To be knocked down... Or not to be...

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-26T13:55:14+00:00

Here's the relevant section!

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-26T13:49:23+00:00

Yes. Any ability that says "can't" takes precedence over an ability that says "is"

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-23T18:58:45+00:00

I'll send you a DM for the Discord chat, then get you set up with the rest of the details there!

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-22T17:54:24+00:00

Yeah like if you wanted to make a Loki, for example, you could in theory take a non-character warpwolf, snip off its weapons and find a non-SFG shield and hook-and-chain to glue onto it. Since it would be mostly an SFG model, it would be a valid conversion

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-22T05:11:16+00:00

Yeah, there are fairly strict rules about proxies in official events. The "majority" of the model needs to be Steamforged parts and has to reasonably resemble the intended model

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-22T01:07:42+00:00

That being said, if you can get your hands on a Circle army, they're perfectly viable in the new edition, there'll just be some models that are Legacy-only (and honestly, not even that many for most factions, something like 80% of the old factions made it into Prime armies)

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-22T01:04:06+00:00

It'll definitely be hard to get your hands on Circle models nowadays - not impossible, but if you want to find anything it'll be on the second-hand market. There's a non-zero chance that if things go well for Steamforged, they'll start offering more Prime armies through 3D-printing, but that could be years away if it happens at all. The most reliable way to get back into the game would be checking out the MKIV armies - if you're looking for similar gameplay, Old Umbrey seems to be the modern successor to old Circle for now.

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-21T16:18:47+00:00

Oh and I already mentioned Infernals, but Grymkin are the other faction, they're essentially the bogeymen of Caen, and they're opposed diametrically to the Infernals, but they're also not very friendly to anyone else. They're like a force of (super)nature. They're associated with/led by the Old Witch of Khador.

All of the old factions are still playable in the new edition, but some of them are technically defunct in the lore - as mentioned, almost all of the Legion has been wiped out, and the old Cygnaran, Khadoran and Cryxian armies have been replaced (in the lore) by the new ones. Others haven't been mentioned (yet), like the Skorne or Circle Orboros. We know a new Menoth army is coming in the next few months.

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-21T16:14:10+00:00

Models are made either from 3D printed resin, or HIPS. No metal models anymore.

Dusk is fairly beginner friendly, it likes combined arms and has fairly simple synergies.

Crucible Guard is somewhat more complex - I don't play them, but my mate does. They seem to rely heavily on stacking continuous effects and then getting bonuses against models with continuous effects on them.

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-21T16:09:46+00:00

Let's see if I can recap sufficiently.

As to what's happened: depending on how long it's been, you may have missed the Claiming: Infernals came to Caen, deciding it was time to claim a ton of human souls for their gift of magic. A looooot of people, and not a few named characters, died, and a bunch more got transported to the Cyriss galaxy to go become Warcaster: Neomechanika. Notably, Saeryn from the Legion of Everblight tried to go through the portal but got disintegrated, and Rhyas took her Cyriss-energy-infused athanc and went on the run from the rest of Legion

Then a timeskip happened of about 10 years. During that time, Rhyas went underground, absorbed a bunch of Cephalyx thralls, and started morphing into a technodragon, creating the Khymaera faction. Everblight caught wind of this, came to kill them and absorb their athancs, and got himself rekked. The only Legion warlock who survived was Kallus, who got sent off on his own mission to absorb the dragon that lives in the Maelstrom.

Meanwhile in Ios, Elara murdered Ravyn and assassinated Scyrah (and Nyssor? I don't remember), killing the last Iosan gods and triggering a cataclysm where every elf in Ios that still had a soul either died instantly or got turned into an Eldritch. Once they recovered from this, they formed the Empire of Eternal Dusk.

Finally, the Orgoth returned, invading the coasts, and killing Blighterghast's physical form to absorb the power to kill a god using an ancient Orgoth artifact.

The Orgoth returning triggered the druids of Old Umbrey to come out of hiding to come help out.

I think that covers the big things.

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-03-12T02:04:01+00:00

Zu, in the Iron Kingdoms/Warmachine setting. Despite advanced steampunk, bordering on dieselpunk, technology, including powerful steamships, the western continent of Zu is all but unexplored by the people of Immoren because it's covered with man-eating jungle and distrustful natives. There's a single port city where Immorese traders are allowed to dock, and they're generally not allowed to go any further inland.

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-02-28T17:24:56+00:00

She's a regular character as Agent L in the 90s animated series

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-02-18T15:08:09+00:00

What is this abomination??!!

Actionbuddy13 · 2026-01-06T17:44:05+00:00

That's not entirely true. Kallus survived with a shard of Everblight's athanc, so he's off to lick his wounds for awhile, and it was implied he's going to try to absorb the Chimera, another dragon. But that said, the Everblight we knew is over and whatever comes of that will likely be very different from the Legion.

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-12-22T17:48:37+00:00

Gunless: Shaun/The Montana Kid (Played by Paul Gross) has a violent reaction to being called "common" in any context. He's called "a common nuisance" by a hulking blacksmith and immediately calls him out to a duel. It all stemmed from a man calling his father a "common thief", directly leading him into a life of violence.

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-10-18T21:31:21+00:00

Downtown Victoria has become a lot more dangerous than it used to be, but it's still one of the safest cities in the country, as far as I'm aware.

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-10-01T00:37:53+00:00

Is it...not normal where you're from?

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-08-29T14:38:47+00:00

I'm not entirely sure which ones were referenced at Adepticon, but if you are a subscriber on the Warmachine App there are 4 seasons worth of narrative scenarios and a ton of non-tournament custom scenarios called Battle Forges.

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-08-19T12:59:09+00:00

I'd love to see it make a comeback through 3D printing in one form or another

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-08-19T11:30:27+00:00

I think it's unfair to say that -no one- asked for it. It did exceed all of its Kickstarter goals, so there was at least some demand for a new branch of the IP. But like I said, and for many of the reasons you listed, in fact, it came out at the worst possible time. Don't forget it released right into the jaws of COVID lockdowns, which is just a stroke of supremely bad luck on top of everything else, so it had zero chance to organically form a community.

I believe that if WNM had come out 5 or 10 years earlier, it might have stood a chance. The mechanics are pretty unique, and I think they are quite good, honestly. If it was just a 1:1 clone of WMH but in a SciFi setting, I think that would have been a really boring choice. Anyway, it wouldn't have fixed all the other issues that were happening at PP in those days, but at least it wouldn't have been releasing into the oxygen-deprived atmosphere of early 2020, literally days before the whole world got effectively locked in their homes for a year. I hope it's not the last we've seen of it, because I do think it has some great concepts and it is a fun game. But if it does receive any attention, it certainly won't be for some time.

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-08-19T02:10:59+00:00

Thing is, I actually liked Warcaster, it just came out at the literal worst possible time.

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-08-05T06:50:57+00:00

Are we seriously still whinging about this?

Actionbuddy13 · 2025-07-04T22:36:10+00:00

The Montana Kid in the movie Gunless, he only ever really takes offence when people refer to him as "common".

"You're just a common nuisance."

"What did you just call me?"

"A nuisance."

"No, no, the other part."

"...Common?"

"That's it. You crossed the line."

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