/wfg/ Warhammer Fantasy (Battles) General

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>some ugly spots from the excess sprue
File that down before assembling, dry-fit before gluing, go back to filing if you don't like the fit. Dril your fucking barr... oh wait, that's a bow.

It really depends how much time and precision you want to take with each mini, for Mordheim warband about a dozen strong. each with unique gear I would obsess over every detail. For 50 identical guardsmen, not so much.

i filed the excess down so they fit together nicely, there's just 1 ugly spot on the arm that i couldn't get to look nice and didnt want to overdo it. I'm using files from a jewelry kit I picked up at the crafts store btw.

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Try putting the arm at different angle, or different arm entirely (most sprues have spares). Gluing with plastic cement (preferably Revell Contacta) will "melt and fuse" the joing, so the gap will be somewhat mitigated, the rest can be covered by paint. Or just give him an improvised shoulder pad.

I've never had much success with sandpaper, I tend to remove excess sprue with the aid of a sharp scalpel, and I drag the back of the blade against the figure, removing unwanted material with a great deal of control. This method is slower than abrasion, but yields better results in my experience.

>join the local war gaming stores forum
>fuck yes I can finally play against someone other then my girlfriend on the table I built at home
>make a post asking if anyone wants to play 8th (or 9th if they want to help me convert) this Wednesday
>immediately shit on by everyone saying by not playing AoS I'm not supporting the store and I'm killing the hobby by not buying new models and game.

Will the faggotry never cease? I just want to play somthing othere then wood elves. I even bought 2 other friends army books they wanted and have a fuck ton of 3d printed proxies, and no one wants to play

yeah this spooks me. i dont want to show up to the local hobby shops and get berated by neckbeards sucking sigmar's dick

Anyone here played Return of Reckoning? How it is, specially if I want to just relax and do some pve?

>3d printed proxies
Sorry, just throwing up in my mouth a little.

>pve

nope. it's pretty much 100% focused on PvP (which is really fun)

Ah shame, I really just wanted to chill out, read and do some quests and enjoy the rendition of the Warhammer world, not really with much stomach for pvp

i normally hate pvp but playing as a chosen tank holding the line in keep defenses or pushing the line forward is fun as h*ck. collision really makes the pvp fun

>josef bugman
Who's this a homage to? Because it's too mundane to be a dwarf name.

Rate my skaven puppet

GW fanboys are just toxic, play a different game.

What kinda of homage do you need beyond being Josef Fucking Bugman.

kino meme, brosef

It's probably just such old lore. It's explained in the fluff that he took up an Empire name to help with his business, since Bugman's Brewery was in Wissenland.

Still pretty much one of the coolest dwarf characters ever.

i put paint on my pallet, i thin it, it dries out before im half done with it

am i not thinning it enough?

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Maybe, but most people seem to prefer a wet pallet. Try looking it up online - it's not too difficult to make, and it essentially makes the paints you put down last longer.

Last I painted I used a dry pallet, and it worked well enough once I got used to it - you could make do with it if you don't want to go to the effort.

Put less paint on your pallet.

Don't borrow money from it.

was a mistake, meant: 3d printed terrain, proxies, ect. The proxies for models are either "close enoughs", or borrowed.

I looked up Theodoric Gausser, the Elector Count of Nordland, just out of curiosity - is it just me, or is he missing an arm in his art? This isn't mentioned in the fluff about him at all, but it'd be pretty badass to have a one-armed Elector Count.

Another piece, so it's clear it's not just a one-time thing by an artist.

Get with the times grandpa, play grimdark 40k or shiny new 40k. No one wants to play your outdated shit nor silly made up rules.
kill me

I didn't know this either, I just thought he was the elector count who couldn't go back to the city where he should be ruling, being marienburg

don't go through stores, go through your local facebook wargaming/gumtree equilavent and just ask for people to play with, I'm in a similiar situation, cept I have welves and chaos to play against my empire.

hey lads, so I've got a question about 8th ed witch hunters

so the stat for witch hunters states that they get 2 attacks,
while the stats for giving them a brace of pistols gives them the multiple shots (2) special rule

Now I know that in melee the witchunter will get 4 attacks as a result of that(due to pistols counting as additional hand weapons) but my question is does my witchhunter also get 4 shooting attacks per turn? (gun+character sheet attacks?)

First of all, they get 3 attacks, 2+the bonus from wielding two hand weapons. 4 attacks only applies when the Witch Hunter charges. The Witch Hunter fires 2 shots during the shooting phase. The number of attacks a model has does not have any effect on the number of shots they fire.

Hmm thanks for the clarification user. I definitely see that ranged weapon profiles don't blend with me lee so that makes a lot of sense however Rule book it's confusing me as to the meld number, if regular 'pistols ' are an additional hand weapon wouldn't brace of pistols be additional hand weapon +the listed one attack? Or am I thinking too linearly.

