What did prevent me from going shopping and have dinner tomorrow?
Major Updates:
First: I finally widened the Content-Wrappers. Instead of 820p you'll get 1000p of Posts+Sidebar. Banner will stay the same, though. 720p.
Now that there's some more space for the sidebar, I included some (provisional?) seperator between Post-Wrapper and Sidebar. I'll see if it pisses me off over the next couple of days; if it does I'll find some better replacement.
POST-FOOTER! Hell, this one is hard to chew, the html-code was such a piece of crap... Finally got to reorganize the order of elements and added the Share-Buttons. I used some share buttons I found on the web, after getting the Blogspot-ones to work and thought they were crap. These are better.
Minor Updates:
Blockquotes' border now is left again; widening the wrapper made the right ones useless.
Working on some sidebar-adjustments, new widgets planned.
Update Reports get the "Another Update Report"-Image so they stand out a bit more.
01st Single - Space Ranger 02nd Single - Koi Moyou 03rd Single - Kagerou 04th Single - Doll 05th Single - SAKURA Goodbye 06th Single - Shoujo S 07th Single - Yumemiru Tsubasa 08th Single - Shunkan Sentimental 09th Single - Taiyou to Kimi ga Egaku STORY 10th Single - Namida no Regret
Oyoide muda ni ne tairyaku tsukaeba shizuku mo hajikeru wa aoi haru ni
Nigen de sude ni hungry Shouka kyuushuu ni a-akubi Matte mashita ranchi taimu Housoubu anison nagasu
Hai! Hai! Renai koi ni koi shita Hai! Hai! Nooto wo kashite yo give and take Aitai korekara unmei no kita teki na?! Hai! Hai! Kenkyo no jyumon wo tsukuri
Yuuyake ga (Hai! Hai! Hai!) Aishuu sasou (Motto boisu wo) Kyoushitsu de (Hai! Hai! Hai!) Himitsu no tawagoto uketari hitori doui ga ureshii aoi haru ni
»Translation (English)«
Ha! On no, it's morning. Hi! What time is it? It's still okay. Fu! It's okay, just five more minutes.
He? I need to hurry With some hot milk. Go! I'm totally ready for the day.
Going around the corner with toast in my mouth, And crash,that's where I fall in love. Stop, aren't you watching too much anime? My hobby is fantasizing! I am what my hobbies are.
Yeah! Yeah! Training and that other type of training. Is all part of the days of youth.
Yeah! Yeah! First period in the pool, so ridiculous. These days you really have to say "good job".
Googling (Yeah! yeah! Yeah!) Wiki'ing (Use your voice more.) It's an information society. (Yeah! yeah! Yeah!)
If I swim and use up unnecessary strength, then the drops will splash too in the blue spring.
Second period, I'm already hungry. Digestion, absorbtion and y-yawning. I've been waiting for it. It's lunch time. The Broadcasting Club sends out anime songs.
Yeah! Yeah! Love affairs, I've had crushes too. Yeah! Yeah! Let me borrow your notebook. It's give and take. "I want to meet you right now" is this like my fated one came?! Yeah! Yeah! Modestly making some spells.
The sunset (Yeah! yeah! Yeah!) Brings about sorrow (Use your voice more.) In the classroom. (Yeah! yeah! Yeah!) I get secret nosense and I'm happy that someone agrees in the blue spring.
10 delicious minutes of Ron's Fukkireta (Mischievous Function) Cover. Exactly the same as the other vid, just looped ⑨ times at the most appropriate place I could find.
Sadly I had to reencode the audio on this one, but it can't be helped.
Again, this is prepatched; PS2-Grafics with the old PC-Grafics stored in "data02000.arc.old";
change the "data02000.arc" to e.g. "data02000.arc.new" and the "data02000.arc.old" to "data02000.arc" to use the old grafics instead.
Anyway, some background-images might not be replaced, but don't worry.
Music files have been inserted as well.
The Game is a portable version!
Just start it using the "higurashi_kai_meakashi.exe", "BGI.exe" would ask you for the serial, higurashi.exe bypasses that.
Means, you could easily put it onto some USB stick and play it anywhere you want, be it your home pc or just some netcafe.
Translation's the official english one by MangaGamer.
I did this as one of my first attempts to actually sub something (..to be honest, I wanted to know how much effort rip-groups like Commie or HorribleSubs really put into their releases *coughs*) AND naturally there will be some things that could be better - SO TELL ME! You've got a nice comment-function here, so post your problems and/or corrections (or thanks?).
