Voodoomaster wrote:Did it occur to anyone that perhaps they are saving new models for when the eight avatars are completed?
Like Nagash?
I don't know if it is a coincidence or a patter but if you look at the armies featured so far you could notice that:
1. Empire is in the fluff of 2 books but has no models - Half of the country is destroyed
2. Bretonnia is almost gone - no new models
3. Ulthuan and Naggaroth destroyed - no new models
4. Tomb Kings destroyed - no new models
At the same time armies that seem to succeed:
1. Nagash and Vampires - new models
2. Chaos - new models
3. Skaven - new models (although we don't know yet how they are going to succeed)
Curu Olannon wrote:Our intention is not to have any kind of Iron Curtain style lock down, simply to keep the forum clean. I was a big fan of when we had 2 threads on ET: One for rumours, one for fluff discussion. Now we have half a dozen and people don't know where to post.
Some people prefer discussing things in separate topics. They might overlap but don't need to be the same. It is one thing to discuss ET: Khaine background as it is and different when you want to predict what it means for the Elves in the future. Even if the topics are duplicated simple merging topics would work much better here.
If you wanted to have one topic for rumors and one for fluff discussion, why did you start this one:
http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67623 ? Think what kind of message you send to other forum members when they see their topics locked why you claim to keep the forum tidy but start your own thread that is duplicating the existing one. Double standards comes to mind.
The same goes for other sub-forums. One topic in tactics is dominated by army list discussions yet it keeps going without any problem. Other were locked immediately where simple move to army list sub-forum would solve the problem. Even if again, one could conclude it is not exactly fair. But at least you would not discourage people from posting.
I had many personal reasons to discuss such armies. My own story is about Outcasts, I can easily justify any single unit in my army now. All 3 Elven armies have a great potential for MSU style. Although I don't like the idea for the story itself and don't plan to expand my army with new regiments yet, I would not mind to discuss the options with other members interested in this approach.
It is different enough that it might not be useful for players who use other armies. So contributing to the more general thread would be counterproductive as it would generate posts other players are not interested in and make it more difficult to find the relevant ideas for those interested. It is not an immediate thing to do for me, hence I haven't written about it in my army blog. Hence, it would be perfect to contribute to the separate topic. And such topic was even started in Tactics section. But guess what, it was locked.
Aicanor wrote:Don't know exactly what it is about the new models, but last I really liked was Skycutter (even with all the operational difficulties) . It's something about the slightly wrong poses, or the wedding cake syndrome (=>overdone). There were a few other OK kits since, but nothing really caught my fancy.
It would not be the first time where the pictures would not give the model justice. It indeed can be posed wrong or has too many details. But when was the last time you had a model with 5 different options and rules to support it? And the rumor has it Vermin Lord is not the only model to be released, I am also looking forward to seeing new armored Rat Ogres