Also why 4 at on the charge user, thanks so much btw

So brace of pistols only grants additional benefit with shooting and are the exact same as a regular pistol for Merle is what you are saying right?

G O B L I N S

bumping with big boobed tilean sluts.

>cock goes where?

she increases growth rate. kek.
also the TEB mod for total warhammer is god tier.

> No link to the previous thread.

I go to London for a few days and the thread has descended into chaos!

What did you get?

Paint may cover it, if not get some liquid green stuff from GW, that is probably one of the best things they've ever made after their shades.

Last thread someone posted a small fluff piece about a Dwarf choir, does anyone know what that was from?

And they say only old new-GW (unlike new new-GM®) was evil.

Good stuff. 90s Warhammer was a high point in fluff (for the most part)

So i feel very "the room" mood. Any bad warhammer novel that I can rip apart to my heart's content? What are the worst books made about the old world (non end times of course!)

> warhammerfluffsource.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/beastmen/
> Ape-Beastmen lore
Does anyone have the source(s) for this? I remember reading about the rest of this article in canon material but nowhere can I find mention of Southlands ape-men in this level of detail.

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I can't remember myself but I have definitely seen a small piece that talked about tiger and monkey beastmen in the East.

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Why are they not trying to out-gun each other?
Why does that one Skaven look so khornate?

That owuld have been interesting

Ah Dwarfs were so much better when they were Anglo-Saxon inspired.

Manlings these days don't even know they're born.

Yeah, I miss that, too. I like the newer dwarf designs, but nonetheless I miss those Anglo-Saxon-Viking-Dwarfs,

>Dark Elves with Chaos stars

Yes, this is the good stuff. All the new elf gods like """"""Morai-Heg""""""" need to go.

>mfw going to a tournament tomorrow

Tournaments are pretty much the only time I get to play nowadays, since I live in GW's heartlands, and it's impossible to find an opponent who isn't a GW cultist. Rules are bullshit but I'm really looking forward to it.

His name is Queek Headtaker.

games-workshop.com/en-SE/Queek-Headtaker

The implication is that the model carries a hand weapon in one hand and a pistol in the other. When wielding a brace of pistols, they are wielding a pistol in both hands. In both cases, they are wielding a weapon in each hand.

In the case of 4 attacks, all units gain a charge bonus of +1 attack on the turn that they charge.

Ah, you know that Warhammer art is great when you love the picture although your dudes get rekt in it.

That's not Queek, that's the Forge World brood horror warlord.

>In the case of 4 attacks, all units gain a charge bonus of +1 attack on the turn that they charge.

No they don't.

I was thinking of 40k. Sorry, my mistake.

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>3d printed proxies
got pics? curious to how they look

also, your store is full of faggots and you are most likely missing nothing

this is so terrible

It's in one of the opening fluff passages of the 6th/7th ed army book
Talks about beastmen not strictly just being goat hybrids, it's just the most commonly encountered and documented beast mutations
I assume it's just there to allow fluffy conversions of other kinds of beastmen

That reminds me - I was planning on making some darkest dungeon-esque pig-beastmen a while ago.
I found some decent heads (here: maxmini.eu/conversion-bits/head-swaps/boarman-heads) but wasn't sure what to use for the bodies. They would need to be a little chunkier than the normal beastmen but orc bodies are a bit too much.

Between those and the Frostgrave Gnolls I think you could do a nice menagerie of horrors.

It's a weird style of art - I thought it was only ever for 40k covers, never really for WFB.

It's kind of clever in its own way, and doesn't look bad on a cover where everything's small, but in a larger pic like that you can see just how everything's been crudely cut and pasted together.

Did you look at Midlam?

midlamminiatures.co.uk/boar-men.html

Otherworld and I think Foundry also do good ranges of other-beast-beastmen.

Theres mention of those in WFP: Tome of Corruption

I think I've finally figured out a big problem with Bretonnia's lore: it's boring.

There are almost no civil wars, none of which will last for longer than a few years at best (and always due to some evil character, not legitimate problems or feuding), and feuds are mentioned half-heartedly and there aren't many examples of them lorewise (you think that's be a great excuse for a few wars between dukedoms, but no). There was never anything like the Age of the Three Emperors, or even really a chance for it - the king is almost always good, and we don't even know why the few that were deposed were - and it was done by the Fey Enchantress, not the nobles or even the peasants. There is no chance for a corrupt or greedy Emperor to give the Moot away. Dukes might be as nominally independent as Elector Counts, but we never really see it. Bretonnians all have something akin to a national pride or character, rather than seeing themselves as Ostlanders first and Imperials second.

