JackStreicher

Dwarves incoming!

I‘ve just realized that the Grandhammer Annihalators cost 40pts more than the shield ones? What!? That‘s an expensive +1 dmg,+1 to wound, +1 rend and -1 armor Yes, the point values are weird in this tome.

According to the latest calculations it should approximately cost two Kitneys and your unborn child 😂 just kidding I am guessing it‘s 90-125€

EDIT: 120x92mm

ordinary Chariot base.

Hower != I've just made something up So do you have an actual source or was it just some random guy? ^^

That's the part I hate about gaming: "Oh something is good, I MUST SPAM IT"

So Stormcast became Custodes with less Wards? 🤣 I present my 16 models list... erm... guess I‘ll have to give one hero the tome or switch to Krondys.

I don’t get how they can be pointed equally. The damage difference between the two isn‘t that great and one is a awesome magician. I expected Karazai to be 545 and Krondys to be 600

nope.

Overall I am pretty happy with the new book though prices are about 20% too high on the older units. I am sad about the Lord Heraldor losing his retreat and charge. Overall most heroes seem redundant now. The army will struggle to get enough bodies on the table and your list will pretty fast get to 2k points. Meaning one can't afford heroes that don't really do anything well, especially if they're too highly priced. Apart from that I am seeing myself playing a list with one chariot, 5 Vigilors, 2 Drakes, 1 Hero Drake, the God Drake and some foot sloggers like Annihalators, Protectors and Vindictors. Maybe some dracoths.

I don’t see that Happening ^^

And we’re back to the 80s

How dare you taunting him for his insult!? 🤣 I am a little worried the point increase might be too much since I am not sure Stormcast are elite enough to win with so few models on the board. but let‘s wait and see

The Tauralon barely changed. the Stardrake is still pillowfisted (at least 2 dmg on D6 tail attacks)

I am not sure on this one tbh. If he‘s cheap (140 pts) then I would maybe get one. he offers versatility due to the unit of 2 graph hounds...

There’s a myriad of reasons: -People want to play, once the models are assembled they‘re ready to be played -People don’t like to paint and commissions are very expensive -People might feel like they can’t paint well enough My personal reason: The painting takes ages (in my case since I want the models to have a certain level of quality) - so I end up with ~30% of all my armies painted. Do I feel bad about it? Nope. Why I want the quality? The models were expensive so they should look decent, otherwise it feels like devaluing them. It might sound harsh, yet I‘ve faced a lot of armies (40k mostly) that‘d rather stayed grey, boy did the miserable paint job and taste of colors annihalate the immersion. Yet I don’t mind playing those people since both sides still have fun. in other words: Painting the minis just for the sake of having them painted is stupid in my opinion.

* and it does not bracket seems fine to me if it costs around 300 pts.

Imo it's good Up to 7 attacks hitting on 2s (all out attack), wounding on 3s, -2 ,3 damage. How is that bad?

exactly. They could just print the rewritten rules and you could put them into your spiral-binder-book

Quick mockups to drive home the point:

I made some quick mockups. What you can see: - A Cover which holds the spiral binder - A standard black binder - A Binder for Order (Faction specific you could design the binder to look jagged, spiralled or even contain runes of your faction) Truly: The Sky is the limit with this method.

Exactly. Even Broken realms style books could have rip-out-Pages with holes in them (or not being part of the book, but being contained in a seperate booklet). this way they could add an infinite amount of content that one could collect without ever being out of date. Edit: Those kinds of Battletomes are cheaper and, oh boy, GW could create so many Accessoires to make it look cooler (And ofc make money off of it) - Faction specific binders - Faction specific Hard Covers that wrap around the binder to make it look like a real book. - A leather Wrap-Hard Cover to make it look like a tome - a magnetic cover to which you can attack your gaming aids etc.

Yup. That‘s why I am all in for spiral binders (GHB 2021) style that let you update your Battletome easily. There are ofc other ways like clamps and the lines which could be added into the book.

It would be nice to have one of these that does NOT lead to a new edition. I also don't get why Battletomes aren't Spiral-Staplers like the new GHB, yet you can open the clamp to add new pages. So GW could simply add new Rules in books and White Dwarfes, make them extractable from that book to be put into your Battletome-Spiral-Stapler... easy and always up-to-date. Yes Spiral-Staplers don't look nice, yet it's utterly practical and it'd be great to keep up to date, add rules, change rules, rewrite rules and update rules. EDIT: And it saves production costs *wink wink*