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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5100 on: 28 June 2016, 01:21:28 AM »
The  game just has that weird feel of 80s-commercial hyperbole to it...

It makes me think...

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5101 on: 28 June 2016, 09:05:23 AM »
Anybody dug deeper into this "new" aircraft combat game GW is doing now with their flyers?

There's some stuff on Table Top Gaming and some pre-orders up on GW

You get for two flyers and a rulebook. Prices range from £60 to £75 depending on which set you go for. There's also a £20 fluff book

It brings back to mind the old game they did with Ork bombers trying to blow something up - what was it's name ???  ???

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5102 on: 28 June 2016, 09:10:46 AM »
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5103 on: 28 June 2016, 09:48:46 AM »
I thought it was going to be a GW version of Wings of War/X-Wing but the stats and what rules there are look anything but.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5104 on: 28 June 2016, 10:45:25 AM »
I assumed the flyers game is little more than what the Knights game was, a chance to buy two models for a cheaper price with a game tacked on.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5105 on: 28 June 2016, 10:53:04 AM »

It brings back to mind the old game they did with Ork bombers trying to blow something up - what was it's name ???  ???

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5106 on: 28 June 2016, 01:11:35 PM »
Bommaz Over Da Sulpha River.



Thanks - googling for "games workshop ork flyers bridge destroying game" didn't find anything :?


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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5107 on: 28 June 2016, 02:45:33 PM »
Bommaz Over Da Sulpha River.



I really did like that game, had fun playing it with my son who was about six at the time.
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5109 on: 02 July 2016, 04:05:06 PM »
Why is she riding a Tyranid?

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5110 on: 02 July 2016, 05:14:29 PM »
Because Age of Sigmar. lol

I'm torn. I kinda like the big beetle because it's a big beetle (it's novel, at least); but in the context of Warhammer, it's like one more step towards the game's transformation into pokémon. The Alarielle mini itself, with the tree-wings, is a nope. Both figures together, connected by bits of twig, is another instance of 'cheap' AoS relying on huge expensive models, and too over the top for me.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5111 on: 02 July 2016, 05:51:05 PM »
Looks to me like its a 2 sprue set, the beetle looks like its all on one sprue with the other one being the Alarielle and a lot of decorative bits. Pity that the beetle sprue probably is the one everybody is going to want.
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5112 on: 02 July 2016, 06:28:05 PM »
What a noisy mess, wow.


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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5113 on: 02 July 2016, 07:58:23 PM »
What a noisy mess, wow.

It is indeed a mess that is overheated.

Alarielle isn't the worst, the beetle is weird, and the wooden wings look like something that Wile E Coyote would manufacture from an Acme kit.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #5114 on: 02 July 2016, 08:08:13 PM »
It is indeed a mess that is overheated.

Alarielle isn't the worst, the beetle is weird, and the wooden wings look like something that Wile E Coyote would manufacture from an Acme kit.



Sir, I take offence. Mr. W.E.Coyote does better than wooden wings with leaves for feathers. That was my favourite cartoon show, that was.   :D

 

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