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Got my first couple games of 2nd ed and Fyreslayers in this weekend as part of an escalation league (750 points atm). Ran the following list: Runefather Battlesmith Grimwrath Berzerker Vulkite Berzerkerx20 with handaxes Hearthguard Berzerkerx10 with flamestrike poleaxes My initial thoughts: Hearthguard Berzerkers were kinda lackluster. Not bad and they did a nice job against some Stormcast in one game but seem to really lack in offensive power. What are people's thoughts on them? I'm debating on running them with the broadaxes in 5s since I feel the Karl might be better with the damage 3 axe. Or just dropping them for more Vulkites. The Grimwrath Berzerker was a surprise mvp in both games. Very good damage output and surprisingly tanky. Got him up to a 3+ save after the save at one point with the Battlesmith letting him reroll his 4+ save. Haven't heard much about him but he did more than my 10man Hearthguard unit. Don't think I'll ever leave home without him again and am considering picking up a 2nd. That said, Fyreslayers' leader slots seem to fill up very fast.

They moved the FAQs to the community site awhile ago: https://www.warhammer-community.com/faqs/

My understanding from the FAQ that just came out is that unbind doesn't equal dispel so the rune lord would not be able to get rid of endless spells. I'd second merging the arkanauts together and maybe taking the guy that gives them +1 attack with a weapon?

If you don't hate static grass I would put some on the dirt parts.

You don't really need the Fyreslayers book anymore. I got it and am kind of disappointed with it though it has some nice pictures and stories in it. All the warscrolls are in the app and the GHB will have their allegiance abilities. There's a couple of battalions in the book you might want to use but those can be bought in the app for much, much cheaper than the book.

There could be changes to our allegiance ability, command traits, or artifacts (I haven't found spoilers for those) but I'm not hopeful. I feel like the edition change was just a big missed opportunity for Fyreslayers. Poor Auric Runemaster really really could have used a reworked warscroll.

I commented about the disconnect between the Faction Focus and the errata on the AoS facebook page and the community team said they were unaware of the change when they wrote the FF (which I guess confirms the FFs were completely useless as the writers were only vaguely aware of 2nd ed changes). I don't want to cry doom for Fyreslayers with all the other changes going on (Tzeentch got huge points increases and it looks like the Plaguetouched battalion may have been invalidated) as the meta is going to shift a lot but I'm not too optimistic. I'm predicting allying in a Stormcast wizard will be a requirement for any Duardin army and am foreseeing Death (and in particular, Nagash) dominating the tournament scene.

And no update for the Auric Runemaster though I wasn't really getting my hopes up much.

What are people's opinions of the Lords of the Lodge warscroll battalion? The ability to pile in and attack twice looks really good for Hearthguard berserkers but I'm not sure its worth the warscroll points and having to take a Runemaster. I also noticed the GHG 2017 Lodges say you have to take an additional berserker unit but the warscroll itself doesn't give that option. Is that a bonus for taking the vostarg/greyfyrd lodges?