Mutton

I think the main problem with CP in AoS is the difference in surplus between factions. Some armies absolutely swim in CP and basically never have to make any hard choices about when to use them. Other armies claw and scratch to get 1 or 2 each round. There's a clear economic imbalance. GW needs to decide with the next edition whether they want CP to be extremely limited and make every decision to use them a difficult one; or they can decide to give everyone tons of CP to be used at their leisure. The current system of have's and have-not's doesn't work right now.

Almost literally every other company that sells rulebooks with give you the PDF with proof of purchase of the physical book (normally just the receipt). It's not a complicated thing to do.

I'm very interested to see if the "buy a codex, get the digital rules for free" thing will be honored for AoS. It's something I've been championing forever, since it's a common courtesy in most tabletop gaming circles.

It is worth reminding people that those of us outside of the UK are hit even harder due to the conversion rates. Even just in the US we're paying so much more, and we don't usually have access to big 30% discount shops. Australia and New Zealand have always had it the worst, with prices being just about criminal. A bit of a price increase probably isn't too much to think about for those living in the UK, but every time it happens it's a much larger jump for everyone else.

"Price adjustments" is marketing speak for "price increases." Let's just keep further pushing the cost so fewer and fewer people can afford this hobby. Because you know what else hasn't moved in years? Wages. *Steps off of soapbox*

I actually don't think Eltharion is too underpriced or anything. There are simply a lot of other units that are pretty over-costed for what you get nowadays, so it's hard not to compare. *cough Dankholds *cough* Bloodwrack shrine *cough*

I can't wait for this guy to be like 20 points more than my Ogor Tyrant so I can truly weep.

They said there would be more announcements sometime early to mid May.

Guessing the claw is from an IDK underworlds or warcry band. We're seeing new DoK models now that we've circled back around, so it makes sense if we're going in order of releases.

I wish Paladins were good. Those models are sweet.

Paint scheme based on today's art. I really dig it.

Nearing the final hours I'm going to make a wild call that tomorrow they show off models for the Vermintide video game heroes. That's my off-the-wall nonsense prediction.

I think anything with a 2+ save that can be re-rolled is a negative play experience. I had hoped the original intent behind nerfing Mystic Shield in 2.0 was to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. It appears that whole mantra has slipped by the wayside.

"WHERE'S THE BEEF NOW" hammer smash

Gotta hand it to the community team for their commitment. Someone had to write an article about elf rocks.

Gonna second Melusai Blood Stalkers. They're a 140 (used to be 160!) point unit that statistically does 2 wounds in the shooting phase and does nothing else. Absolutely dreadful.

I think static story elements are dull. Azyr is dull. Nothing bad ever happens there. Nothing ever really happens there at all, and it's just a bunch of foppish bluebloods arguing over who has the better title. There have to be some stakes. There's war everywhere in the Realms and it's such a mess we don't really know who's winning or where. The Eight Points was entirely held by Chaos, but now it's been co-settled by Death. Azyr doesn't need to fall or anything, just show weakness. There's nothing exciting about a sanctuary that is completely invulnerable.

Why is that Melusai pose so weird? It looks like fell onto the floor and the plastic bent out of place.

I really don't think Teclis' pose looks that bad. Maybe because it reminds me of a lot of old fantasy artwork.

For the Seraphon-interested: http://www.lustria-online.com/threads/new-rumor.22495/page-346

Boulderhead Ogors: "OH OK."

I'm going against the grain in saying DoK, Maggotkin, and Idoneth, despite being technically "2.0" books, are deeply flawed and still need reworks. I don't consider any of this finished until that happens.

Witch Elves are so expensive that even GW couldn't afford to put them in their SC boxes.

Dangit, was really hoping for that DoK warband. Sometimes I feel like the faction has been lost to time, since they're barely ever referenced in stories or in the lore.

The simplest answer is that "to hit" and "to wound" have been around since the beginning, but when they decided AoS was going to be the more accessible of their two wargames, it meant removing things like WS vs WS and S vs T. I'm no math man, but I'd also wager having two separate rolls helps to even out value distribution, i.e., if we only had a single hit roll, we might see greater spikes or failures in each batch. How many times have we rolled spectacularly to hit, only to even out the score on our to wound roll, or vice versa?