Ointagru

"ALL of the core infantry of the Fyreslayers have been given an additional Wound on their profile!" Wow! That is a big change indeed.

They are still available on the belgian GW site. Distribution problems have never been an indication of what is coming next.

Skavens didn't have a unified battletome until now.

If you want to deepstrike your Ironclad, you'll have to replace Great Endrinworks : The Last Word with Atherspheric Endrins.

I intend to paint mine with the same armor as the rest of the army but with different color for fatigues (my arkanauts have blue-gray armor, white fatigues and black belts and gloves, thunderers will have blue-gray armor, black fatigues and white belts and gloves).

From the warhammer community preview: "Enemy Units anywhere on the board are bombarded with meteors from the Bad Moon, and take damage." So you are right.

And that is assuming the hero stays 18 rounds in the same quadrant as the Bad Moon.

If the ships are the lynchpin of the army, then the arkanauts are also the lynchpin, given they man those ships - logically, they go together, and it wouldn't be thematic to field ships without their crew. I'd rather like to see new heroes that would enhance units and ships (an arkanaut lieutenant or an artillery officer for example). Also some new units: mechanical birds (a bigger versions of the thunderer's Drillbill) as a cheap screen and a fast objective taker and a melee oriented version of thunderers, with some staying power. And a Khrundhal-class battleship...