Anyway, enjoy this long-awaited OVA. XViD's still encoding, need to hardsub it for Megavideo (which will be here later on as well as some DDL-Links).
Vor ein paar Tagen habe ich für Cetraconnection eine News verfasst, die ich hier nocheinmal kurz aufgreifen möchte.
Trotz größerer Beliebtheit bei den japanischen Spielern wurde das Entwicklerstudio ‘Cavia’, das unter Publisher Square Enix das Action-Adventure NIER programmiert hatte, geschlossen. Grund hierfür sind scheinbar die niederschmetternden Verkaufszahlen im Westen.
Die Mitarbeiter dürfen zum Teil aufatmen; einige wurden vom Mutterkonzern ‘AQ Interactive’ übernommen, allerdings werden nun auch keine angekündigten Download-Inhalte für Nier mehr folgen.
Nier erschien Mitte April 2010 in Europa für die PS3 und XBox360, jedoch in einer abgewandelten Version: Der jugendliche Shônen-Held wurde zum Barbaren-Vater. Ob dieser, von vielen im Vornherein verurteilte Umstand ausschlaggebend für die Pleite sein könnte, bleibt jedoch ungeklärt.
Alright, continuing reading the Visual Novel made me eager to think about Umineko again. This is my take on who the murder truly is. It contains massive spoilers, so beware. You should at least have watched the Anime before reading this!
»Spoiler«
Who do you think is the culprit in the first Umineko arc, "Legend of the Golden Witch"?
I think it is Ushiromiya Rosa
Listen:
Ushiromiya Rosa's face was utterly destroyed. Ushiromiya Rosa's leading a design company, seemingly clothing, she may have prepared a fake corpse easily Ushiromiya Rosa's got massive debts and thus longs for the inheritance.
Ushiromiya Rosa's slapped Maria for Uu-ing. This gave her a valid reason to leave Maria behind. She removed the paper from the rose. Leaving Maria alone, after showing her reason to the other children, she gave room to the Letter-affair. Rosa was (seemingly?) sleeping in the Mansion, watched by her siblings. She couldn't have played Beatrice.
On the other hand, that wouldn't have been necessary. As her daughter, Maria could have acquired the letter beforehand. Rosa could easily have told her to tell everybody it's from Beatrice and that she just got it.
Maria loved her Mommy. Maria believed in Witches and Magic. If Rosa told her that she got this letter from Beatrice as well, she should have bought it.
There is no proof that the umbrella wasn't hidden in the garden as well. It might as well have been there before, prepared for Maria to find it as well.
Also, Rosa might have had the knowledge, thanks to Maria's studies, to draw those magic circles, so she could have easily copied them.
Rosa could have taken on her family one after another. The only loose proof that somebody might have been murdered in the mansion, or better in the parlor, is the spilled blood on the ground. There's no hint to whose blood it was, nor in which state it was when it was spilled. It should have been easy to get some blood from the corpses, or in the most desperate case cut herself. Even if the blood may have been some hours old, in the morning it might have been dried anyway.
Dead people can't talk, so nobody except for the dead six may know what happened after Eva and Hideyoshi left. It may be that those two just were the first to take their leave. Maybe these two were the only ones to lock their door.
When they left, 6 people were still in the mansion. The servants Gohda and Shannon, who should have been alone all the time, except for Gohda who might have prepared some coffee or something like that. Shannon was patrolling the floor. Rudolf & Kyrie, Krauss and Rosa were left to talk. Rudolf and Kyrie might have left next, leaving Rosa and her elder brother Krauss alone.
Rosa might have used poison to kill Krauss silently. Afterwards she might have just sat him in some chair so it looks like he fell asleep. Calling Gohda, she just might have prepared another cup with poison, telling him that it may taste weird. Gohda, of course, would have been to proud to not check it himself. He wouldn't have tested it in front of a family member, but asking him to get a new cup of tea, he would have gone to the kitchen and tested it there. He might have simply died in the kitchen.
Shannon would be next, maybe it wasn't even planned to kill this one. In fact, Shannon wasn't on duty that night. George just proposed to her and she needed some time for herself, entering the mansion instead of the guest house. Shannon might have met Rosa when patrolling, but that patrol-duty would have made Shannons path obvious, checking the windows for example. Rosa would have known where to get her, daze her and get rid of this sacrifice. It's quite possible that instead it was planned to kill Natsuhi, thinking of the markings on her door.
