Icarion

How do you know what is or isn't overcosted without the new GHB? Point costs for every army are changing...

They do specify that an unmodified casting roll of 2 is a miscast, and spell fails to cast. So modifiers don't matter there.

So having read through the 3.0 core rules, there are some cool changes that effect Lumineth. - They changed the section about 'most wizards" having access to Mystic shield and Arcane Bolt, to "All Wizards know the arcane bolt and Mystic Shield Spells" So our Vanari wizard champions can finally have access to both arcane bolt and Mystic shield. Pretty awesome since mystic shield is now back to being a +1 to save, not reroll 1's. Miscasts are back! An unmodified casting roll of 2 is a miscast, and your wizards spell automatically fails, they then suffer d3 mortal wounds. Additionally, for multicasters, if you miscast a spell, you cannot cast any further spells with that wizard in that hero phase. Something else super powerful The "Magnificent" bonus for using certain core battalions allows you to choose several additional enhancements for your army, artefacts, spells, triumphs. The 'Spell lores Enhancement' is of particular interest to us, in that it allows every wizard in your army to learn 1 additional spell choosing from any spell lores they have access too. I first thought this must be my own misreading, as it seemed super powerful compared to the artefact enhancement only giving 1 additional artefact for 1 hero. But in the core rules, on the side bar, they clarify it by underling "allows every Wizard to know" 1 more spell from a spell lore.

The new Path to Glory system seems incredible. I mean, to the point where I cannot imagine wanting my games of AOS to be anything else besides continuing an ongoing (or starting a new) Path to Glory campaign.

You're exaggerating. If your are 3" away from an enemy unit, the odds of them moving back 6" are 1 in 6, meaning at WORST you end up in the same spot as if you held back 9.5" Youre complaint seems to boil down to "I want everything I do to be successful or it leads to feeling bad" And that doesn't sound like a good way to design a tactical wargame.

Or the enemy can be tactical with their charge distances and stay 9.5" away, thereby deny the shooting army a chance to unleash hell or redeploy. Kinda hard to argue this will lead to feel bad moments, when you have a pretty clear tactical incentive for both getting close, or staying back.

Both unleash hell, and redeploy can only be used if an enemy unit is within 9" so (like the article mentions) there is now a big tactical decision about whether you want to get danger close for your charge, and risk the enemy redeploying or shooting you, or you hold back distance. I love this! anything that adds new layers of tactical choices makes the game richer in my book.

You wouldn't and that is the point. GW is trying to disincentivize running large units in favor of minimum size this edition. But a lot of people, you included, seem to think that because a person is discouraged from running them in large blocks, that person will opt not to run them at all instead of in small units. And I think that is a silly train of thought. Lots of people use MSU already. Raging that this change will "primarily nerf model sales" is just howling at the moon.

Well indomitus released around the same time last year, and it took through October to get the rest of the necrons/primaris releases out.

To my eyes, these type of "formations" are indistinguishable from the practice of spamming what ever the most cost/damage efficient unit is when list building. Chasing an everchanging meta, and letting that determine what models you build and how you use them, is the same as abusing game rules without giving yourself a penalty. Just because something is allowed within the rules of the game, doesn't say anything about whether or not that is how the game is meant to be played. Nothing in the core rules says I'm not allowed to smash your models with a hammer, but I probably shouldn't if I want to make the game enjoyable for me and my opponent.

Nothing about the new coherency rules makes formations look like this. It's gamers who only care about maximizing damage output above all else, and chasing a meta, that creates things like this.

I mean tons of people in the real world worship idols of their diety that look nothing like what they were originally imagined as/were. (See white jesus). Why would a fantasy world need to be different? Plus the army is loaded with symbols of Mork, so it seems like they just revere Kragnos as a rallying figure for destructions ascendance. Finally, gloomspite worship the moon, yet live underground. Why is it weird that people who revere an avatar of earthquakes live in a swamp. These all seem like super nitpicky critiques from people who don't have access to the full lore. Maybe when all the lore is fully revealed, it will make even less sense, but we can't know that. And at this point, considering the setting and the very little we do know about the faction. Everything seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Going by its nearest parallel, the 9th edition indomitus box from last year, it will sell out instantly, however they will produce a print on demand option to order a second wave to make sure everyone who wants one can get one. These kind of edition boxes are their big showcase for each year, and so they rely on being able to produce and sell as much as demand requires

A boat's a boat. But the mystery box could be anything. It could even be a boat!

