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Kazzah posted:Yeah, that's probably Sniktch using his delete key. Don't worry, he can't use it on you.
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ai eshin cant do that. what happened is grimgors army lost a battle to greenskin rebels and got confederated by them
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Feb 24, 2021 10:44
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Tiler Kiwi posted:ai eshin cant do that. what happened is grimgors army lost a battle to greenskin rebels and got confederated by them Huh, I got the faction destroyed message.
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Feb 24, 2021 10:45
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Nelson Mandingo posted:I'd really love to hear or read a write-up of what's been going on at Game's Workshop honestly. Legal must have had a lot of sway, I remember them suing a children's book's author because the title of the book had the word "space marine" in it, and then they got so pissy they lost the case it was (one of?) the reason they started renaming everything to proprietary terms they could police better. Steamhead Duardin, lol, you win GW you can keep that one for yourselves. Curiously they moved away from terms they probably COULD have policed already, like Eldar, too.
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Feb 24, 2021 12:25
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KazigluBey posted:Curiously they moved away from terms they probably COULD have policed already, like Eldar, too. I thought Eldar was originally coined by Tolkein so maybe that's why? That's probably my bad memory/misremembering though  V Ah cool, thanks. Then yeah "Eldar" may be owned by the Tolkein Estate so that'd explain GW drifting away from it. V Blooming Brilliant fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Feb 24, 2021 12:36
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Eldar is a tolkien-elvish word for elves yeah.
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Feb 24, 2021 12:48
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Playing on very hard and it’s a good spot I think. However by far the most frustrating thing is hordes of enemy agents which is massively unfun to deal with. Are there any tips for dealing with this poo poo? Other than using a passive agents mod.
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Feb 24, 2021 15:29
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Start getting used to having more assassins is the real answer. Some factions are better than others for this.
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Feb 24, 2021 15:42
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I've read that the AOS name changes are as much about being distinct for search engines as for legal reasons, though I guess if they weren't able to legally hold the exclusive rights to the names, people would just copy them and defeat the purpose of making them distinct for search engines, so the two reasons dovetail together.
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Feb 24, 2021 15:56
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Eldar is a tolkien-elvish word for elves yeah. Warhams is 90% ripped from LOTR as is so GW really should have just kept rolling with it rather than getting so pissy with trademark names and such.
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Feb 24, 2021 16:01
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Warhams is 90% ripped from LOTR as is so GW really should have just kept rolling with it rather than getting so pissy with trademark names and such. honestly its really not ripped off from lotr that much. it rips off a lot of other things too
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Feb 24, 2021 17:15
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Feb 24, 2021 17:16
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Cythereal posted:So in Anno 2070, my dumbass tycoon executives are once again threatening revolt if I don't build an ICBM silo, and once again I don't see the point in building that entire chain that I otherwise have no use for. The last time they pulled this, I don't them to bite me and lived through the insurrection. This time, I've built that fancy persuasion emitter thing at the academy and sent it over to my tycoon island. Try using Ikit Claw instead.
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Feb 24, 2021 17:18
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orangelex44 posted:Try using Ikit Claw instead. Sorry, wrong thread. Also, using nukes is exactly the wrong approach. If they pull this poo poo again I'm feeding them to the sea lizards. (I would adore a naval combat spinoff)
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Tiler Kiwi posted:honestly its really not ripped off from lotr that much. it rips off a lot of other things too It rips off things that rip off LotR but the elves and orcs and poo poo, while obviously ripped off LotR ripoffs, have become pretty distinct.
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Feb 24, 2021 17:22
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Why care about Brets when we have Flesh Eater Courts, who are Brets but actually really nice and caring people who simply have a slight PR problem both in-universe and out.
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Feb 24, 2021 17:23
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Blooming Brilliant posted:I thought Eldar was originally coined by Tolkein so maybe that's why? That's probably my bad memory/misremembering though Edgar Allen Ho posted:Eldar is a tolkien-elvish word for elves yeah. It's not Tolkien-ish, it's straight up tolkien. Specifically it refers to the first elves created, who woke up under the stars. Eldar literally means "star-elves." Which is of course, why GW didn't even try to copywrite it like they did space marines. Tolkien's estate has done this sort of thing before: which is why dungeons and dragons and every fantasy thing since has "treants" and "halflings" and "balors."
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Feb 24, 2021 17:48
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Stuff like Aeldari is okay by me but Astra Militarum is so silly that even in books where GW mandates the use of the new name everyone still calls them the Imperial Guard.
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Feb 24, 2021 18:03
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Tiler Kiwi posted:ai eshin cant do that. what happened is grimgors army lost a battle to greenskin rebels and got confederated by them
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Feb 24, 2021 18:11
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Arcsquad12 posted:Stuff like Aeldari is okay by me but Astra Militarum is so silly that even in books where GW mandates the use of the new name everyone still calls them the Imperial Guard. Yeah. The AoS stuff just comes off far worse because we already have unique fantasy words for most races, that get ignored in favor of new and stupid things. Dawi vs Steamhead Duardin
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The old world having canon names for some of the fantasy races getting overriden by the AoS poo poo still annoys me. Dawi, Asur, Druchii, Asrai were somehow not trademark worthy?
