Reply To: The IX Age – Why/Why Not and so on

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I think the biggest thing for me was that AoS just wasnt what I wanted.

 

It was too close to 40k, and I played that. It was another skirmish game, and I didnt need or want that.

 

I like masses of square troops. Its the game that got me into the hobby. KoW was too slimmed down for me…i like the granularity of 9th age.

I really dont think its whfb by fans – not anymore at least. I think its growing into its own game, and I like that its made by a community. Its growth and development is participatory – its made by a community in the truest sense – or at least thats how its felt to me.

I havent really found there to be a lot of aos bashing – maybe back in 2015 when shouting “for the lady” was still a thing – but most t9a players ive interacted with are really laid back.

 

 Well, in fairness WHFB died for a reason. I think the days of individual models in huge blocks of infantry taking ages to set up for a game and longer to paint, not to mention costing more with the sheer number of minis compared to skirmish games from warband to platoon level and up put the last coffin in games like this.

I really dont think thats true at all. I know competktive aos/40k can outnumber t9a. I know 40k/aos sometimes now use movement trays. Not to mention historicals that have just as many or more repititive core infantry *stares over to giant pile of romans*

I think GW just broke the physical scale of their style of game. Whfb and 28mm fantasy doesnt handle things like mini titan knights, and big giant foot high monsters…it broke the scale lf the game. (I would argue the same for 40k, but thats another topic altogether).

I am firmly against hobby elitism, and the idea of wrongfun – there is no *wrong* miniwargame.

Since t9a has a group of over 100 volunteers making it happen, do you think its on a different level of ‘fan made’? Because i think there is something radically different and disruptive with what theyre doing. Its not 1 guy writing fan books…but literal hundreds of people building together…thats what pulled me in.

Im curious as to why one form of game is seen as legitimate and another just ‘fan made’

 

Thanks for the responses!