Killing Rudolf and Kyrie might have been the hardest part; Rudolf already had the feeling that he might get killed that night. He could have suspected Rosa already. I'm pretty sure that Rosa might have found a way to seperate that couple and killed them seperately.
In fact, all this should have happened pretty quickly, she just had to wait for Rudolf and Kyrie to leave. Gohda would be in the kitchen. Shannon was unexpected. Krauss let his guard down after his rivals, Eva and Rudolf, left. Rosa was more like his little, innocent and naive sister.
The hardest part would have been to move the corpses. She might have used the barrow Kanon used earlier. Still, she would have needed to move 5 people to the outside. She could have dragged them most of the time. Nobody really got to examine the bodies' clothes and they should have been dirty and wet anyway.
Thinking of the course of action, the murders might have been committed in less than an hour. Using mainly poison would make sure that there would be no blood on places she didn't want it to be. Even if Gohda might have fallen and hit his head in the kitchen, it may have been cleaned pretty easily, especially when compared to carpets.
Dazed Shannon was poisoned as well. Rudolf and Kyrie might have been another way, or she could have brought them tea after Gohda's death. Surely she could have talked to her brother? maybe talking about their kids? Some excuse may defintely have been found.
So, you see, all of these 5 murders might have been committed without spilling ANY blood. She seemingly has crushed their heads in the shed.
Maria would play her part in explaining the magic circles, or better: Through the circles Maria's trust in mommy, who seemingly just got killed and went to the Golden Land herself, should have been hardened; She wouldn't dare to doubt her Mommy that she got this letter from Beatrice. She could have killed her own daughter, but that would have been useless, in fact, devastating.
Through Maria, she spread doubt amongst the survivers, without Maria and the circles, it might have just been a simple mass-murder case. But through Maria, the aspect of Magic, of Beatrice, came into play. By watching her rival's steps, especially Eva, Rosa might have seen how Eva put the recipe into the door; through that knowledge, which would have been devastating not to possess, she could have deepened Eva's and Natsuhi's hostility. Also, she could murder her father and put the recipe back. The way here might be kinda hard to think of, though.
All we know, though, is, that unless Krauss or Eva, Rosa never approached her father regarding the inheritance. Kinzo was annoyed by his children playing vultures while he was still alive, so he naturally mistrusted them. Rosa, though, was different, she knew that she was not going to inherit the Ushiromiya family's wealth and never stepped up to acquire it. We never saw Rosa and Kinzo interact in the present timeline; Banquet of the Golden Witch first showed Kinzo and Rosa talking, but Rosa was a kid in that situation, also, it's not meant to be fully acknowledged as 'truth'; it's just one scenario brought up by Beatrice.
So, to get to the point, Rosa might have been able to get into her father's room.
Eva and Hideyoshi's death was kinda mysterious, though. The doorchain was sealing the room from intruders. Sadly, we don't know how this chain really looked like. It might be that there was some trick to lock it, using wire for example.
Rosa has lived in that mansion for a long time, since her childhood, til she left. Kids usually try these things once in a while, right? Especially after reading some crime books, detective stories. The Mansion's got a library, so she could easily have come in touch with some detective novels which solve these tricks. When they solve them, she could reverse these texts to actually use them.
Indeed, once the door's open and can be closed for sure again later on, both murders aren't that mysterious anymore. In the easiest case, Eva and Hideyoshi might simply have fallen asleep while watching tv. In this case she could have poisoned them, moved them into the right positions and afterwards use the stakes of purgatory. Hideyoshi was naked, lying in the bathtub, but it can't be proven that he wasn't moved into it. Rosa must have been stronger than estimated, but its possible.
Next would be burning Kinzo's corpse. The smell just came up when they found the corpses. It isn't fully explained for how long the process has lasted; Kinzo's corpse could have been burned slowly, but I'd rather think that it's been a prepared action.
Rosa probably saw the Servants approaching Eva and Hideyoshi's room and went to turn on the fire, or turning it up a bit. I would think it might have been 15 to 20 minutes before they cut the doorchain, found the corpses, wept over it and talked about it, before even starting to notice the smell. Assuming that Rosa turned on the fire before and just maxed it out when the servants came, Kinzo should have been burned like he was found.
Kanon and Kumasawa might have been faster than expected, maybe Rosa couldn't flee fast enough, maybe she was hiding somewhere, but she had to kill Kanon right away This is the hardest, or better the most risky of all these murders
Facing kanon head on would have been suicide; that boy's gotten a hatchet.
