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From the leaking rules, shooting is not separate from close combat, it is just a special close combat that with long range(I deduce this from the untamed beast warscroll, check the spear with 8" range)

From what I observe, warcry and apoc might suggest that in 40K 9.0 and AOS 3.0, the game will be more interactive, without one player sitting there doing little when in his opponent's turn since the concept of one battle round consists of each player's turn might just be gone. The initiative design of warcry is pretty interesting, the one lose initiative gain some benefits. Not sure whether it is balanced enough, but it seems a good way to balance the initiative problem. The attack sequence has been simplified greatly, instead of use 3 or more D6 dices to determine the damage, now we just need 1 D6(hope GW won't bring the FNP into warcry). Well, another good thing I have notice is that attack twice (typo, I actually means attacks more than normal times) exists in warcry and is available to everyone, but the price is pretty big, you need a quad ability dice. This is more reasonable when compared to the one exists in current AOS game system.

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I remember someone said in this thread that it will come out about October, right? That's still very far away. None of the battletome for the second half of this year get confirmed yet, so it is too soon to make a judgement.

I still doubt GW will give update to the old aelves separately. It seems to me that order alliance has more fractions than GW can afford to support.

For against nurgle, you need some -1 hit debuff to make the BK useless and try to remove the glotkin as soon as possible, ignore the plague bearer.

So for warcry, we have warbands from Chamon, Ghyran, Ghur, Ulgu and Shyish, so the next is either Hysh or Aqsha then. By the way, I don't see the rumor engine head in the Shyish warband picture.

I just use plague monk as an example for stacking a hugh amount of the same model in this game, and there are also a bunch similar stuff in the game, I just don't want to type everything out.... Moreover, I do hear from my friend that a plauge monk model fully buffed can do 21 attacks per model before it is removed(I remember it is using some magic that allow the mdoel to pile in and attack before it is removed, and this effect can stack).....

One of the imbalance GW created in AOS2.0 is the widespread battleshock immunity desgin, which should be a fatal penalty for large unit. But it is reasonable since GW write rules to sell models, balance is just something secondary from their point of view, players stacking a lot large units, like 120 plague monks, will certainly benefits GW.

fyreslayer and slannesh is untouched by this FAQ, their time might come at the end of this year.

Well, I remember that those fraction terrain is made in China, so if not considering the steel mould price and the cost for desgin and shippment, tax stuff, the cost for each box will be like less than 1% of the leaked price(including every cost the factory needed to produce those trees if produced in considerable amount).

Now the FEC dragon no longer always fight first, which means every army has a chance to crush it with a melee-focused list, this is a very big deal....

The forever fight first FEC dragon is gone, once again we can fight the FEC using melee-focused list.

Well, both the skullcrusher and raptor ability does not refer to the start of the phase, it refers to after the skullcrusher finishes its charge.

Really hope the lost syl could be released this month, it has been delayed for two months already....

Well, once they finish the design of the model and steel mould created, GW doesn't need to spend much on producing each spruce. So the raising the price of those very very old model doesn't really make sense, unless GW need to renew the steel mould recently...... By the way, I just get into this hobby about a year, how often did GW increase the product's price in such a wide range? If it is something like 5 to 10 years, maybe it is still acceptable.

Not really, from what I remember that stormvault is under a graveyard that is close to the stygxx fortress, the primary stormkeep for anvils. At the end of that story, the monster within did break free but the stormkeep stands still with the help of the nearby FEC.

From that leaked list, I don't see any SCE stuff.

Well, is there any explanation why GW have a wide-range price increase again? This is the second time this year. GW is doing great when checking its stock and it also claims that it is expanding its factory in UK. It doesn't seem to me that GW is in short of money......

So probably it is not about shippment. I guess it might happens that the factory prints the wrong version(or have some defects?) so they need to reprint it.... Or like some guesses posted before, the syl books drops into the ocean and they also need to reprint it🤣

If slaanesh counts as the new release for chaos, that's very weird, slaanesh is available before the warhammer fest(available to buy anytime, not just available to be pre-ordered). Then the staff says one more tomes for each grand alliance on warhammer fest, this is a contradiction from my opinion.

Really？Sounds cool！

Model is great, just it doesn't have a place in competitive game. In semi-competitive game, I think you can still bring it with a decent list, its AOE is pretty good from my opnion. So the question come backs to do you really like the celestant-prime model? If so, get it.

I mean you can write a 1980 point list with that big battalion, but you have to use the hurricane version. It is valid to use the longstrike version, but there won't be enough points to do so, assuming you are writing a 2000 list.

I don't recommend the bigh vanguard auxiliary chamber. Indeed after the points change, you can fit that big battalion into a 2000 list, but you only use 3 units of raptor with hurricane crossbow, which benefits little from the extra attack since it already have 9 attacks each model. If we can fit in the longstrike version, that's another story. By the way, that list will be very fragile, 2000 list with 40-50 w in total.