Classichammer

As a dark elf player, just what I like to hear. It does make me wonder if the dark elf approach to the game is less fun for others though as one of the armies that's got fast cavalry in core and is encouraged to use it in numbers. I don't remember seeing any Marauder horsemen or Goblin wolf riders ...

Hello, Classichammer. It's been a long time for both of us, hasn't it? I'm sorry I keep forgetting to write. I've had a very rough few years, and I've been seeing other games. Modern games. I know, I know, but the fact of the matter is meeting people where they are gets me out of the house and playi...

Reflecting on your rules, Matty: 1. I like this, although I almost never see those units deployed in ranks anyway, barring Ogre Kingdoms and the occasional chippy Beastman list. 2. Seems a bit persnickety but I don't object. VP100 is hell anyway, and is the first thing I strip out of my games. 3. Wh...

The end of Project Enormity is in sight. I have, as far as I'm aware, provided for the assembled armies of the Imperium and Chaos (plastic Knights, and the Rogal Dorn as a grace note); Orks, Eldar, Tyranids, Tau, and my beloved Necrons. I'd intended to revisit the Obelisk, having never been entirely...

I rather like these, especially the doctrine that turns your Guard army into a PDF deployment like that.

Also. Genestealer Cults. My mind's coming up blanks. Were those a thing in Chapter Approved or the like? Or do I have... oh, no. I feel another project coming on.

You did say. I do recall (now). The thing is, when the mania finally came upon me, when the stars were right and I felt able to look at the Stormsurge without pointing and laughing (that model is ridonkulous ), I had totally forgotten that someone who cares about Tau in more than the "I refuse ...

ADDITIONAL With thanks to our colleagues at Night Parrot Magazine, who were able to clarify some of the finer points of Tau armour development, we now (finally) present the rules for Tau flyers, a new Battlesuit option (the Ghostkeel - if we said it's basically a stealth Broadside...) and three mass...

The specialists games were something that I did not get much into, mainly due to time, but every year that I read about games like Mordheim, the more that I think that I missed the boat on a few of these. Better late than never, right? Indeed! My white whale is Warmaster, a game I loved on the one ...

THE ROGAL DORN BATTLE TANK Heavy Support (0-1) Cost: 120 plus weapons Type: Tank Size: Normal Stats: BS3, AV Front 14, Side 13, Rear 12 Speed: Lumbering Turret Options: Twin-linked battle cannon (+75) or Vanquisher cannon with co-axial autocannon (+75) Hull Options: Assault cannon (+25) or Conqueror...

The Chaos fleet has a big strength in that it can generally outfight what it can't outgun and outgun what it can't outfight. The aggressive shotgun blast approach is very sensible against Tau or to a lesser extent Imperial Navy, but as has been pointed out to me before is more questionable against ...

As the pages of Night Parrot fall open, many a mind is cast back to younger, happier, halcyon days: to that sense of rushing across the playground, a hundred and twenty pages of hot hobby burning a hole in their backpacks. "Have you read it? Have you ?" And from a lofty orthopaedic throne ...

So first: I'm having a horrid day today and those clickbait titles really cheered me up. Thanks, mate. The main reason I revamped the Exocrine and Haruspex was because I was looking at the new models and kind of in the zone and didn't realise they'd already been done! Then I got to the Trygon and re...

Meat... meat... meat... Our correspondent's recent bout of illness and long convalescence has kept them away from the designing easel for a while now - apparently the moons of Ymgarl are not the pleasant rest-cure destination they used to be. Nevertheless, their travails were not without opportunity...

Maybe you can break out the Warhammer Quest models for when the characters gain a sufficient critical mass of experience/gear/infamy? That's not a bad idea. I've also been reminded that I have a handful of Wardancers (entirely compatible with the Shadow Warrior warband) and a couple of Witch Hunter...

True dat. You'll observe from my previous report that we ran for a month of weekly games and then called a winner based on warband rating. It works for the same reason a round robin league works: it's finite. I think telling people there is an end, and when it is, helps with retention - they're not ...

Red velvet lines the black box... Bela Lugosi's dead... In the aeons since my last post, I have mostly been playing disgusting modern Warhammer. I discovered an actual board gaming club just down the road, and the organiser revealed he'd set the whole thing up in the hope of finding other Warhammer...

Chaos ranged attacks: you take what you can get.

Just Tony wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 7:10 pm Yep! Ashley painted up those Spawns for the force as I've never really been one to see the value in them. However, at 75 a pop the Slaanesh ones are pretty boss.

I always found Slaanesh or Tzeentch the niftiest Spawn too. The 3d6 movement is really nice, and IIRC the Tzeentch one breathes fire?

Ahh, vindication.

@ matty Thank you kindly! You may be on to something with the unit sizes - the only time I've ever really considered these things is with Tomb Kings (always push to the cap, your stats are rubbish, you need the numbers) and Slaanesh Chaos (everything was multiples of six... yes, I was one of those p...

Hmm. On the one hand, weird about dice (or am I weird for preferring to use my own?). On the other hand... store cat. That does go a long way toward winning my allegiance.

If it's any consolation, I've been looking at your comment every morning since you posted, trying to parse it. "Model count" is such an alien metric to me (especially since I can spring new Core out of the ground). At the end of the day, Vampires are expensive, Skeletons and Zombies are de...

So the other day I was transferring my Vampire Counts from the spare room to the display case downstairs (where they belong) and idly musing on the character count, and how my older fifth edition characters gave me the perfect headcount for 2000 point games, and how I had so many of the smaller scal...

Spot on interpretation. You did the right thing in going back to the Big Red Book. Army books iterate and modify the Warhammer rules, but seldom supercede them entirely. By the way, Loremaster is written the way it is because it gives magic levels to characters who don't normally have them, and do h...

Christ alive. Glad you made it through the storm itself, at least. Stay safe up there.