How to prepare youselves for the Age of Reckoning
I guess you could start by taking a bath and buying a new chainmail bikini, but I’m afraid Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will need much more than that. It will need patience (yes, more), fast preordering skills (to secure the beautiful collector’s edition pictured above), a desire to pay monthly fees, above average hand-eye coordination, a working mouse, a decent PC and a combination of MMORPG and Warhammer skills. Then, having covered the basics and in order to make sure you stand a chance of rising as one of the greatest heroes of the digital online version of the Old World, you’d better follow a few simple preparatory steps. These simple steps actually:
a) Make sure your love of Warhammer is as deep as ever. Better yet, make sure you remember how good Warhammer video games can be, preferably by playing the excellent and highly atmospheric RTS that is Warhammer: Mark of Chaos. Retro offerings like Shadow of the Horned Rat might come in handy too.
b) Start working on your PvP skills making sure you focus on the realm-vs-realm side of things. Warhammer Online’s key strength after all will be the extended RvR options, mechanics and arenas. Sun Tzu’s Art of War would probably be of some help, though flexing your MMO combat muscle is better achieved through playing the brilliant Dark Age of Camelot MMORPG. Mind you, them Dark Age of Camelot developers are the same people that will be responsible for the Age of Reckoning and -not surpisingly- DAoC has the best RvR battles yet.
c) Try to stock-up on free time, as you will quite frankly need it. Getting fired, entering a monastery, finishing any remaining PhDs, Mscs, term papers, etc, or preferably getting some paid vacation time are all acceptable solutions.
d) Catch up on your proper pen & paper Warhammer knowledge. Grab the latest edition (7th) of the rules, flick through the RPG book, browse the multitude of forums available online, tidy your Army Books, paint the odd miniature and re-read those yellowy Black Library novels you’ve been hiding in the basement. There, you’re ready for WAR!
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by konstantinos
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So, does this mean that your monthly fees for Lord of the Rings Online are coming to an end?
April 7th, 2008 at 5:41 amOh, yes. Truth be said, they already have…
A sad decision, but an unavoidable one. Hope to be ready with my PhD before WAR invades though. And I really got to get this collectors edition…
April 7th, 2008 at 5:44 amWhat’s your area? So, you’re working on the dissertation now? If you’re writing a dissertation and all these blogs, you are one writing fool.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:54 amMy area would be urban studies/geography (with bits of planning) and I’m focused on studying the metropolis. Also have to combat a monumentally cretinous supervisor. And teach for many (unpaid) hours. That’s why my blogging and good mood suffer. Oh, and I guess I am a writing fool indeed. If only I could live by this… Ahhh.. yes… it would be nice… No matter… in two years when both the PhD and the army are behind me I’ll hopefully do more enjoyable stuff. And of course feel much older too.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:05 amOh, and I’ve been working on this dissertation since late 2002.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:05 amA monastery that allows playing WAR? Is there a Temple of Sigmar nearby ?
April 7th, 2008 at 7:49 pmYour studies sound interesting, gnome. I’m somewhat aware of work in that area, especially as critics of urban sprawl in the U.S. have become a bit more vocal. And you’re teaching and in the army as well? I’m amazed you have time to do anything.
Well, don’t fear: your blogging is still of a good humor.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:37 amNope. But we do have a tidy Slaanesh shrine dear Roys. You should visit, really.
Ah, yes, guttertalk my friend. Sprawl. Quite an interesting debate, though I do tend to overlook it. It’s interesting how people have managed to come-up with the overly simplistic division of pro-/anti- sprawl. It’s not, well not only, a matter of form really. Now, if you are interested in the matter “God City Form” by the late Mr. Lynch is a fantastic book to start with.
As for the army, well, no I’m not yet there, but I know I wont escape it either. Probably I’ll enter this abomination somtime during May next year and stay inside for 9 months. Not much of an option really, but I’m afraid I’ve postponed the thing a bit too much.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:56 amYou’re going to the army?
Thank god I’ve been out of there for the past five years - the physical exertion does gets tougher as we grow older you know
About that Slaanesh shrine … does it happen to have a local chapter of those pretty daemonettes
April 10th, 2008 at 8:39 pmOh yes, we got dozens of daemonettes hanging around and -importantly- all have had their claws taken care of…
As for the army, I don’t think there will be any physical exertion involved. It’s just 9-12 months living in weird places all over Greece. According to friends only the first 20 days are sot of tough. The rest is boring. Oh, and unavoidable too…
April 11th, 2008 at 4:41 am