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Bjarni St.

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  1. They also showed the rules for some of the named holds (chapter tactics!) but I didn't sshot them. One of them gives each hero an unbind (or +1 unbind) with an extra one for each one turn/game. Sounded like the Skyvessel abilities counted as artifacts.

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  2. The Spelleater Curse is legit. Gonna be some sad-faced Treelords not getting their D6 wounds back due to that. The Bloodthirster battalion is pretty neat and the Khorgorath buff alleviates somewhat my concern over mediocre warscrolls not getting any shine. Cautiously optimistic.

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  3. They'll need something significant to become competitive, especially if they don't do anything to address the warscrolls' innate lack of Rend or MW output in addition to mobility. Khorne are in competitive lists now only by the grace of Sayl and Warp Lightning Cannons.

    GW have not done much to existing warscrolls in SCE and Disciples so I'd be surprised to see any noticeable changes there besides limiting the unbind of the LoK and Slaughterpriest.

    The Blood Tide (or whatever it's called) mechanic in 40k Khorne Daemonkin I wouldn't be surprised to see make an appearance. It gives you points when stuff dies that you can spend on buffs and summoning.

  4. They look basically as I expected, just more... Squatty. They're cool, more or less, flashy and unique but some of this is a little (sorry) dumb looking. Brokk Grungson looks like a parody model someone produced to show how Games Workshop have GONE TOO FAR.

    Highlights for me are the Grungstok Thunderers (power armor guys with big guns) and the ships, and the characters look alright. Is it starting to become apparent to everyone else though that GW appears to be in serious love with the profit margin on character models, producing an excessive amount of them compared to sometimes paltry unit offerings?

    Anyway, lows are the Arkanaut Company (a different paintjob could maybe sway me) and the balloon guys. I just don't get them, it looks silly. Also sad that this seems to not be Battletome: Dwarves.

    Finally, brace yourselves for the EA cease and desist for GW clearly basing these guys on plagiarised art for the Volus race from Mass Effect.

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  5. On 3/11/2017 at 2:19 PM, Norbie said:

    I have seen several people saying the points cost of kurnoth hunters should go up. I believe if this happens it will nerf the entire army...

    In a "balanced" 2k(ish) army fielding maybe 3-4 warscrolls' worth the current cost of Kurnoths is a non-issue. Sylvaneth have a high core tax and either weak or expensive characters. Where we get into problems is with 15+ Kurnoths in usually mixed Order armies forming just abominable gunlines. That DOES need looking at.

    You're not wrong that if Kurnoths go up a lot Sylvaneth are in a bit of trouble. That's something they'll have to address simultaneously.

  6. 14 minutes ago, Goodapollo4 said:

    Oh! I didn't realize that I could watch for free, thought it was all behind a paywall. Cool! 

    Yeah they were saying that at the start when it was introduced. It was incorrect and I'm pretty sure you're only one of many who never heard differently. 

  7. 1 hour ago, Rogue Explorator said:

    I can not put into words how happy I am to see "sketchy illustrations one can not buy as mini, but would really like to convert one for" in AoS, it is like a fundamental part of the hobby was still missing for me^^

     

    Just wait until they re-release the Freeguild as a purely ratcatcher-themed faction. Rat pelts all-round, Rat-Gryph cavalry, Aetherrat flyers and Wererat monstrous infantry.

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  8. 2 hours ago, wayniac said:

    I would hope that GHB 2.0 might have different points for Enlightened on/off the Disc, it would make some sense and also give a reason to take/not take certain options, since right now there's zero reason to ever not take a particular option since it's "free".

    I don't understand why on earth they even included the option to not put Enlightened on discs. It makes no sense to me.

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  9. 3 hours ago, daedalus81 said:

    The guy with the 'cannon' is a judicator.  

    Stormcast are a very slow army.  Judicators are very soft ranged.  Prosecutors are costly and short ranged.  Adding options that bring fast units and a ranged threat that forces opponents to move gets SC off the teleporting rock.

    Judicators are by no means soft. W2 4+ with half their damage output coming from the last two wounds in the unit is nails hard. They also tend to be able to reach pretty much whatever they want, at M5 24". Prosecutors with Javelins are also quite cost efficient with perfectly presentable range. Maybe the new units are really good and do change the SC meta, but it won't be because Judicators and Prosecutors aren't cutting it.

  10. 7 minutes ago, StealthKnightSteg said:

    more gryphhounds be good and I do wonder what these: Aetherwing and the formidable Gryph-chargers , will be. I worry the Gryph-chargers will be replacing the demigryph knights

    Flying gryph cav in combat and ranged flavours is what I'm expecting here.

    Also... these guys have Bolt Pistols and Close Combat Weapons. Just saying. This release puts to bed in my mind the possibility of a book release that updated multiple armies at once to have allegiance abilities and battalions. That was always a fantasy but I still like to dream!

     

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