Joseph Mackay

Weather covid affected Lumineth directly, or other releases that then delayed Lumineth is kind of irrelevant. I suspect *something* happened and the ‘wave 2’ models weren’t going to be out in time. the limited edition battletome Howe is a different story, I believe that was supposed to be a ‘preview’ until the real one came out, until whatever went wrong happened

Legions Of Nagash yes, Soulblight Gravelords to be confirmed. I wouldn’t be surprised if anything in the Nighthaunt or Bonereapers book is taken out, but possibly allowed in via a 1 in 4 units rule (like Cities Of Sigmar)

Stormcast vs any horde army for example (Skaven, Flesh-Eaters, Nighthaunt, Legions Of Nagash, Bonereapers, Seraphon, Gloomspite Gits, Beasts Of Chaos, Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Slaanesh, Slaves To Darkness, Cities Of Sigmar, Daughters Of Khaine - all of these armies, and that’s a pretty large chunk of available factions, can build a horde) Stormcast vs Ogors (similar model count, but Ogors put out more damage-killing Stormcast faster than they can be killed, are more resistant than Stormcast, and have a special rule that doubles their model count for objectives) Stormcast vs any Alpha Strike list (kills the Stormcast before they even have a chance to claim objectives) these are just some examples

Because before that faq, people were applying rend to the save characteristic rather than the save roll. The faq, is basically telling you the same thing the core rules always have - that rend modifies the save roll, not the characteristic, in the same way -1 to hit affects the hit roll not your To Hit characteristic (this is an important distinction because of rerolls and other abilities)

This. Additionally, the app is the most *official* source of warscrolls as it’s the only format that gets updated with the errata etc. the PDF downloads on the webstore the 100% just photocopy’s of either the physical warscroll card or the page from a battletome. Beyond that, they never update them

Lumineth was a causality of covid. I’m not convinced gw intended to replace the battletome so quickly. I believe the second battletome is what we were supposed to get from the start, but something when wrong and the rest of the models weren’t going to be out in time, so due to gws ‘no model-no rules’ policy they had to remove stuff from the battletome. Considering how much hype Lumineth was getting, if they’d delayed them entirely until the ‘new’ stuff was ready, they would have been receiving a lot of complaints everywhere, probably worse than the Cursed City complaints

Start Collecting boxes aren’t actually meant for you to be able to build an army out of multiples. Additionally, competitive/tournaments aren’t the only way people play AoS so your assessment of how good or bad a Mortis Engine is, is completely irrelevant to weather it’s a good box or not. None of those boxes are designed around what’s good competitively anyway. The thing is, make the Mortis Engine Nighthaunt and that box at least has a purpose - as a start collecting box for Nighthaunt. But currently, that box isn’t very attractive to anyone, Legions Of Nagash would tend to focus on skeletons/zombies rather than ‘elite’ ghosts

Grimwrath was nerfed by: -his new Oath abilities come at the expense of the 5++ (only 1 can take it now) -went up to 110pts -his throwing axe got buffed however

If they have stock issues like Cursed City though it’ll do too much damage. People WILL leave the game if they feel gw are exploiting ‘fomo’ on a core item that you NEED to even be able to play the game (referring to both the supposed starter set and rulebook as I suspect the rulebook would be the biggest problem production wise as it’ll be printed in China if it’s a hardback again). And let’s be real for a minute, the amount of people who ALREADY believe gw exploit fomo is insane

Mostly because of the Start Collecting Malignants box. Would be perfect for Nighthaunt, if only the Mortis Engine had the Nighthaunt keyword.. Honestly that model looks like it belongs in the Nighthaunt faction, the whole thing is made up of ghostly looking things except for the Necromancer on top

This is because AoS movement rules (including pile in and charges) allow you to move models halfway up a wall (if you have the movement to do so) and stop there, even if the model can’t physically be placed there. (I don’t like this rule and I’m hoping they copy 40ks rule where you can only stop there if the model can actually be placed there) it’s also worth pointing out, that this sort of problem didn’t exist in aos1 when you measured from the closest point on the models, but of course the competitive/tournaments hated that rule and complained the loudest and it changed to base to base

