Reply To: Hobby Weekender 17/08/18

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@mage thanks heaps for the detailed explanation for AoS. I’m personally pretty much over competitive gameplay – I jumped in on WHFB 5th edition, played 6th really competitively (as in buying and studying all rulebooks, FAQ and erratas and annuals plus playing with and against a wide variety of armies to get a sense of how opponents lists worked, going to heaps of tourneys etc), similar thing with 7th ed to a lesser extent, and now dabble in 8th. Point is, I’d be all about the narrative at this stage. I’m laughing at Kill team reviews on Youtube at the moment where everyone is trying to game army lists for maximum killyness or exploits in 100 points lists (making a grot your warband leader and hiding him in a corner so he can’t be killed? What kind of self-respecting Ork would follow such a leader?…). – By way of contrast/example I’m looking at it as a framework to muck about with the 3rd war for Armageddon for the narrative… So if I am reading it right I have the rules, can download the warscrolls and can wander out and pick up a box of Ironjaws (because I like the models) and paint them up. I then get to mess about with a few trial games, and if I like I can press-gang my old Greenskins and Ogres in under a ‘forces of destruction’ banner to make a good sized army, and throw together some of my old Chaos models for an opponent (Although not sure how much lovin’ Slaanesh has received in the new world order?…). If the Ironjaws prove to be fun I can then pick up the army book and phase out the bolt-on forces as I add on more Ironjaws minis incrementally moving forward. Similar process if I want to get floaty steampunk dwarves or Sea Elves – actually quite liking how freeform this is all sounding to be honest…

@woldenspoons ha will do – still have hundreds of goblins boxed up and waiting to go courtesy of 2nd hand sales so might be a nice excuse to speedpaint through a bunch of them.

@dawfydd yes I sometimes used to think that their release schedule was arranged to either exasperate or bankrupt me (occasionally both in equal measure 🙂 ). Should we be anticipating new sculpts or additional unit options shortly after the book drops?