I think she might have used Kanon's anger. She could have hidden behind him, approaching slowly, put some cloth on his mouth and wrapping her arm around, stabbed him with the next Stake; A critical move, but it may work. By making some noise in the basement she could have provoked Kanon and scare Kumasawa. ...of course she knew beforehand that those two would go down alone. Leaving through the door to the courtyard, she hardened the 19th-person theory once more.
Alright, thats just as far as I wanna go right now, need to go on reading the VN first.
So yeah, I finally get around to play/read it. Picked up the Questions Arcs 1-4, but damn, the Art isn't what I would enjoy. Unlike Umineko, it just won't grow on me.
So my course of action has been downloading patches to replace the VN-Art, means character sprites and backgrounds, with the newer ones of the PS2-Port. Works pretty well, and, on top of that, I also patched that official english version's sound and bgm.
Apparently they couldn't keep the original sounds due to license-stuff which led to a mass of sound effect duplicates, annoying cicadas instead of the creepy-yet-calming sounds and some failures more.
So, it's back in. the Art-archive got pumped from less than 250mb to a mass of 800(!)mb, which should clearly tell you how massive that upgrade was.
In fact, instead of this:
you get this:
Alright, let's move on to the useful part of this post.
I prepared some download for you, took me a while (in fact, it's still Uploading while I'm writing), but I think it may help a lot of people out there who just are either too lazy or too unversed to patch the game or just don't bother the childish art.
It's a massive upload, in fact almost 1.1 GB. I left BOTH Art-packs in, the PS2-upgrade is standard.
The Game is a portable version! Just start it using the "higurashi.exe", "BGI.exe" would ask you for the serial, higurashi.exe bypasses that. Means, you could easily put it onto some USB stick and play it anywhere you want, be it your home pc or just some netcafe. Translation's the official english one by MangaGamer.
I maxed out the filesize for Uploaded.to, parts are compatible with Megaupload. Rapidshare, though, still has that annoying 200mb-per-file-limit (guess it will be increased in the near future, but that's another story ;) Edit: Remote-Uploaded the RS-Files to Uploaded.to, so RS+UL.to are compatible.
Technical Stuff:
If you want to change the artpack (which you can do anytime outside the game; you could even save the game, quit, change the package and load just to see how it is with the other art) you need to do these steps:
Go to the Higurashi-Folder
Search for the "data02000.arc"-file and change it's name to something else, e.g. "data02000.arc.bak" for backup or rather "data02000.arc.ps2"
Search the other "data02000.arc"-file which I renamed to "data02000.arc.old" and remove the ".old" so it is a clean "data02000.arc" file
That's it, start the game
Remember, the one around 800mb is the PS2 one. Also, you could just delete the one you really don't need, but I thought it may be nice for comparison, screens or just out of curiosity.
The music and soundfiles could also be removed if you really want to; all "msys"-files are the music-files. Delete or move them to get rid of them. But remember, these are the updated, original ones which provide more varied music without duplicates. All the files starting with "wa_" are sound effects. You really SHOULDN'T remove them, trust me, the official english ones are so damn annoying and repetitve...
Guess that's all to tell you. Have fun reading this awesome Visual Novel!
PS: Higurashi Kai should follow once I bother getting and patching it.
I'm running on Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit. Completely up to date.
The cool Installer of Final Fantasy XIV BETA wants me to update to Windows XP Service Pack 2. Yeah, right. XP! Haha. WTF?!
Let's see how this gets fixed, a mass of testers is suffering from this shit, let's see.
Again, Square Enix seems to manage to piss me off before I even come to play their games.
Oh, and btw, compatibilty mode is disabled for the installer, dunno why.
Update:
Lucky me bypassed that problem, now it's stuck on DirectX... yeah, like a wouldn't already have a higher version than theirs...
Update 2:
First Install complete. Now updating felt 5mio times... at least the music is nice.
Update 3:
It has been preparing the next update for around 3-5minutes before downloading. Kinda meh.
Also, I'm uploading with twice as fast as I'm downloading. FU, P2P!
Alright, two episodes aired, here's my take on what I did expect of it and with which thoughts episode 2 left me:
Ookami-san really is unique in it's ordinarity. It manages to pick up Fairy Tales, stereotypic characters, a school-setting, a narrator and many more cliches and puts them in a pretty unique form - Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi.
