Ben's Gaming World

Sunday, September 03, 2006

WoW and Warhammer 7th

First of all, welcome back World of Warcraft. I just started my subscription again and started playing. I forgot how much I liked that game, and how much it sucks up of my life. It is a great game though, alot of fun, all but a bit repetitive, but alot of fun. I now reside primarily on the Lightbringer server where I have a lvl 30 warrior as my main (very soon 31), Tauren and horde (of course), going by the name of Magnorock. I have a couple of buds on that server I know in real life, unfortunately all of them have lvl 60s, so I have a way to go before I am beefed up with them.

Next, Sept. 9th is the big day. Warhammer 7th edition releases. This will be the third different edition I have played fantasy in and while this edition doesn't see any giant changes, some of the preview rules and rumors seem to me to make a huge difference in the way most players will approach the game. For my dwarf army, this won't mount to much if anything. But my beastmen are going to reap alot of benifit I think, even if one major rule with ranks and another with skirmishers hurts them significantly. Magic, I think, is going to be weakening even more for spell casters, so my beastmen will instantly reap the reward of not having to take a second shaman for dispel dice. I haven't decided what his replacement is, but I am thinking it will be either a basic wargor for killing power or to dump it into model count such as another heard which my beastmen could sorely use. Add to that beasty list a giant for extra power punching ability and I think this list is going to start really coming around. I have my pre-order in for the Battle of Skull Pass set, and if I can get myself to like the smaller night goblins, there is going to be a new night gobbo army terrorizing the WWHFB.

League play-offs need to get finished for the Madison region, and I have made it to the final round. If there is any luck at all, I can get this game in tonight. I don't know. We are supposed to be playing board games and build a new gaming table at Andy and Brian's place so I don't know that we will get any real time to do anything. Kind of a bummer if that happens, but I will endeavor to catch that game after the regular Warhammer shinanigans. I really want to get this game in before we start crossing rules editions so we don't have any added confusion in this game.