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  1. Laststand
    Many many people will want Gotrek and I predict he will be a hero for the sigmar cities tome. Mixed dwarf factions led by Gotrek as general anyone? Re model reveals this was warcry's day and they didn't want to detract from that after months of hype. Even so two new battletomes, Ogres practically confirmed with one and a new faction coming. They may not have immediately shown lots of new models but they cant possibly release 4 books without some new models. Each of the existing 3 will get at least 1 hero and Ogres merged with BCR is instantly a new dimension. Hold tight!
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    Like killteam that will have to wait for the commanders and elites expansions.
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    I agree and we are both playing into it by posting but.I guess my point is the higher you raise the hype the higher the pressure to deliver. I would love this to be the perfect skirmish game but if there are errors the teased out marketing could back fire. We have to find out this week unless people are going to preorder blind.
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    The big key missing piece of information is how the game is played and on this we have had a black hole of information. The hype train could completely derail and terminally crash if the rules are muddled or poor at the outset. The initial box will sell well for the terrain and chaos players will be after some of the warbands but if the game play is off its game over.
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    @Eevika can I ask what army you primarily use?
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    Stormcast can deal with hordes easily! Take 3 or 4 balllista, ordinator, longstrikes. Deepstrike them in range and pull the trigger, no more hordes. That lot plus 300pts for liberator battleline might be half your points and you can spend the other 1,000 on stardrake, dracoths, dracolines etc.
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    I started to write a reply then realised there isnt much point until the FAQ release which might be as soon as today.
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    I've found that a unit of 3 stormfiends is a bit meh. For 260pts you want to be annihilating things but unless you roll really well that wont happen often. You prob need to commit to at least 6 (6d6 shots with rattling guns!) Or just chuck them for something else.
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    I imagine they have far worse things than rabbies!
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    Listening to Realmslayer on my commute and it is fantastic. I went back and reread the gotrek model release info and it said that he will have rules to be playable. Would this mean he can be an ally to any dwarf faction, the posterdwarf for a new mixed order faction (legion of the slayer?) or even the first model from a metal dwarf race that Grungi is working on.
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    What do you think of this theory... Verminlords are very popular with skaven players both cause they are cool and also because they are powerful. In response GW puts up the price 10%. Given this do we think the points nukes that everyone is predicting will be less significant than feared? I mean, whats the point of jacking up the price of something and dramatically increasing the points? Demand might survive 1 but not both. I suspect we might be fairly relaxed about the points change. Maybe 20 for all except the warpseer go might go to 300?
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    Completely true. You are entirely entitled to play the game as competitively as you like and anything in the rules is fair play. However, if you have carefully evaluated the rules and play the most powerful list in the meta that wins the game against any opponent, almost every time, turn 1, then outside of tournaments few people are going to play with you. No problem if you are a pure tournament player but most of us are not and approach the game differently. Both approaches are valid but probably shouldnt be mixed at the table.
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    A super cheap option but I use the boxes from teabags. An 80 bag box usually holds a whole unit. I put in some layers of small bubblewrap and close the lid. These all neatly slot into a larger cardboard box. I should prob invest in a case of some kind but at the moment this does the job nicely. Prob helped by the fact i drive as I wouldnt be confident with this on any form of public transport.
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    Fair point. Its the consistency that interests me and the points of differential. I.e. unit x and unit Y have 3 attacks, 4, 3, -1, 1 damage. Unit x has a movement bonus, unit Y better bravery. How are the points built up and why do very similar units in different armies have different points.
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    Thoughtful and well considered article. Really enjoyed it. I think a crux of GW reasoning is that they just value abilities slightly differently to players. Perhaps many of us dont place enough value on flexibility in roles for a unit. For example Palladors dont have a great offensive ability but their movement is superb and defense decent. What is the value of snatching an objective early from across the board? I bet we all have different perspectives. Its a huge ask @swarmofseals but I'm sure many of us would be very interested to see your faction evaluations if you were willing to share them?
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    I suspect monks will go to 80pts but wouldnt be surprised by 90 pts. Warpseer will def go up (maybe to 300pts). Not sure what they could do to stormvermin to make them a viable option. At 10-20 models they dont get the bonus or loose it almost instantly so you need min 30. Thats awkward as they sell in boxes of 20. They might drop the points but take away the horde discount or give them +1 attack on the charge like bestigors.
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    Or the Horned Rat and friends (as the 5th chaos god) makes a larger appearance.
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    Really? Whats the problem? You have a huge range of bonuses and allegiance abilities. Your heroes spit MW all over the place and units (which heal/ressurect) seem a decent price. Not to be funny but I think NH are in a decent place compared to others.
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    If you are going to build one from a GW model you could use a 40k Lord Discordant as a base. Add in some hellpit abomination bits to rat it up and it would be awesome. 99120102100_CSMVexMachinator01.webp
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    Lots of interesting different approaches. I personally try to paint incrementally. Get the first 1,000 done, then 1,500 and so on. I have found painting the same army continuously can lead to a bit of fatigue with doing the colour scheme over and over. @Dead Scribe out of interest do you pick a colour scheme and army look yourself or leave it up to the painting service to do the typical paints from the pic on the boxes?
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    Hi. Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this? Do you wait to hit a certain points value before fielding an army? Do you lead a force of grey plastic? Or do you bounce from painting project to painting project and have several half painted armies you use?
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    It has to be Nurgle. Multiple wounds, disgustingly resilient saves, healing, summoning and GUO. The blightking kits are also amazing.
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    Stormvermin are also battleline for a mixed list.
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    It does but my point is on 'extra chaff' to counter the extra pile in. Then something else to counter a different horrible ability. Eventually a list writes itself with counters and you dont have much left to use for your game plan.
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    So I'll bring extra chaff to take the hit from the first pile in and enough to be a general screen too. Fine, I have potentially dealt with the problem for a round at least but in the meantime I may have had to spend 200pts on rubbish that my opponent didnt spend. That puts me 10% behind just to be able to play the game. My point is everything can be dealt with if you dedicate enough of your army to countering but eventually theres a line where you dont leave yourself enough to win.
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