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Reply To: The IX Age – Why/Why Not and so on

February 26, 2019 at 7:08 pm #1354419

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IMO – 9th has a great community and excellent balance, which has driven away WAAC players, and been great as a fluff player/modeller. There is no netlisting in t9a, in that there is no 1 dominating build.

I like the community because there is a solid feedback between producers and consumers, and the door is open to participating.

No official models has been liberating, as I can make a cool army of romans, use the perry minis for knights, mantic for undead, mierce for beasts, etc… Its all about rules of cool for me. The balance also rewards fluff builds since the game works really hard to focus on olayer skill over powerlists. Some lists have more synergy requirements than others, but smart maneuvre and hot dice still impact the game more than bringing the latest big bad.

And its free. So theres that, even though i still bought rules from amazon because i retain reading rules from books better, but fully free rules is nice)

I suggest downloading the rules and playing a few games. It plays similar to whfb, but imo its evolving nicely into something new, yet familiar in style.