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Post by Charistoph on Aug 14, 2020 15:03:09 GMT
The Marines are A HOT MESS. They started with having a bit of "Chapter" rules for everybody in 8th. This was pretty reasonable, but they will go back to the confusion they had before. In the end you have everything splintered and impossible to balance with half the codices being Marines. It's not like this is limited to 8th Edition, either. The idea of multiple chapters has been around since 2nd Edition. The Angels and Wolves date back to then. There has been rises and falls of the Chapter Trait system ever since the 4th Edition codex came out. Individual codex books are at 5 plus the basic Marine codex now, and the Marine book has a few more ways to individualize the beyond that. That's not including the time when several Marine chapters go their own supplements a time or two.
A hot mess it is. But they sell, which is why they do it. They are also quite iconic, which is something that PP really hasn't quite done.
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 13, 2020 19:36:42 GMT
I'm rarely against a new faction (unless it's ANOTHER Adeptus Astartes codex), so I hope that something comes out of it, but I'm also patient enough to know that we're probably looking at a couple years down the road before they fully commit to it. What, you didn’t know that Space Marines outnumber every other faction 10:1, judging from the number of books? More three times bitter that my codex-unadherent Black Templar were rolled back in to the main codex because "they didn't have anything to add and might as well have been regular Marines", while the two Angels who are listed as being codex-adherent, but "had plenty to add to the Marines" by people who thought Space Wolves should be put in to the main codex, too.
Edit: But yeah, being the rarest group in the galaxy they had more books than anyone else, unless you consider the entire Imperium doesn't really help things. They do sell well, though.
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 13, 2020 15:58:23 GMT
I'm sure some people felt the same about Elves, too. "Enough" is a very relative term. One full world in a galaxy isn't very much, but more than enough to run a full faction with. Yeah its true. The only argument I can still bring is that they have statet that about 2000 people started humanity in the cyriss galaxy and the keepers would not multiply probably. I think you are right anyways: They will do this evnetually, at least they could. It is their game and they can do what they want I would guess it is a lot of "normal" or clockwork or whatever followers and the keepers are resticted to be the characters, or even you as the "warcaster". That would not be unreasonable at all. Yeah, I'm just a person who tries to avoid absolutes with very limited information, and the universe is still too young to say one way or the other on how it will turn out.
It may very well be that we may only see automaton servants of the Keepers, but it may also be that Convergance models are transitioned in to it, too, with their numbers bolstered by the humanity as they expanded.
We'll see. I'm rarely against a new faction (unless it's ANOTHER Adeptus Astartes codex), so I hope that something comes out of it, but I'm also patient enough to know that we're probably looking at a couple years down the road before they fully commit to it.
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 13, 2020 15:23:08 GMT
Ouch, that would leave the Immortals Theme in a lurch.
Or maybe not at 25 points...
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 13, 2020 2:46:58 GMT
Definitely one of the things in favour of 40pts instead of 50 was only a single RP available. Would love to hear the full thought process behind 40 points! Very interested in pitching this to my local group I think I see what he's saying.
To provide an analogy, back in the day, Warhammer Fantasy had a system for army building in which the most powerful leaders, the Lords, could not be taken under 2000 points. This lead to some competitions being set up as 1999+1, so that you'd have an army of considerable size, but you couldn't take the most powerful leaders.
At 40 and 45 points, you almost have the same army as you would have at 50 points, but lack that second Requisition so not providing quite that much power. It is still more robust than what you could have at 25 points, which is what I'd list as the second or third target tier of army building outside of JML.
As a side note, it could also be applied at the 65-70 point range as well.
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 11, 2020 16:28:49 GMT
There will be keeper models, I am sure of it. But they will just be powerful character models, definetely not a faction. There can't be enough of them left in the galaxy. Unless of course they make a mortal "keepers of the keepers" faction of ancient space monks... Now it sound almost too good I'm sure some people felt the same about Elves, too. "Enough" is a very relative term. One full world in a galaxy isn't very much, but more than enough to run a full faction with.
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 11, 2020 15:55:42 GMT
You are in trouble when the competitive crowd drives out the casual crowd. And this applies to game stores as well as the games themselves.
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 7, 2020 17:38:18 GMT
Unless the Keepers come out and look better to me before I can buy, Empyreans will be the faction I choose. I don't think the Keepers are going to be a faction. I'm pretty sure the Keepers are basically the few Convergence folks who went through the Hengehold portal, like Nemo3 and so forth. They're individuals who have been around since humans first took the stargate to the Cyriss galaxy.
(I guess Nemo3 returned back through the portal, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lucant or Aurora went through. I forget exactly what happened in the Hengehold Scroll, and searching it just now, I did not find any explicit mentions of who went through and who stayed behind.)
Which is why I left their release as a possibility. Including their fluff, but not using it for future models, would be counter to the Chekov's Gun principle.
And to put it very bluntly, I don't know when I'll be able to afford getting Empyreans at all, so I could be looking at a length of time that PP felt that the game could support another faction.
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 7, 2020 14:59:26 GMT
Unless the Keepers come out and look better to me before I can buy, Empyreans will be the faction I choose.
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 3, 2020 21:07:15 GMT
I think they would fit in to a Skorne army pretty well. If they weren't on a different planet and scale...
Looks great!
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Post by Charistoph on Aug 2, 2020 23:11:06 GMT
Available on the webstore right now I guess. I was trying to recall which saturday morning cartoon villian it reminded me of. Best I could come up with was this guy:
Hacker of The Centurions series?
My brother and I both had one of the good guys, but they were too big to play with GI Joe and Star Wars.
I don't see the connection at all.
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Post by Charistoph on Jul 25, 2020 19:38:08 GMT
There are a lot of delivery, unboxing, and building pictures happening on the Facebook group right now, so I think the American backers have started to receive theirs.
Figure general inefficiencies that sometimes happens in package transport, travel times to more distant areas, and general issues with shipping between nations, and that would factor in to the delivery times for everyone else.
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Post by Charistoph on Jul 25, 2020 0:07:53 GMT
Glad he's Empyrean, I might actually be able to get him and use him.
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Post by Charistoph on Jul 20, 2020 19:05:02 GMT
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Post by Charistoph on Jul 19, 2020 19:45:49 GMT
One advantage of playing games online that is difficult to do on tabletop is being able to "hide" your movements through a " double-blind" setup. Battletech has rules for this, but Battletech also operates on a much more pulled out perspective (model bases represent about 30m of length, for example). Can WarTable be set up so that if none of your units can see your opponent's models, you can't see where they are at? Considering how close Warmachine usually plays, I haven't really considered the viability of including such a system, but do you think it would be worth looking in to?
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