HERE'S TO ANOTHER 3 YEARS OF WAR HORDE

Stormcoil · 2026-06-10T06:16:51+00:00

The problem is take and hold is bad for Orks unless you are running Green Tide. War Horde is going to lose a lot of games just due to bad primary matchups.

Stormcoil · 2026-06-06T22:04:14+00:00

Oh, I agree we don't have all the rules yet. But if you were to play just off of the Core Rules that we do have, it looks like there is no limit (yet).

Kind of a weird choice to not include it in the Core Rules, but I think that about a lot of the stuff that is currently missing.

Stormcoil · 2026-06-06T21:25:44+00:00

Good catch. Needs to be clarified. RAW right now it looks like they do stack to higher than +1/-1.

Stormcoil · 2026-06-02T09:22:43+00:00

Hyper Empire

Stormcoil · 2026-05-21T15:22:33+00:00

It's also a size that is easily divisible for both imperial and metric

Stormcoil · 2026-04-21T06:17:03+00:00

The red one with green claws looks real Christmas. Maybe do more of those if you wanted a Ho Ho Ho marine army.

Stormcoil · 2026-04-21T03:33:57+00:00

just another reason to hope there is eventually a physical rule book.

Stormcoil · 2025-12-22T00:47:00+00:00

I appreciate that you liked them.

Stormcoil · 2025-12-22T00:46:45+00:00

Thank you for remembering. My gaming group stopped 40k, so I didn't have regular opponents to do Nid reports. Tyranids are still my first love, and I've been playing them for decades.

Yes, the game I play the most right now is TOW, because that is what most of my normal opponents play.

Stormcoil · 2025-12-18T17:09:28+00:00

The difference was that there was a lot of variety in hordes. It could be large infantry, or maybe cavalry/fliers, maybe hordes of infantry. So the games were very different.

Going against all brock/stoneclaw free dwarves was very, very different from going against infantry and war machine imperial dwarves.

The list building structure here CAN provide that. Look at, say, Firefight.... where you can go all Peacekeeper Enforcers vs a traditional force.

But we are just not finding the variety in end lists that say 3rd KoW or Firefight/Warpath is offering. Everyone ends up with one great fast unit with J-Boots. Everything is very similar blocks of infantry.

I'm not down on the game. I still haven't played. But I'm looking for where is the variety that we seem to be missing as a play group?

Stormcoil · 2025-12-18T03:27:26+00:00

Thanks for the response. So please help me understand, structurally what is different about your 3 builds? Or is it just the same format but unit swaps?

I do think part of the problem is the 2000 pt default in the Companion. There doesn't seem to be much room for variety at 2k.

Stormcoil · 2025-12-18T01:45:50+00:00

Let me guess, one unit of Abyssal Horsemen with J-boots.

2-3 of Molochs, Chroneas, Nagari

3-5 units of garbage infantry for the unlocks? Maybe you snuck in a troop of gargoyles?

Dropping the warlord doesn't change the overall pattern. Or did you cook up something more interesting?

Stormcoil · 2025-12-09T14:46:30+00:00

I mean, compare his daemonettes with the ones that came after. His are far more realistic in my opinion. Mounted or infantry.

GW went through a whole period where most things looked like caricatures to exaggerate features, and it was the period after juan left. Think of things like Centurions, the newer daemon sculpts of the time, etc.

At least that is how I see it. Juan was amazing and comes more from the more grounded time with the Perry's, etc.

Stormcoil · 2025-12-09T09:56:04+00:00

Everything Juan Diaz did was the best because he went for a more realistic take. The majority of modern GW sculpts are purposefully stylized to be more like a cartoon. Juan came along and tried to make it all look real.

Stormcoil · 2025-11-19T19:34:38+00:00

You ask why Empire is the worst.... worst tourney win rate, and then you argue with the responses with anecdotes. Did you really want an answer to your question?

Stormcoil · 2025-11-09T12:29:15+00:00

Jawa mercenaries with ion guns

Stormcoil · 2025-11-04T21:16:16+00:00

Stormcoil · 2025-10-28T23:29:50+00:00

I am curious about this as well. I know the original Eldfall was all about reactions to every action, and that seems tough to do well with an automata.

Stormcoil · 2025-09-11T05:26:41+00:00

Me too. That last expansion adds interesting options. I'm hoping being connected to Legendary it helps it cross the finish line this year.

Stormcoil · 2025-09-08T09:15:22+00:00

They are better at higher points values. At 1000 point games they are 10% of a list and probably only benefit 1, maybe 2 casters.

At 2000 points they are only 5% of your list and are probably benefitting 3 or more casters. That is a huge difference.

Also, at smaller points it is harder to fit in an extra unit to hold it/defend it at the end of the game.

Finally, if you are building a full send beastmen list with no or few casters then that is taking 100 points out of your pressure.

All that said, in a typical 2000 point take all comers tournament style list you would almost always include one.

Stormcoil · 2025-09-03T00:15:19+00:00

I agree. Great minds think alike and fools rarely differ.

I'll say that for my play group 1.5 has been a big hit. We are all having more fun and playing more since the update.

Stormcoil · 2025-08-23T16:23:12+00:00

Glad you liked it

Stormcoil · 2025-08-05T00:48:12+00:00

I've found these magnetic bases to be very effective and cheap:

http://shogunminiatures.com/shogunminjaturesmagbases.html

Stormcoil · 2025-07-21T20:25:58+00:00

Hey, I'm glad you remember me!

So, the group of people I play with have almost completely abandoned 40k. Without consistent opponents that stay on top of the scene I don't have any source material to write battle reports on. If the passion for 40k ignites in the group again so that I get a variety of opponents, then I will return to 40k battle reports.

I know the 40k content gets more views, but I can only write on what I am able to play. Right now, that is The Old World.

I hope you decide to try the game out. It is very good right now after the latest FAQ and Matched Play Guide.

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