GlynG wrote:
I'm quite tempted to get one to counts as an impressive Siege Warlord in the Epic UK Iron Warriors list.
could be fun. love to see you paint one up. especially doesn't matter if you measure to the base on the model for LOS/LOF (it's on the same base as the warlord after all)
GlynG wrote:
maybe more that people generally have migrated to facebook groups rather than forums these days.
Fizzbook and Discord are where most conversation happens now. Good bad or other, it's just how it is. A few dozen posts a day is fairly typical of most epic-ish groups.
GlynG wrote:
I don't know if the Net-EA titan lists will ever add the new titans as playtesting here seems to have largely died sadly.
Also people are far more interested in beer and pretzels gaming right now it seems. I think tournament centric open development type testing just isn't what most people really want anymore. They want something fun, thematic, with some semblance of a reasonable structure but aren't too fussed about 'tournament balanced'. The number of randoms I see on Facebook playing with the Tallarn idea Apoc and I wrote in an afternoon, which was never anything more than a proof concept, anecdotally I feel kinda backs that up. I was super surprised when I found out someone posted it to an army builder.
It seems people are less worried about some mythical balance vs just putting a bunch of models on a table for fun. Undoubtedly COVID has a lot to do with that as the idea of going to a tourney and stored based pickup games is about the farthest thing from most people's minds than playing with their little covid-pod circle of friends. Controversially, I don't think NetEA Approved status solves any problem the vast majority of epic players seem to care about. The UK, due to demographics and geography is a much different world than most of North America however so EpicUK really seems to be well suited.
Sure it could be 'tested' but also there's probably really no need to add a Warmaster to Epic. It's really easy enough to just use it in place of the assumed Emperor stats developed for EA. If GW somehow amazingly make an Empy titan we can then see just how much more insane the stats are but what we have now for an Empy is already functionally unplayable (my opinion) to anything other than another W/E based list at very high points (facing a conceptual ETC, AMTL, AT, that Tau walker, or GBM lists specifically) when you're bringing it already. If we want to stat up the new additional battle titan weapons for EA, more power to us, but there's not much to be gained I feel. The Warbringer is a bit different as it's an uparmored arty reaver in many ways and could be interesting for play but is it really all that different that using it as a reaver with a quake cannon requires?
tl;dr
The existing empy stats don't have enough room to fit the Warmaster in really to make it at all functionally different. It's so big as to be a good proxy for the empy in play anyways.
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