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Joseph Mackay

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  1. How does Mightier Makes Rightier work with Apex Predator battleplan? Can Mancrushers deny the opponent from scoring?
  2. When it comes to dates, gw seem to classify the preorder date as released (eg Ork-tober a few years ago - the codex wasn’t actually released until November)
  3. RAW I think it’s one or the other, RAI I think it’s both its poorly worded, but I think they combined the Boars Charge and Stikkas ability into one rather than 2 separate abilities, Chompas obviously aren’t supposed to get the +1 which is why it’s worded that way
  4. My answer to this is that, really, the god characters should have been narrative only from the start, so I wouldn’t have an issue with stuff like the morathi snakes combo going away effectively
  5. In my area, the answer is gatekeeping - the same thing (and usually from the same people responsible) that killed fantasy for others I know personally, it’s because they have limited free time and feel like going out for a ~1 hour game of 1000pts etc isn’t worth their time or effort for me, I actually prefer smaller games (I generally enjoy the side games more than the main games, like Warcry etc), but I know the people I regularly play with don’t, so I don’t get to play the smaller games very often. slightly off topic but somewhat relevant: in all my years of playing AoS, I’ve noticed an interesting trend. armies that are generally considered ‘bad’ do quite well at ~1000pts, while the ‘good’ armies don’t seem to do as well as they normally would
  6. I personally wouldn’t trust any rumours that originated from him. He said Flesh-Eaters endless spells were “not long for this world” and the battletome was “on life support” as in going away. Nobody who hadn’t watched/listened to that episode had heard of this before, and nothing ever came of it (this was during the hype for Cursed City, in the weeks prior to the preorder date) I personally believed Flesh-Eaters would be rolled into Soulblight, but that was on the basis of it being a vampire only book (aka expanding the Soulblight keyword faction, like Nighthaunt) rather than a replacement for Legions Of Nagash
  7. When I put my hand up for Duardin soup if they weren’t going to add models to Fyreslayers, Orruks Warclans is exactly the type of book I meant - all 3 retain their own separate allegiances, with an additional combined one now, the issue with Warclans as a book, is that taking Big Waaagh to gain access to the other Orruk units loses you too much (contrary to the previous book). My plan for my Bonesplitterz was to add the Kruleboyz monsters and run them as Big Waaagh….until I read the rules. Now I’m not buying any Kruleboyz because I can’t use them (Bonesplitterz lose too much of the little they have to run them as Big Waaagh) I believe it is intentional that you can’t take other orruks as allies, Big Waaagh is what you’re meant to do if you want to mix the Warclans, unfortunately
  8. Unless they’ve reworded the ability, only the models within 8” get to throw their shields. This was changed in AoS2 specifically to stop the daisy chain nonsense of 1 model getting within 0.5” and having 30 Duardin throw their shields
  9. Agreed. I would also say that the armies we most want updated fall into this category of needing up to date models rather than redesigns Beasts, Skaven?, Flesh Eaters, Ogors, Seraphon*, Slaves To Darkness. *personal opinion, Skinks are fine but could maybe use updated models. All Saurus however need a massive overhaul, should be almost twice as big and bulky than they are now - the plastic Bloodbowl Saurus, and the Oldblood from the Starblood Stalkers underworlds Warband are great examples of what Saurus SHOULD look like
  10. I mostly agree with you here, but, and it’s a pretty big but, Rule Of 3 simply can’t work in AoS unless all armies get fleshed out to Lumineth/Stormcast/Slaves level of unit options. armies like Fyreslayers would end up as a static army list because they would have no options. The only difference between fyreslayer lists would be which of the 20~ hero options are taken. Rule Of 3 works in 40K because of the different roles (HQ, Elite, Troops, Fast, Heavy) in combination with the Detachments, and number of units within each faction. Troops are excluded from the Rule Of 3 in 40K, and in AoS you would have to exclude Battleline from this rule, including conditional Battleline (if they met the requirements for Battleline) otherwise armies like Fyreslayers/Flesh Eaters etc end up as above, which would completely ignore the point of the Rule Of 3 (pretty much every unit that has ever been complained about if spammed was Battleline/conditional Battleline anyway). Under the above specifics, dragon spam avoids this rule and there’s no other way to make this sort of thing work without A) expanding all the small armies asap B) applying the rule on a case by case basis to different factions
  11. Genestealer Cult/Custodes was somewhat unique, in that gw outright stated the books were due at the same time as the box but were delayed outside of their control. Beyond that, the AoS app has always updated to the newest rules. Also prior to AoS3 the warscrolls were free downloads off the webstore as soon as preorders went live
  12. With the exception of Dominion (for obvious reasons), the old app updated with the battle box warscrolls after release, so there’s no reason to think they won’t do the same here