New editions are released usually at the start of the financial year for gw, if they wouldn’t be able to meet sales expectations due to low stock then I wouldn’t be surprised if they held it back until the next financial year

Exactly this. People not being able to buy Cursed City is no where near as big of a problem as people not being able to buy the AoS3 starter/rulebook

I’ve always been a bit doubtful about aos3 being this year anyway. I can believe that was the plan, but due to covid and limited production capacity still being a thing, I’m not so sure they’ll get it out on time

Disappointed about the new release pause, as there’s a bunch of stuff coming out that I DONT want which due to the break just further delays the stuff I DO want

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that to come across argumentative, I’m just sick of people complaining about how the rule works when it’s always worked that way and no one seemed to have a problem with it before. additionally I get a bit extra salty about the complaints because the only unit so far (to my knowledge) with a 1+ save is the Bastiladon, a Seraphon model, and I love me some reptiles and dinosaurs and seeing people complain about them is upsetting. talking about the bastiladon though, the 1+ save is actually a nerf from its old rules. It used to have a 3+ save ignoring rend (specifically only ignored rend so you could still buff it somehow) AND a 4+ mortal wound save. It’s save didn’t degrade like it does now (or maybe it did but not as quickly?)

No, the way saves and rend work is fine. People’s inability to read the rules properly and then complain about how it actually works is bull.

The problem with made to order is all card product is made in China, they can’t just print more whenever they want like they can with models. among the speculation and conspiracy theories I’ve seen: -brexit adding tariffs because the China made components exceeded a 30% allowance of total content. The extra costs make it not financially worth making more. They sold what they had from their initial run at a huge loss and decided to discontinue it. -the contract with their Chinese printer expired and the company no longer exists so they’re trying to sort out a new one (this one seems odd since no other product has been affected, yet all hardback books are printed in China too). -gw did it on purpose to fuel fomo (fear of missing out). -gw underestimated demand based on Blackstone Fortress sales (40K is a bigger seller than AoS so presumably they looked at BSF sales and made less than that - supposedly the stock should have lasted 6 months). -nobody was supposed to say it was a regular range item and they’re removing those posts because it was a mistake. Theory being it WAS limited and they chose not to announce it so scalpers wouldn’t buy it all. note that this is all just what I’ve seen posted around various places and none of it is my opinion or anything

That’s not a Chameleon Skink hand though. It’s somewhat human but looks more Fec/vampire

Everything relating to what’s going on with Cursed City is speculation and conspiracy theories. Supposedly they’ve said the box isn’t coming back *online* (a fact people are ignoring and reading it as ‘never coming back at all’) though that response was supposedly about the novel not the game. they said expansions were coming, the rules say expansions are coming, the website hints at Nighthaunt and Flesh-Eaters. Expansions would have been ready ages ago, so they aren’t just going to scrap them now

He’ll be back though so it’s not a big deal. gw have limited production capacity at the moment and can’t make as much stock as they want without delaying things (Cursed City was supposed to be a November release based on the warscroll book). The theory is, like 40K last year, that most of their capacity is being put towards AoS 3 so they don’t have any issues with the planned release in June/July, so just like last year, every other release is kinda getting the short end of the stick

I believe that bone flute is Flesh-Eaters, possibly a Cursed City expansion

The problem with that is, especially Seraphon, most resin stuff is heroes. Kill off all resin and seraphon are left with a Saurus Oldblood and Skink Starpriest (not including the various mounted heroes or the new Kroak)

Na Kragnos is definitely something they’d hold back for a Warhammer Online preview show

In my opinion, anything that is a dual kit isn’t going away -Zombie Dragon/Terrorghiest shared by Flesh-Eaters and Legions Of Nagash -Black Knights/Hexwraiths shared by Nighthaunt and Legions Of Nagash -Crypt Horrors/Crypt Flayers/Vargheists shared by Flesh-Eaters and Legions Of Nagash -Arkhan/Mannfred/Nefarata shared by Bonereapers and Legions Of Nagash -Coven Throne/Bloodseeker Plaquin/Mortis Engine shared by Legions Of Nagash and Nighthaunt* *it’s not a Nighthaunt unit but it should be