Joseph Mackay

So are we all thinking the new Aelves will come out before Seraphon?

@Gwendar I’m not sure on the Morghasts to be honest, I’ve been running them mostly because that’s what I have. sometimes they do quite a bit of damage and other times they just get murdered

I’ve played a couple of games with the following Katakros + Arkhan lists (once each so far) Allegiance: Ossiarch Bonereapers- Legion: Petrifex EliteLeadersKatakros, Mortarch of the Necropolis (500)- GeneralArkhan the Black, Mortarch of Sacrament (360)Battleline20 x Mortek Guard (260)- Nadirite Blade and Shield20 x Mortek Guard (260)- Nadirite Blade and Shield5 x Kavalos Deathriders (180)- Nadirite Blade and ShieldUnits2 x Morghast Harbingers (210)- Spirit Swords2 x Morghast Harbingers (210)- Spirit SwordsEndless Spells / Terrain / CPsSuffocating Gravetide (20)Total: 2000 / 2000Extra Command Points: 0Allies: 0 / 400Wounds: 110 I played vs Slaanesh with this list. Gift From The Heavens, it didn’t go well for me. The Locus making you fight last plus their ability to fight multiple times hurts a lot. Allegiance: Ossiarch Bonereapers- Legion: Petrifex EliteLeadersKatakros, Mortarch of the Necropolis (500)- GeneralArkhan the Black, Mortarch of Sacrament (360)Battleline20 x Mortek Guard (260)- Nadirite Blade and Shield20 x Mortek Guard (260)- Nadirite Blade and Shield10 x Kavalos Deathriders (360)- Nadirite Blade and ShieldUnits2 x Morghast Harbingers (210)- Spirit SwordsEndless Spells / Terrain / CPsNightmare Predator (40)Total: 1990 / 2000Extra Command Points: 0Allies: 0 / 400Wounds: 113 I played this vs Stormcast in Places Of Arcane Power. It was technically a draw when we called it but I would have automatically won in the next turn as I’d killed all his heroes. I probably could have tabled him too. I did make some rules mistakes though (gave Katakros the Petrifex Elite -1 rend command ability, Deathriders probably weren’t wholly within 6” of the Hekatos for command abilities)

My issue with the Seraphon lore is mainly in regards to the transition from Fantasy to Age Of Sigmar. They escaped the End Times in their temples which turned out to actually be spaceships left behind from the Old Ones. However somewhere between leaving the World-That-Was and arriving in the Mortal Realms, all but the Slann no longer exist. Instead the Slann imagine the Seraphon into being. there has been some lore since then that suggests the Seraphon still live but are on the spaceships and the Slann magic them into battle, and other stories of them becoming physical beings when in battle for so long and going feral

Physical permanent Seraphon are boring? I disagree, Seraphon that don’t physically exist and are just the Slanns imaginary friends are boring

Still waiting on the 40k one to hit New Zealand a few months ago gw announced it was coming to Australia (the 40k one) but it’s not available for nz yet

How are people using Tree Revenants? I was playing around with a ‘theme’ of trees with swords (ie every model in the list had a sword, so Durthu, Kurnoths and Tree Revenants) but I found the Revenants disappointing. They have bad saves, 1 wound, not much damage, and have elite unit pricing (points and money)

I had just finished building him and wanted to use him in a game. I’m still learning the army but at the moment I really can’t see a reason to use any Legion other than Petrifex Elite sadly. As for his command ability, the +1 to hit works regardless of legion but the +1 save will only affect himself if not a Mortis Phraetorian army

I think looking at the Shadowspear box gives us a clue as to how the limited hero models will be released, new Start Collecting boxes it makes sense that gw might want to take out the Zombie Dragon from the current Flesh Eaters box as I imagine hardly anyone buys the individual model anymore, same with Sylvaneth and the Treelord. Gloomspite Gits still need a Start Collecting box anyway so that makes sense as well

What does everyone think of Katakros? discussion about the different legions? I’m struggling to find a situation where Petrifx Elite isn’t the best option, even in an all cavalry army, Stalliarch Lords run and charge is awesome but I still think the +1 save is better? Ivory Host is definitely the worse Legion in my opinion. I should point out that I’ll alway be running Arkhan and/or Katakros as general so I don’t much care about the Legion artefact or command trait

Dispossessed appears to be missing from the factions list, their allegiance abilities from the GHB are still valid

A mixed army only works as well as a Grand Alliance army will. there is no synergy between the different factions like Dispossessed or Freeguild, abilities only work within specific factions. Telling people they’re playing the army wrong by not taking a mixed list is incorrect. Cities of Sigmar also consolidated all unit champions, musicians and banner to have the same effect across all units in the book. In doing so the Dispossessed units lost some of their flavour that made them different (the 5+ to ignore spells for example, one of only 2 ways Dispossessed could counter magic, now it’s just 1). additionally, gw have effectively forced Dispossessed etc into using Cities because all their conditional battleline are tied to being a Cities army now despite their own allegiance abilities from the GHB still being valid. and not necessarily related to Cities as such, but the Dispossessed units are way overpriced. Compare Ironbreakers to Vulkite Berzerkers, it’s just ridiculous. All Duardin should have been updated to 2 wounds each when Fyreslayers were.

