Maj Pain Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Rock on it's FEEDING time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vutpakdi Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Are they going to do sell all grunts/adepts as singles or are they going to continue making the 2 and 3 pack blisters? If they start making everything singles it will it make the game more expensive? Then there would be no alt poses. All grunts and adepts are going to be available as singles or as "army packs" consisting of 6-10 minis. The cost per mini for singles will remain as they currently are (about $4.50), but the cost per mini for the army packs will be less than the current price. The army packs would have 2-3 poses for each mini. Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camRogers Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 feeding is fun to do in the campain at the store up town its in a underground setting and its fun attacking someone with undieing host but sadly the person being attacked is allowed to choose to fight under or above ground........but once you get familer with the basic list i would suggest useing the Crypt Legion sub-list its quite helpful in a number of ways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krztoff Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Quick question: Do you folks think that choosing to not use skeletons would cripple a necropolis player? I'm thinking about sticking with mostly zombies and wraiths for my grunt choices (wraiths and crimson knights for vampire lists, along with some crypt bats if I felt crypt-batish). I just don't care for skeletons because they are fragile, and I've already had two breakers break on me before they were even painted. I know that my crypt legion grunts would become a bit more expensive, and I would lose the ability to use archers, but they would all either be really tough or able to pass through terrain. I think it just might be viable. Your thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwyksilver Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 It would only really hurt you if you were playing a Crypt Legion list. You'll be less able to mob people with the low cost Skellies, but you have a lot of other viable alternatives. You'll also have to give up your Cavalry units as well, but the incorporeal helps negate that by avoiding all movement penalties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warwick Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 I don't field skeletons because they don't fit my theme. I enjoy a nearly all vampire army rushing across the table. Okay, so far I haven't had great success, but I'm a poor general. I'm learning every game the sublety the vamps need, especially Vandrian who always gets killed in my games. Soon all will tremble when the legion of the fang come out to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 I just picked up the Warlords Starter and I'm finding the same issue with the Skeletons that Krztoff has - they are nice sculpts, but they do appear to be quite fragile. What techniques have you all used to strengthen them up/keep them from breaking? I was thinking about picking up the chain pack to drape chains over their bodies as a way to strengthen them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwyksilver Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 If a piece breaks, and it won't simply reattach with glue, I just glue it to the base and call it battle damage. I haven't had too many of my skellies suffer breaks, but I also don't use the models all that much. They are very fragile so they are prone to breaking, especially at the elbow, which is a royal pain to pin into. Not to mention they are so thin there isn't much "meat" to drill into. I'd be happy to see these recast/sculpted into something a bit sturdier, even if it increased the cost of the individual model from $3.37 to $4.49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krztoff Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 My breaks have been on the spine, on models that have a point where the spine is the only thing connecting torso to legs. They are more or less unusable in their current state, and the spine is hardly thicker than the wire, so pinning is right out. I suppose I could just leave the legs out and have a torso swinging the breaker sword, but that might look stupid. I would like some resculpts that were more skeletons in full suits of armor. Maybe similar to what Rackham did. I'd buy resculpts of all three skeleton types if it happened, even at the higher price point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwyksilver Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Wow. So far the only place I have had problems with breaking is at the elbows. Spine has been fine. The spine is just enough to pin, but it take a very steady hand to do so, and is probably more work than it is worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voladilk Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 I have an army list that is almost all skellies. In one of my 750 point lists I have 24 skellies.. I guess I have either been really careful or very fortunate with them. I have only had one of them break and it was at the spine, but that was more due to me wanting to change its facing than the model being very fragile. I think perhaps I got a more sturdy batch. I can totally see where they would be more fragile than most other models and because of that I do take a LOT more care of them then my other models. I think a resculpt with some armour or something to strengthen the model would be very handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castlebuilder Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 I'm probably pushing 40 or so skeletons. I've reposed most of them to get the greatest possible variety of poses. I've only had one breaker come apart at the spine, and no elbows that I can recall. And they have all seen a good bit of use. Castlebuilder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivrel Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 40 or so skellies, what amount of points are you using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 I should probably mention that I haven't broken any of my skeletons - yet. But they do look very fragile, and I cracked the first one at an elbow trying to repose it. So, at this point, I'm not going to be reposing mine much. The skeleton breakers were a little sturdier than the skeleton warriors (which is what I cracked), so they're getting a bit more posing. As Necropolis isn't my first choice of armies (I only got them because I couldn't pass up the deal of the starter set, which came with a $20 gift certificate to my FLGS in addition), I'm not going to be too upset if they do break. I'm really only painting up this army so I have an alternate army to help find new players with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vutpakdi Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 No problems with my 12 or so breakers (who see use in demos). The bows on my skeletal archers are much more fragile though: 2 were broken before I started painting. Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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