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Scraping the mold lines off them makes it feel like there are a lot :)

Had them for years, and there is about 162 of them! but if I'd seen 162 more on ebay I'd have bought them :) PS The recent region updates make ebay UK not work properly without a VPN so i havnt been buying much recently. I have a UK address to post them to, but don't live in the UK. I have a 4-5 pump wagons to go with them too

@@markysgeeklab8783I did buy some stuff in the last couple do weeks on there and got it sent to a friend okay…you just have to fiddle around with the address a bit including making the UK address your primary to easily get combined shipping etc. But saying that I’m not an expert by any means

Rarely use discord, but I might join that one, I'm also on bugmans brewery forum and used to be on the underempire forum a lot to try and keep my skaven tournament winrate abnormally high :) times have changed though, people don't mind "forums" inside "super apps" now.

@@markysgeeklab8783 previously I just used Discord to call my friends whilst playing a computer game but this has opened up a new side for me. As someone who has rekindled their love for the hobby it is nice to have a space where you can share that. It makes a really big difference being part of a good community rather than just quietly doing hobby by yourself or with a friend or two. There are people from all over the world on there (though it is all in English). I’m in Australia and I remember you are in NZ. Lots of people from the UK not surprisingly

It is, I've just gone down to working 4 days a week. The Dawi are 2nd in the Q after night gobbos (hardly painted since 2016 so I need a warm up first)... I also need to build retaining walls and a fence and paint a house and landscape a garden first tho :/

@@markysgeeklab8783 sounds like you will be a busy man. I’ve recently gotten back into painting myself after quite a long break maybe 2014? I picked up the Bretonnians army box and I’ve painted all 60 infantry from that box and just started on the first unit of knights. I was pleasantly surprised how quickly I was able to get into the swing of things again. Contrast/Speed paints combined with Underpainting helps speed the process up before the traditional highlights are applied I have about 230 metal dwarfs myself mixed between unit types. A fair number of older plastic dwarfs but not really any of the multipose ones so I’m looking forward to getting the upcoming battalion box

@Svengar great painting project! I'm not sure if I will get the dwarf box??, I want a goblin hewer and some Doom seekers from the made to order & I wish I'd got myself some late 90s iron breakers & miners with the candles instead of 60+ lead thunderers and 40 Rangers, so will grab some if they pop up :) I found another lead gyrocopter in one of my boxes while hunting the other day too.

@@markysgeeklab8783 I love finding minis I had forgotten that I owned. I suppose I don’t really need the battalion box but I’ll pick one up anyway as I don’t have any of those type of plastics. Definitely keen on some of the made to order as well. I’ve got 3 doom slayers but would like more plus that goblin hewer

"Wet brush" of Brown paint over black, dry brush of lighter brown, model train flowers from China and either tufts from army painter or static grass

@@markysgeeklab8783thanks chief!! Are you on any platforms where I might find some close ups? :)

I've been buying bits of it over the last 31 years :) I just bought old units and collections when I saw them on ebay or at occasional 2nd hand mini sales. One of my regrets is selling a couple of other armies when I was about 20ish and "needed" the money to go out partying... I still have quite a few tho! PS I did put one vid of opening a collection I bought on my channel

We will be waiting a long time I fear..

I'm confident that dwarves will be on 25mm bases. I'm printing trays for 20mm bases to upsize them to 25mm... I was about to base some "fresh" 90s lead dwarves on 25s then I thought, hold on a minute, I've got a 3d printer.

I understand your viewpoint. I even considered a round based warband for mordheim once. I think it changes when they are placed in units though, I don't like units or squads on round bases when they touch each other. I still prefer my game pieces on squares, but if it was purely for display or for a skirmish game like necromunda, then I like round bases

From a gaming perspective square bases are objectively superior as they provide more information than round bases, since they have four different facings that can be measured accurately and objectively. This adds factors to be taken into account by players which forces them to make tactical decisions and commit to them. Conversely, round bases are vague and uncommitted, facings are unclear, and they reduce tactical depth.

Thanks, I'm planning on sharing where I downloaded them and all the pros and cons of the different buildings I print for use in the old world

I hope the game uses lots of double use kits from AOS or 40k (daemons) - that should make it viable for GW to support it if it doesn't get lots of players. The wheeling and pivoting is a personal taste thing - Kings of war is a lot more streamlined, but I quite like the "tetris" part of the game (planning and making my blocks fit in the spaces they need to be in). Hopefully the sub phases are mainly there to make the game simpler to play and to stop people like me exploiting so many things in the game to win at tournaments (I regularly used rat darts & skitterleap in 8th to bog down deathstars). Counter charges are interesting, I hope they work in a similar way to the old empire detachments as that was quite fun. I'm still positive about this and I am looking forward to my first game :)

"I hope the game uses lots of double use kits from AOS" You'd think that wouldn't you - but all those Warhammer Fantasy models that GW made and slapped a AoS brand onto, such as trolls and fanatics, are absent from the pics so far: in fact we've seen the OLD trolls and they used the OLD treeman !! @@markysgeeklab8783

I think you are likely to be right. GW saying that the new bretonian bowmen unit will sell as a box of 32(36?) models + them having playtesters now, makes me think big units working well in game is very very likely.

