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Not to mention how the Gaze of Morathi can help contribute to splitting up a unit, thus resulting in an opportunity to take out half a unit in the right circumstances given the new split unit rules.

Sorry, but this interpretation is incorrect. Per the Designer's Commentary for June, 2018: Q: If a wound or mortal wound is allocated to Morathi and then negated, does it still count as one of the maximum of 3 wounds and/or mortal wounds that can be allocated to her that turn? A: No. When a wound is negated, it no longer counts as having been allocated to a model.

I've been following the old DoK thread for a long while and although I was initially driven to collect Nighthaunt as my first foray into AoS, I've been constantly thinking about doing a DoK army. I decided to take the plunge today, but I see that there are a lot of units temporarily out of stock on the GW site. Is this a dark omen, an influx of new DoK players, or a sign at a boxed set incoming?

Just note that many of the Nighthaunt's new models with Frightful Touch carry the wording "unmodified hit roll of 6". That would mean -1 to hit won't impact the MW generation of the army, though likewise +1 to hit won't help boost it either.

Oh, I agree. I think those are really powerful. They're just not super neat NH specific command shenanigans lol

If they don't change the "needs to be a general" part for this unit, then there's only the mounted KoS with a command ability that doesn't need them to be the general, right? Am I missing something here - why would NH want more than the normal 1 per turn command point? For the normal command abilities every army gets?

I thought we already had that? 240 was what I remember seeing.

As a prospective new AoS player, that concerns me a little bit - why write an article one day specifically addressing the new edition, then retcon the info a month later in an article that implied it continued, not superseded the original text? Starts to feel like whiplash. It makes me wonder if I should expect big thematic shifts like this to whole factions often. Will it happen again in the BT? Certainly makes me question the relevance of the faction focus articles now, which until now I had thought were fantastic gateways. It the information within is incorrect, then I'm back at square one, looking in from outside wondering how not to waste my money lol

Ah, don't remember them saying that was a named character.

Well, she kind of has to have a name - alongside the Craven King reveal, the other two models that were teased with the silhouettes were confirmed to be named characters in the UK Games Expo warcom post. Definitely hoping for Isabella myself.

Well, here's the thing - the reason we think the Mortarch will have a name is because it was announced that it would, but that's working on the assumption that either of the silhouettes shown alongside Kurdoss Valentian, the Craven King, are the Mortarch.