GW News: SKAVEN VICTORY! #NewAoS

As my gf would say "shes totally more threatening than settra so id better listen to her"

 

Shows how much I've played Pokemon in the last 5 years

 

So I'm really wanting to dive into these new deepkin.heres hoping for a start collecting

 

I guess we'll see. Definitely looking at the eel riders for my trident kin

 

I've decided to use the turtle chariot as the basis for my trident king, which is a specialty unit in kings of war.

 

"dive into these new deepkin"

pun intended?




Back on topic, these are the types of releases that AoS really needs. Porting over the old armies/models from WFB was clumsy. AoS would be better served if it was made up entirely of these new factions (Kharadron Overlords, Daughters of Khaine, Deepkin, etc.). All the legacy stuff (that isn't directly tied to the new factions) should be ported out slowly once the new stuff exists in sufficient quantity to maintain the game. They actually have shot at making an interesting story world/environment.

 

Pun most definitely intended

 

I'm not so sure they will follow through with it, but if they do they could potentially turn AoS into a decent little game. Even I have to admit that the strides they have made thus far have been significant. AoS is no where near the travesty that it was upon its original release.

These new AoS factions are looking very good but nonsense legacy factions like Aleguzzler Gargants are simply absurd.

 

nah, no need for that, just slowly buy stuff

Meh, they don't even need to be properly new. The seraphon transfered fine as they both had a decent reason to exist in AoS and a fullfledged army. The empire troops however were done terribly. Split up over multiple factions, no single faction actually amounting to anything, no background other than "they're there". It's those factions that are pointless...

 

true, especially order suffers from it.. humans, dispossed, the various aelves (apart from the daughters of khaine now..) none of them make much sense. Most others were fine-ish though, most of em can count on "cuz magic" to be sufficient explenation or their existence (e.g. undeath, most monstrous factions in chaos & destruction).

 

Seraphon aren't nearly as bad as the others. Seraphon have an amazing range and a full-fledged army. The only thing I don't like about them is the incongruity between their lore and model aesthetics. They are space faring Lizardmen, but they look like ancient Aztec Lizardmen. I know this is explained away by them being the memories of Slann, but that is pretty lame. That said, you can still make a home for them in AoS, especially since they are one of the few factions with as many units/options as SCE (at least for now). However, most of the other old stuff needs to go.

 

meh, they fare space with magic. Looking like ancient aztecs is fine-ish. It only starts becoming problematic once we see factions appearing that have plasma guns or some such... Right now they only live in fantasy so there's no need for hem to need anything other than the magic of the slann.

And yeah, the other stuff desperatly needs to go or be updated proper..

 

But they don't work as well in the AoSverse as the new armies that have been specifically designed for it. I'm not advocating that they scarp them, but just pointing out that perhaps they need a little tweaking.

 

Meh, I think that has more to do with the fact that by now our fluff is from a time AoS didn't make much sense as a whole yet. Much like how a load of our models feel "weird" due to powercreep some of the fluff has become weird and outdated.. basicly we just need another tome. The premise of space faring aztec dinosaurs I think is fine though.

 

As far as the new underdasea elves go, if you wanted a good cross-company collection of deep sea miniatures Cool Mini or Not has a really neat looking line called the House of Hadross

 

I bought all of those when they been on sale. They make a great bases for a Trident realms of neritica army for kings of war.

I think the new elves will give me some new additions and maybe some allies from the elf list