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Yes, fielding 4 vamps and doing extended bookkeeping for bloodtokens... a nightmare 🥴 but as stated above by various people the triggerword dynasties were mentioned, the old bloodlines were and are a distinct vampire thing. the normal LoN vampire Lord is as boring as it gets in comparison.

Yes, blood tokens for extra funky skillz sounds great... similar to the OBR points, but only for the vamps. And if you don’t have any, your vamp gets extra edgy... but the line between bonkers broken and hamstrung is thin and GDubs does not have a record of well balanced rules. Not keen on insignificance, but not keen on Soulblight Cheeselords, either.

I played a bit and the rules are always kinda unique to the warbands. To my knowledge no others bands have hunger markers, the inspired mechanism is a day 1 thing on the other handside. Make vampirism great again, give blooddragons 3+ armor 6+ ward, carsteins 4+\5+ and lhamia 6+\3+ Give them nice abilities, like fight first/make unit fight last something cool and thematic

Maybe change that to an infernal. the Menagerie is 3+ models and you’ll have more buffing power. if you can charge your GkoTg with another Tg into something meaty, 4 activation at the beginning, will delete a lot... beware of the decapitation not sure if fate dice are still allowed 5.circle might hurt (rerolling vs monsters) and Archaons Knowledge of the turn order gives him tactics ( of course kinda deductible ). not sure how that helps with the purple sun, which could also hurt a bunch. Skullgrinder? Or Soul Grinder ? whatever in the end... if your able to double alpha feeding frenzy you‘ll be fine. If he gets you general it‘s gg

The return of invest will fall short...🤣 but after buying 7 Start Collecting Boxes, you’ll be able to play everything else that comes to mind. You only have one hero, for feast day, ward save and spells, but 3x2 Tgs rampaging across the board might be fun. winning a scenario 🧐 not likely. Your opponent will have more models and maybe, after a surprise rofl-stomp win, will be prepared. Also depends on the map size and terrain density...

Maybe skellis get up to 6 attacks and zombies auto-hit and wound on a 2+ 🤔 The possible option of a vampire lord being able to walk around and not dying to the first slight breeze... a dream Valid fun to play options, pleeease 🥺

But I do like his „resummon half of a destroyed unit“ ability... just rechecked... that‘s not very good, don‘t like at all. Right now we get the whole summonable unit as often as we can afford back. But as stated above, those are residual stand in rules and no indication of what is to come... otherwise I‘d start to turn sour 😅

Well, for one I‘m happy, that GW doesn’t overcharge the CC models. That would have been a new level of hate for the pay2win strategy. Book and rule writing wise I‘m feeling more like one is an inspired unrestrained fanboy and the other is a narrative game DM, both are not interested in evenly matched play especially not at competitive level. And of course, their boss-lady is only interested in sales revenue, sooo the powerkreep is of course mandatory. the faces, when I said, all my undead get a 6+ ward when an hero is near... my look when my buddy told me his nurgle has a 5+ ward inbuild... 🤪🥳👍 but I still have faith and hope that SBGL is a nice LoN 2.0, and I like the outlook for a small vampire lord buff to 7hp

Maybe they just produced a handful to get the hypetrain rolling... I hope it is a fun game, I have too much other stuff, that collects dust on the shelves so I resisted

FEC flayers and horrors come in threes... and vargheists too Maybe they’ll get their own rules, maybe Vargheists get axed and replaced by Vyrkos, since both are bloodcrazed vampires. Or they can be stand ins if their rules are meeh

I‘m a bit sad, that I haven’t tried this earlier, when 40 skellis were still tough. Also my positioning was not very good, I overextended and kept my back up force too far away... and his seraphon kroak teleport madness was tricky to deal with. His stegadon appeared in my backfield and trampled my Coven throne... hopefully the new dynasties give us something to play with, night/blood/sacrament were very different and could be used for sneaky tactics (if one could remember or pull it off 😅)...

