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Post by gangland on Nov 15, 2019 21:32:33 GMT
I'm just going to wait and see what we get. Not too worried as I'll still need to play something for 4 years anyway which will be Warhammer Fantasy so yeah. Not really winning or losing anything.
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Post by warlordghazak on Nov 15, 2019 21:40:06 GMT
This is awesome news! Hopefully they will stock up on square bases soon, I'm almost running out of them.
I'm really looking forward to it. I'm lucky enough that we play a variety of games in our group, so I never really run out of opponents.
Cheers, WGG
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Post by larabic on Nov 15, 2019 22:31:22 GMT
Look who comes crawling back, i have been hoping for a warhammer classic. I think this is going to be as close as i get.
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Post by Naitsabes on Nov 16, 2019 2:14:00 GMT
so, can we capitalize on the buzz? Tell people that while they wait three years for the old world to 'come back', they could just play in the old world that actually never left? Where is our social media brigade? Go forth and spread the word!
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Post by gangland on Nov 16, 2019 5:03:55 GMT
One more think to note is if this is going to be in the catagory of Horus Heresy then that means forget world... Which means stupid pricing on an already costly game company...
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Post by NIGHTBRINGER on Nov 16, 2019 5:46:15 GMT
If it turns out to be fantastic, it won't really hurt the community as everyone will move over to 9th edition. If it turns out to be horrible, it won't really hurt the community as most people will remain with 8th. If it turns out to be somewhere in between fantastic and horrible, it could very well split the community in two. Even then, it would have new blood. And those who prefer 8th will still play 8th. I have no intention to try to dissuade you from your optimistic point of view. Here's hoping!
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Post by NIGHTBRINGER on Nov 16, 2019 5:48:34 GMT
It'll be interesting to see how many bandwagon jumpers will come back, acting like they never left in the first place. Lol! I feel SO vindicated right now. How many of those YouTubers argued that "Fantasy is DEAD! GET OVER IT!". Whatcha bet they start making fantasy content again. I just wanna say... media.giphy.com/media/l49JNC3SiBy9PIW1G/giphy.gifHahaha... while I am cautiously pessimistic about how this will turn out, I'm not going to lie, this is awesome. I never thought of this angle!
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Post by arraboy on Nov 16, 2019 6:39:34 GMT
It'll be interesting to see how many bandwagon jumpers will come back, acting like they never left in the first place. Lol! I feel SO vindicated right now. How many of those YouTubers argued that "Fantasy is DEAD! GET OVER IT!". Whatcha bet they start making fantasy content again. I just wanna say... media.giphy.com/media/l49JNC3SiBy9PIW1G/giphy.gifHahaha... while I am cautiously pessimistic about how this will turn out, I'm not going to lie, this is awesome. I never thought of this angle! Well here I am, your first band-Wagoner. This was the first place I came when I saw the news. I've been buying up 8th edition stuff for a few years and watching this forum but never got around to playing a game. I could never get anyone at my club interested (Bexley Reapers, Kent, Uk) they all play KoW which is fine, but it's just not the old world!
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Post by gregr on Nov 16, 2019 6:44:58 GMT
Hahaha... while I am cautiously pessimistic about how this will turn out, I'm not going to lie, this is awesome. I never thought of this angle! Well here I am, your first band-Wagoner. This was the first place I came when I saw the news. I've been buying up 8th edition stuff for a few years and watching this forum but never got around to playing a game. I could never get anyone at my club interested (Bexley Reapers, Kent, Uk) they all play KoW which is fine, but it's just not the old world! If you fancy a game theres a few of us still playing at SELWG in Catford and I'm not too far from the Bexley area.
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Post by arraboy on Nov 16, 2019 7:01:29 GMT
Funnily enough, I am a member of the selwg Facebook group, I joined a few years ago because I heard they still played 8th there. I just never got round to trying to arrange a game. Life gets in the way of these things! I have also not finished painting an army and the pictures I saw of games there all had beautiful looking armies.
