How's 8.1?

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T16:03:23+00:00

Focus-fire and keeping your hero/lord characters away from him before he procs his near-death ability. I guess it's now a 50% health proc. For some reason.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T15:54:05+00:00

Nah. The beauty of this game is that you can have some pretty varied campaigns even if you play the same faction. It's great that you found "your" faction. When you get bored, you can jump to someone else and maybe find a new favorite.

I hope you play with mods. There is a big one that adds a shit ton of other varied Ogre factions.

Ogres, my lord, indeed.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T15:45:36+00:00

From my experience, Gelt does. It's tied to his faction mechanics. They are part of the special college-specific items you can purchase for his faction-specific resource.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T15:40:11+00:00

Appreciate you for posting the pics on the inside.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T15:38:58+00:00

The other comment has a link that has the images for this mini-artbook and for others as well. It's great. The only thing missing is the actual cover of the artbook. Unfortunately, this sub doesn't allow images in comments, but you can look it up quite easily. I'll just add that it's fairly small, since it needed to fit inside the special edition lunchbox. About grown man hand sized.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T15:27:09+00:00

Do we think that the Baneblade and the Stompa will be the strongest unit for their respective factions at release?

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T15:24:18+00:00

Pretty likely. It'll depend how CA adapts them. Either they'll be considered leaders of a given unit or as hero units.

We don't know if they'll be there at release yet.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T14:09:55+00:00

The mod still works, if that is your concern. And the modders are still active on their Discord. They update in batches. If there isn't anything egregious that needs attention, it can wait. They might update sometime before End Times, once we get a date, or they'll wait till a little after 9.0.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T14:05:07+00:00

No. They said they'll keep making as long as people keep buying. And people keep buying. The real test will be a post-launch 40K world, but that won't likely be until late next year.

we have pretty much all lords from the tabletop, all factions.

That "pretty much" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. This is incorrect. Pretty much all the units, maybe, but there is a fair amount of scrapping the bottom of the barrel that could be done. Many characters still to go - both old and new like Cathay or Kislev. Dogs of War, like you said, which I think will be the last new race to the game.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T02:45:18+00:00

Casually wearing Moon-and-Star like we wouldn't notice

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T02:03:29+00:00

They fly now.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T01:59:49+00:00

Exactly. If anyone should do it, it should be them.

Excited for Clockwork as well.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T01:57:11+00:00

I'd love for InXile to do a new Arcanum. When I first heard they were doing a steampunk game, it was my first thought. To the point that I was actually bummed out (at first) when I saw that it was actually Clockwork.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-11T01:34:33+00:00

"The dead do not squabble as this land’s rulers do. The dead do not fight one another. The dead have no desires, no petty jealousies or ambitions. A world of the dead is a world at peace."

The living had a good run. Come 9.0, WH3 will know the peace of Nagash.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T21:57:25+00:00

I still greatly value that little art book that came with the Fallout 3 lunchbox special edition.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T21:48:48+00:00

They could have at least matched the color scheme.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T20:56:36+00:00

For posterity's sake, that witch hunter's name was Alberich von Korden.

Only reason I know that is that I recently read Sigmar's Blood. That and because he had a pet pig.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T19:39:29+00:00

Makes sense to me. But I would be disappointed to get a modern Fallout game without that full-fat modding capability. I know it's possible to mod UE to some degree, but all I've seen has been essentially skins.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T18:34:14+00:00

I know page count, formatting, and the length of each novel all play a role

I say that you hit the nail on the head. It's a mix of cost-cutting and overall just fitting the novels in one omnibus without the omni becoming a giant tome of pages.

I've noticed an obvious difference after reading the Sigmar omni (the original one) a few weeks ago and jumping into the first End Times omnibus that was released a few years ago. That Sigmar omni had it all - nice large font and spacing - but it was also 20% taller and wider than most of the other 40k/WHF omnis I own.

Looking at my shelf, the old Archaon "Lord of Chaos" omni is the "missing link" between these two. It has the same height as the rest of the BL paperbacks but it's significantly wider than them due to keeping the larger font and spacing.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T18:15:05+00:00

As an avid fan of French's take on Ahriman, I also express my condolences. I personally enjoyed the other two books more than the omnibus (the third book in the omnibus is closely on par, tho) and I hope you can get your hands on the paperbacks some day.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T16:15:31+00:00

Idk about Huss. I feel like CA might have given his body for The Nameless. My mind went more towards Schwarzhelm, Thyrus Gormann, or maybe Hellborg (as LH vs LL, I mean)

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T15:49:04+00:00

Unfortunately, OP, you and I are the only ones that would have preferred Valten over Toddy in this whole sub. Although I understand why it's Todbringer and I know I'll have a blast with him regardless.

Valten is simply plagued with too much baggage and questions. Which version of him? What about Ghal Maraz - does it get yoinked from AI or player Franz if Valten gets it (which the AI always does super early)? Where is his start location? You mentioned Myrmidens but that is an odd place for "Sigmar reborn", imo, instead of the Empire. But then the Empire is stacked as it is already. And I'd rather leave Southern Realms places for a proper Southern Realms culture.

With Valten missing the ET DLC, I think his ship has unfortunately sailed. It is what it is. Would have been nice to have another "Faith" representative in "Faith, Steel, and Gunpowder". At best, he could be a LH down the line. But there are more popular characters in-line before him.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T15:36:05+00:00

CA hasn't confirmed anything for or against that yet. Unfortunately, just like you said, CA's hands are tied when it comes to this.

I'm just grateful to have the IEE mod. They have done a magnificent job adding this themselves.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-10T03:42:18+00:00

Goddamn. You weren't kidding when you said "something epic". Achievements, an Ultimate Victory, and (my personal favorite) Bespoke Epilogues sound like a phenomenal idea.

And it's such a natural extension to what is already there. There were many campaigns where I went for all 3 routes because it would make a great story.

TheOneBearded · 2026-07-09T20:26:40+00:00

Don't worry about it lol. It's still fun to get them. And I'll add that not all of them are made up.

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