Hotpot Catapult Grudge Thrower Substitute - yea or nay?
Jul 5, 2019 18:29:10 GMT
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Post by lordofskullpass on Jul 5, 2019 18:29:10 GMT
Hello fellow Fantasy players, haven’t been very active here for a stint, but I’m in need of some pre-purchase advice.
If you’ve been paying attention to GW’s releases of late, you’ll know that they re-released the world-famous Halfling Hot-Pot Catapult for a week as part of their Warhammer Legends line. It’s been a good few weeks since that offer vanished into the midst of time again, but I’ve found a shop that has one on the shelf. It’s certainly a fun little Warhammer mini and a piece of Warhammer history, but in my view it wouldn’t be worth purchasing unless there was a use for it in a game, so I’ve come to ask you all for advice before I get it (if it’s still there next time I go).
I remember that back in the days of Warhammer Fantasy, heaps of bitz and vignettes packs and GW’s old and less fiddly website, they were still selling the Hot Pot Catapult, and on the original description they said that it could be used as an Empire Mortar proxy. Therefore, my question is, given that the Dwarf Grudge Thrower was retired when AoS first came on the scene and that I currently don’t own one, could the Hot-Pot Catapult also be deemed a valid Grudge Thrower proxy, knowing that GW’s Hobbit parodies also maintained friendly relations with Dwarfs? My three main concerns are:
Nevertheless, I’m interested to see if you all think it would be a legal proxy. I eagerly await your thoughts!
If you’ve been paying attention to GW’s releases of late, you’ll know that they re-released the world-famous Halfling Hot-Pot Catapult for a week as part of their Warhammer Legends line. It’s been a good few weeks since that offer vanished into the midst of time again, but I’ve found a shop that has one on the shelf. It’s certainly a fun little Warhammer mini and a piece of Warhammer history, but in my view it wouldn’t be worth purchasing unless there was a use for it in a game, so I’ve come to ask you all for advice before I get it (if it’s still there next time I go).
I remember that back in the days of Warhammer Fantasy, heaps of bitz and vignettes packs and GW’s old and less fiddly website, they were still selling the Hot Pot Catapult, and on the original description they said that it could be used as an Empire Mortar proxy. Therefore, my question is, given that the Dwarf Grudge Thrower was retired when AoS first came on the scene and that I currently don’t own one, could the Hot-Pot Catapult also be deemed a valid Grudge Thrower proxy, knowing that GW’s Hobbit parodies also maintained friendly relations with Dwarfs? My three main concerns are:
- A pot of boiling hot stew is not as dangerous as a massive, rune-covered rock.
- Halflings are not as naturally tough as Dwarfs (although they are as slow-moving)
- A hastily-built Halfling Catapult is not nearly as good a quality machine as a trusty Dwarf mechanical one.
Nevertheless, I’m interested to see if you all think it would be a legal proxy. I eagerly await your thoughts!
