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Post by frozenfood on Mar 2, 2016 6:52:31 GMT
I'm always looking for (cheap) army books and I'm confused by Beastmen. What exactly is the latest version to use in 8th?
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Post by roughtimes on Mar 2, 2016 12:32:42 GMT
Skaven and beastmen and bretonnians were never updated in 8th. They use the 7th edition soft cover books.
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Post by frozenfood on Mar 2, 2016 13:20:11 GMT
And do they have extra rules to make them compatible? Or do they just work with faqs like skaven?
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Post by TheREALricksalamone on Mar 2, 2016 15:01:12 GMT
I bought a few beastmen items within the last year and I plan to use them with my Warriors stuff in a Chaos Legion force. End Times got some things wrong but I really like the combined undead and chaos forces. They remind me of when I started playing Warhammer and it was possible to mix, for example, demons, warriors, and beasts in an army.
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Post by wilsonthenarc on Mar 2, 2016 20:54:54 GMT
I have about 40 plastic (old school 1 piece) Beastmen Gors. The halberd ones.
+ 5 all-metal multi-part Minotaurs, PLUS the huge size Minotaur Lord.
+ about 10 loose Ungors, Bestigor command models, and others.
I don't think I'll ever paint these. Want to trade?
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Post by TheREALricksalamone on Mar 2, 2016 21:28:46 GMT
Bring em over and I'll take a look. I certainly want one of the halberd plastics for my chaos warrior unit though.
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Post by roughtimes on Mar 2, 2016 22:06:59 GMT
And do they have extra rules to make them compatible? Or do they just work with faqs like skaven? I'm pretty sure the books were made with 8th edition in mind. There's nothing in the beast book that doesn't work in 8th but some of it feels outdated (chaos hounds don't count for core). |
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Post by grandmasterwang on Mar 3, 2016 1:43:08 GMT
The 7th Edition softback is the 'current' 8th Edition Beastmen rulebook. Beastmen aren't considered powerful in 8th but in 8th they can give any army a bloody nose whereas in 7th they struggled. Bsb rerolls for primal fury make a big difference as does stepup for bestigor and the like. Stomps help minotaurs as well. Another reason why 8th is awesome. The Glottkin book brought back marks so i can field Khornegor again  |
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Post by frozenfood on Mar 3, 2016 18:13:34 GMT
Okay, that clears that up. I'm off to look for beastmen, the wonderful beastmen of eight
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Post by KevinC on Mar 6, 2016 6:49:47 GMT
If I remember correctly, the Beastman book was the last army book for 7th edition (either that or Skaven?). It was clearly written with 8th edition in mind.
However, the problem it suffered from is that the main writer left GW before it was complete and another games designer finished it. As others stated, the Glottkin book does help/fix the Beastmen by allowing them to take marks of chaos.
Either way they are a fun and cool army.
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Post by frozenfood on Mar 6, 2016 9:51:26 GMT
Okay Beastmen and Brettonia books ordered (was a sweet deal). Will be a while before I field them because I have to explore my Ogres further first. Fun times ahead
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Post by Naitsabes on Mar 6, 2016 17:49:52 GMT
that's the spirit!
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Post by gjnoronh on Mar 8, 2016 21:43:53 GMT
Yes the last Beastmen book was written with 8th in mind and was the last before 8th dropped. It's a fun army to use and what I played for most of 8th. There are two ways to go about it - big bricks of nasty combat troops/minotaurs and monsters or full on MSU. I am actually more of a fan of MSU beastmen. Come check out the herdstone some time - quieter now then it was in the past but lots of cool old tactics and painting info. z8.invisionfree.com/herdstone/index.php |
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Post by wilsonthenarc on Mar 8, 2016 21:46:43 GMT
were minotaurs good in 8th?
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Post by roughtimes on Mar 9, 2016 0:12:37 GMT
No, they were terrible compared to most MI. But a mino bus with characters was pretty fun.
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