Chojin Patriarch
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It doesn't help that surviving copies are often well-used, so that their bindings are struggling somewhat to hold together. The joy of modern gaming printing, where books aren't expected to be kept around for twenty-plus years. Indeed, some struggle for the less-than-five years of an average edition.
And there's always the option of scouring the internet for scans and photos and building your own copy. Another thing I'd be tempted to do with a power ring.
Never mind things like the Virus Grenade, and it's bigger brother, The Virus Outbreak strategy card which even the designers admitted might have been a bit much, and 'jokingly' encouraged people to tear their copy of the latter card up!
(Edit: Corrected by Mr Zoat on the matter...)
The joy of pre-computer tabletop games development. When if someone made a change, it could go unnoticed until the book was printed.
I think someone got the logic of the sentence turned around in their head.
To be fair, a lot of rules the 'games design team' create aren't always play-tested well. Never mind that it's rare for them to play the way hardcore competitive players do with their optimisation processes... That's how you end up with some of the latest edition's oopsies. Like the Eldar's Phantasm stratagem, which the designers had to pulverise with the Nerfhammer
Before, it could allow any Eldar unit to move 7" in the opponent's movement phase. One of the most abused targets of this was often a Fire-Prism grav tank who had advanced to take a potshot at an enemy, only to retreat into cover before it could be fired upon in reply or assaulted. Never mind things like Wraithknights doing a Phantasm Can-Can. And that's a gross over-simplification of the issue.
Competitive players would use these tactics, the 'Devastating Wounds' weapon ability and tricks like 'free' stratagems from character abilities, to lead them to an obnoxiously high win rate in tournaments. The September 2023 Balance Datasheet nerf involved restricting it to Infantry models only, making it still useful, but less so than before.
(Devastating Wounds was also changed to be less powerful too. Before and after, It triggers on a 6 to wound. But it went from dealing Mortal Wounds that could hop models - avoiding the usual limitation of high-damage weaponry which could only splatter one model at a time - to simply dealing unsavable wounds.)
And that's a gross over-simplification of the issue.Competitive players would use these tactics, the 'Devastating Wounds' weapon ability and tricks like 'free' stratagems from character abilities, to lead them to an obnoxiously high win rate in tournaments. The September 2023 Balance Datasheet nerf involved restricting it to Infantry models only, making it still useful, but less so than before.
(Devastating Wounds was also changed to be less powerful too. Before and after, It triggers on a 6 to wound. But it went from dealing Mortal Wounds that could hop models - avoiding the usual limitation of high-damage weaponry which could only splatter one model at a time - to simply dealing unsavable wounds.)
The joy of using 'House Rules'. Especially if you're planning to teach someone how to play the game, and have to decide if you want to use the rules as written, or your own 'adjustments'.
The 90's were a hell of a time. Limited or no options for many armies' models, and an easy-going attitude from Games Workshop about creating your own models to fit things they haven't released. How far things have come...
Now if it isn't in the current boxes they sell, you can't do it....And now she isn't sure if he's talking about the game, or himself.
Heh. If you released them onto the internet with clear labelling about them being 'one player's refinement', you'd probably revolutionise the 'Oldhammer' community. Not like he'd care about copyright infringement.
Huh, that's actually a thing. Looks even more complex.
Like you aren't paying close attention to the conversation.
After all, you are emulating Tang before his little evil dosage, grognard side and all.That depends on how goofy it is.
He wasn't trying to hide it, you know. Blanche's artwork, messy and sketchy as it is, may have influenced the game's mood and style, but it does look... Rough, sometimes.
Living the dream of many tabletop gamers there...
Hopefully with far superior binding that can withstand the kind of treatment a teenage girl might give it. And no stack of cards to go with it?
And of course, it's easy to create models of anything you or she might want to play from scratch. Man... We could have had Eldar Exodites that channelled Dino-Riders...
And hopefully refine the layout into a more sensible configuration. Some books of the era, like the Cyberpunk 2020 rules... Yow, all over the place.
For the time. I'll bet it was mostly done by one person who enjoyed the army, but understood game balance...
Tang, set the toy soldiers aside a moment... This is serious.
Ah, one of those reminders that Tang has a distinct view of the world.
Ah, yes. 'What measure is a man?' Or in this case, a synthetic teenage girl.
Ah, so it isn't just a matter of personality and mental complexity?
Oh, this will be good.
...It's a very good chatbot? Sister's brain is probably doing a lot of the heavy lifting behaviour-wise.
I suppose part of it comes from the elemental energies Reddy was built with by Morrow.
At least Tang is keeping an eye on her, I guess? I hope he is, anyway...
Heh. If you felt sassy, you could even back-port modern armies to 2nd edition.
Ah, vintage Warhammer. In all it's sometimes confusing glory. Good to see Artemis was serious about learning it, though. Wonder if she'd lean into the creative side of the hobby too, painting an entire army? Still, concerning to see that Tang has such a strict view of the complexity of artificial minds. I suppose being able to see their emotions or lack thereof makes it much clearer how 'alive' they are.
First link has an extraneous 'v' in the 'https' part.
... and all of the material relating to eldar.
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