And then he's like "what you doing you silly scarab fellow?" and flings him off and away.
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Oh great! Just when I'm starting Fantasy with High Elves, The World Ends! And I haven't even recieved my minis! That's why we can't have nice things...
XD
TBH I'm kind of confused with all these. I do just started Fantasy and I'm waiting for my minis to arrive. I'm hoping they are still useful
Oh they will be.
Just because a character is dead in the background, is no reason you can't field them in a battle (Konrad anyone?).
This is just background stuff, and introducing a slightly different way to play (50% of your stuff can be Lords, 50% can be Heroes, as long as at least 25% is Core, and you have at least three units).
Nothing has been negated, and you don't need to play End Times rules :)
Now is honestly an exciting time to be starting. There's a lot of buzz about.
And, yeah, half of the extant Warhammer characters have been "dead" at one time or another, I wouldn't worry too much. The game is - has always been - about Your Guys. Eltharion died in their story? But you won that scenario! In your campaign, he lives on. And so on and on.
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I have a question, actually. As part of Neferata's Lahmian Guard, you can replace the normal Champion with a Ushabti Champion (of sorts). It represents a named character, but as far as I can tell, he isn't in the Nagash narrative at all. Who is that guy? Is he good? Is he from the Nagash novels...?
The rules for selecting an army state that you use them for all armies, just as everyone has access to the Lore of Undeath. If you're arguing that someone can't use 50% Lords because "It's not an End Times game," then they can't use the Lore of Undeath either. But both are meant to be additions/changes to the core game. And I do believe the 50% Lords is a good indication for 9th edition, as they seem to recognize people like spiffy characters and building an army around them (see Warmachine), and this also reduces the cost to jump in.
Also, the combined profile for a character riding a monster is likely to be a fixture in 9th edition, making such models more viable on the table, and helping to sell them. (A lot of people are skipping on monster-riding characters because of issues with sniping the monster or stuff like that.)
I think they're actually redoing the background and slowly introducing game rules leading up to a serious shakeup for WFB in 9th edition. It might end up being a bit of a system shock to those of us who've been playing for a long time, but if it helps the system start selling better and regain popularity, I'm all for that, especially as we'll have the 8th edition rules and a full set of army books if we want to fall back on the old style. (I have a sneaking suspicion that's why they want to get every army book released with a new hardback before 9th edition is released, and I'm pretty much okay with that, because even though they might all end up "obsolete," they'll be available for people to play if they want to.)
The hell?????
How does the Amethyst college crumble? You mean the building? Who cares? What do the magisters do? Are they badasses? Anything about Elspeth von Draken and her Carmine dragon? Where the hell are the magisters of death in all of this? The one biggest defense the Empire has vs. the undead besides Morr's priests are barely mentioned in these posts.
And for that matter, what about the priests of Morr? Are they kicking *** and taking names?
What about the other colleges? I can't see them sitting still and doing nothing. Where is Thyrus Gormann and why isn't he the Supreme Patriarch? Does Gelt kill him? Ugh...the Amber Order? Seriously?
I'm very worried that the Empire mages have been screwed. They were badass as hell in Storm of Chaos and now I've seen maybe 2 posts concerning them....
Had a bit of a read of my copy last night, pretty amazing as a book, so much background to get through.
I think Drycha or whatever her name is is up to shenanigans. I mean she just delivers Morgiana to Mannfred and clears off so conveniently? This is orchestrated, I think Morgiana figured out what was going on and volunteered herself as a sacrifice to help foul up Nagash and Aliathra's parentage is just a bonus too.
Also Alarielle going to save Ariel is nice.
Ariel reminds me...
Possibly Lady Not Appearing In This Book for a reason?
Could we see a Nagash style, super powered and vengeful nature Goddess?
As the song by Sparks goes.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haf5s0b--zw
That would be exceptionally, excrutiatingly cool....