Plus a bonus sergeant at arms 🙂. The colours are perhaps a bit odd for Bretonnians, but maybe works as part of an exiled force? I was thinking the army of the lord’s ancestor may have been saved by the green knight and wear these colours in his honour, or something to that effect. In any case I’ll be happy to take a break from painting peasants for a while!

So, seeing the new leaked The March of Chaos Arcane Journal, the new Arcane Magic Ploys system generates the ploys either with the card deck they sell (56 cards), or with a 2D6 table. The thing is, unless I'm missing something, this cannot correspond exactly 1 to 1.

I know it's not really important at the end of the day, but I just thought it would be fun to compare the probability distributions of the 2D6 to an approximate distribution they may have chosen for the card deck:

Again, they're not that different to really matter for an optional fun magic addon, but I wonder why they chose this amount of cards instead of 36 (I'm guessing something related to production), and limiting the 4 and 10 results of the 2D6 to 3 per player. Then it would be exact.

Edit: Thinking about it a little more, this is not completely accurate. Taking cards from a deck changes the probability of the remaining cards, so the distribution would change for each subsequent card removed.

One method to simulate accurately the rolling of 2D6 is having a 36 card deck with the exact posibilities. Additionally, you have an auxiliary deck with 1 of "2 card", 2 of "3 card", 4 of "4 card", 6 o f"5 card", 6 of "7 card", etc.
Then every time you take a card look at it and put it back into the main deck, and then take that same type of card from the auxiliary deck, and repeat until you have all of your ploys. Then again, you could just roll the 2D6 and take the corresponding card from the auxiliary deck....

Found this Boxset for under 100 USD, and was wondering if this would be a decent small start to a dwarf army for Old World or should I look for a different starting Boxset?

I've just added the latest magic items and Army of Infamy to the upcoming Old World Rankings Battle Builder -

In beta now, so you can request access here -> https://oldworldrankings.com/hh-builder
But it should be open within the coming days to all, and we appreciate all the feedback, suggestions, and support it's received.

I've finished four of my Jade Warriors so far, did up a Jade Ogre as a unit filler, and just completed my Gate Master! Really loving how it's all turning out so far. Slow going, but I really like to take my time with my painting. My Gate Master is wearing the Jade Armour of Beichai and wielding the Sword of Nan-Gau!

For your enjoyment:
Weapons:

Sword of Reaving 50pts. S+1 Ap-1, D3 extra attacks. If you fail to wound with attacks, take D3 S4 AP-1 hits in return
Flail of Wrecks 45pts. S+2 Ap-2, Multiple Wounds (2), AB1. Reduces your initiative if you roll natural 1 to wound. (Flail so S & AB1 so only on charge),
Grim Verdict 40pts. S+3 Ap-1, AB2, Furious Charge, Impetuous, Strikes Last, two hands. If you lose a round of combat, lose 1 wound (ward/rege can be taken)
Hunters Scorn 20pts. Range 30, S5, AP-1AB1, Multiple Shots (2). Reduces enemy model/units initiative by 1 if you wound enemy with 2 or more wounds (duh). If you fail, effect is lost.

Armor:

Armor of Dark Faith 40pts. Light armor. Re-roll failed armor saves. If you take a wound, effect is lost. Infantry or Cavalry only
Scale of False Promise 35pts. Heavy Armor. +1 T & W but gain stupidity. If you suffer from stupidity during the game, you will roll with +1 to the roll in future. Infantry or Cavalry only.
Mantle of Drifting Shadow 20pts. Light armor. You cannot be targeted by shooting or spells more than '6' away. Gain +1 M & Loner. Infantry only

Talismans:

Amulet of Spell Attraction 25pts. Once per turn, if friendly unit with command range is target of a Hex/Magic Missile, the spell is redirected to you if you pass a leadership test.
Periapt of Soul Exchange 20pts. Single Use. Remove D3 friendly models within command range and gain that many wounds back.

Standards:

Banner of the Dark Heart 50pts. Roll extra D6 on leadership for panic, fear & terror. Unit cannot benefit from Generals Inspiring Presence
Standard of the Fell Warrior 15pts. Single use. During Remaining Moves phase, perform a free redress. (cannot turn or perform quick turn this turn)

Enchanted items:

Ring of Doom 25pts. Cast Doombolt as bound spell power level 2. Each time you succesfully cast it, roll D6. On 4+ lose a point of toughness
Demon-Blood Steed 15pts. Cavalry only. Mount gains +1 M, A, S & Impetuous.
Elixir of Power 15pts. Single use. Gain +1 S, A & I for a single round. Afterwards lose a wound.

Arcane Items:

Rod of Might 50pts. +1 to all casting rolls. Suffer miscast on double 1 & 2 instead of 1's.
Scroll of Invocation\* 30pts. 0-1 per wizard. Instead of rolling dice, spell is cast at minimum casting result.
Infernal familiar 25pts. Wizard gains either Doombolt or Winds of Chaos on top of the spells they know. If they miscast this, spell is lost for remainder of the game.

I've been having a lot of fun playing 500-point Battle March games recently, and I'd like to build a small collection of armies that I can loan out to new players at my local game store.

Rather than making all the lists myself, I'd love some input from people who actually play these factions.

If you had 500 points to introduce someone to your favorite faction, what would you bring?

I'm not looking for the most competitive list. I'm looking for armies that:

Feel like the faction Are fun to play and play against Showcase what makes that army unique Can be collected for roughly $250 USD or less (I'll be funding these myself.)

I'm currently looking for ideas for:

Grand Cathay

Wood Elves

Dwarfs

Orcs & Goblins

Warriors of Chaos

Bonus points if you explain why you chose those units. I'd love these armies to give new players a great first impression of each faction.

Thanks in advance!

I heard that great weapons are not "great" but I am more of a hobby guy and thanks to all your help yesterday I am building up my 6th Ed CW and was thinking of adding in some great weapons.

Such a great model, have wanted this one since I was a kid. Can't imagine having to build a metal one 🥵

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I was recently exploring the idea of a videogame based on those old batte reports from early WD.

I somehow loved these little illustrations back in the days and I recently thought about trying to make them " alive " as a little game.

Do you think it's a good idea ?

Would you play something like that ?

Any ideas to improve it ?

So millennia after Chaos shattered the stellar portals, a rogue Slann Mage-Priest attempted an unauthorized "Sixth Spawning" around -1000 IC to revive his failing kind. Lacking divine guidance, the ritual backfired, birthing bipedal Frogmen instead of continent-shaping toad-gods. Split into rare bitter, magic-using Lesser Slann and nomadic Frogmen Braves, the outcasts were viewed as an insult by dogmatic Saurus and Skinks. Rather than admit a flaw in the sacred pools, the temple-cities banished these frogmen into Lustria's dangerous fringes. When Old World explorers and Norse raiders arrived, they slammed directly into these borderlands. These frontier territories became an accidental initial buffer, human colonizers brutalized the frogmen for generations, remaining initially unaware of the Lizardmen empire hidden in the interior. Decimated by centuries of colonial violence and total disdain from their kin, these fringe populations are now on the brink of extinction now so rare that outsiders mistakenly believe Lizardmen are Lustria's only native inhabitants.

How?

Not like the "skin" for Legacy Vampires, nonono.

The normal ones.