, I'll take this.

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  • SJSJ Registered User regular
    Is that the Warhammer Forge book?

  • Mr_RoseMr_Rose Registered User regular
    Yup.
    Well, the first one anyway.

    ...because dragons are AWESOME! That's why.
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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    It's a pity they canned Rick Preistly before he could finish the trilogy. Unlike the Imperial Armour books, they were meant to form a trilogy that ended with the Warhammer world ending - obviously as an 'alternate timeline', but it was really ambitious. Then GW let him go and they are turning them into basically Warhammer Armour books.

    Not that I mind either way, but that was a really awesome idea for the books.

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    Found this on DakkaDakka - more Vampire Counts rumours.

    Apparently, the book might be coming in January(!). Will include the rules for the Terrorgeist (and I assume the hero Wraiths and Banshees). Other rumours say there will be plastic 'flesh golems', plastic Black Coach, and apparently bringing back some old characters like Krell.

    My guess is, if the rumours are accurate, is VC were hit hard by 8th edition, and it's more like the Tau Empire book. Nothing drastic, just some new units, and a few point alterations to work better in 8th edition. It's easier to release this as a quick fix to make part of the playerbase happy while they work on another big Fantasy project.

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  • SJSJ Registered User regular
    Honestly I hope it isn't VCs just because there are other books that need more help. Though it would be a relatively quick fix model wise and a good revenue booster for more ambitious projects that need more work like Bretonnians and Wood Elves.

  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    My guess is its a slot filler.

    Their current projects are, according to rumour, Empire and Brettonians. They probably need some more time for one of those, so they're throwing out an updated VC army book instead of doing a heavy FAQ. Plus, it sells more army books than a FAQ would.

  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    Couple more rumours from the Vampire Counts front
    It seems that the Black Coach will be a dual kit.
    Heard about this a while ago but wasn't sure what to make of it. Seems there might be something to it though:
    The next army to go on stock rundown in GW stores is Vampires.
    This is before things like Empire which some people have been whispering about as well; so my money would be on the toothy ones being released first.

    Apparently the Throne of Chaos book specifically mentions Vampire Bloodlines as well, rather than specific vampire powers that are in the current book.

    Seems like it might not just be a 'filler' book after all. With the plastic Black Knights and plastic Flesh Golems rumours on top of this, as well as brining back the likes of Heinrich Kemmler and Krell, this could be a major release. That's really soon.

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  • sk600sk600 Registered User
    I this a completely awful list? my first try for 800 point skaven

    Warlord w/ weeping blade and enchanted shield, with stormvermin

    Warlock w/ level 1 and warp energy condenser, with slaves

    Warlock w/ doom rocket

    Chieftain with standard, with clan rats

    Stormvermin x13, Full command, warp pistol
    -rattling gun

    Clan Rats x20, full command, shields
    -warpfire thrower

    Slaves x20, command

    PWG x6 w/ Bombardier

    puts me at 795/800, probably take 2 more slaves to get to 799

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  • DayspringDayspring Registered User regular
    More rats! Even at 800 you need more bodies. I'd bump them up to 30ish each, min. Drop one of the warlocks maybe?

  • DayspringDayspring Registered User regular
    More rats! Even at 800 you need more bodies. I'd bump them up to 30ish each, min. Drop one of the warlocks maybe?

  • sk600sk600 Registered User
    if I drop the Doom Rocket engineer, I can bump both skaven slaves and clan rats to 27+character. That gives me two tarpits of 7x4 or 5x5, with stormvermin to counter charge one and PWG to throw into the other.

    Its small and situational, but barring some green stuff orbs and gas mask heads, I have the models on hand and can fine tune as we build up in points

    edit: Two weapons teams ok at 800? I like them for the chance at massive carnage

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  • ArtereisArtereis Registered User regular
    I'm all sorts of excited, here. My copy of Dreadfleet should arrive from the Warstore today, and my Hoplite table from Geek Chic is due to hit sometime between now and the end of November. That should give me enough time to paint up the pieces and have it ready for its semi-permanent home.

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