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State of the Game

Sorry if I haven't been making as many posts recently. With summer winding down, I ended up hopping back into the world of MMORPG's. It is almost like you have time in your life for so many hobbies. The more time I spend on ArcheAge , the less active I am in other areas. My character is on Aranzeb if you ever want to check it out. Send a message to Maceo. I am going to work on a little more balance in the upcoming weeks and try to get back into doing more outside of this one particular game. But I'll just leaving this here in the mean time. Yeah, that is me with a trade pack on a skateboard.

Ranked Movement

I don't know what the deal is with all this. I saw another post where someone was 'fixing' 8th edition to put out a homebrew called 9th Age . It isn't that I don't applaud what they are doing if that is what they want to do. But I shudder to think about playing a system with errata, an upgraded magic system, and a host of special rules - no, for me simple is the key. I love what they've done with Age of Sigmar. The biggest argument that people make (despite the fact GW actually destroyed the world) is that it is no longer ranked combat in a heroic fantasy game. So while there were people playing Kings of War previous to this, now it is officially the Games Workshop Ranked Combat Battle System if you listen to the people posting on the interwebs. But why? Why do I have to play an entirely different system to use my models on movement trays? What else don't they like about it? Is it simply the wheeling and moving troops around in big blocks? Is it the...