In episode one, most people got annoyed by the creative use of a narrator who makes fun of the characters and states the obvious all the time - in episode two we see how fitting it really is. Character introductions are mostly done, but expanded. It's fitting the whole fairy tale concept just perfectly and adds to the atmosphere.
And seriously, a narrator that apologizes for the flat-chested girls in fanservice-scenes? Just brilliant. Characters who get offended by those comments? The author's a genius.
In episode one they showed the staff of the Otogi Bank, who all get a certain role in the fairy tale cast:
Ookami-san is, obviously, the wolf. In episode 2 we learned that she wraps the wolf's fur around herself to not get hurt. Tsundere? Maybe, but I don't care as long as it makes sense in the whole plot, and seemingly it does. Fighting with Cat-Knuckles? What? Hell, yes!
Ringo is simply the little red riding hood. Hope to see more of her cuteness in the following episodes.
Ryoushi though, is, honestly, a complete loser. Not that he's to blame, but sociophobia makes him that way. He faints when being stared at, no wonder that his confession to Ookami-san in episode one failed! ...but he seems reliable, a perfect stalker, a sniper! In episode 2 he really proves that he has some guts and can, indeed, protect Ookami-san. He's the Hunter.
That's the main cast, the rest of Otogi Bank's staff still needs to get explored a bit more. We've got 'Majo-san', the Witch or rather a mad scientist, but the roles of the other characters are too shrouded to state clearly what roles they fit in.
From the first few minutes of the first episode on, I thought that this is going to be a good, enjoyable anime. One of the best this season. Episode two proved me correct.
Episode one left me with fear about it becoming another generic anime full of fanservice and without any real plot development til ~3episodes before the end. Episode two instead left me with the foreshadowing of a higher plot which has to be explored, as well as Ookami-san's fear of letting her guard down. Yes, there may be a real romance coming up.
Fluid fight-scenes, fairy tale-parallels, narrator, creative use of cliches and Cat-marks left by Ookami's knuckles on enemies' cheeks? Count me in!
Love the animation, love the absurdity, love the characters, love the plot, love the fairy tales, love the hidden meanings... It's got massive potential!
It's the final year of high school for Yui Hirasawa, Ritsu Tainaka, Mio Akiyama, and Tsumugi Kotobuki, the founding members of the Light Music Club. Together with their junior member, Azusa Nakano, they spend their days after school in the music room enjoying tea and sweets and practicing music. Amidst band practice, preparations for the new student orientation performance, scouting for new members, and student responsibilities, they still have time for "After School Tea Time".
Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin - of course I'd have watched UTW, but.. CrunchyRoll's playing the troll again... Not watching til a decent group picks it up Hate Commie, but their redone Crunchy-Subs are okay this time.
Seitokai Yakuindomo - God-Speed Subs, after all...could be better, but it's the best out of the present.
Black★Rock Shooter - if it's not getting postponed again, we'll see plenty of subs for this one, I guess. Airs from July 24 onwards.
Cat Shit One - Everybody I showed the Trailer wanted to watch it, so... I'm hoping for someone good =3 Airs as ONA from July 17 onwards.
Digimon Xros Wars - hope it gets back to the roots, still waiting for subs, though.
Shiki - Mochi would do it, if they find new TLs and Typesetters. Got licensed.
...pretty lame, don't you think? =/ As long as you ignore HorribleSubs and Commie, I'm proud of you.
Yep, it's time to watch old entries on our Lists that we keep to postpone every once in a while. It's Lucky Star for me, to be honest... and Haruhi S2 which I can't overcome anymore, thanks to endless eight...
I just suggest everyone to make the best out of their freetime in Summer. Anime lives, even after DRRR!!, FMA:B and Angel Beats! ended...
Seriously, I don't care about those too-much-fanservice-opinions. It may be massive, yes, but most of it should have been obvious right from the start. Episode one contains almost all scenes from the Trailer, so you KNEW it was going to serve the fans.
Takashi is surely an interesting character, seems like we'll get a good leader. He reacted to the threat, did what he had to do and has the motivation to fight.
Hisashi is/was annoying. Acted too high-and-mighty. 'Haha, I'm a blackbelt, I don't need weaponz' - yeah, sure, Zombie turned his head nearly 180° and YOU WERE FUCKED! ...at least his last words where reasonable, could have been a lead character if he wouldn't have acted so stupid.
