So my post yesterday was a bit of a closure entry and not just in terms of finishing up my activity on Lizardmen.
It was also an entry to mark the end of PTG's 15-16 season and our official move into THE 9th AGE!
I'd mentioned previously about how PTG didn't really embrace The End Times (at all) and that Age Of Sigmar didn't grab us either and so we were continuing with 8th Edition. This has been fine for some time and we continued to do so right through until the end of May 2016. Our 'season', which sounds a lot more organised than it actually is, runs from 1st June - 31st May each year and so we decided it was as good of a time as any to explore something that was really beginning to take off in Warhammer circles.
The 9th Age is getting a lot of attention as the gaming system to replace 8th Edition and I wholeheartedly agree with everything that it has done. It's exactly what gamers needed to revive a hobby that looked like it was dying and so I feel it necessary to first of all state my praise for all those people that have come together to make The 9th Age a real product, not least one that is very enjoyable and competitive.
Therefore since we decided to give The 9th Age rules a go, we've had 4 'practice' games. The first 3 were between myself and Lucky-Sixes, while Stat-Rat got in on the game for the fourth one. Over the next few posts I'm going to run down how those battles went and our thoughts on what happened.
Fingers crossed it will be the beginning of more regular posting!
Come on The 9th Age!
Hyper-G
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Thursday, 3 September 2015
Hello!
This blog has been a bit neglected over the last few months. And quite possibly it hasn't mattered anyway if no-one except us is actually paying any interest... (not bitter, honest!)
Either way, I felt like writing something Warhammer related and as we have this blog why not just ramble for the sake of it!
So this post comes during a time where the future of Warhammer Fantasy is uncertain. It's been about a year since the End Times happened to Warhammer 8th edition Fantasy (I can't really remember when it started).
The 3 of us didn't particularly get very involved in the End Times being honest. We read a few bits online and looked on with interest but weren't really in a position to keep up. All of us were busy moving houses, getting divorced / married (both of those were me!), and / or just focusing on other parts of busy lives. Plus all this life stuff getting in the way meant that funds were (and still are) quite short. We definitely didn't have the money to buy the story / rule books for the End Times or any of the models that came out and so in truth it passed us by a little.
And then... all of a sudden... Age of Sigmar happened.
PTG was initially quite excited as the free downloads meant that all our current models could be used in the new game. We were still all very hopeful of a proper Warhammer Fantasy 9th edition but as the weeks went by it was clear that 9th edition wasn't part of GW's plans.
We tried a few games of Age of Sigmar. I think we had 3 over the space of about 2 weeks. It was alright. I played in all 3 using as close to non-proxy as I could with my few Dwarf models. With them I won 2 of the 3 against High Elves and Skaven but was absolutely annihilated by the summoning Vampire Counts. We quickly realised that summoning was extremely powerful and perhaps we'd need to create our own house rules to tone it down a bit.
But then... we just didn't.
We lost interest in AoS. Not because we hadn't enjoyed the few games or time became short or anything. We just realised that AoS wasn't 8th edition. It didn't give us the same kick. There wasn't as much desire to play it. And none of us cared much for the new models or armies GW were releasing either. Nothing against AoS particularly. It just didn't hold our interest.
And so in the summer of 2015 we returned to Warhammer Fantasy 8th edition. We're keeping our eyes open online for various efforts in progress including Warhammer Fantasy 8.5 and fan-made 9th edition plus new army books made by non-GW sources. All are very intriguing but for the time being... for us... 8th EDITION LIVES ON!!!
Hazzar!
Hyper-G
This blog has been a bit neglected over the last few months. And quite possibly it hasn't mattered anyway if no-one except us is actually paying any interest... (not bitter, honest!)
Either way, I felt like writing something Warhammer related and as we have this blog why not just ramble for the sake of it!
So this post comes during a time where the future of Warhammer Fantasy is uncertain. It's been about a year since the End Times happened to Warhammer 8th edition Fantasy (I can't really remember when it started).
The 3 of us didn't particularly get very involved in the End Times being honest. We read a few bits online and looked on with interest but weren't really in a position to keep up. All of us were busy moving houses, getting divorced / married (both of those were me!), and / or just focusing on other parts of busy lives. Plus all this life stuff getting in the way meant that funds were (and still are) quite short. We definitely didn't have the money to buy the story / rule books for the End Times or any of the models that came out and so in truth it passed us by a little.
And then... all of a sudden... Age of Sigmar happened.
PTG was initially quite excited as the free downloads meant that all our current models could be used in the new game. We were still all very hopeful of a proper Warhammer Fantasy 9th edition but as the weeks went by it was clear that 9th edition wasn't part of GW's plans.
We tried a few games of Age of Sigmar. I think we had 3 over the space of about 2 weeks. It was alright. I played in all 3 using as close to non-proxy as I could with my few Dwarf models. With them I won 2 of the 3 against High Elves and Skaven but was absolutely annihilated by the summoning Vampire Counts. We quickly realised that summoning was extremely powerful and perhaps we'd need to create our own house rules to tone it down a bit.
But then... we just didn't.
We lost interest in AoS. Not because we hadn't enjoyed the few games or time became short or anything. We just realised that AoS wasn't 8th edition. It didn't give us the same kick. There wasn't as much desire to play it. And none of us cared much for the new models or armies GW were releasing either. Nothing against AoS particularly. It just didn't hold our interest.
And so in the summer of 2015 we returned to Warhammer Fantasy 8th edition. We're keeping our eyes open online for various efforts in progress including Warhammer Fantasy 8.5 and fan-made 9th edition plus new army books made by non-GW sources. All are very intriguing but for the time being... for us... 8th EDITION LIVES ON!!!
Hazzar!
Hyper-G
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