  13. This take makes no sense as there’s no president for it. Battle box rules are 100% offical, and replace any previous rules, at the time of release date. Warscroll cards in the boxes before have never been ‘watered down’ or ‘specially for this box/campaign only’ (warscroll battalions, sure). Closest thing to that is the 40K boxes where you still need the codex, because rules shared by multiple units, or that trigger off a keyword are found in the army rules section rather than the datasheets for units
  14. That was fine when faqs were exactly 2 weeks after release, but now that it’s just whenever gw feels like it/remembers about it, that doesn’t work anymore, sadly
  15. Yeah, there is no basis to the ‘watered down’ warscrolls thing as they’ve never done that in these battle boxes before. In 40K, sure, they don’t give you the full rules, but that’s because of how 40K put a lot of keywords on the scroll that you need the codex for the actual rule. Additionally, the watered down warscrolls are only in the instruction booklet
  16. So, what changes do people hope Bonesplitterz get in the next balance update/what changes in general do you think Bonesplitterz need? -Spirit Of Gorkamorka applies to all Bonesplitterz units and heroes regardless of the number of models in their unit (maybe not the Rouge Idol?). -20-30pts drop on all infantry (except Big Stabbas). -Wardokk gains the Priest keyword again (why did he lose it in the first place? Daughters have Wizard-Priest units so that can’t be it). -and here’s one just for fun (I don’t think it’ll happen and I’m not sure it actually should): Savage Big Boss loses the Leader pitched battle role (like Grimwrath Berzerkers and Doomseekers)
  17. They were overcosted at least compared to Vulkites. Ignoring the AoS3 core rules (coherency) for a moment, Hearthguard were so much better and cheaper at minimum size (yes it’s 5 models vs 10, but those 5 are so much better), they also have 2” range, so units bigger than 5 don’t have issues Vulkites do. enter AoS3 coherency rules. There was already little reason to take Vulkites from a competitive point of view (if you care about the lore then you should have been taking Vulkites as well). Now with AoS3, the difference between those two units is so much greater, and the points never reflected that in my opinion (maybe the issue was actually Vulkites costing too much rather than Hearthguard being too cheap though). These new warscrolls just reinforce Hearthguard spam as the only way to play the army, and that makes me sad because it strongly goes against the lore of the Fyreslayers Now in regards to trying to compare to other units, Thralls don’t have a 4+ ward (let’s be honest, everyone always had a hero close enough to get a 4+), Gravegrave only have a 6+ if babysat by a hero (with a much smaller leash - pre Fury In The Deep warscrolls). In regards to within 10” becoming wholly within 9” so a unit of 15 can’t get it? Good. The coherency rules were intended to stop oppressive hordes running a muck (sadly, the majority of those were on 25mm bases so the changes didn’t affect them anyway). Hearthguard should NOT be spammed, they also SHOULDNT be Battleline, the only reason they are is because the faction is too small to restrict them to Vulkites only. Hearthguard are a bodyguard/elite unit (in the lore), not the main fighting force of the fyreslayers. Additionally, as per the lore, Auric Runemasters and Auric Runefathers should be limited to one per army
  18. You’re comparing an elite unit (that under the lore shouldn’t even be conditional Battleline but is because there’s no other options, and was undercosted) to a basic Battleline unit.
  19. I feel like this just adds fuel to the fire/theory that gw are priorising 40K over AoS due the effects of covid messing up shipping/schedules that someone’s just gone “****** it, let’s just focus on the higher selling items until this is under control, and we’ll chuck something out to AoS if the stars align”
  20. Hearthguard Berzerker nerfs we’re needed and I’m happy with them, however I’m not happy with the nerfs to everything else that just makes Hearthguard spam still the most ‘competitive’ list Hearthguard spam needs to go away, not become the only option
  21. 25mm bases don’t care about the coherency rules anyway, which is why the coherency rules are such a massive problem
  22. Even better, make the within 1” of 2 models only apply to Reinforced units
  23. I hope they don’t get 2” range. It makes sense on thralls due to the size of the weapons, but not for vulkites. the solution to 32mm base models with 1” range isn’t to bump them all up to 2” as that devalues the units who already have 2”+ range. The solution is 40K style combat rules
  24. AoS in 2021 had Slaanesh (delayed from 2020), Daughters (delayed from 2020), Soulblight Gravelords (don’t know if the book was delayed but Cursed City definitely was, which I believe would have also delayed the book), Lumineth (pretty sure these were delayed from 2020 as well as I don’t believe gw intended to release 2 books so close together-my thoughts are the wave 2 models were delayed for some reason and gw decided to release a smaller book as the backlash from delaying Lumineth considering all the hype was something they didn’t want to deal with), Stormcast, Nurgle, Orruks. Of these, all but 3 were meant to be in 2020, and of those 3, only 2 got a reasonable amount of models yes I’m ignoring the single model releases that came with the Broken Realms books
  25. Disagree. Ever since covid, gw have been prioritising 40K releases over AoS. That’s not to say 40K haven’t seen delays too, but AoS seems to be hit much harder by them
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