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Nice overview. Just keep in mind Synthetics/Androids do not add stress, cannot use stress dice, and cannot push rolls.

Yeah, its kinda disappointingly cheesy and anti lore isnt it. Further, I know they beefed grail knights up a bit stat-wise in TOW but I was hoping they would make them sort of like Paladin special characters in TOW. Seems a bit odd small armies having so many fabled rare Grail Knights. I mean they are exceptionally elite and battle hardened to have conquered great demonic beasts and Dragons to be worthy of supping the grail to be given even further power. But alas even without this blunting their charge cheese they still easily get bodied by monstrous mounted Lords on the table-top.

There are tons of amazing mechanics scattered throughout all the editions. They just can’t seem to get them all in one place

One of the weirdest aspects of GW is that although 40k is its biggest seller by far, it has the most confusing and obtuse rules.

The "per 1000 points" wording is fine. It means that you need at least 1000 points to field such a unit as its particularly powerful and wouldn't be suitable for small games, but if your games are 2000 points (or more) you can bring 2 of them.

And the problem is...? I don't know why it can be anything but obvious that a unit of knights, grail or not, can be beaten by a combat lord on a friggin dragon.

Loving these videos, Rob. Bite-sized rule chunks and sticky situations are extremely helpful in figuring out the rules, which I’m still trying to wrap my head around.

We can keep playing WHFB. If GW still wants to push AoS we can just buy what is adaptable and take what is not wherever we can.

Try collecting it as a new player, now that's fun. 8(

I think you're bang on the money here. TOW not being a 'main studio' game means that the expectations set by GW won't be as high as say for 40k and AoS. So GW is more likely to be satisfied/impressed by the sales if they meet or exceed expectations, and therefore they're less likely to mess with it (like you say, 40k has seen an enormous amount of rules churning and changes over the past 3 editions). My group still play 6th so I likely won't be moving over to TOW anytime soon, but I'm actually quite hopeful about TOW's long-term stability.

The Emporer provides and protects.

You look like Igor Girkin XD

Good Stuff Lad! I have to say the situation is interesting. I tried 40k and I enjoyed my army Eldar but in the end I went to basic Warhammer. I skip my comments about age of sigmar. This video is a good view point I will keep it. Lets see what the future will bring for the Old World

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I'm starting to think you DON'T feel honored to hear my genius opinions. END OF VIDEO

A charge from warehouses was deadly, so having an attack on a table top game is a very watered down real life experience

The problem as I see it, and this is through the lens of running an after-school Warhammer club and through my own children, was that the younger players did not want to play fantasy. They wanted to play 40k, or at the time LotR due to the films. The people playing fantasy were predominately those like myself, people who got into the game during the early 90s when it was massively popular and had grown up collecting. These people had large collections of models, grown over many years. What this meant was that Warhammer would sell the books when they came out, to the people who collected that army, but very few models. Maybe some new sculpts here and there, but never on the same level as 40k was, as kids were constantly getting into that. Without the steady stream of new players, Warhammer Fantasy was not selling nearly parallel to its popularity, because the people playing already had all the models they needed, and models is where the money is.

it seems we are now buying the products that sat in a warehouse, were repackaged , and are buying now.

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Warhammer (and a lot of other media and games) actually downplay just how dangerous a Warhorse attack is. Historically speaking Warhorses were trained to trample over people and crush them, easily kicking swords, spears and shields out of the way, people did not fear heavy cavalry because of the riders on the back, they feared the riders primary weapon, which was the horse (which would often continue it's rampage even after the rider had been dealt with.) This is why Hussars only carried swords and a defensive pistol for fighting other cavalry, their horse was their actual main attack mode. This is also one of the reasons infantry had to fight in blocks, against a dispersed skirmish line, a decent cavalry unit shouldn't even need to draw their weapons, they should be able to simply "ride the enemy down" which is the polite way of saying "stomp them into the mud."

Whats deadlier a sword or a 600lb horse in full plate smacking into you at 25mph? I fail to see the confusion, not to mention every other vicious mount in Warhammer equipped with tusks, fangs, claws, etc, I mean you literally read the rule, trample, I fail to see how a horse stomping your head in gets lost in translation

tac marine boxes outselling the entire fantasy range for two editions straight was definitely a huge reason lol - the game needed too many models and the models didnt look too great and the rules were just not very good.

They probably killed Warhammer fantasy because they ran out of ideas on what to do with the world and where things could go. Thought I would say that Warhammer fantasy never died, it was just put on ice for a future return as we now see in The Old World. The Old world is basically just that , Warhammer fantasy 2.0 with some nicer models and such but it won't be anything ground breaking away from the old Warhammer fantasy. Sure they have better technology so we might see resculpts of older figures and such but that is about it.