Rei, though, is a hell of an annoying bitch. She seems hot like foreshadowed, BUT not kickass-hot as I'd like her to be, she's more like a dumb lovey dovey girl who CAN go enrage once in a while. Once in a while. Reads: Without help, she'd already be dead. She even said that she'd rather have been bitten by her (ex)boyfriend and join the zombies than see his head smashed.
Baka-girl's interesting, haven't really heard a single character using 'baka' THAT often.
{{addition}} Got scolded for leaving Saeko out of this post. In fact, she doesn't really exist in my world yet. She didn't speak a single word, just held a bokken, so... Kendo-weapon = good thing. Character promising. Yet I'll wait for her to have more screentime before judging. {{/addition}}
Dead teachers are a plus.
Opening's pretty cool
That said, I am really excited about this episode. Didn't expect Hisashi to die right away, though it was just as obvious as the bouncing boobs that he'd die sooner or later. He'd been Takashi's rival after all. ...though I wouldn't see getting Rei as girlfriend to be a good thing... hope that changes.
The 'panic'-scenes after the school-announcement were pretty sweet. One moment you are friends, but the moment they get you, I'm gonna hate you.
I liked the Opening a lot. ED was okay, but a bit meh, reminded me of SHAFT using a zoom-out-of-a-picture-ED for about 9/12 episodes.
Let's see how this develops. Hisashi said that once they'd learn about the reason they could search for a solution. Don't think this will happen. It'd be weird to drop the highschool-setting and in highschool they couldn't develop some cure. It's not possible. They can't be rescued because at least the whole city(?) is in utter despair. Who cares for a bunch of students?
The only solution, for now, is SMASHING HEADS! Hell, yes!
...anyway, going to link the downloads once I decide on which fansub group to support. Looks like CoalGuys, but well... For now, I'll leave you with the MyAnimeList-Link
...unglaublich, man kann das Buch schon ergooglen.. Schwarzweiß und nur Regeln, aber man findet's.
Sieht allerdings recht gut aus, vor allem wurde die Anzahl der generischen Magischen Gegenstände drastisch erhöht.
Sonderregeln sind es nun auch einige mehr geworden, bringt nette Variationen rein.
Armeeauswahl:
-Mindestens einen Lord/Hero
-Minimum von 3 Einheiten
-25% der Punkte für Lords
-25% auf Heroes
-minimum von 25% auf Core
-50% auf Special
-25% für Rare
Dabei wird allerdings nicht ganz ersichtlich, wie multi-slot einheiten abgehandelt werden.
-Duplikate sind auf 3 für Special und 2 für Rare begrenzt.
Also kann ein Spieler keine 5 Stegadons aufstellen, weil er nur maximal 3mal die selbe Elite-Einheit enthalten sein dürfte.
Dabei spielen verschiedene Ausrüstungen oder Truppgrößen KEINE ROLLE, es wird vom Basistypen ausgegangen.
Auswahlen wie zb Chaosbruten, die pro slot 2 oder mehr erlauben, gelten dennoch pro slot, nicht pro Brut. Ergo können zwischen 1 und 4 Bruten eingesetzt werden.
Bei Armeen über 3000 Punkten wird die Duplikatregel auf 6 für Special und 4 Rare erhöht.
So, damit wisst ihr Bescheid, wie ihr eure Armeen umformen müsst bzw welche Anschaffungen noch Platz in euren Armeen haben werden.
Interessant ist eine Sektion weiter - Alliierte!
Wenn man mit anderen Spielern spielt, kann man nach offiziellen Regeln Teams bilden, die Armeen wurden in Forces of Order, Destruction und Non-Aligned aufgeteilt.
Je nachdem, wie die Armeen zueinander stehen, profitieren sie von Sonderregeln des anderen, oder können sogar Charaktermodelle in verbündete Regimenter schicken - nettes gimmick.
Außerdem sind Skaven und Dunkelelfen so unvertrauenswürdig, dass die Spieler aufpassen müssen, dass sich die Armeen nicht doch noch verfeinden! =D
Alles in Allem haben sich die Autoren viel viel Mühe gegeben, um das Spiel etwas epischer zu machen - good job.
Das Buch hat mich bisher überzeugt, also kann ich es beruhigt kaufen.
Allerdings werde ich erst noch auf die Starterbox warten - dem 'Mehrwert' wegen. Dann gibt es auch gleich Alliierte für meine Dunkelelfen und Echsen =)
Mehr Infos folgen wohl die Tage noch, wenn ich weitere Sektionen überfliege~