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Post by arraboy on Nov 16, 2019 7:37:46 GMT
++ Standard (Orcs & Goblins - Army Book (2013-4) -V8.8.2.) [2,500pts] ++ + Lords + Black Orc Warboss [423pts]: Shield . Magic Items: AB - Battleaxe of the Last Waaagh! . Wyvern
Goblin Warboss [124pts]: Light Armour, Shield, Spear . Gigantic Spider
+ Heroes +
Black Orc Big Boss [117pts]: Battle Standard Bearer, Shield
Goblin Big Boss [41pts]: Great Weapon, Light Armour
Night Goblin Big Boss [30pts] Night Goblin Shaman [110pts]: Lore of da Little Waaagh!, Wizard Level 2 . Magic Items: BRB - Dispel Scroll
+ Core +
Forest Goblin Spider Riders [160pts]: Boss, 10x Forest Goblin Spider Rider, Musician, Standard Bearer
Goblins [240pts]: Boss, Musician, 3x Nasty Skulker, Standard Bearer . 45x
Goblin: 45x Shields, 45x Spears Night
Goblins [70pts]: Musician . 20x Night Goblin: 20x Short Bows
Night Goblins [300pts]: Boss, Musician, Netters, 3x Night Goblin Fanatics, Standard Bearer . 50x Night Goblin: 50x Hand Weapons and Shields
+ Special +
Black Orcs [395pts]: 30x Black Orcs, Boss, Musician, Standard Bearer
+ Rare +
Arachnarok Spider [290pts] Giant [200pts] ++ Total: [2,500pts] ++
This is my first ever 8th edition list, no idea if it's good or not! But I'm not particularly competitive so I guess that doesn't matter to me anyway!
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Post by gregr on Nov 16, 2019 8:21:16 GMT
Funnily enough, I am a member of the selwg Facebook group, I joined a few years ago because I heard they still played 8th there. I just never got round to trying to arrange a game. Life gets in the way of these things! I have also not finished painting an army and the pictures I saw of games there all had beautiful looking armies. Ha you never saw mine then they're far from beautiful!!!!!! You should come down one evening when we're playing 8th
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Post by arraboy on Nov 16, 2019 8:26:31 GMT
Funnily enough, I am a member of the selwg Facebook group, I joined a few years ago because I heard they still played 8th there. I just never got round to trying to arrange a game. Life gets in the way of these things! I have also not finished painting an army and the pictures I saw of games there all had beautiful looking armies. Ha you never saw mine then they're far from beautiful!!!!!! You should come down one evening when we're playing 8th Yes I should. I've just posted on the Bexley page to see if I can start a community there. What time does the selwg club open? Fridays?
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Post by dannytee on Nov 16, 2019 10:10:03 GMT
this reminds of the old adage: "if you wish to wound someone who has lost everything, give him back something broken" cautiously pessimistic they'll do something to make me angry all over again Clearly the way to counter that is to imagine your favourite possession being broken in the worst imaginable ways, and thus when you're given back something just regular-level broken, you don't feel quite so bad. Thus, I propose that GW will be bringing back WFB on square bases in the following form: Tzeentch discovers a way to open a warp portal and send minions back in time to the Old World, to try and subvert its destruction to ensure his dominance over the other Chaos gods. He sends back his greatest champions - but his plot is discovered by all the other leading AoS actors, who send back their own through the portal, seeking to achieve their own ends. As such, the Empire is now ruled by chief Sigmarine Lord Celestial Hammerhands, and Middenheim has been razed to construct a giant golden statue of a Sigmarine. Elsewhere, a Fyreslayer Berzerker has liberated Karak Eight Peaks, killing off Skarsnik and Queek with his vulkite fyresteel axe, and the new Dawi occupants have reclaimed a hidden hoard of gold, which they are hammering into their flesh whilst wearing nothing more than strategically placed loincloths that they occasionally set fire to for no apparent reason. Nagash took over Khemri (again) and merged all the undead there into one giant skele-monster set to traverse the world, harvesting corpses. Settra is embedded in its crotch. In Athel Loren, the elves have mated with trees to create a new hybrid race, while Drycha has developed a honey addiction that sees her possess only trees with beehives present. In Naggaroth the elves have mated with fish and their offspring now dwell in the Sea of Chill (except a few who escaped with Morathi by mating with snakes - they've taken over Lustria). The elves of Ulthuan forgot to mate, so died off. All followers of Khorne have now been renamed "Aspiring Exalted Bloodbleeders" and wield Skullygore Axes (TM). Finally, Tzeentch's warp portal opened into Bretonnia, so that's been wiped from the map entirely. Whatever they come up with can't be worse than that? Please? This is elaborate! Very humorous.
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Post by dannytee on Nov 16, 2019 10:32:35 GMT
I am personally excited to see what comes of this. But in the meantime I will be carrying on as I have been, by playing 8th edition warhammer!
The other thing I will say, is if this is truly a version of warhammer fantasy battles (i.e. 9th edition which build on and tweaks 8th) I feel like this will be a good thing. This is what I hope it will be but only time will tell. I have played since 6th edition and with each edition change the majority of the community excitedly moved on to the new ruleset and army books as they got released. Of course there are always some hold outs but the general community moved on.
But again, I’m not getting too worked up and will just wait and see.
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