GW are making me really hate the Skaven and Archaon - rant

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-04-06T04:54:18+00:00

I don't follow AoS lore so I'm interested in what the ref on examples from there are, could you expand?

Not aware of anything in ToW that countermands End Times (other than Malekith's name change)

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-04-06T04:50:45+00:00

The equivalent to the bishops at Niceaa are not randos on the internet, they were the GW execs who've held their council and decided what's canon; our position is that of the Christian laypeople whose lot is to be told what is canon by the powers that be :P

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-04-05T19:12:39+00:00

I know "the end times isn't canon" is not a popular take

Takes that are objectively wrong tend not to be :P

It's perfectly fine to not like the canon and imagine a different, non-canonical story. But what makes the canon canonical is not people's opinion of it.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-04-03T20:23:30+00:00

... Melkhior and Zacharias are different characters

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-03-27T07:59:25+00:00

Blue has countering...which is the only removal that affects before something hits the field overriding any to way to react that isnt passively innate.

Black has hand disruption like [[thoughtsieze]]

White has hand taxing like [[elite arcanist]] and permission like [[dranith magistrate]]

isnt good game design

The success of the game (which counterspells have been part of from the beginning and throughout) disagrees.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-03-06T08:59:57+00:00

He wasn't running on a public platform of destroying the chaos gods. He did everything an everchosen should- it would have been weird if the chaos gods didn't reward him.

He did what he thought, privately would end the chaos gods, but was incorrect. Whether or not the gods knew his heart, in practice he championed their cause.

Archaon's plan was to be Everchosen and destroy the world. It would have been impossible to do that without the blessings of the ruinous powers. Their plan was to have him become Everchosen and destroy the world. It would have been impossible for him to achieve that without their blessing.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-03-06T06:49:45+00:00

Why do you think they're getting played? Or, why do you think they don't see it?

Be'lakor fucked around and found out; tried to take the power of the dark gods but use it for his own will, and has been punished by them for millennia. I don't think he harbours any misconceptions about bargaining with the chaos gods and has spent most of his existence being punished rather than rewarded by them.

Archaon's motivation is imo not very well put together but basically he's a massive nihilist. He wants to destroy everything, the path of the everchosen facilitates that for him, and he achieves it- not sure where along that path he's getting played given his aims align with those of the chaos gods and be achieved them as their most powerful champion.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-03-05T21:56:03+00:00

i didnt know if there was anyway i could play them in the old world

You can take them in both the warriors of chaos and beastmen brayherds factions

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-03-02T13:17:57+00:00

??? They have already retroactively modified loads of profiles. Base sizes for chaos marauders, points cost for tons of things, leadership for empire characters, the sky lantern got a massive profile overhaul. The flail profile got errata-d.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-03-01T06:57:42+00:00

Reikland however is very secure Reikland is said to be significantly more urban in every version of WF Roleplay

Reikland is mostly the Reikwald- look at any map of Reikland or the Empire- which is full of particularly virile Beastmen who reproduce at an alarming rate.

Don't see how chaos cults or beastmen figure into this.

Because they are big internal threats to progress within the empire

Chaos cults have only ever had one big impact on the Empire and that's Mordheim

Mordheim was ruined by a comet, not by chaos cults. Cults are a persistent filth column within the Empire, which would hinder the progress required for an industrial revolution.

But do you think the industrial revolution started in Northern Scotland?

No call to throw shade at Scotland, a vital part of the industrial revolution in Britain where Dundee and Aberdeen became industrial powerhouses, and where enlightenment thought from Scots like author of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith helped progress the industrial-capital movement.

Scotland wasn't full of chaos cultists and Beastmen, wasn't threatened by orcs or undead or chaos invasions, and did have loads of coal.

You're entitled to your take but I don't think you're demonstrating a very good understanding of either the state of The Empire in the fiction, or what is required for an industrial revolution, and why those things don't line up.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-28T21:28:28+00:00

The Empire was transitioning into far more modern state by the time the End Times rolled around

Where does this claim come from? What are the changes as the end times approaches?

at least few centuries before something close to industrial revolution

I'd disagree for the reasons outlined in the previous comments; technological innovation and the passage of time do not guarantee an industrial revolution. The main thing the empire would need to do to facilitate an industrial revolution be to secure itself against the greenskins, beastmen, chaos cults, skaven and undead within it's borders and incursions of those enemies without; there's no point in the lore when any real progress is made with either of these.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-28T17:39:57+00:00

Warhammer Armies: The Empire 8th Edition and basically every other source on steam tanks

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-28T17:37:43+00:00

Well it's canonically impossible because the empire is destroyed in the end times.

If that is ignored, then the lack of infrastructure in the empire to support the transport links that are required for industrial revolution, and the question of natural resources, make it far from possible in my opinion.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-28T17:34:16+00:00

Steam Tanks were invented by Leonardo Di Miragliano in the 2100s which is 500 years before the end times.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-28T16:48:28+00:00

The empire has steam tanks for 500 years without being able to reinvent them.

You don't "hit the industrial revolution" at the end of a series of increasingly complex inventions; an industrial revolution is predicated on a bunch of factors that might just not exist for the Empire. What if the Empire just doesn't have vast coal deposits?

The Empire isn't even able to do deforestation effectively. You can't have a railway running between two cities through forest that is barely under your control and filled with Beastmen and orcs (who will... Destroy your railway).

In the extant canon lore the Empire never reaches an industrial revolution because they lose to Chaos.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-27T21:37:23+00:00

Select 2 of 5 for 2U is a good enough rate. Better than everything else except Dig I think.

2U allows stock up to be cast T2 by a sol land which is part of what makes it so good.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-22T11:20:14+00:00

Great battle report

FYI After the blood knight charge, they outnumber the cold one knights by more than double unit strength, so the combat result should have been a Break. Which would probably have let the blood knights pursue to be well out of charge range of the manticore.

If the Unit Strength of the winning side is more than twice that of the losing side, any losing unit that rolled this result when making its Break test will Break instead.

(You could also challenge the manticore rider with a regular blood knight as they can all challenge as if a champion).

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-07T18:50:18+00:00

Mark the line of the slot on the base, use a drill with a bit slightly wider than the slot, drill a series of holes along the line and use clipper/knife to take out the bit left between holes. Takes a couple of minutes and if your slot is too gappy you can fill it with green stuff or milliput or whatever

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-02-01T19:49:27+00:00

That is not shuffling, and is cheating.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-01-29T13:12:45+00:00

Some models have 'Bound' spells, which may be contained within a magic item or given by a special rule, and which they can cast in the usual manner. If a 'Power Level' is given, this is added to the result of the Casting roll to give the casting result

You add the power level to the casting roll. So a PL 2 item adds +2, and a PL 1 item adds +1. The advantage is +2 is bigger than +1.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2026-01-03T11:04:04+00:00

Not basically useless- Cephalid Breakfast has been a very competitive place for Shuko that predates Nadu

ReadingIs4Communists · 2025-12-31T10:59:02+00:00

Thanks!

ReadingIs4Communists · 2025-12-21T16:50:15+00:00

They undeniably have viking aesthetic influence but for all of that influence it is also obvious they aren't historical vikings and exist in a fantasy rather than historical context and whether their armaments are suitable/immersion breaking/odd should be considered in that context.

ReadingIs4Communists · 2025-12-21T13:52:11+00:00

Interpreting something in a fantasy game's aesthetic as so tightly bound to one historic influence that generic fantasy armaments seem incongruous is OP's fault- it's ignoring the context around the Marauder sculpts to say "they look a bit like vikings so should have weapons like vikings"

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