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Summoning is still useful, even in Matched Play. Consider the following: you already have a varghulf courtier, who can fly, is a BAMF in combat, and can restore models to a nearby ghoul unit. Ghoul units have high Bravery. Your king-on-terrorgiest can easily use his command ability to summon...

I'm working on my Flesh-Eaters. My FLGS has started a Path to Glory campaign, so I'm letting the dice decide what I paint next. At the moment, I'm still working on my initial warband: a ghoul king on a terrorgeist, twenty ghouls, a ghast, and a trio of crypt horrors. In the background, I'm...

I don't know if that's the only reason. The books have some cool art and background content as well, plus some of us like to have a book in hand, and it's really convenient to have your army rules and your rule "book" in one volume.

Hm. I really hope that not too much of the new faction is reliant on mortis engine variants. I already built most of mine and don't want to have to buy another...

You might be right. But... the thing is, the Flesh Eaters line already included a big multi-part plastic kit (Crypt Horrors) and a leader who could be assembled on foot or on a dragon. That gave them the ability to add several new unit (Tomb Flayers, Tomb Haunter and Tomb Infernal Courtiers)...

I wouldn't sneeze at that.

Yes and yes, though I could see some kind of rule where necromancers can be slotted into multiple other subfactions. The Nighthaunts also need some kind of wizard. Maybe a ghost mage of some kind?

I'm really curious to read about what my more experienced brethren think is the future of this Death sub-faction. I love the models, but as it stands, they don't really make any sense. The Start Collecting! box includes a model that isn't in the faction as described in the General's Handbook...

These are awesome. Now I also want a pirate-themed army...

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I run into the Nagash problem a lot when I run Exalted. Deathlords are just always smarter than you, stronger than you, everything more than you. They should be unbeatable, but that doesn't make for good narrative. So, you need to give them blind spots. I don't know Nagash well enough to guess...

Hi guys! I'm really enjoying Age of Sigmar, and the playstyle and models of the various Death factions are really appealing to me right now. I'm building a collection composed mostly of Flesh Eaters and Malignants with a few necromancers and vampires thrown in for good measure. I've got a...

I like that the vampires are strong anti-heroes. Evil, sure, but not CHAOS evil. They are a very human evil, and in a world of rapacious, hungry monsters and thirsting, inhuman gods, that's practically good.

Welcome! I'm in the same boat, though I won some eBay auctions and have some troops already. I'm pretty inexperienced myself, but I'll do my best to answer your questions, and hope to learn from how people respond to them. Yes. Zombies are good for numbers and the fact that any...

I'm reasonably sure a saurus could do that, too. Just sayin'.

Hi, everyone! I thought you'd like to come along and see what I can do, now that I'm actually getting some of my vampires and their grody minions painted up. First of all, let me give you an abstract. One, I'm dipping this army. I don't dip much anymore, but with the enormous amount of...

This is an interesting perspective. Let's leave aside "normal," because normative value judgments aren't really going to help us here. What's "normal" mean? We are the only beings currently in the business of separating "normal" from "abnormal," so we really don't have any standard for...

There are a couple of things some folks don't get about evolution, so I'm going to go all science teacher on you and try to set you straight. First of all, there's this idea that evolution works as a series of small steps. This is not always true. Evolution works through taking advantage...

For me, it's all about the Lizardmen. I love their aesthetic. I love their playstyle. I love the models. Lizards for the lizard throne!

"Lagging behind" is a highly suspect value judgment. Intelligence is one strategy for survival, but not the only one. Consider that, chronologically speaking, human history is incredibly brief. Given that, you'll see that many forms of life were doing just fine before we arrived, and are likely...