The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Major_Gilbear]

DE players, at least, are hanging onto their dreadspears.

I think the effort involved in building and painting forty-plus of the ugly bastards for a single unit is enough of a torture to make folks reluctant to replace them in a hurry... 

[Knightofspades]

Besides why sell now at the worst possible time?
Also 8ed is not going anywhere and you can use you models for kings of war or any other generic wargame.

[matthais-mouse]

I have to admit I bought the lord celestine mounted figure the other day, I am converting him to be an inquisitor in true scale (possibly) marine armour and having the mount as some kind of lizard creature from the Catachan jungle world.

It was the ONLY model that I really liked from the ste and did not want to buy the full thing so went to ebay to buy him seperately at quite a good price....

[3 fingers]

I have to admit I bought the lord celestine mounted figure the other day, I am converting him to be an inquisitor in true scale (possibly) marine armour and having the mount as some kind of lizard creature from the Catachan jungle world.

It was the ONLY model that I really liked from the ste and did not want to buy the full thing so went to ebay to buy him seperately at quite a good price....

It's quite an eye catching centrepiece .
I must admit from the pics ive seen on the web,I'm tempted to do some sci fi Knights with them.

[P_Clapham]

I'm wondering if any Fantasy players will try out War of the Ring.  I'm honestly surprised GW didn't use that as the base rules for Age of Sigmar.

[von Lucky]

I'm wondering if any Fantasy players will try out War of the Ring.  I'm honestly surprised GW didn't use that as the base rules for Age of Sigmar.

+1 my preferred fantasy set. Simple to learn and fun. Just needs a reigning in of charactrs (one per full 1000 points).

[nic-e]

So it seems that in the fluff slaanesh has been captured and bound by the elves (which he/she would probably enjoy...) and the great horned rat of the skaven has taken his seat in the chaos pantheon, with his millions of chattering followers multiplying and increasing his strength.

And you know what? I'm okay with this.
The skaven are cool, and i think they mix a bit of all the 4 gods together, sort of jack of all trades god that seeks to usurp all the others , which i think fits the idea of skaven culture and the idea of the chaos gods.
On top of that, as much as i like slaanesh, i do get the feeling that GW just didn't know what to do with it.As much as i'd love to see it properly fleshed out int he fiction, with a proper 18+ rating and all kinds of horror , on the tabletop it was hard to get across how slaanesh worked as a force, It's such a psychological thing that it worked better small scale, like in dark heresy roleplaying or something.
I will say that it does seem odd not to have mans lustfull nature represented in the pantheon of chaos, but i think the horned rat kind of has that covered , since it only seeks to control, to own, to do everything to satisfy itself regardless of all others.
 plus no offence to people who put alot of effort in, but i was getting a bit tired of people sticking a barbie doll on a defiler and giving it tentacle genitals

[beefcake]

 plus no offence to people who put alot of effort in, but i was getting a bit tired of people sticking a barbie doll on a defiler and giving it tentacle genitals

 

[nic-e]

You laugh, but the last time i went to a gw store for a pick up game ,the guy i was playing against was running a slaanesh demon army.
His army consisted of...
1 dr who spider woman model,unconverted or painted.
3 nude anime models,unconverted or painted.
a bunch of random female action figures with green stuff "claws" (mittens.)
a handfull of marines that he proxied as noise marines.
a toy soldier tank that he used a a rhino.

He spent the entire game pointing out how his army was super sexual.I didn't find it offensive, i found it juvenile ,and I think that's the other reason gw want to push slaanesh into the back seat,not because kids might be subjected to dangerous nipples, but because all too often slaanesh gets picked up by "that guy" who uses it as a way to act like a 13 year old during sex ed.

(if you play slaanesh, then AWESOME! i think it has great potential to make good thematic armies,and i am sure the majorty of all players are civil and cool guys, but for some reason all i ever seem to see of the god of greed,pleasure and excess is " nipples and sex lolololol" and yeah, it's boring. )

[matthais-mouse]

It's quite an eye catching centrepiece .
I must admit from the pics ive seen on the web,I'm tempted to do some sci fi Knights with them.

I do believe for sci fi knights they would be perfect.

[Major_Gilbear]

You laugh, but the last time i went to a gw store for a pick up game ,the guy i was playing against was running a slaanesh demon army.

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Seems like you encountered "That Guy" rather than someone who was merely enjoying the Slaaneshi theme in a puerile way. I'll bet he's the type that'd manage to spoil anything he turned his hand to for the sake of getting attention...   

And to be fair, most of the Slaaneshi and Tzeentch armies I see online seem to have rather a lot of effort put into them (especially compared to the much more common lazy efforts made for Khorne and Nurgle armies).

Of course, any army can be made with care and effort or not, and that's entirely up to each person to decide for themselves. If you don't like those people/armies/efforts, then I'd suggest the old advice of simply not playing them. Seems a shame though to kill off a theme and story hook just because some people struggle socially.

Models-wise, regardless of whether or not one may like AoS, they are as technically good as usual from GW. I personally find most of them not to my taste (especially the Sigmarines), and feel that a good few of them are too wonky-looking or lack a proper focal point. That said, I do like the look of some of the Chaos models, and I think I can convert them into WHFB well enough. I'll likely just get the ones I'm interested in from Ebay and then happily chop 'em up! 

[Cubs]

Does anyone think Slaanesh just turned to it's followers sometimes and said, "Why don't we just cuddle any more?"

[Nord]

He spent the entire game pointing out how his army was super sexual.I didn't find it offensive, i found it juvenile ,and I think that's the other reason gw want to push slaanesh into the back seat,not because kids might be subjected to dangerous nipples, but because all too often slaanesh gets picked up by "that guy" who uses it as a way to act like a 13 year old during sex ed.

As compared with the shop full of sophisticated gamers, screaming "Waaaaargh" or shouting "Skulls for the Skull God"? Isn't practically everybody in a GW shop (and arguably any gaming scenario from an outside point of view) "that guy"?

It's strange how Slaanesh gets a lot of flak because of the sex thing, particularly in the current age of overt sexual images all over the web/TV/posters, you would think people would become immune to it. It's still somehow offensive that a one inch tall toy has a tiny nipple on show. But skulls, massive weapons, killing and maiming, that's all okay. Dark Elves and skaven are quite partial to capturing prisoners to torture, experiment on them, or work them to death as slaves, but hey we are all cool with that. The way one thing is latched on to, while others with far more serious real world counterparts are just ignored, that's the thing that baffles me.

[zemjw]

It makes sense now - http://paintbrushandsuperglue.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-age-of-sigmar-explained.html 

[Duke Donald]

It makes sense now - http://paintbrushandsuperglue.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-age-of-sigmar-explained.html  Cheesy

That's witty, and much better written and evocative than anything I've seen produced by GW for a quite a while!

The way one thing is latched on to, while others with far more serious real world counterparts are just ignored, that's the thing that baffles me.

I fully agree; I also find it puzzling that tiny bits of exposed (living) flesh seem more shocking to many gamers than piles of mangled corpses.