The Red King

That elf screams DoK to me based mostly on the strap/sash coming off her waist. It matches up exactly with the witch aelves.

I don't think we can devolve this conversation any further but muscle women are in fact feasible in a setting where they are fighting amalgam bone golems and on a separate note I can't imagine being so scared of femininity that you want GW to ignore literally half of the dwarven race.

An unarmored Soulrender and a masked naked dwarf ought to solve those ranges. I also love how they announced a new space marine foot model on the same day because all 3 of these factions are definitely equally in need of attention and space marine player would... get upset? If someone gets a new toy and they dont? Like geez GW even I dont think that poorly of your poster fans.

Oh good maybe that will translate to the lore and we'll use all that newfound power and success to resurrect another primarch or something because there's certainly nobody on our side who might be nice to have back. That's not a jab at you, just the rules dont mean much to me. I quit dark eldar when they were the strongest theyd ever been because GW just shows time and again that everyone not in ultramarines blue is a side character which could be excused but this isn't an hour long movie, they're allowed to not have a "main character" in a galaxy spanning space epic and they are choosing to have one anyway.

I love this hobby and the world it exists in but quitting an under served army (Eldar) in 40k only to play an ignored army (beasts) in an under served game is really disheartening. I mean we dont get an FAQ we werent in the starter guide, we werent in something else I cant remember. Why do I always love what GW doesnt want me to love?

A few nerfs to some of the strongest armies. No nerfs to others, randomly breaking a few things and "buffing" any bad army by making them into a horde faction. Games workshop never change...

They ignored me asking where the rest of the FAQ were on Facebook (thought it would be a softball question to say "they're coming soon!" If they were) and they've already updated the app which is really cool that they moved that fast on it and I appreciate it (though it's possible they delayed the update until it was ready to go live on the app) but that also means there are probably no more FAQ coming for many armies that really really need it.

Do we have any actual indication that there are more FAQs coming? Like we literally only got 5 armies? I asked on facebook and they didn't reply.

Careful words like that will make them delay the rules updates in the future to ensure it doesnt stop you from making bad purchases.

They are never going to put in the work required to balance individual units across multiple factions but that's a problem imo. Lore and rule wise it would better to have access to more units across multiple books. It just opens up options and that's always a plus. If it gets abused they can fix it but their current model is: make it an option, it's not strong (except Archaon so maybe fix archaon), then take the option away to "balance" something that isnt broken while not giving anything in return. Personally I think they should just put some units in multiple books and point them accordingly. Bulks out armies and gives more options to the players while also making lore sense. Nobody benefits from less options except GW.

Ah got you. I just wanted to make sure it wasnt that exact wording because as it stands now coalition units CAN still take artifacts and the like if they have the proper keywords because (at least in khorne) they only applied keyword restrictions to blood tithe and subfactions.

Question about this. Does that mean that, say, a Slaves to Darkness Daemon prince with the mark of Slaanesh can't be given a Hedonites command trait? Or is this just allegiance abilities? TBH I'm disappointed with how much GW has discouraged taking BoC/StD in mono-god armies. They struck a good balance in AoS 2.0, where allegiance abilities worked with the god mark but most command abilities required Hedonites/Maggotkin etc. I should get more synergy from a unit of Slaaneshi chaos warriors in a Hedonites army than just allying in some Plaguebearers, but the only difference is I'm not limited to 400 points with the former. It's a bad change. Where is your qoute from? Is that the exact wording in the FAQ somewhere I missed?

I get not wanting to be "Archaon in red" the book, but that's an Archaon problem not a blades if khorne or slaves to darkness problem. There is no sensible reason why blades of khorne shouldn't have access to a demon prince of khorne. A lord of khorne ascends to princedom annnnnnnd they kick him out of the army? There is no reason why a bullgor marked with khorne and fighting in a blades of khorne army shouldn't be affected by blood tithe.

Wait what was the benefit to the prince really? He can still grab an artifact cause all they changed was the blood tithe and subfaction keywords so hes still worth it for blood skick ground.

Coalition units no longer gain your khorne armies sub faction keyword and they are also not eligible for any buffs or effects from blood tithe. They still currently benefit from things that affect keyword KHORNE such as bloodsecrator and mark of the slayer but that was already the case so it's just a flat nerf to using the coalition rules that, to my knowledge, were not impacting competitive play and definitely not by beasts. It's less about power level to me and more about the blatant snubbing. I made my whole army off the 2nd edition skullfray batallion. GW said heres some awesome lore to fall in love with and some nice little rules to represent that lore go nuts! So I lovingly build, convert, and paint an army for them to go SIKE! No more batallion. Heres some coalition rules that do a poor job replacing it and forces you to run out of a different book but hey at least you can still get your mark of khorne and finagle a few buffs our of the other army despite it actively trying to prevent it (MORTAL KHORNE only buffs mostly). But hey I built and painted and loved this army so I'll make it work. And then "Haha loser we're gonna also remove as many rules interactions that benefit you as we can because even though we sold you the lore, fantasy, and RUELS of god marked beasts we dont want you to actually USE them." We didn't even get a FAQ for crying out loud. It's this kind of passive aggressive "we'll sell you the option to play this way but constantly remove any incentive to do so" attitude that drove me out of 40k.

They can't benefit from slaughterhosts (niche issue where they were getting some bonuses such as Khul giving them rerolls in goretide) and more importantly a block of bullgor can no longer fight in the hero phase or fight on death due to blood tithe. They still currently benefit from Mark of the slayer, bloodsecrator, wrathmonger, blood blessings, etc. But I expect that to change when khorne gets an actual book. It's less about power level and more about them just not being willing to say "we don't know how to balance this thing that isnt broken so please stop trying to play it" Dont take away our batallions to god mark and replace them with worse coalition rules if they dont even want us to use coalition rules.

Even better they made big nerfs to beasts if you use the coalition rules that GW themselves invented. "Here's rules for a different way to play! But you shouldn't."

Don't worry there was a balance change for beasts if you run them as coaliton units in a god marked army. Thankfully they nerfed the terrible rules abuse that saw god marked beasts taking all the top tables by removing it entirely!

Well the rules change I so eagerly awaited instead guts my army. Khorne marked beasts as a coalition unit gain no benefit for being taken in blades of khorne. Thank god GW stopped the terrible rules abuse that was beasts of chaos...

I'm not trying to be negative but the last big FAQ required an FAQ (that they did provide fairly quickly in all fairness) so maybe it's just hoping to avoid a similar snafu but it also doesn't inspire any confidence from me.

I'm currently putting the "Winter FAQ" in the "hope we get it" column. Can anyone link the article where they said it would be December because at this point I expect a stealth edit as much as I expect the FAQ...

I'm not sure if this is a translation thing or if this is just part of the joke because the letters on my screen do not make an anagram with eldar helmet lol

I can't confidently say where I saw this but I'm fairly certain they did say they would add the WD rules to the app as well.

Yeah making a functional dark mechanicus army would be cool. Alternatively due to the glut of warscrolls and ally options a Cities of Sigmar army converted to be a city that fell under the sway of nearby "forge lords" would be pretty easy. Let you convert some skittari into handgunners and the like. Take tempest eye to mix in KO units as "overlords". Could be a fun build. I was really hoping the FAQ would come today since it's my birthday T_T

Firstly I actually think the game will be good don't get me wrong but I rolled my eyes a little. GW: "Guys the imperium is bad okay? They're not heroes and the terrible authoritarian government is satire why don't yall get that??" Also GW: