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The Shrine to Lost Armies

Aginor said:
I am also a bit sad about Dwarves in AoS (or the lack of). I am a fan of the classic Tolkien Dwarves, so I could imagine playeing a Dispossessed army. But.....meh. Fyreslayers are not _bad_ but the naked Dwarf thing is not so great for me. Neither are the Kharadron Overlords. IMO they overdo the steampunk a bit. Although I admit that some of the elements on their armor look pretty cool.
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You are correct, the steampunk is overblown
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
I'm also REALLY tempted to start Tomb Kings with the new Mantic Empire of Dust range, but at the moment am still building up the Skaven and High Elves.
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Not to worry...

Tomb Kings > Skaven > High Elves :p


Unless of course we are talking about 8th edition power levels, in which case we have: High Elves >>> Skaven >>>>>>>>>Tomb Kings :(
 
Aginor said:
I am also a bit sad about Dwarves in AoS (or the lack of). I am a fan of the classic Tolkien Dwarves, so I could imagine playeing a Dispossessed army. But.....meh. Fyreslayers are not _bad_ but the naked Dwarf thing is not so great for me. Neither are the Kharadron Overlords. IMO they overdo the steampunk a bit. Although I admit that some of the elements on their armor look pretty cool.
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I don't mind the steampunk and the KO overall meets my tastes. Fyreslayers could have been nice but visually they are just slayers with different flavors, so i rank them at the bottom of my personal dwarfs list.
I like the fact they have monsters but magmadroth seems just a clumsy behemoth, i would have liked a dragon chinese style.

And none of them got the charme of a sturdy dwarf King with shieldbearers.
 
Killer Angel said:
I don't mind the steampunk and the KO overall meets my tastes. Fyreslayers could have been nice but visually they are just slayers with different flavors, so i rank them at the bottom of my personal dwarfs list.
I like the fact they have monsters but magmadroth seems just a clumsy behemoth, i would have liked a dragon chinese style.

And none of them got the charme of a sturdy dwarf King with shieldbearers.
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Back in the 80ies I had the regiment of renown Bugmans and around 20 boxes of wood elfs, this is pre-plastic bases and hundreds of others, I gave them all away!
 
Crowsfoot said:
Back in the 80ies I had the regiment of renown Bugmans and around 20 boxes of wood elfs, this is pre-plastic bases and hundreds of others, I gave them all away!
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Boo. Did you have the skeleton horde set too?
 
Yeah, was thinking of trying to make a Dispossessed army, get my hands on some of the older metal models. Thorgrim seems ungodly expensive on Ebay though, so getting him at a halfway decent price might take a while. Rather like the Thorek Ironbrow model, with that sweet anvil, and it hands out some nice buffs. Was one of the few legacy characters that didn't take much of a beating when the nerf happened. Other then that, was thinking of maybe grabbing Ungrim for that nice command ability (Was rather surprised to find that Ungrim is still named, and has the Dispossessed Keyword, unlike the other legacy characters), and Josef for that sweet ambush he can pull with a unit of quarrelers. Don't dislike the Fyreslayers, I think it's an interesting idea in theory, they just look kind of silly to me tbh. Kharadron aren't bad as well, since they're the other logical direction you could take dwarves, but at the same time, feels like they're a little to advanced for an AoS type setting. Plus whenever I look at them I get Squat flashbacks.
 
This is all I have from when I was 18 there are some real gems in here, I’m sure!

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NIGHTBRINGER said:
Not to worry...

Tomb Kings > Skaven > High Elves :p


Unless of course we are talking about 8th edition power levels, in which case we have: High Elves >>> Skaven >>>>>>>>>Tomb Kings :(
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Lord-Marcus said:
But if we are talking rule of cool..... TK all the WAY
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NIGHTBRINGER said:
Indeed... the rule of cool is definitely: TK > Skaven > High Elves
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Of course it's the rule of cool we are talking about. I ignore power levels.

Complete rule of cool listing: TK > Dwarfs > Lizardmen > Orcs and Goblins > Skaven > High Elves > Bretonnia > Wood Elves > Ogre Kingdoms > Dark Elves > Beastmen > Daemons of Chaos > Warriors of Chaos >>>>>>>> Empire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vampire Counts.

Killer Angel said:
I don't mind the steampunk and the KO overall meets my tastes. Fyreslayers could have been nice but visually they are just slayers with different flavors, so i rank them at the bottom of my personal dwarfs list.
I like the fact they have monsters but magmadroth seems just a clumsy behemoth, i would have liked a dragon chinese style.

And none of them got the charme of a sturdy dwarf King with shieldbearers.
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I love the Fyreslayers and Kharadron Overlords just as much as the regular Dwarfs - I like the idea that they are all different cultures yet all have the same ancient roots as our favourite Grudge-Bearing bearded ones.

Crowsfoot said:
Back in the 80ies I had the regiment of renown Bugmans and around 20 boxes of wood elfs, this is pre-plastic bases and hundreds of others, I gave them all away!
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You PLONKER! :facepalm:
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
Of course it's the rule of cool we are talking about. I ignore power levels.

Complete rule of cool listing: TK > Dwarfs > Lizardmen > Orcs and Goblins > Skaven > High Elves > Bretonnia > Wood Elves > Ogre Kingdoms > Dark Elves > Beastmen > Daemons of Chaos > Warriors of Chaos >>>>>>>> Empire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vampire Counts.
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Rule of cool (the NIGHTBRINGER version):

  1. Warriors of Chaos, Lizardmen & Tomb Kings (these 3 constantly swap positions among themselves)
  2. Dark Elves
  3. Chaos Dwarfs
  4. Wood Elves
  5. Ogre Kingdoms
  6. Dwarfs
  7. Skaven
  8. Orcs & Goblins
  9. Vampire Counts
  10. Bretonnia
  11. High Elves
  12. Empire
  13. Beastmen
  14. Daemons of Chaos
 
Warden said:
Aside from these, I have always dreamed of creating a pirate dwarf army, but that particular warhammer project is a long way off.
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Nab the Kharkarakadon rules (scrolls) and scratchbuild your own friggin’ flyin’ Frigates! Go for it before they squat them.
 
Aginor said:
My friend picked Adeptus Mechanicus as his first 40K army so I don't want to play the same army of course. Also all humans are basically a no-go for me. I hate their fluff and for me it is hard to completely ignore it. That's alsow why I don't want to play Space Marines, with the possible exception of Salamanders which - from a fluff point of view - seem to be relatively OK dudes compared to other Space Marines or humans in general.

Necrons.... Robot Skeletons filled with nothing but hate - although kinda cool - are not my style. I enjoy looking at them but I wouldn't want to paint them. Maybe play them, don't know since I haven't seen their Codex (or aynthing about their rules) yet.

Orks and the Chaos guys.... bah. Don't like how they look mostly, except demons because those just look as in AoS.

So yeah, Tau because I like giant Anime style robots. (Dark?) Eldar have those too IIRC but....fluff and so on... Tau are much more bearable for me. Nobody in that crapsack universe is a "good guy" judging by any meaningful standard, but the Tau seem to be fairly close at least. Well, sometimes. At least they don't mindlessly slaughter anyone including their own people permanently. The descriptions of Empire Hive Worlds or whatever those places where humans live are called make me want to puke. And the Emperor and his Government seem to be not only assholes but idiotic assholes not better than demons 98% of the time. No thanks.

Tyranids are OK because they are pretty much a natural disaster. They just want to eat everybody and go on. They probably don't even have a choice. Humans do. But they chose to be religiously fanatic, idiotic assholes.

So yeah not playing anything Empire, at least not until I have gotten used to the world a bit more. 40K fluff is really appalling to me most of the time. I would have to play them ironically and I am not sure I would have fun doing that.




I completely understand that, Had I played 8th I would probably agree. But since I have no clue who all the guys mentioned above are....any of those would have been as good to me as Alarielle (well, maybe not because Alarielle is at least a somewhat nice looking woman and I kinda like the Elf-wizard being reborn as tree-goddess-thing story).



I guess this thread quickly became a "all others" general discussion thread which seems to be popular judging by the number of posts in that short time. :)
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Can't really hate the Imperiums fluff to much myself, since it's basically intended to be a ridiculously over the top misery fest (The fanbase literally came up with the term Grimdark for the purpose of describing the grim darkness that is the 40k universe(I mean, it's also a pun on "In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war", but whatever)). GW's tried to take things seriously lately, which I'd say is a mistake since there's no going to back from growing babies in vats, attaching cybernetic enhancements and mechanical wings to them, killing the thinking section of their brain, and having them serve you as mindless servitors in a bunch of different rolls.
 
Aginor said:
Orks and the Chaos guys.... bah. Don't like how they look mostly, except demons because those just look as in AoS.
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ORKS!

Yeah they aren't for everyone... I just got them because I think they and their ramshackle teknology is funny.

pendrake said:
Nab the Kharkarakadon rules (scrolls) and scratchbuild your own friggin’ flyin’ Frigates! Go for it before they squat them.
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You know I was thinking about doing that:

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Would make a great looking army!
 
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