Is the open beta registration working for anyone?
yeah did all 3 of my codes earlier. Working for me.
ohhh didn’t know there was a thread for this! I preordered WAR a couple months ago, can’t wait for the release.
Rolling destruction squig herder LOL
Any rumors on open beta start date?
I’m hearin the 18th for the OB client download so I’d assume it won’t be long after that.
Well this thread is actually for everything warhammer. There is also a thread for the MMO specifically too.
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=158382&highlight=warhammer
I would like to go order only because everyone is going to go chaos. In beta it was something like 4 to 1 distribution. I refuse to wait in a que to play.
I’ve been playing Order for the same reason. It’s great for scenarios, not so great for world RvR. It’s usually 20 on 5 on the RvR public quests. But I prefer the underdog, and will likely roll Order on release. Both sides have classes I’m into, so it’s no biggie either way.
Also we’ve decided to go with Warhammer Fantasy instead of 40K for tabletop.
Lookin to start either a Vampire Counts or Tomb Kings army. They’ve got the whole “Classic Horror Movie” feel goin’ for 'em. I love it! I’m not really sure how either plays but Tomb Kings SOUND difficult… But they’re also mummies… Which is awesome. And Vampire Counts can be absolutely disgusting with ghouls, corpse carts, zombies, etc. Not some emogoth-y “DARK LIKE MY SOUL” vampire crying club. Just how I like it.
Any advice from the WHFB players?
No Chaos in any form? In a Warhammer game? Wow… Didn’t see THAT coming.
I play both VC and TK. Heres the deal, you will win more games with VC, but the TK are sooo much more fun.
VC just kinda march forward and then you roll some dice. You can get a pretty fun magic phase, but other than that, I find them boring compared to the TK. TK have an awesome movement phase, shooting, magic, combat, everything. Just much more tricky and fun. The screaming skull catapult is dope and if you have 2, you can manage 4 shots a turn (rape on low LD).
TK also has dope variety of units; chariots, fliers, big heavies (ogre like things), burrowers, an awesome giant, and so on. That being said, TK is harder to play. It requires a lot of skill and knowing when to blow your load. On average, your models/units are going to be WAY overpriced for what they do, but everything in your army has the ability to totally rape via the magic phase.
I see TK kinda like Q or Hugo in 3s. You just sit there, moving 4 inches max (can’t march), overall you suck ass, but then if the opponent gets to close or makes a small mistake, your giant blasts forward 18 inches and sends a unit screaming. At 4 shots a turn, the catapult destroys greenskins, skaven, and even empire.
To summarize, you can pretty much focus on single, specific things, and choose to wreck shop. Meanwhile, the stuff you aren’t buffing sucks.
Depends on your playstyle. VC is very dependnet on characters and magic being able to outflank and break through fear. You can also do some crazy combos that give some units super killy ability and resiliance. You have to hide you big vampire for super killy characters or it is game over, speicals and rares are ok (giant manbats, potentially flying black coaches, uber killy knights, wraith units and banshees).
Tomb Kings are a bit harder to master as they have no super killy units but still depend on outflanking and breaking (max numbers of heavy horse and chariots are very fun) and their special and rare units are some of the funnest to play in the game (Giant burrowing Scorpians, The Ark of the Covenant, or King Kong size skeleton smashing things? Yes please!)
WAR is AWESOME so far. Public Quests are fun as hell and while the game lacks polish it is gonna become amazing later on.
IF IT WON’T STOP RANDOMLY CRASHING JESUS CHRIST! Worst bug EVER.
Anyway…
I’m expanding my horizons when it comes to army choice right now. After looking through the Skaven and Ogre stuff I realized that I really like both of those armies too. I’m definitely NOT abandoning the notion of playing Tomb Kings just yet, though…
I’ve heard that Skaven are basically the horde army… Thing is it sounds kinda like a cop-out just winning by outnumbering everyone. They still have depth, yeah?
^Lmao dude, I can’t even get past Character Creation without the pos crashing, I posted about it on the forums, Customer Service Reps locked it, no response. 
Well, there’s probably God knows how many people posting about it because it’s a common problem…
Just today it was the FIRST TIME the High Elves came out for an RvR scenario. The score was like… Destruction 428/500 and Order 23/500. We were about to get the last point then BAM! Crash.
I bet I didn’t get the Renown…
But apparently it was worse before. I don’t even want to know…
yo, despite the fact of my epic noobness, that shit looks fuckin dope. bout time the nids got in the game!
It is not a good sign when they start pulling entire classes from races. I was planning on checking it out until then. Besides you need to join the rest of us and play with man barbies instead BEWD.
In other news there are some sweet new Boris Vallejo inspired miniatures coming out for the Chaos Mortals list:
and finally the mounted Chaos Homage to Death Dealer Lord
GW also announced another price increase after august so these will be under the new prices 
Wow the chaos lord looks great ^^
Every army in Warhammer Fantasy has depth. Of course cheesey 1-dimensional lists exist, but there is no 1-dimensional army on the whole. Ogres are really weak, just a heads up.