The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Vermis]

A friend just sent me this:

Braying Warcry: Red-hot rage festers in
the savage minds of Wargors, their only
desire to rend and destroy. You can add 1
to all hit rolls made for a Wargor if, before
rolling the dice, you let loose a primal
warcry. Your warcry must use no actual
words, but angry grunts and raging snorts
are encouraged.

I copied and pasted this from an actual GW PDF. These are actual rules.

That's a coincidence: I'm thinking of making crying noises right now.

[nic-e]

I'm reading through the best ones people have posted on warseer. There are bad times ahead if these aren't an opening night joke.

[FramFramson]

Cant wait to see the slaanesh stuff. "I attack with my Dildor backed up by my pervetigors Grunt honk snort."  

[Knightofspades]

Reading the warscrolls but cant find any point costs? Just armylists?

[FramFramson]

Holy shit... how deep does this rabbit hole go?!

The Grail Vow: You can re-roll all failed hit rolls for this unit if, before rolling the dice, you hold aloft a grail or goblet and shout ‘For the Lady’ in a heroic voice.

Pride of the Reiksguard: Helborg’s skill is as legendary as his moustache is magnificent. You can re-roll any failed hit rolls when attacking with the Runefang so long as you have a bigger and more impressive moustache than your opponent.

The Mad Count: Marius Leitdorf is an exceptional swordsman, even if he is totally insane. If, during your hero phase, you pretend to ride an imaginary horse, you can re-roll failed hit rolls for the Averland Runefang until your next hero phase. If you actually talk to your imaginary horse you can re-roll failed wound rolls as well.

Lord of Forbidden Pleasure: It is wise not to gaze long upon the splendour of a Lord of Slaanesh, lest terrible notions begin to form. If an enemy unit finishes its pile in move within 3" of a Lord of Slaanesh, you can tell your opponent that they are in danger of being beguiled. From that point on, if your opponent looks you in the eye before the unit has made its hit rolls for that combat phase, subtract 1 from any of those rolls which target this model.

[von Lucky]

Reminds me of those photos of Nigerian scammers that have been pranked. Except in this scenario the Nigerians are us and the prankers are GW.

[beefcake]

Holy shit... how deep does this rabbit hole go?!

I really thought you were taking the piss, so I checked it out. *facepalm*

[Timbor]

Youtube clip of the starter set.

The video does make the models look cool.  I have said it once before, if I was 12 years old right now, and just getting into GW, I would be all over them Sigmarines.

I hope it sells well for them... mostly because I want to see what else they have in store, and they likely won't produce it all if this thing tanks.

[Arlequín]

I didn't plan to go off like that!

I didn't see it as 'going off', it was an excellent post and I took a lot from it.  

Just to be clear though, I don't think there is anything wrong with 'generic fantasy', it has to be still the most popular setting for games, purely because people like it. I don't even play it, but the whole milieu is as familiar and 'real' as if it was actual history.  

What I was trying to get across was that in GW-Think, the idea seemed to be to draw 'their gamers' away from that into something different and new, in the same way as mothers try to stop you playing with the neighbour kids.

'New' is not the best term perhaps, as my first impressions are of a biblical 'war in heaven' back story... so they have shifted from Tolkien to Talmud for their inspiration. Albeit the names are clearly all their own work and it shows.
 

Holy shit... how deep does this rabbit hole go?!

Erm... I'm stunned. I know they were thinking 'beer and pretzel' type gaming (if their audience was actually old enough to drink that is), but this seems more of a 'shit-faced drunk' type game.

Likewise 90%+ of their gamers still have their first teeth, so how they going to compete in the moustache war?

[3 fingers]

The video does make the models look cool.  I have said it once before, if I was 12 years old right now, and just getting into GW, I would be all over them Sigmarines.

I hope it sells well for them... mostly because I want to see what else they have in store, and they likely won't produce it all if this thing tanks.

100 percent agree,
but just watched that YouTube vid and Im like WTF !
Which I think is the general reaction of anyone who can remember GW in the nineties,
Anyone took shares in gold paint yet?

[FramFramson]

A friend of mine just pointed out that they actually made a real game mechanic that says women get a disadvantage.

EDIT: So far this is my favourite comment:

At this rate, I'll be surprised if the new Slaaneshi ability doesn't require you to beat off on the table.

 

[Westfalia Chris]

A friend of mine just pointed out that they actually made a real game mechanic that says women get a disadvantage.

I really hope this is in reference to that mustache silliness (nothing in that rule that says that the mustache must be "organically grown", mind) and nothing worse.

I wonder if they peeked in on one of Ignatieff's hobby extravaganzas and were enamoured with the copious amounts of headgear and other accoutrements.

[Modhail]

So, if you're still playing one of the old, probably soon-to-be-mothballed armies, you're actually required by the rules to publicly humiliate yourself to keep playing the game?!?
I..Wow... ...Jeez...
I thought GW were bad for belittling their customers in the past, but I almost feel like GW should be reported for bullying now.
You just know some arseholes will rigorously enforce this...

[Gibby]

Here is a link to all the AoS army lists and rules:

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/age-of-sigmar-compendiums

I can confirm those silly abilities are in there. Also this one:

"Masque of Slaanesh:
The endless Dance:
If you are dancing while rolling the dice for the Masque’s attacks in the combat phase, you can reroll any failed hit rolls. If, at any point, you
can coerce your opponent to join in, you can re-roll any failed wound rolls as well."

[Vermis]

Ta, Arlequin. Agreed.

On these new rules: anyone else think this is a way of making sure people drop their old armies like a hot potato, so that GW can bin the models sooner? 'Cos that makes more sense than what I'm reading, here.