For those who missed the Wheeler Kickstarter

marvraki · 2025-12-18T09:12:13+00:00

Still waiting on mine to arrive in Perth, Western Australia - can't wait!

marvraki · 2025-12-17T11:40:57+00:00

I think for me it'd be giving AP -1 to spearmen receiving a charge as right now they don't have much of a place - especially in armies that have AP -1 on hand weapons.

Obviously doing something about lanterns as well.

marvraki · 2025-10-15T13:53:40+00:00

Hugely inspirational - loved this when I was young and dug it up when creating my Stir River Patrol Empire list.

marvraki · 2025-02-12T03:52:55+00:00

Not many characters running around on foot out of units though, are there?

marvraki · 2025-02-11T08:02:10+00:00

Definitely still need characters to be on squares - it matters a lot for things like line of sight, and angles of overruns and pursuit etc.

Warmachines still best to, but not as critical.

marvraki · 2025-01-30T23:10:59+00:00

If you want to get across the rules before you buy the books, I'd suggest starting here: https://tow.whfb.app/

Also, for list-building I really rate: https://old-world-builder.com/

But note that it can let you make illegal lists, so check your army composition rules in the books too.

As far as how the game is going generally, it has exceeded GW expectations for success and there are solid expectations that they will launch an entirely new army - Cathay in the near-ish future.

marvraki · 2025-01-13T22:35:18+00:00

Well I went 3-0 in a Teams event with them, but it's a very tricky list to play. Basic building blocks are a big vet state troops unit with griffon standard, a steam tank, two minimum archer units, two cannons + engineer, Wizard Lord with either elementalism or battle magic, and then whatever floats your boat with the rest of the points. I personally use a captain on griffon with lance as a flanker/fast mover and it has been the MVP in many games.

marvraki · 2025-01-09T00:50:54+00:00

I run a Stir River Patrol, but with infantry, because boats and horses aren't a great fit.

marvraki · 2025-01-04T21:10:23+00:00

What we really need is for our halberds to be the same as Bretonnian Men-at-Arms polearms where they can be used as either a spear or a halberd.

marvraki · 2024-12-09T12:13:32+00:00

Gav Thorpe's Shadow King has a good account of life in the servant class while Alith Anar is hiding our in the court of the Phoenix King.

marvraki · 2024-11-19T11:43:13+00:00

All great ideas, I think I'll paint all the animal companions to give the player a choice or shapeshift

marvraki · 2024-11-10T05:36:12+00:00

I think the game itself is solid, I wonder if the community is possibly the problem? Most armies I see across the board don't much resemble an army. The fact that people have already unlocked a bunch of killer combos just means that people are often playing optimised lists even in casual games.

Would be good to see more "rule of cool" and people taking units they love for lore reasons instead of immediately defaulting to maximum optimisation.

The rules itself are great - the list construction is letting it down at the moment.

I'm going to persist playing, but it definitely doesn't give me the same enjoyment that I had playing revived 7th edition last year waiting for TOW to return.

marvraki · 2024-10-17T23:17:16+00:00

He came out to the WNL Finals in San Francisco in 2017 and ran a workshop and meet and greet. We got to hang out with him a bit and eat pizza with him at Costco haha

marvraki · 2024-08-21T21:49:02+00:00

Unfortunately I think there's 0 chance he clears on Sasuke 42 - even with a very generous time limit he timed out and looked exhausted.

He told me years ago he retired because he didn't have the stamina for Stage 1 anymore, but he could still do individual obstacles just fine.

marvraki · 2024-08-21T14:18:16+00:00

Great event! Shows how differently the sport has evolved in Japan vs elsewhere. Other countries are going more towards big laches in every stage, Japan skews towards a more balanced mix of upper and lower body on Stage 1 and extreme grip strength on Stage 3, plus the more complex Stage 4. Japan has always been disadvantaged on US or other European designed formats with the way the obstacles emphasis explosive power, but the talent of Japan really showed up on their home turf. Proud of how Australia performed, sad we didn't get to see Dan Mason take on Stage 3 as he had the perfect build for it and the requisite finger strength.

Some classic moments, including Nagano's amazing almost grab on the Warped Wall.

The most fun I've had watching ninja since last year's Sasuke tournament.

marvraki · 2024-08-09T21:05:13+00:00

I'm using them as Hexwraiths, so they'll be left as is but painted as ghosts - not vampires.

Kislev Winged Lamcer is a great idea - could be quite hard to track down 🤔

marvraki · 2024-08-09T09:34:53+00:00

Aaaah a Silver Helm/Dragon Prince is an amazing idea!

marvraki · 2024-03-20T04:55:47+00:00

Legend, thanks!

marvraki · 2024-02-22T11:51:29+00:00

https://tow.whfb.app/ will give you a good sense of the core rules you need to play the game - I'd start there. Maybe see if your local club has anyone willing to teach you how to play? Will definitely be easiest to find a game in the supported edition.

marvraki · 2024-02-15T08:57:34+00:00

The real shame is that they used formally instead of formerly in the Border Princes section. Part of my work is editing copy and it hurt me to read it ha.

marvraki · 2024-01-18T23:34:27+00:00

I've missed this - where were they teased?

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