Path to Glory, right in the middle of the table of contents.

The he last we heard about Tyrion was from BR: Teclis saying that he is fighting a threat greater than Nagash, and that he was last seen heading for the Pit of Cathartia. In the new Broken Realms fiction, we now now have more information. In a great conversation between Morathi and Malerion, they discuss the events of Broken Realms and Malerion mentions that: So looks like Tyrion is indeed trying to make his way into Ulgu, whether to go after Malerion, or something else is unclear. They do also say you do not send a child to slay a drake, but its unclear if that is directly referring to Tyrion and Malerion, or something else entirely. Interestingly, Malerion seems to want to make peace, as he recovered a Spirit of the mountain mask from the battles in Shyish and seeks to return it to the lumineth to try and reopen negations.

Idk Whitefang liked the post so that's good enough for me. This doesnt look like a particularly goblinoid or orcy foot though, so maybe this is the wolf mount for the hobgoblins that were rumored.

Just noticed this: New storm cast hero and the beast foot rumor engine have the same architecture. So likely the foot belongs to our new enemy!

And yet, both aos 2, and 40k 9th were announced at warhammerfest within a week or so of the same date as tomorrow, within their respective years. Furthermore, about "taking thunder" away from Kragnos, last year with with the psychic awakening build up to 9th edition 40k, they announced the last PA book Pariah in mid-April, Announced 9th edition 40k in mid-May, and then released PA: Pariah in June before the 40k 9th launch. SO there is a clear precedent for this type of release/announcement.

It's good to taper expectations just in case, but I'm 100% certain there is more Age of Sigmar coming on Saturday, it could/should be a new edition announcemnet but it might be something else. My evidence: The banners for warhammerfest. When GW put up a new article about warhammerfest, they highlight one of the releases in the thumbnail, and put the banner it corresponds to front and center behind it. (They didn't do that for Necromunda today, because they did it for underworlds, but the Delaque reveal was clearly necromunda, and the banner logo of the black aquila skull is also clearly necromunda) So going by the linked images, and what we have left. We have seen all the Banners represented except for the ork skull (which is amlost certainly in reguards to the new beast snagga orks to be unveiled tomorrow on a 40k preview day) ANd that only leaves the hammer of Sigmar banner, and with 1 whole "mystery day" left. It seems likely that banner corresponds to the day.

We have seen this model. The same week the potato cam images started circulating. In fact it is front and center in todays army shots of the new army. Don't mislead people, and get their hopes up when GW ha been clear so far that what we have seen is it. We have seen it all mate.

New bat swarms too got previewed in the faith and damnation online preview back in march, New mounted Wight King too. This is a pretty large single release. Looks particularly solid since the SGL are carrying over kits from legions of nagash like the corpse cart.

I for one, welcome our forthcoming Beastmen and Goblin overlords led by Kragnos.

To be fair, GW framed Boken Realms that way when they first announced it, it's not something aelf players have done in a vacuum. But go ahead and cry more tears. If you can keep it up long enough, we might be able to get enough salt water to refill that ocean the Skaven accidentally drained, depriving the Idoneth of one of their homes. And really, an Aelf home is as important as it gets.

This is one of the things really miss from 1st edition Age of Sigmar pre-generals handbook. Uneven armies being normal, but giving the underdog (in terms of models) a new win condition (sudden death) that favors their smaller force. This is also why I have high hopes for AoS objective scoring to move closer to 40k, being able to rock up to a table for a game, role a scenario, and then tailor your victory objectives for the game towards your armies strengths, I'm also excited for the prospect of army specific objectives that get added with new battletomes. All of these things help players tailor victory conditions to their armies and that means people still have to be concerned with what is "meta" but that they don't necessarily have to "compete" directly against meta lists on their terms. All the handwringing in this thread aside, I really think the future is bright for AOS balance with the rumors for the new edition!