Bretonnia is socially, technologically, and economically backwards - and there's no real explanation for it beyond 'they want to be knights.' This could be a very interesting thing to flesh out, especially in how they might have to bend their own rules to function in an advancing world, but in essence their society is like the Empire, but worse. It's not even fully clear where craftsmen or learned scholars come from, since most of the lore focuses on militaristic nobles and farming peasants. City dwellers are barely touched on.

The Lady of the Lake and her worship isn't well fleshed out. Damsels don't seem to act as sources for religious counsel as much as focusing on spellcasting. I get the mystery is part of the point, but it makes Bretonnian lore feel vague and doesn't help their boring-ness, with no chance for religious strife like with Sigmarites. There's no sense of development over time like with religions in the Empire.

There are exterior threats - Norse raiders, Orc Waaaghs, the Wild Hunt - but Bretonnia doesn't seem to be strongly affected by any of them for any reason, even though Wild Hunts happen on a yearly basis. They never get crippled in the same way the Empire might. The skaven invasion after the outbreak of the Red Pox was probably the largest invasion Bretonnia ever suffered, but the invasion itself is sidelined for the fall of Maldred that comes after. There's no Gorbad Ironclaw-like event that destroyed Solland - any dukedoms that were destroyed were destroyed before Bretonnia's unification. There are some occasional good battles, but they seem to hang independently from the rest of the lore in a sense, and don't help flesh out Bretonnia all that much. There's no sense of loss or danger in their history to give weight to what might happen in the present.

If you look at the Empire, a lot of their history revolves around things having happened over the millenia, like the evolution of their navy, the growth of cities, warring factions, the introduction of gunpowder and magic (and relations with other races, since dwarves and elves are important to both respectively). Where did Bretonnia's navy come from? It just happened. There were almost no developments of anything after Gilles le Breton - Bretonnia then is essentially the same as Bretonnia now, as far as lore is concerned. We barely even know if they have any relations with dwarves or elves, or how they view each other.

It's actually rather awful writing, and I don't know what any lore writers were thinking - Bretonnia just kind of sits there in the setting, barely interacts with anything, and doesn't act very interesting itself. It's mindboggling how someone could let things get this bad, especially when Bretonnia's lore has clearly been rewritten and retconned since its earliest incarnations - you'd think they'd be willing to change some things if they obviously weren't working out.

it generally adds to the charm of bretonnia IMO. Here is a land that is has it's head in it's ass and goes about by it's quaint ways for the most part because they don't have any serious challengers at all. The empire basically tanks the primary attacks of chaos, dwarfs do the same for orcs and beastmen operating near south bretonnia might get killed by Wood elfs.

>re urbanisation
we know that there are scribes and monasteries throughout bretonnia, thus indicating the presence of a clergy that is capable of reading and writing.

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They're nice.
The Otherworld orcs I find a little staid. Which is kind of the point of them, I think. Otherworld is also pretty damn expensive if you want more than a couple of miniatures.

That seems like a weird situation for a faction in a wargame to be in, though - one where they aren't expected to fight most threats. You'd think they'd end up like Estalia and Tilea then, with their infighting city-states and petty kingdoms. At that point, you have to ask what the point of Bretonnia as a faction is at all.

>The skaven invasion after the outbreak of the Red Pox was probably the largest invasion Bretonnia ever suffered

Larger than the Red Duke?

Just spent 230€ on Tomb Guards. I need help.

Don't worry, they can't be this hard to paint.

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I have yet to actually beat this game, despite owning it.

>all the skaven art is fucking awesom
>makes me want to field shit all day
>fuck yea verminlord comming through
>he is immediately taken out turn 1

Everytime I try a rarely used unit it always ends in the first shooting phase.

Is the Exalted Verminlord any better?

I never used any end time varient, though I imagine e it's the same way: it can't use skitterleap so it has to either play hide and seek till it reaches something, or just be a big "Fuck me with cannon" signs. At least the hellpit abomination it tough to kill.

Not the end times one, the FW Monstrous Arcanum

When a place says your miniatures have to be painted and based does that mean they need to have non plain bases?

Progress. This is hard work tbqh

Are there any channels out there doing battle report videos for Warhammer Fantasy besides MiniWarGaming? I personally don't mind them, but I wanted to see if there are other, perhaps better examples of the game for someone who wants to actually finish his army and play at some point.

check out guerrilla miniature games on youtube, they do 8th edition and 9th edition, sometimes they even do throwbacks to older games

It's not specifically said where the Red Duke campaigned, but he seemed to have concerned himself with Aquitaine and may not have moved to other provinces.

Whereas when the Skaven invaded, Merovech (I mixed him up with Maldred) fought at Brionne, travelled across Carcassone to fight at Quenelles, and then at Parravon to defeat the Skaven decisively. It was definitely the larger of the two invasions, and the Red Duke was technically less of an invasion and more of an undead uprising from within the kingdom.

The twist is that the box is filled with humans she uses as dildos.

cute in a I don't want to pet it kind of way