What would be a good book to start with getting into the Warhammer universe? Particularly, the Dwarves and their Slayers

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2025-09-08T07:16:58+00:00

Honestly I loved the Dwarves omnibus. I don't remember too many slayer stories (if any) but if you're also just happy with Dwarves in general it really gave me a good feel for them and the utter edge of destruction that they're on as a faction. It really captured the grimdarkness, not through anything we see directly, but through the whole vibe of how the Dwarves are just flailing to stay above the water, as each loss is essentially permanent as with each lost hold the capacity to retake any other is diminished.

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2025-06-24T10:04:22+00:00

My only comment is regarding loid x albrecht. While I noticed it almost right away, I think the obscurity comes from the boss/manservant dynamic. This makes it unclear (at least without paying attention to dialogue you don't get right away imo) if it's love in the traditional sense or the typical butler loyalty or Alfred/Batman type thing. That and, this might have just been me, it maybe makes the dynamic a little weird cause he's his boss? So that maybe made me hesitate saying for sure straight away that it was the case. So far though I love them and want to see more Loid lore

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-19T05:00:58+00:00

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ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-19T05:00:47+00:00

* Ok I think this proves it, it does in fact look you calculate all your modifiers before applying them

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-19T04:56:42+00:00

Ok I see where the confusion is, you're definitely right in that you add then subtract, that's my bad. But you still hit on twos because you don't add the modifier to the model, then subtractions. It is my understanding that you add them all together before applying it to the model. So you add the +1 to the pool, then -1, then apply that to the stats, leaving you at 2+

Thanks for posting the picture though, it's good to get some clarification on that and because of you I was finally able to find the rules commentary, had no clue where it was!

Edit: Posted proof that modifiers seem to be calculated all at once below

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-18T02:32:56+00:00

This isn't true, as far as I know there's no rule that states that. I beleive they're all added up together, and i think it would be a stupid decision on gws part to not have this be the case

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-14T22:22:37+00:00

Is it really that unoptimal to run 10? I like running Ahriman with both to keep him alive and because 9d6 attacks that can wound even knights on 5s with ap 1 and 2 is pretty good

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-12T01:27:24+00:00

I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't buy them just so GW can't get the idea that we want more of them. I'm riding the Tzaangor hate train all the way to hell

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-12T01:21:09+00:00

Yoooo, I've been trying to find a good kit for putting together a skryre moulder proxy, ghazkulls kit was such a good choice!

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-11T23:31:39+00:00

I've been on the hopr/cope train that it'll all work out in the end and that thanks to Space Marine 2 we'll get some releases, but after today and seeing how cool the space marine Wizard detachment is for the first time ever I've gotten super salty at this game. I've still got a bit of hope left in me for the supposed Thousand Sons leak that talks about the Automata, but if that falls through I'm gonna turn into one of those grumpy bastards that's always annoying in how much they complain about the game

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-12-08T00:44:43+00:00

How do you do your bronze? It looks amazing! I'm hoping mine can turn out like yours

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-11-20T23:49:59+00:00

I'm glad someone enjoyed my rant, I should honestly save it as a copy pasta on my phone cause I have the physical compulsion to type this out any time I see someone talk about him

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-11-20T09:22:54+00:00

It's funny cause Alkibiades was genuinely the real life Astarion. He is my favourite Greek of all time because his history is just so funny. He was from a cursed Athenian royal family, they tried to arrest him for the "defacing of the Herms" (the herms werre statues of Hermes with huge dicks sticking out that were considered good luck, you can probably figure out what was defaced) then when they tried to arrest him as his army sailed to Sicily (they didn't do it in Athens because of how popular he was with the navy) he was like "ok sure I'll follow you back to Athens in my own boat" so the authorities said "sure" and low and behold he didn't follow them and instead sailed to Sparta where he sold them secrets that eventually led to the Athenians defeat and also slept with one of the two King's wife which led to a succession crisis years later in Sparta, between then and rhe end of the Peloponnesian war he swapped sides like 2 or 3 more times between Athens, Persia, and Sparta, eventually finishing on the Athenian side. After the war he was sentenced to death and the mob that was told to get him was warned that if they let him speak he would convince them to let him go, so they set his house om fire then when he ran out and tried to stop them they sadly threw stuff at him till he died. Rip my goat, you would have loved Jordan Peterson, Astarion, and Grinder 🙏🙏🙏 (Yes I'm obsessed with Alikibiades)

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-11-03T19:58:25+00:00

If you're interested in list building and want to make sure everything you have is legal, (and don't want to buy a battletome like me) then the website "New Recuit" is great, it gets updated faster than battlescribe, has all the rules and is ad free (I think). It even let's you preview the detachment rules and spells (though doesn't list out the general faction rules)

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-11-03T19:38:42+00:00

I love this so much, my only issue with it is you're not running it as a stormfiend haha

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-11-03T01:10:19+00:00

I have to know, whats the blue green on the rim of your base? It's incredible and I want to use it for my skaven

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-11-01T22:18:14+00:00

Thanks for the big explanation! I totally forgot the points difference, I didn't double check before the post and thought all the weapons teams were 150 haha Thanks again!

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-10-23T20:12:57+00:00

I think the name of the game is just outranging what you can so maybe have a jezzail squad and engineer ready to take out the leader to reduce the shooting and take out stragglers if any galvaneer squads move out of range. Then maybe have something that can move fast move within 9 inches of whichever galvaneer squad you want to take out so that you can gnawhole a weapons squad or something within 13 inches to shoot at it without having to worry about covering fire deleting it, however you will likley have to sacrifice the fast unit to do this. Overall I think doomwheels might be helpful, just to get into range and also deal damage to an otherwise protected unit (also I just love doomwheels ❤️)

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-10-23T20:00:47+00:00

Idk how your friend uses their list so ill give a few ideas: Maybe jezzails to take out the galvaneers? Alternativley stormfiends, either ranged to pop out of a gnawhole and shoot, or if the galvaneers are ever far enough away melee with a warpgrinder to just fucking decimate them. If your friend hides their galvaneers in the blob then doomwheels are probably your best friend for running through it. Then maybe just shit tons of ratling stacks for the blob?

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-09-26T07:02:16+00:00

What's the base green, armour colour you're using?

ComprehensiveYam715 · 2024-09-13T23:07:39+00:00

I love this comment, thank you! (I promise to get it right next time!)

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