The way I read the fluff, Nagash is gone (again) sleeping in his black pyramid or whatever and Arkhan kinda fell off the world (like that dude in soul wars) so both might be a goner for SBGL (but still available in obr)... if Nagash gets the same rules as in obr (knows all spells heals all units) I’d be a happy vassal

🧐That’s a raccoon... does it steal things? I hope they can tie that all into an interesting fun to play bundle... the classic undead walkers horde, the elite bloodknights, the reemerging vermin theme, tricky to please all in one book

They wrote something like that for the Underworld gang, blood tokens to see if your vamp is well fed and can think straight... that could be a funky new system, kinda like the old chaos dreadnaught 👻 Loose a bloodpoint every hero phase and if there is a melee within 12“, you might turn feral, get extra attacks and storm into the fray 🤔

My FleshEater zoom across the Board. but my legion of the Night experiment was quite successful, summoned half my army from gravesites... I was inexperienced and not on point, but calling 40 skellis and 60 zombers right on objectives was funny. the seraphon mob killer spell dealing 20 mortals wasn’t 🥴

But who’s gonna buy? 10 archers get 2.5 wounds, so -1hp on a 4+ 🤔 rather have 5 puppies frolicking around or throw a bolt... but you do you If we’re talking X-Mas again... bats as 24“ bound endless summoning spells 😱 with „objective secure“

Buffed up kamikaze is my tactic, but I’m not too great of a general 👻 you start with 3CP, slingshot 30 ghouls to an objective together with a summoned varghulf, let your Regent cast his spells on one attendants unit and if all goes well, in they go, remember to run up the haunter for feeding frenzy... or if the ghouls look kinda save, summon the varghulf up to the front. target priority and positioning... we are glasscannons

Looks good... tactics might be tricky with very aggressive Attendants, which are not as fast as the Mordants.

GDubs playtesting and rules implementation has a longstanding history of being on point...well balanced, fun for all, nicely phrased, just Chefs kiss the unmovable object (40skellis), the Gristlegore Maw of the Void, Clowncar, 2+/3+ Nagash, eels, skyfire discs... you name it, WWACs buy it not to mention the unintended ****** ups, like Charnel Throne summoning or Royal Family Battalion or Deathmarch or crimson keep. We invented Keywords, but we don’t use them, and if we do, we don’t somewhere else and then we‘re not sure ourselves, maybe we just print the 2019 points in the 2021 nighthaunt faq, because during HomeOffice you really can’t be bothered. And then we wonder why sales are a bit tricky and casual AoS players loose interest and friendly even games are tricky to set up ON PURPOSE without being obvious one hand behind back style or houseruling 🙃 enough ranting... I hope Soulblight hits us as a well designed book, with list variety and cool options and characters and fluff. From Try hard to casual down to funky meme... please Nagash in your wisdom make it so

Well whatever, the edition even has broken in the titel ... Kinda good thing that the constipated daffodil munchers are back, the more the merrier, fluff wise. krognos thingy seems to be relatively new stuff in development, maybe wanderer style. still praying for Chaosdwarves It is hate... the Book kinda sneaked by the great Revisor, but he came down hard after his 3 month hiatus. Still more meta than LoN, soooo

I was shocked, when they nerfed my gristlegore 😅 of course the own abilities are more welcome and more balanced than the opponents ones, you know your own weaknesses. but I‘m very interested how you could play them casually without giving your opponent a handbrake half-throttle feeling...

SETTRA DOES NOT SERVE!!! Soulblight was a big scam 😱

Since bossman is shy on orders, might relax and party a bit, before that whole eternal servitude kicks back in... 🍷🥳👍

Since the other Saturday morning villain Abaddon the Armless is in vacation, I mean Archaon the Once Victorious... maybe they’ll do an „Old Man Archaon“ where he gets off his rocking chair and gestures like the geezer from the „up“ movie. they’re just too almighty too fast with their lore... everything is Endgame style. But I guess that’s sales optimization hopefully kinky girl/boy/thing gets rolling, this Kragnos thing (I was hoping for Chaosdwarves) will do stuff... if nobody else has a vision or ambition, bonedaddy has to manage the threatlevel himself

Welllll... maayyybeeee... whatever, Nagash uses Avatars anyway and also winning gets boring (as BBEG you only need to win once, sooo) Lore is one thing, but the rules also sound like the great Matt Ward returned to bring back the spiritual liege, pointy ears edition. If the circle of corruption finally revolves, I‘m mighty interested how those wrecking balls are priced. Since all vamps will be -2 to hit with 4+ ward I‘m not concerned but all this auto-hits and auto-casts with run&charge and flying pile in, what are other armies supposed to excel in? Denying CAs... 🤡 being tough? With all the rend and 2+ hitting and mortals how are you suppose to weather the storm? being fast? If you can‘t fly high, your too slow damage output? Tricky if the unit can pile OUT of combat I‘m masochistically interested 🤐