Elmir

DoK is probably too recent a book to be changed in any real way. Recent books seem to evade the update dance for 6 months at least.

Another Spookyboi!

You really are new here... If the points are way off for a model, it takes several updates until they are at a somewhat correct value. And that's if GW is feeling brazen. I think Manfred von Carstein still holds the record for dropping from 440 or so to 320p in 20p increments since they started doing these updates (when it was still Legions of Nagash)

This. If they are going to be doing a 180 every 6 months on what type of unit you should be spamming, that's tedious on it's own. I think they are just trying to mimic computer game style seasons somehow... but that just doesn't work in a game where painting and assembly takes as long as it does imo.

Not sure how to feel about Horns of Hashut... Hashut gets human worshippers before a proper Chaos Dwarf remake? Seems a tad anti-climactic honestly...

Wholeheartedly agree there...

I honestly think these just look flat out worse than both the League of Votan and the Kharadron overlord. Those wide unadorned helmets are pretty much a swing and a miss IMO.

Sad day for the Skaven players... Those 20 year old kits are getting stretched for a little while longer with the minimal effort a faction gets these days (book + a single foot hero). Sylvaneth expansion did seem interesting to me. It's good to see that faction fleshed out more and I for one, don't mind that it's more towards the elf + insect side. Chaos tease is just to remove the bad aftertaste of potato cam pictures recently?

Honestly... If I'm paying a subscription model for the app, I would at least expect to have access to all the rules of the game at all times. If you want to play any form of competitive game (this needn't mean hardcore... Just a competitive game), the player should be informed about both the abilities of his own army and be generally knowledgeable about his opponents armies. I absolutely hate playing "gotcha hammer" (both when I 100% catch an opponent off-guard due to him not knowing my armies rules and vice versa).

I would disagree with that... The Bladegheist revenants are now effectively filling a similar role as the dreadscythe harridans, only with a worse warscroll compared to the one very recently updated. That makes them a dud as well (so far of course). And yeah, we'll have to wait and see what those allegiance abilities are of course. The only thing to go on for now, are the updated or new warscrolls. And barring the myrmourn banshees, they don't paint a pretty pictures sadly. The Bladegheist have been straight up nerfed in their warscroll... no doubt about that right there... And they are "in competition" with other similar infantry from an internal balance point.

Amazing allegiance abilities might elevate a terrible warscroll to... average at best. As somebody with a large death factions in general, this is not good for me personally... but I would rather not be living in 40k 8th edition "soup-nonsense". That being said... With those warscrolls, those allegiance abilities better be straight up amazing! Or this faction is condemned to another 4 years of bottom of the barrel armies (barring a brief exploit with Nagash and a ton of Grimghast reapers in 2018).

"Every one of these warscrolls took a serious hit, even those bumped up in other ways, and everything staying the same points feels like a sick, Nagash-level joke at this point." That goonhammer summary of the rules preview pretty much nails it. Time to learn to live with the fact that we got bin guy again... And this time, he seems to revel in kicking armies that are already down.

I think it's 100% the opposite of this. In our smaller, casual gaming group of 6 active players and some who play incredibly sporadic, the army spread is such that player A's army will brutalize player B's army almost every time, while losing to player C. AoS balancing seems to largely boil down to bad matchups limiting certain factions or making some flourish in the meta. Our LRL player is already sick and tired of the new deepkin for instance and why wouldn't he be... That book just seems to be written to hard counter his army... And that's absolutely poisonous to smaller casual communities of just some mates getting together for a game. It'll look ok in win-rates in meta data probably, but it blows chunks if you have regular opponents.

If you think these are going to be 70p, I think you are being optimistic. It would not surprise me if they were to slap a 100p tag on this. But man, what a disappointing set of rules coming out of the new NH previews. Another 5W hero with high probability of doing nothing and now there's finally a shooting unit in the death range and it hits like a wet noodle. Guess that new FOMO box doesn't include too many cool rules that you will be missing out on if you decide to skip it at least....

Finished off a group of 20 Frost Guard... I mean grave guard!