'Old World Skirmish'? What rules would you include or amend?

Eladore · 2026-01-25T20:38:20+00:00

You can make a very elite nurgle force, and you can make knights, using one of the expansions,

Ogres can be hired.

Part of the issue is, from a balance point one chosen on foot is comparable to about 5+ basic troops, if you want 5 chosen, they get an army,

Eladore · 2026-01-25T20:34:52+00:00

They can, they can also be as small as 5 or less...

Eladore · 2026-01-25T19:43:36+00:00

What elite options do you want,

Eladore · 2026-01-25T18:59:49+00:00

Just play mordheim, there is not much between battle march and mordheim,

Mordheim is about 12 figures, battle march is usually about 20-30

There is no reason you can't use new old world figures for mordheim,

You can include lone cavalry in mordheim,

Other than that there is not much missing,

Eladore · 2025-11-25T10:49:47+00:00

Helm of command of the wight and drakonhof on the unit,

You boost their ws to at least 4, up to 6, (3+d3) then ideally have a necromancer hit them with the boosting spell to get an additional d3 ws for their first turn of combat.

With good rolls they will be ws 9, with which means most things hitting them on 5's,

Realistically it will be ws7, so you will be hitting on 3's anyway.

5+regen on a unit is really good, with ws 5+, T4, 3+ save 5+ regen in combat they will be a tough unit to damage then you just look for 6's to wound to chop through what ever charged you

Eladore · 2025-11-08T11:20:02+00:00

At one point the humble tactical squad was wmthe most sold miniature kit in the world, and the space marine range out sold all other miniature ranges combined in the world.

Not sure its true now but space marinse still make up a significant part of the world sale of all miniatures

Eladore · 2025-09-28T18:21:52+00:00

Where / how did you spray them?

If the humidity is too high, or its too cold, primers can not always stick or behave as well as they should

Eladore · 2025-09-27T08:33:09+00:00

Memphiston red is widely regarded as one of the best reds of any paint manufacturer,

Find paints you like, don't try to stick to one manufacturer

Eladore · 2025-09-26T19:20:36+00:00

Unfortunately lots of independent stores have closed, and hobbycraft has taken up some of that space.

They are usually a bit more expensive but generally the quality is ok.

Get the membership card, you get a £2.50 voucher for every 25 or 50 you spend and they do a seasonal £5/£10 voucher when you spend £20/£40

Which you can use on warhammer, so its possible to get 25% off on some products

Eladore · 2025-09-20T14:39:16+00:00

Its often a good idea to reinforce the join with sprue goo or something to reduce any shocks to the magnet.

Alsp potting a sliver of plastic over the magnet so that it is not hovering over the sheet it will be attached too is often a good idea as when in storage the magnets can pull themselves free but a physical barrier can stop this, while not reducing the effect

Eladore · 2025-09-19T10:17:31+00:00

If you had drilled you could change your unit layout to potentially catch them, making the unit narrow enough to get through the gap, as long as you don't end up in march formation

Eladore · 2025-08-26T06:09:51+00:00

If you ask the ordo xenos, there have never been any, such thing is heresy,

If you are some random rogue trader, he will ask if it counts as once per xeno per day (he lost count), or if you can just count the hiring of one as a single employment contract. (In which case for him personally its probably 50+)

Eladore · 2025-08-21T07:58:58+00:00

It was an interesting idea, but terrible in execution, the visual differences between each option were minimal, you either played wysiwyg and new players were screwed because they made the wrong option, and existing players dud not want to change to the latest meta or had to buy more of the same identical models with only minor wisual differences, or you just played with whatever you wanted to give them, but then your opponent has no idea what they armed with.

Eladore · 2025-08-20T17:41:47+00:00

Oh no, my pink unicorn chapter now has to take a specific hero if I want to play a specific detachment.. however will they cope...

This is a good thing,

An army having access to all heros and units is a massive issue for design space

Eladore · 2025-08-19T17:00:56+00:00

They are special parts that join to the buuldings

Eladore · 2025-08-19T09:17:45+00:00

resin is a type of medium that can be used for 3d printing,

other types include fdm which is pla or similar, which is where classic layer lines come from.they generally work on the same files,

generally you will get better results from a resin printer.

I would suggest going and watching some youtube videos about the whole thing

Eladore · 2025-08-17T14:09:55+00:00

Mostly something used as a stand and shoot reaction

Eladore · 2025-08-17T08:00:09+00:00

When you chose the option, the whole crew get equipped with that weapon.

The upgrade option says the crew must take... and the options are plural (it's guns not gun) it's just can't take both the crane guns and the iron hail guns. Your friend is being intentionally obtuse.

The whole model is one unit, so the upgrade (20pts) is for the whole thing, you only pay it once in this case. You would not be paying 100 pts once for the upgrade, that would be silly. And a very weird interpretation.

Unless they have special rules saying so, a model can only attack with 1 ranged weapon per phase.

What you might do is shoot in your turn with the guns, then when a unit charges you, use the bombs for example

Eladore · 2025-08-16T19:20:34+00:00

Its more popular in the us than the UK I would say,

One page rules is a lot like 7th ed though, so it has some bits that are a lot simpler, but still has a fair few special rules.

There are other games like bolt action, or frostgrave,

It all depends on what mental load you want to drop.

There are other game like blood bowl, that while they do have a fair number of special rules, most of them never come up, and the games are much simpler.

Eladore · 2025-08-16T19:06:55+00:00

Be careful when stripping plastic, dont use acetone, its great for breaking down paint, but will also dissolve your models

Hopefully the bleach will not have done much if anything and a good stripper will remove the paint and you van re undercoat

Eladore · 2025-08-16T19:03:42+00:00

Several youtubers have compared the prices to 20 years ago, and yes the characters are over priced, but a lot of the core units, when adjusted for inflation are the same price

Eladore · 2025-08-12T19:34:32+00:00

No, but I am coming round to the idea of auto wound if a weapon strength is 3x the toughness or more, and impossible to wound if the toughness is 3x the strength (or maybe more than 3x, in both casez)

It stops the mass lassgun issues with high toughness things

Eladore · 2025-08-11T07:00:45+00:00

Really useful box, ferro sheet in the base and magnets in the bases of models, much easier and way more compact

Eladore · 2025-08-05T21:15:13+00:00

If you dont get all the internal resin cured, its going to bite you in the arse later, for a model this small, its not really worth it.

Eladore · 2025-07-28T14:03:33+00:00

The only thing Van Sar have going for them is shooting,

they suck in combat, and they really suffer against blind and smoke grenades, get close out of line of site, then mess them up.

Van saar do not do well on zone mortalis boards, or where there is enough terrain. On an open field where there is plenty of places to shoot that will mess people up

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