Consider that all the other Grand Alliance book faqs/errata state to no longer use the contents of that book when a new one has been released, and the Order one hasnt been updated to say that, I’d argue the Runelord faq/errata still applies as the wording of his current rule is copy-paste of his old warscroll, they obviously forgot about the faq/errata ruling since his warscroll was never updated to include the faq/errata

Examples 1 & 2: each seperate dice deals 1 mortal wound and so you would roll to save against each one. example 3: as the 2 mortal wounds come from a single dice, gotreks ability will kick in and reduce it to 1.

Eels and Squig riders don’t have the Mount runemark because mounts are forbidden from interacting with certain terrain which contradicts with the Fly runemark they both have

This Saturday can’t come soon enough, I’m dying to get into the game, so much so that I haven’t really wanted to play anything else while waiting for it. I somewhat expected the other Warbands to go up for preorder on release day, but that has now altered my purchasing plans. I only recently go into Kill Team and have missed out on all the Killzone boxes and cards as they’re now out of print. I’m going to be trying not to repeat that mistake, so any Ravaged Lands sets or cards are priority for me so I don’t miss out, but as they’re putting the Shattered Stormvault Ravaged Lands set up for preorder that’s pushed my plans to buy the other Warbands out by like a month in my group, at least initially, it looks like I’m going to be the one promoting the game, running people through games and trying to get people to play it. Only having the 2 starter set Warbands for a month if not longer I suspect might kill some of the interest. I should clarify that there are some in my group will who play pretty much anything but they won’t buy it if it’s not for their main game, so things like Warcry I have to be able to supply everything for people to play it

Preordered the Starter Set. First pay after release is going towards some paints and the Cypher Lords, followed by the Ravaged Lands graveyard set

Of the AoS factions, DOK is the most complete warband as aside from heroes, the whole army is available to choose from. for me, I think I’m going to have to buy some Witches as I bet Melusai and Khinerai will be too expensive in points to run only those models

In the 18ish years I’ve been a part of this hobby, there have only been 3 items I’ve ever preordered: Space Hulk 3rd edition (2009), 40k Dark Imperium (2017) and Warcry! with Kill Team, I got into it too late and most of the Killzone boxes and cards are now out of print. I won’t be making that mistake with Warcry. For me personally, all the ‘side games’ and board games are the better GW products, I get much more enjoyment out of them vs AoS or 40k the graveyard Ravaged Lands box people have been complaining about, I can’t wait to get it. I’ve always liked that kit but as I’m unable to host games myself terrain has always been a ‘no point in buying’ product. All the warbands so far look awesome, there’s one or two that definitely aren’t my favourites but I’ll be getting them all. I plan on getting some warbands for the AoS factions too. complaints about customisation don’t bother me. Monopose models always look better anyway, and I’m not competitive or WAAC so the ‘optimal’ warband builds don’t concern me. However I probably will buy 2 of each warband to get all the options (I especially want multiples of the Untamed Beasts for the Rocktusk Prowler and maybe a few of the Iron Golems for more Ogors and Duradin) i like that the game is simple and quick to play. I’d much rather be able to get in 2-3 games than one 2-3 hour game

People saying ‘warscrolls override core rules’ are missing a very key part of these terrain rules. This is in ADDITION to the warscrolls restrictions for setting up people panicking about Sylvaneth woods being unusable obviously haven’t seen the new rules from the Battletome that has been posted all over the place after Apple accidentally released the digital version for a few hours. The sylvaneth woods basically copy the same rules as in the GHB (the free allegiance woods must be 6” away from other terrain and objectives, but summoned woods have lesser restrictions)

Each GHB does NOT replace the previous one, generally only the points change (maybe some tweaks to the allegiance abilities). Each GHB adds new stuff

The problem with Flesh-Eaters isn’t one that points can solve (just like Daughters of Khaine). The issue is one of the Courts has an ability thats a bit too strong, but if they raise the points of the unit that benefits from it the most (Abhorrant Ghoul King on Terrorgheight) you’re just handicapping the lists that aren’t Gristlegore Court, you’d basically force every Flesh-Eaters list to be Gristlegore court as the Terrorgheist would be overcosted in any other Court.

Morathi unlocking battleline Melusai, my thoughts on this are that it makes sense narratively however I feel that it’s a balance issue

Right so I’m wanting to do a cavalry army and that leads me to look at Deepkin again (I stopped working on the army due to how op the eels+volturnos combo is) so I want to exclusively stick to Akhelian units (with the exception of Tidecasters) -is there a way to make an Akhelian King a wizard through artefacts or something? -I want to use both types of eels, the king, sharks and turtle but I just can’t seem to fit everything in and make a list I like. I’ve run the turtle and sharks before and I don’t share the usual opinion of them being bad or overcosted, I found them to be quite good. Heroes are a problem as 2 kings takes away so much from the list but only one isn’t good enough

i think its an error based on how the webstore processes stock levels. stock is probably low and there wont be any more made for quite some time