They broke the thane to be fair to them

I looooove me some artillery so I had a go with the Dwarf Engineer and an All-Artillery run and surprisingly this deranged skew list actually worked! It did come down to hand-to-hand a few times, but the Engineer's retinue of crossbows had just enough melee punch to get through.

@@vegladex i had an army that had only two artillery pieces in it, I felt like a God, until they got into melee and barely survived

did a run with 6 goblin bolt throwers and it worked.

I wept a little inside, just for those ratkin. But hey, they’re used to being disrespected and ignored, I mean, ratkin!

I feel like the Warhammer systems in general always feel like they are their to ruin your fun (in a good way). The FUN decision is to grab the guy who can throw fireballs with his mind. The SMART decision is to grab another unit of spears to flank with. Giants are impressive, but 40 dudes throwing rocks are CHEAPER.

To be fair, wizards are pretty awkward on the tabletop as well. Warhammer(or a legally distinct totally unique homage) is pretty brutally "nope" when it comes to casting in general. It really feels like their job is to wait around to blow their 1-2 big spells to slightly weight that single-turn swing victory in your favor. It's less D&D "I killed them all with a fireball" and more "I made them doubt themselves so my 40 stabby boys could kill 70% of them instead of 45%, so they routed and we could wipe them out later in the chase."

We need some good old fashioned Tom ballista

I started as human mage, but built hard into imperial artillery, the cannon and some rifles were enough ranged to see me through to the end, so long as my foot-knights could keep their models up. I did notice that the imperial cannon is perfect for artillery sniping, it beat off an entire dwarven arty regiment, one shot at a time

Same dude

Maybe don't wanna pay gw 85% of the money the game makes:p

What would be the interest of paying artists to draw copies of legally distinct units if it were an original idea id follow but those rat ogr.. i mean rat alphas dont really need to be reinvented we already know what they should look like

??? that doesn't mean anything, they should have paid actual artists instead of using something which has been proven time and time again to be skimming and stealing from those same artists, using ai in *anything* immediately shows that you don't care enough to put actual effort and work into making something good and devalues whatever youre working on