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Feb 24, 2021 19:00
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I think the dwarves in Age of Sigmar are just called Duardin. The "steamhead" stuff is just some subfaction I think
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Feb 24, 2021 20:08
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Just looking at the factions/races tabs on GW's AoS store page is just a list of ugly sounding nonsense words.
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Feb 24, 2021 20:44
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To be fair, the only reason "elves" and "dwarves" aren't ugly sounding nonsense words is familiarity. Gotta start somewhere in the acclimation process.
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Feb 24, 2021 20:53
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How do you guys handle siege attacks with Ikit Claws weapons teams armies? They're fun for field battles but tedious as hell when attacking walls which is all the time in WH2. I've never gotten far into any skaven campaign because of it, I just end up switching to a faction that has an easier time with sieges. Breaking down towers and walls is easy enough but it seems like weapons teams only fire through breaches under the most perfect of circumstances.
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Feb 24, 2021 20:53
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Mortars from eshin dlc. They are gamebreaking in sieges
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Feb 24, 2021 20:55
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Mustang posted:How do you guys handle siege attacks with Ikit Claws weapons teams armies? They're fun for field battles but tedious as hell when attacking walls which is all the time in WH2. I've never gotten far into any skaven campaign because of it, I just end up switching to a faction that has an easier time with sieges. I usually run 4 in any given Ikit Claw army.
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Feb 24, 2021 20:56
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orangelex44 posted:To be fair, the only reason "elves" and "dwarves" aren't ugly sounding nonsense words is familiarity. Gotta start somewhere in the acclimation process. I mean, no, it's also because they're short and aesthetically pleasing. The worst nu-GW names are overblown portmanteaus.
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JT Jag posted:Bring several Plague-Wind Mortars, they're great at decimating the forces inside the walls during a siege and depopulating the walls so they can't keep manning turrets, which lets you scale the walls at your leisure. Scale...Walls? What is this thing you speak of? I just murder the entire garrison with the mortars, no need to actually enter the thing
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Noir89 posted:Scale...Walls? What is this thing you speak of? I just murder the entire garrison with the mortars, no need to actually enter the thing
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Feb 24, 2021 21:09
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He/she usually rund away when army losses kicks in after the AI sacrificed one unit to many to the walls.
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Mordja posted:I mean, no, it's also because they're short and aesthetically pleasing. The worst nu-GW names are overblown portmanteaus. I'm pretty willing to die on the hill that "dwarf" is a stupid word, and that it's purely exposure that means no one notices. It's really really hard to come up with fictional names for anything, because people's first reaction to new words is generally unfavorable. Doubly so if those words don't quite follow standard grammatical rules.
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I think I've mentioned it before, but back when AoS launched GW was going so hard into trademarkable terms that even adjective + noun instances of a name would go untranslated in Spanish material. So like, Brides of Khaine, Collegiate Arcane, Free Cities, etc. Each paragraph would have at least half a dozen of these terms, fully untranslated even when they could 100% be translated with no loss of meaning. It made it basically impossible for non-English speakers to parse. For WHFB, everything except for names was translated, which made it even more jarring. As a point of comparison, Blizzard translates everything, down to surnames - so does Wizards of the Coast. But GW was too petty to even do that, it was amazing.
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orangelex44 posted:I'm pretty willing to die on the hill that "dwarf" is a stupid word, and that it's purely exposure that means no one notices. It's really really hard to come up with fictional names for anything, because people's first reaction to new words is generally unfavorable. Doubly so if those words don't quite follow standard grammatical rules. Maybe that's a good reason to use words that are already part of the language instead of making up random poo poo, especially when describing things people are already familiar with. They could have just had unique faction names instead of the races themselves needing fake words to pretend they're not just dwarves and elves. They still refer to Soulblight as being vampires, so it's not even consistent.
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orangelex44 posted:I'm pretty willing to die on the hill that "dwarf" is a stupid word, and that it's purely exposure that means no one notices. It's really really hard to come up with fictional names for anything, because people's first reaction to new words is generally unfavorable. Doubly so if those words don't quite follow standard grammatical rules.
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orangelex44 posted:I'm pretty willing to die on the hill that "dwarf" is a stupid word, and that it's purely exposure that means no one notices. It's really really hard to come up with fictional names for anything, because people's first reaction to new words is generally unfavorable. Doubly so if those words don't quite follow standard grammatical rules. ...you know the word "dwarf" is hundreds of years old, right? like, tolkein did not invent that concept. do you have a source on the idea that people's first reactions to new words is unfavorable? i've never seen any claim like that and am really struggling to think of examples, especially given that language is constantly evolving and new words are constantly coming into common usage.
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Zzulu posted:I think the dwarves in Age of Sigmar are just called Duardin. The "steamhead" stuff is just some subfaction I think There is no "steamhead duardin" anywhere. It was a throwaway word from some really early AoS promotion that everyone remembers because it's so goddam stupid. The steampunk dwarfs are called "kharadron overlords" which is also dumb, tbf. AoS names are kinda bad.
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Mordja posted:...you know that "dwarf" has another meaning, right? Dwarf is an ancient word that's been derived to English through about 4 other languages and thousands of years that has been used to describe mythological creatures for most of that time. The other English uses came later
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The steampunk dwarfs are called "kharadron overlords" which is also dumb, tbf. AoS names are kinda bad. To be fair it's a bad enough concept that a good name couldn't save it.
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