Gw made a business decision that's all it was and wrapped up warhammer fantasy with the end times books then discontinued a product that wasn't selling there is nothing complicated about it

They killed fantasy because the models didn’t sell as they were insane price increases at the time. Now , the prices would have been in line with their current price model. People still loved the game , they just tried to push hordes to sell models in 8th, then tried to over charge for model new releases and no one was down for it. Everyone still loved warhammer fantasy , just not GWs angle selling it. Oh and piss poor model release for some factions , like Bret’s were basically forgotten for decades.

I think of it like they knock them down and trample on them. I can't speak for all of the rule incarnations but it used to be that normal horses don't get an attack, only warhorses.

Are there any benefits to NOT push a roll? I mean the Push seems to be a "high risk high reward" But there should be something more here. You rolled 6 dice with one failure, would not the other dice hold you up or is it only Successes that matter?

I think the world went through a phase of moving away from mythological storytelling. Years later we are saturated with fictional dribble and the hunger for the traditional mythological tropes is more alive. My view of 40k is that similar to the Aliens films, is only has one direction to travel in. Bigger guns, bigger monsters, more monsters, more effects. The hunger for something fantasy based I think is part of something larger.

Why is this still a discussion? The models sold bad. And GW are a company that makes it's money selling models. Thats it

Crowdfunfing is a seriously good idea for their business model.

Perhaps my favourite board game really - had it for years and loved playing it. Saw a beautiful anniversary edition of the game last year and was very tempted but it was $110.00

Its basically the horus heresy for fantasy. They realised with HH that there is a giant population of bearded 30s to 50s dads with money largerly untapped

I don’t remember which wargame edition it was, but I was running a 2nd ed Terror in Talabheim game and we bought a set of skaven for it, ran throughout the whole campaign. Players named them, characterised them etc. good old times. Basically GW moved on but we stayed at that point in time. We even had Mordheim minis. I still run 2nd ed, and trying to find those now antique minis or substitute with something else.

Hey Rob. Hope all is well. Please consider making a video on the upcoming Old World release. Loved your AoS rant back in 2015, am v interested in your take on the revival.

I know this video is over 2 years old but jsut a heads up that the magister only has 5 eyes. (I know you mentioned 6). And they aren't placed evenly. This may have been what threw you off.

Learning this because I want to host an Adeptus Evangelion campaign which is a game that uses the Dark Heresy rules to tell stories in the Neon Genesis Evangelion universe.

I think shield robes are canonically supposed on par with flak armor with no helmet option.

From what I have heard GR is put on a tight leash by BioWare in regard to DA.

In Forbidden Lands, you can re-roll Skill dice 1s on roll pushes. Is this true in MYZ?

Heyo! IDK if you will read this but... I quit playing Dragon Age/Fantasy Age back in 2017 and we switched over to 5e D&D for similar reasons. Wildly, I just recently got back into running Dragon Age and am having a blast again. I think I just needed a break. Word is Green Ronin got the green light to reprint the corebook and start working on newer DA stuff, so hopefully that's true? Either way, I totally get your feelings and all valid points. Ah, side note, idk if you remember but from one of your super early videos, you had your subscribers make NPCs for use in the Grand Tourney. I had made Pelios, a rogue archer that got fairly far in the archery contest. Just had that memory pop back up when I re-found your channel today.

looks good! there are not many videos are about that terrain piece

I wish I could get this in a d100 engine.

If you have 0 in a skill you don't roll any green dice

It is worth be aware that the Slave Class has been removed in the new print, for obvious terminology reasons. They are now called 'The Grunt', everything else I believe is the same, just a name change.

How did you have this made or where did you get it?

What happened to the Duz Andy Know channel?

You probably figured out by now that panic will not affect success's up to a 9 panic. Once panic reaches 10 and beyond, any success however many, will be cancelled out. So your boy Mac, the synthetic with the human weakness, did indeed strike the assailant. Thanks for the Video. Was a good exercise for me as I haven't actually ran a game yet.

Brilliant! I love Death Stranding.

This is really incredible to find; I never finished watching the vidcasts back in the day, I will have to go back and watch them all through again. I am thrilled to see such a complete wrapping up of the campaign though! I avidly watched and followed the Dragon Age campaign when you were running it, falling out of touch about halfway through. Yours was the first long form campaign I followed, now I regularly watch the likes of Critical Role, LA by Night and High Rollers, but it all began here. Many thanks for helping push me into the world of Tabletop RPGs.

Great point. I love Free League and the MYZ system.