valourunbound Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Hey guys. 9th age is nearing its beta release in the next couple of weeks. So far they have released three sneak peaks of rule changes that are included. These include fixes for Gutstars, Heroes on Chariots and Steadfast. I'm most excited to be able to run a HE character on a chariot, because it will finally be stronger than dollar tree paper towels. Links with more goodies: http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=130720&sid=711c60ef5007188dd9c6655e2f8fc53c Is anyone willing to test out some of these changes after they release the beta? That or we can just continue theoryhammering in this thread. s'all good 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don't Panic Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 im totally down to test it out... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudra34 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Link's not working for me.I will always have my fantasy armies nearby, so if I have time I'd be happy to test out the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valourunbound Posted August 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Whoops, link should work now. For now, we wait until the release. I'll post here when it has been released, and we can go from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 I'm interested - I'm finding it hard to schedule games now that work has started but I'm in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splinx Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 I am totally down on the Vancouver side of the river to test the new stuff out guys if anyone is over here. Cheers Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valourunbound Posted September 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 http://www.the-ninth-age.com/news/index.php?news/30-sneak-peak-12/ I haven't looked through it yet, but the rulebook is complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudra34 Posted September 9, 2015 Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Very cool! I have a meeting in half an hour, but I will look through this all later and see what I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valourunbound Posted September 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2015 Word of warning: they had to de-IP everything. So some words will look funny, and all the race names are different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Glacius Posted September 10, 2015 Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 They have some odd choices. Things that stood out to me: Miscasts - way too brutal. Spells better be game winners otherwise it is too easy to lose your investment. Steadfast - you only need to outnumber one enemy unit in that combat to gain steadfast. So that makes flankers nearly useless unless they have two plus ranks. Also, no mention of when to count ranks. Ridden Monsters - you can't fight the character - I would have thought they would solve this with building combined stats like GW did for End Times. LOS/cover - this needs some more work still. I still need to read the special rules and spells. The jury is still out. I like that IR does not auto succeed or cannot be dispelled, and visa versa. But the miscast table is too harsh. I'd rather spells just not be as powerful and miscasts be flavorful, not game changing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valourunbound Posted September 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2015 Here are the spells: http://www.the-ninth-age.com/news/index.php?news/33-sneak-peak-11/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valourunbound Posted September 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Armies: http://www.the-ninth-age.com/pdf/the-ninth-age_armies_0-5-0.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Rulebook: http://www.the-ninth-age.com/pdf/the-ninth-age_rules_0-6-3.pdf Paths of Magic: http://www.the-ninth-age.com/pdf/the-ninth-age_paths_0-6-3.pdf Temporary Army Compendium: http://www.the-ninth-age.com/pdf/the-ninth-age_armies_0-6-5.pdf Beast Herds: http://www.the-ninth-age.com/pdf/the-ninth-age_Beast-Herds_0-6-3.pdf I got these here: http://www.the-ninth-age.com/index.php?simple-page/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valourunbound Posted September 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 Hellooooooo. It has been very quiet in here. Is anyone alive?? I'd like to set up a game to test this, but I don't even know if Sunday nights are still happening. I'm available Sun-Thurs evenings. Yes, I know I'll have to row through traffic to get anywhere, but I'll deal with it. P.S. Here is the latest announcement from the 9th Age designers. Dear playersThe way work is done on the 9th Age is very different to what many gamers have been used to in the past. So we are compelled to give a few explanations to ensure understanding with the community, for whom we are doing this.The 9th Age is currently in, what is known in the gaming industry as, pre-beta testing stage, and will soon enter the beta testing stage once the army book development teams get selected.The current stage in the development of the game is a period when the product is almost always kept from the scrutiny of the public and these initial drafts are always prone to sudden changes. In contrast to most game developing projects we have decided to keep the public in the loop from the very begining, and it is this process that you are currently observing and participating in.During this initial period before the beta army documents are drafted the imput of the community is valuable as a failsafe mechanism. All input is appreciated but the one optained through playtesting carries greater weight. Here we depend upon you as the community to help us out in the playtesting process (to suplement our own internal playtesting) so that we may produce the best game possible.The current TAC document is here to provide a stop gap measure that allows players to play with their models in the 9th Age and is far from a finished product. In addition the TAC army lists will serve as a skeleton for the initial drafts for the future army books. Currently the TAC lists lack certain rules players have been acustomed to, due to streamlining. Most if not all of these will return in one form or another in the army books.So we ask the community to help us out by testing the drafts we present you. Also don't be alarmed if you playtested an earlier version of the document, as this will also provide us with valuable information, showing us if the change made was validated or not.At the moment we are focusing on the units far more than one characters because the latter are easier to balance, in order to help us out we would like to ask you if you could play with more units than usual in your games. When selecting army lists for you playtest games we would be thankful if you would take only the necessary characters and focus on the meat of the army, which is the units. Also through current playtesting it has been shown that the army size of 2000 points is best suited for testing units, since at that size of the game it is easier to notice if a certain unit is weaker or stronger than it should be compared to its cost. That said we are not telling you to not play your average sized games (at whatever points size they may be) as different sizes of the game are prone to providing different data. For the moment we are focused on balancing our game in the 2000-2999 point range which is an average game that would take an evening to play and is most often encountered in tournaments.What is important is that you report your experiences from these games so that we may have appropriate data needed to produce a quality product for the benefit of all. So please remember all of this will be very hard to achieve without you, the playtesters.As a final note we would like to thank you on all the feedback, and help you have already provided, and invite you to continue on this game developing journey with us.The 9th Age team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don't Panic Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 With the decision of master's going to KoW I think most tournaments will be that now. Aos will still have it's gw cash cow but 9th is sadly I think going to the pasture here in the USA. Sad cause it was my favorite. Etc is running 9th so maybe you should try moving to Europe . Ok jokes aside I do think it looks cool. Unfortunately my desire has kinda just completely switched to infinity at the moment.. I think you can still come and grab someone to play a game Sunday's. Don't think raindog would object to that at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Glacius Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 I'm really surprised that the WFB community just hasn't decided to continue on with 8th. You have a solid and fairly popular rule set and you have Swedish Comp for balance. Only two armies were left out in the cold for 8th army updates. Why not simply update those two armies, and leave the rest as is? I just don't understand why the players have let it die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicFlava Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 I think because its an unsupported system now and drawing in new players is much more difficult. The community will lose players faster than it gains new ones, which will result in it eventually dieing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Glacius Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 How much support did 8th get from GW in the first place? Dying? I don't see anyone talking about even playing 8th now. Seems pretty dead to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kremmet Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Also Swedish was successful because it was dynamic. Without constant evaluation and change it stagnates like the rest of the game already has. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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