The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Almost Fearless]

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

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

I'm the author of that blog, so thank you very much! 

[Major_Gilbear]

@ Almost Fearless:

Well I enjoyed it enough that I hope you write a little more! 

[Tactalvanic]

I heartily second that!

Very well donediscripition/explanation of AoS.

[Almost Fearless]

I'm blushing now. Thanks!

[Gibby]

"He wandered out of the college and onto the streets of Altdorf. The imperial capital was as busy as ever. Men, elves, dwarfs and halflings could all be seen going about their business. Market traders plied their wares from various stalls - spices from Cathay, cured meats from Tilea, Bretonnian wines, all were available in this street alone. The smell of the sea wafted from the nearby harbour, where a dwarf vessel, propelled by some arcane machinery, was slowly coming into dock."

Fantastic. This bit just made all my fondness for the Old World flow back into my mind.

[Almost Fearless]

Thank you. There's so much I could have added there too. It's such a rich world, that the decision to do away with it seems perverse.

Weird thing is, I haven't actually played anything fantasy related in a couple of years. But breaking the world has suddenly made me very protective of it!

[Ajsalium]

You only know how much you love something when you lose it.

[Tactalvanic]

What we can be greatful for is really we have not lost it.

GW have.

[Gibby]

Well said. The Old World isn't going anywhere for those of us who love it. Even if all of GW's figures for the Old World vanish, there are plenty of alternatives that fit the bill out there.

[YPU]

On the slaanesh thing, I think we can all agree that the Age of sigmar rules for them are borked anyway. I mean the lord of slaanesh gets a bonus if you make eye-contact with the opponent. Now I would stipulate that any good slaanesh player, male or female, should have his private parts dangling out to such a degree that eye contact is exceedingly unlikely.

[Modhail]

What, the eye contact with private parts dangling or Age of Sigmar?  

I am/was mainly into fantasy for the setting and the Perry Brettonian miniatures. It mostly lost appeal when the rough edges were ground off the setting and they did the (in my eyes) atrocious "new" Brettonian plastics. I'm am going to adopt the Almost Fearless Theorem from now on, as no amount of sculpting little stuffed animals on top the Sigmarines helmets will bring my beloved wine-swilling, frog-eating grail-questers back.
It's amazing how GW has managed to swell the ranks of Oldhammerers with this release. 

[beefcake]

I'd always had hopes of them bringing back kislevites or introducing new armies from the old fluff such as Cathay etc. oh well, guess not.

[Modhail]

Oh, absolutely, they had so much interesting parts of the world they left unexplored. 
Guess we'll have to colour in the blanks in the map ourselves now. In a way GW gave the Old World to us now.

[Duncan McDane]

And don't forget Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay + expansions. The originals have been reprinted by Hogshead so should be affordable ( sort of... ). Plenty of backgrounds and story lines for new games and settings. 

[Constable Bertrand]

I am/was mainly into fantasy for the setting and the Perry Brettonian miniatures. It mostly lost appeal when the rough edges were ground off the setting and they did the (in my eyes) atrocious "new" Brettonian plastics. I'm am going to adopt the Almost Fearless Theorem from now on, as no amount of sculpting little stuffed animals on top the Sigmarines helmets will bring my beloved wine-swilling, frog-eating grail-questers back.
It's amazing how GW has managed to swell the ranks of Oldhammerers with this release. 

Here here!! (Though the new plastic knights weren't too bad, and I liked the over burdened questing knights) The round table of bretonnia forum is in a bit of a flap, divided between switching to mantic, creating their own fluff, or waiting for the next update from GW while playing AoS.

I'm more in the camp of buy Perry plastics and enjoy the painting, then play Pulp Alley instead.