At this point me and all of my Warhammer Fantasy friends defected to playing Warmachine. I was heavily invested in Warhammer Fantasy, it having been the game I got back into when I rediscovered the hobby, and having read a lot of books and played in roleplaying campaigns. Silks: I was one of the people that widely mocked Age of Sigmar on release. I cannot really put this in a kind way: The release was an utter disaster. Nah, people started filming themselves burning their armies, gaming review sites roundly mocked the new rules and there was a mass exodus of players before the rulebook was even on the shelves. Never mind the mass re-labelling of Orcs to Orruks, Ogres to Ogors, Elves to, uh, Aelves, and so on.Īll of this was teased slowly before the game was released and the internet did what it is famous for – reacted calmly and with composure. This was far from the only rule of its type, and the others were worse – the crowd who had been paying Warhammer Fantasy Battle didn’t exactly consist of people desperate to pretend to ride an imaginary horse for in-game benefits. You can re-roll any failed hit rolls when attacking with the Runefang so long as you have a bigger and more impressive moustache than your opponent.” “Helborg’s skill is as legendary as his moustache is magnificent. …There were some utterly crazy “flavour” rules – a famous example is the rule for Kurt Helborg: Players were expected to pick what they thought was a balanced army. You would have to re-base your entire army on round bases. …Gone were the massed ranks of infantry and the rank and flank gameplay that people loved.
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