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Post by Luigino on Jan 7, 2024 19:54:09 GMT
Frankly, if your whole reason of existence is "Eight Edition For Ever" in the first place, why deny that? Alas, it seems "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." Etiamsi oportuerit me mori tecum, non te negabo. Even if I have to fail a rerollable stubborn 10 break test, I will never disown you.
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Post by morhog on Jan 7, 2024 20:03:53 GMT
Keep it the same. The abundance of WFB8 source material found here is extremely useful. Changing the name will effectively remove you from any search engines. If eighth was good enough since 2010, stick with it. I play 3rd - 8th and I search for info based on the edition. Players running the orphaned armies may just stick with 8th. Just my two-cents...
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Post by masterofnone on Jan 7, 2024 22:10:22 GMT
The times they are a-changing. Warhammer Fantasy is no longer a discontinued game that "crystallised" with the 8th Edition. To keep EEFL and ignore TOW would be anachronistic and make the forum dwindle into irrelevance - unless of course the majority of forum users embrace TOW, in which case EEFL as a name stops making sense. I am for an inclusive name, that welcomes all version of Warhammer Fantasy Battles (and to me that means no Age of Sigmar!). WFFL would work quite well IMHO. PS: Thinking a bit more about it, there is no urgency for changing name from EEFL. The forum can probably continue existing for months before TOW takes over and becomes the most popular form of WFB (if indeed it does). ----------I for one am excited about TOW and this forum now has a full board dedicated to TOW, so we are being inclusive in that way. That is true. By the way, in case I didn't express myself well, I was not implying that I am not interested in TOW.
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Post by KevinC on Jan 8, 2024 0:10:48 GMT
Keep it the same. The abundance of WFB8 source material found here is extremely useful. Changing the name will effectively remove you from any search engines. If eighth was good enough since 2010, stick with it. I play 3rd - 8th and I search for info based on the edition. Players running the orphaned armies may just stick with 8th. Just my two-cents... ---------Glad to see you alive and still bashing 'eads morhog ! And well said.
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Post by Horace on Jan 10, 2024 8:51:43 GMT
I don't mind either way. I will be trying TOW but very much doubt it will be the only edition we play. Besides the rules and how it plays, I had assumed the other races would get support in TOW2 but this now looks more unlikely
TOW has a huge amount of content required to be anywhere near as comprehensive as 8th
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beastyboy
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Post by beastyboy on Jan 10, 2024 10:27:06 GMT
I would like this forum to stay ... I don't post as much as I should but let's not have it go the way of the herdstone and other fantasy forums that have died .. and if it means a name change to keep people talking about fantasy , so be it.
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Post by mcnuggs on Jan 10, 2024 14:57:35 GMT
With the removal of the Magic Phase, proper chaffing, 1” away shenanigans and proper angling/blocking of units, I think TOW will be a very fun modern GW game to play at the club and to meet new players, but will not replace 8th edition for my gaming group. These elements are what made high level games of 8th such nail biters and gave the ruleset extreme depth. Plus, with a friendly attitude and a few house rules, 8th is still fairly balanced imo. It’s just not for the faint of heart. Please keep EEFL as it is. This is the last bastion for what I believe to be the greatest tabletop game of all time.
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Post by sedge on Jan 10, 2024 17:39:06 GMT
I do still feel the name should change. It made sense at a time when GW had binned Warhammer Fantasy, and it seemed they were done with it for good. I regret not signing up here sooner - being part of this forum has made a major difference to my hobby, and helped to keep me interested, and motivated me to buy, build and paint lots of stuff I probably wouldn't have otherwise done, as well as continuing to play games and occasional events.
TOW is going to get a lot of attention, and people returning to the hobby will be looking for communities to discuss it with, share photos, talk tactics, etc. Many of the old WFB forums are dead, or sadly no longer relevant (carpenoctem, druchii.net) Putting up the new forum sections for TOW is great for accommodating those people, but the name may yet still put people off. If I were a returning WFB player looking for somewhere to talk about The Old World, I wouldn't go for a forum proclaiming itself as being all about a previous edition, for life.
Changing the name also reflects reality: the forum now majorly accommodates two different Warhammer Fantasy games systems, so let's have a name that reflects that.
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Post by Luigino on Jan 10, 2024 19:57:09 GMT
I'm a bit fought on the matter. part of me understands that changing the name to reflect a more inclusive nature might help gather new blood; which is good. But on the other hand we're probably going to be competing with much more popular generalist forums on that point. in this sense, maintaining a focus on 8th edition might actually allow the forum to survive since it would now be a place that's truly different from all the other forums that are going to pop up or experience a resurgence.
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Post by Tubis on Jan 11, 2024 9:31:36 GMT
So far neither me nor my gaming group are very enthusiastic about TOW. It's far closer to 6th ed, than to 8th ed in its general feel and I think 8th is vastly better than 6th. I think the forum should stay close its roots. I highly doubt there will be a massive influx of TOW players to the old forum format anyways, when social media exist.
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Post by DiscoQing on Jan 11, 2024 20:40:19 GMT
There's a reason why my gaming group (and me) are not rebasing anything.
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Post by thorpyuk on Jan 12, 2024 7:18:21 GMT
I'll be buying a few new figures, but its unlikely I'll ever play TOW..
No 2nd rank of shooting, and no supporting attacks/stepup kill it for me
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Post by DiscoQing on Jan 12, 2024 7:47:20 GMT
Easily house ruled, if you wanted to adapt it to suit you though. Time will tell.
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Post by lordofskullpass on Jan 12, 2024 13:48:46 GMT
Personally I'm excited for TOW, it honestly seems to satisfy a lot of my requirements and fixes a lot of the things I like least about 8th, as well as avoiding some of the holes that 6th and 7th have in them. Of course it does take away a few things as well, but from what I can see currently it looks to be a good Edition. As you can see I've started working on some TOW tactica articles already, and I hope some of the rest of the EEFL community will stick around to chip in their tuppences as well.
I want this forum to be a good place to discuss both 8th and TOW. I'm not fond of Facebook groups and Reddit with all the moaners who haunt those places and prefer the close-knit community feeling of forums. Whatever is decided about changing the name, I simply seek to support the best option to keep the forum alive.
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Post by colonelburton on Jan 12, 2024 16:03:56 GMT
With the removal of the Magic Phase, proper chaffing, 1” away shenanigans and proper angling/blocking of units, I think TOW will be a very fun modern GW game to play at the club and to meet new players, but will not replace 8th edition for my gaming group. That's pretty much how we feel. We will likely look into TOW and I assume it will be a hype for a while and successively we will go back to 8th edition - we certainly won't be doing any re-basing A few old players have said that they will give up Warhammer altogether if we all stop playing 8th edition and I can understand why this shift is an opportunity for them to start a new chapter, they've been playing Warhammer for over a decade even if I'm pretty new. As for me, I hope this will end with my friends being more open to adapting 8th edition, because from the day I first watched their first match I did note some things I perceived to be severe flaws in the game concept and I do believe 8th Edition needs some tweaks especially some of the 5er or 6er spells that are just ridiculous.
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