SleeperAgent

Nosferatus or Vampirates. I cant decide so I wont vote. I would buy either immediately.

V A M P I R A T E S ! ! ! ! ! !

I usually just buy enough plastic to have 2000-2500 points, put it together and try out a bunch of lists. Then if I like em i keep em, otherwise I resell them and invest in the next army. I have tried most armies in the game this way with not a ton of investment.

Well obviously this means a new Stormcast Chamber is opening

Because you aren't paying the extra 50% for the mini. You are paying for GW marketing, GW stores, GW payroll, and GW's new factory. There will be a defining moment someday soon. If they open up the UK factory at full staff and production and prices don't go down, it was all a lie. Here's hoping prices go down when they are able to do everything themselves. If the trend continues with price rises, I could see most of their product lines starting to die.

I did not realize how badly I wanted this until you wrote it. NH NEEDS a bigger hero with more wounds.

Ruler of the Spirit Hosts shouldn't be a command trait, it should just be something our heroes do. We're ghosts for crying out loud. We should be coming back better than skeletons and cannibals.

Sadly, as a player who loves Spirit Hosts, this would make the army even worse for me. I still think SH are overpriced at 120, considering a unit of 3 is rarely gonna control an objective. Not being able to get them back naturally would make them next to worthless. Our reanimation should just be more like LoN. Command point for a unit maybe, but each hero should be reanimating 1-5 models naturally. Like a bunch of black coaches.

If this somehow becomes true, I owe you a hat.

That is a Slaanesh shield. I'll be my hat on it.

I sincerely hope it's another death army, Soulblight or otherwise. LoN is just a holdover hodgepodge. We got three armies in our alliance. And considering OBR was pretty nicely priced another like it would go over real well right now.

Well theres a chance that the 1220 points all survive and you can go after another one. In reality, 4 ballistas dropping nearby with an ordinator and azyros is your best bet to do mass damage for less cost. Truth is, this is just another sign that the SCE (and Nighthaunt) tomes are outdated and need to be redone. Alongside BoC, Nurgle, maybe Gitz.

8 man unit of Desolators and a Drakesworn Templar hitting with the skybolt bow. Storm Blast is 8 attacks 3 up to deal d3 MW's. Then 40 Thunderaxe attacks at 3/3/-1/2 damage. Add a Knight Azyros in 10" of the gargant to re-roll 1's. Bonus points if you are Anvils of the Heldenhammer to attack twice. The good thing about them is the big base lets a huge unit encircle it to get all of their attacks.

As someone who plays Nighthaunt a LOT, I sure hope they remove any and all abilities to give immunity to battleshock. Maybe in their next book one of the rules will be "enemy models cannot benefit from inspiring presence and their bravery cannot be raised in any way".

I dont "need" to make the charge. Im just gonna teleport to the side and shoot with the 12" weapons. If I make the charge its nice, but otherwise they are going to move towards my castle and I will just flank them.

Been awhile, currently working on this. Allegiance: Stormcast Eternals Leaders Drakesworn Templar (420) - General - Arc Hammer - Command Trait: Staunch Defender - Mount Trait: Storm-winged Lord-Castellant (120) - Mystic Light (Artefact): Lantern of the Tempest Lord-Relictor (100) - Prayer: Translocation Knight-Azyros (100) Knight-Venator (110) Battleline 5 x Liberators (90) - Warhammer & Shield 5 x Liberators (90) - Warhammer & Shield 5 x Liberators (90) - Warhammer & Shield Units 8 x Concussors (880) Total: 2000 / 2000 Extra Command Points: 0 Allies: 0 / 400 Wounds: 107 From what I can decipher, Drakesworn Templar can take a stormbolt bow in addition to its other weapons so I wanna try to maximize that with Dracothian Guard. The idea is to castle with everything and teleport the huge unit of concussors on a flank or weak spot and tear through the lines. At range 8 attacks hitting on 3's (thanks to bow) doing d3 mortal wounds each can usually get something out of the way or delete a key hero. Then on the charge you have a massive line than can engage 2-3 enemy units and any 6's to hit guarantees they can't pile in and get good attack value back. I am debating using Anvils of the Heldenhammer but I love the Staunch defender trait so much on my castle. Knight Venator is just filler for the 110 points I had left over. I was considering dropping him for Lord Celestant on Stardrake but then the Concussors lose the +1 to hit buff potential. Side note: Do I have to wound with the Skybolt Bow? It just says "if this model scores one or more hits".

Compare it to a Stardrake. It is way better. The amount of 2 damage attacks is roughly 3 times that of the stardrake. Not counting the other attacks. Stuff em in the bag is similar to cavernous jaws. And these guys have more than double the wounds.

Well now we know how they intend to sell the bigs. Those damage outputs are disgusting.

The reason I dislike 40k is solely Strength and Toughness. I don't mind if my opponent makes a ton of saves because they have a 3+. What I hate is when all my dice miss because they are wounding on 5's and 6's. Maybe it's because my friend plays Imperial Knights, but it's just an un-fun experience. I actually had hoped 9th edition would've brought the removal of S&T. Whenever we show people warhammer we show them both, and every single person thinks S&T is just complicated for the sake of being complicated. There is no need for S&T. A good save value (and aftersave in the form of wound/mortal wound protection) shows how tough a model is. If Knights (or anything with insanely high toughness) just had a 3 up save and 5 up after save (like stonehorns) it's much more fun than saying "you only wound my stonehorn on 5 ups." Especially for newer players who see these gatekeeper armies from the get go. I don't know if you play it, but I use MTG as my example. You are trying to teach someone mtg, you give them a precon deck, and you are playing Modern/Legacy level control. Your opponent just cant do anything and it's a negative experience. I have Necrons, I love the models, but I don't play the game. If AoS goes to S&T I'm out.

I really hope if they do BCR it includes 4 Stonehorn sprues, the mawpot, and a plastic firebelly. Maybe one less stonehorn to include a plastic icebrow hunter and 4-8 plastic frost sabres.

I know they didn't announce the Necron terrain yet, but I think that's because all terrain is made in China and will probably be down the line. I assume even if there is some 40k leftover they will announce Sons today.

They FAQ'd it to be legal. It is our only legitimate way to keep the queen alive. NH desperately need a hero that has 10+ wounds like all the other legions, or need to have Olynder straight up become immune to mortal wounds. (cost balance required obv)

It would've been WAY more thematic for the death gargant mercenary to take away 1 bravery for each 6 rolled. Imagine the possibilities.

Yeah I do this with a ton of armies. I've done FEC, OBR, S2D, IDK, BCR, Stormcast, Slaanesh, and Skaven. I try to buy armies that are ready to go, then re-sell em when I get tired of em. The only army I've kept running this whole time is Nighthaunt. Probably because there are a ton of ways to build it. That's why I like Tzeentch. Everything can be done so many different ways. I'm hoping when they start making new battletomes they standardize the "households" and battalion numbers. Cause Tzeentch and some others got a ton of them and stuff like KO got three battalions.

I always go all out and buy an entire army. That way you get a feel for the army in regular 2k matches. As it stands Im probably only gonna run 10 pinks. I will undoubtedly be doing Eternal Conflagration or Hosts Arcanum so my flamers or screamers are battleline.