@@markysgeeklab8783 I thought it was pretty cool when they said you would get 32 archers which is twice what the old kit was. Obviously price is a factor as you don’t want to just pay twice for the twice as many minis. They will need to have some pretty special rules for the Bretonnian knights since there won’t be an advantage to fancy formations otherwise…will be interesting to find out

Haha I thought my 200+ skeletons was going to be bad :)

Why don't just use slotted trays? BTW Never seen a vampire army that hadn't had at least one 5*20mm gravestone placeholder 😅

There are assholes in almost every social group, it's easy to catogarise people based on the similarities our brains see between them, but I don't think it's reasonable to tar everyone who likes a game with the same brush. Many of us who love warhammer fantasy are as welcoming as possible and love it when anyone shows an interest in our favorite war game... yes we might try to convert you to square bases, yes we might often be the weirdos on the edge of popular wargaming, but that isn't anything bad. I don't see anyone as less deserving of happiness because of the game they enjoy, if my kids or friends like AOS, then I will play AOS, even if it's not my cup of tea. PS my local games club plays AOS and Warhammer Fantasy at the same time on neighboring tables, about 40% (guess) of the players play both games, it's fine.

Yes, Bretonian peasant bowmen had 16 archers and a row of stakes. Last box I remember with 30 models was the regiment of Altdorf... & that was ages ago! 32 is a big box of minis by old warhammer standards, 16 and 20 fig boxes were relatively common, but 30+ hasn't been common since the early 90s.

Just in time for valentines day... I'm sure my wife won't mind if I'm too busy building skeletons to take her out :)

The plastic dwarves really have a different aesthetic from the old lead dwarves.. that reminds me,I need to get some metal ironbreakers or my dwarf army will need to field plastic if I play a 5000pt game :)

@@markysgeeklab8783 I really love the old metal dwarves, not super easy to get these days sadly. The imperial dwarves were very cool going back to when the empire could field dwarves and halflings. I feel lucky enough to have a decent selection of metal dwarves; miners, Norse, slayers, thunderers, longbeards etc. I even have a cool little metal gyrocopter. I’ve got some plastics as well including about 40 of the regiments boxed set ones. You must have a very decent collection to field 5000 points

Does it have the metal men at arms in it? Or the plastic ones? If it was mine I'd either build it, paint it and enjoy it OR sell it and buy a painted army (if you don't have time to build and paint it). If you don't enjoy owning/collecting the sealed box(es) then it's better to make a change... better to a risk successful outcome than guarentee a boring one :)

It was the first army Deal they did it contained a trebuchet 3 Pegasus knights 3 mounted characters one on foot 16 archers 16 knights and 5 questing knights and the army book good deal at the time

Agreed. I’ve got old metal dwarfs, they wouldn’t look good on 25mm

Great comment lol

Maybe we just need to make the terrain smaller :)

I have been buying the old paint set with the 5 sea guard in it whenever I see it for sale to add a rank at a time :) the paint sets don't seem to have as much "ebay tax" as the sea guard without the paints

@@markysgeeklab8783 Oh you devious so-an-so, I'd forgotten there even was a paint set with sea guard.

I hope they add some rules that make side ways conga lines (I'm going to call it "can can formation".. I should TM that fast!) A very risky option, if can can formation Gets loads of attacks, but is largely immobile and will get wrecked by a small dart if it rear charges the rear then it would be ok..

Where's the box from. You don't get very clear, thick plastic very often.

Hopefully they design the rules to be good at larger sized games... BUT also work for a fun smaller game. I agree battle size creep was a big problem getting new players for WFB - partly because of the existing player base not playing 1000pt games much. The "so I just need to buy and paint 200 minis and I can try the game??" effect was definitely a problem.

I will up the volume for the next vid (same settings as normal but seems quieter). I also normally remember to adjust the volume on the bell down Sorry :)

I didn't find it loud. What I didn't like was the rat swarm that attacked me shortly afterwards.

@@markysgeeklab8783 thank you! Other than that it was a great video.

@@scepteredisle lol. Very amusing,

I hope you are wrong about total war long thin lines! GW could avoid this by making sure it would be easy to out manouver big lines of infantry with multiple small units and making sure a flank/rear charge would wipe them out. The base change was probably just so GW could make sure their profit was maximized by standardizing base sizes for infantry at the size they need to be for some of the new AOS minis to be used in both games. Not ideal, but I can live with goblins on 25mm easier than I can live with the fantasy (on square base) community slowly disappearing.

​@@markysgeeklab8783 i guess so. We'll see. I tihnk I will keep my stuff on 20mm anyways,

@@markysgeeklab8783 we now have the answer with the wheeling rules. Going to very had to charge things with big units. Also from playing KOW, its generally accepted by everyone that the "horde" units are weaker than 2x regiments that are half the width because of overall mobility, charge mobility and the horde's vulnerability to multiple incoming charges.

Funnily enough I've had that high elf on griffin built since IOB came out in perfect condition & I accidentally bent the lance yesterday :) I like the IOB models, the BFSP dwarves are not my taste (i like my dwarves lead), but I do quite like the night goblins. I think the 25mm bases will help the night goblins from IOB look a bit more varied as they can be based at jaunty angles. Also I'm pretty sure GW could have done something worse than change the base sizes... let's wait and see what they do to the rules before we decide what the worst thing they could do is 😉

I think it will be more fun if we try to like it :) I convinced myself it was OK by imagining the swordmasters standing far enough apart to swing their blades without chopping each other. I liked the old bases size, but I'm going to embrace the change, even tho gnoblars, skaven slaves, giant rats and goblins would have been even better on 20mm.

@@markysgeeklab8783 the thing is, your units will go to absurd sizes. look at warriors or chaos chosen. those guys need 35mm-40mm bases. ever seen a 5 wide unit of Ogers? thats going to require major cut backs in movement rules akin to 8th edition, where movement rules were basicly gone

I've been meaning to get mine set up since I moved country... taken me 15 years to get round to it!.. air brush, paint stands (ordered another diffrent one too) and some stacking boxes for flocks and sands.. really looking forward to having it all set up. Good luck with getting yourself a hobby area in less than 15 yrs :)