8th edition WHFB

[Laughing Man]

Check the website, and your emails, GW has declared WHFB 8th edition will be released this July.

So prepare the rumour mill and then after july your nitpicking and griping heads.

[The Envoy (AWOL)]

This could prove to be either good or bad...I'm hoping good, but I don't really think that'll be the case.

[ElegaicRequiem]

Who wants odds on how much Makarova will hate it?

[Gabriel Lupus]

No-one would take the odds ... unless we find an unsuspecting conscript...

[Makarova (M.I.A)]

New nice models for WHFB: Total Realism?

Good news, good news. It's hard for me to make them myself, ya know.

[Rolling Thunder]

Money on it being just as unrealistic as the last edition? And the one before that?

[Hetfiltrator]

Apr 19, 2010 19:39:54 GMT -5 Rolling Thunder said:

Money on it being just as unrealistic as the last edition? And the one before that?

I bet 5 Moonstones that the Emperor licked.

[Makarova (M.I.A)]

I bet Galatea's modesty and Requiem's pants.

And RT's virginity.

[Hetfiltrator]

I see those pants and raise you some Horus paraphernalia!

[Makarova (M.I.A)]

Bet what you want, I'll win anyway.

Ah, WHFB, you'll never fail to let me down. Nice models though. Keep making those please.

[Hetfiltrator]

You misunderstood. I'm getting rid of stuff.

[Makarova (M.I.A)]

Well I suppose I could use a... Horus... paraphilia?

*runs away*

[Hetfiltrator]

Wait. Never mind it's just a used condom.... Ewwwwww~

[ElegaicRequiem]

Apr 19, 2010 19:49:21 GMT -5 Makarova (M.I.A) said:

I bet Galatea's modesty and Requiem's pants.

And RT's virginity.

I'm fairly sure one of those is no good as currency. *coughthelastonecough*

And you had best be sure if you're betting my pants.

[Makarova (M.I.A)]

I'm never surprised by GW's incapability to know anything about medieval warfare and equipment. I'll win, trust me.

[Gabriel Lupus]

Just to play Devils Advocate... maybe GW know about medieval warfare, but steer away from it in WHFB because it's more fantasy than medieval? I know - still doesn't explain the incorrect effects of weapons etc, but just a thought

*stops being Devils Advocate*... thank the Emperor... I was beginning to feel dirty... and not in a good way

But I will be happy to see the new models... it's always fun to see which bits can be combined with Guard bits to create new regiments... Wonder if they'll release a new race for release with the game (if they do a boxed game and not just the rulebook)... why do I feel like I've just opened a can of worms?

[Makarova (M.I.A)]

If they think that they're idiots and I'm right anyway. But yeah, I guess I can't blame them for wanting to attract 12-year olds to the game, after all the majority of WHFB players know very little about equipment and warfare, and therefore don't complain.

New models will be snazz though.

[igdude]

Apr 25, 2010 9:31:11 GMT -5 Gabriel Lupus said:

Just to play Devils Advocate... maybe GW know about medieval warfare, but steer away from it in WHFB because it's more fantasy than medieval? I know - still doesn't explain the incorrect effects of weapons etc, but just a thought

you are aware that you just said GW could possibly know something about warfare ;D

[Gabriel Lupus]

Yeah... was a bit of an oxymoron...



_{(hehe... oxy-moron always liked that word... )}

[seed]

They can not possible mess it up more then 7th can they?

[Gabriel Lupus]

wanna bet?

[The Envoy (AWOL)]

Apr 25, 2010 10:32:05 GMT -5 Makarova (M.I.A) said:

If they think that they're idiots and I'm right anyway. But yeah, I guess I can't blame them for wanting to attract 12-year olds to the game, after all the majority of WHFB players know very little about equipment and warfare, and therefore don't complain.

If I wanted a historical simulation game, I'd buy a historical simulation game. Warhammer is meant to be representative of medieval combat, not replicate it.

If GW wanted to replicate, they'd still be producing Ancient Battles.

[Makarova (M.I.A)]

I have very little interest in historical simulation, all I ask is that the bloody equipment work as it actually would. Fantasy or not, the laws of technology and physics apply.

But I've already corrected that in the real game, so arguing about something that doesn't really exist as far as my mind is concerned is pointless.

[The Envoy (AWOL)]

Which is historical simulation.

Magic sort of blows physics out of the water, and forces new ways of dealing with combat, as well as opening up new ways to fight.

[Makarova (M.I.A)]

Eh? I have everything Fantasy has. At least the good bits. I'd hardly call Orcs and Elves historical.

Just because magic is present in the world and in the battlefield doesn't mean everything is now free to behave any way it wants. I want logic. Magic is logic in its own way. Sure, it wouldn't work in the real world as it doesn't exist, but this is fantasy. If they say my wizard can conjure a fireball and hurl it at people, I have no reason to argue against that unless they were really stupid about it. If they say a weapon behaves in a way it wouldn't, I have a hundred reasons to argue against it. Magic and similar things have their roots in the fantasy world, wargear, movement, morale, tactics, weather, terrain and physics does not.

I'm pulling out of this discussion though, I've had enough of people yelling that anything can be as absurd as GW tells them because IT'S FANTASY!!!11