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    What spell is this?
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    You both have some valid points. HOS may well have been changing because of new factions and the older lists would have had to go but you are saying it is ok for 1 faction to dominate the game for 6 months and be unplayable for many opponents because eventually that gets fixed by another faction taking over as the superpower. The time period really causes problems here and it isnt just people figuring an army out. The flip side of you saying that HOS are now rubbish and applying your point from before is that maybe HOS have to wait for a new army to come in to upset shooting lists and switch the meta back to something they can compete in. It might take 6 months but you would be happy with that. Ultimately we should prob park this thread and everyone can agree to disagree.
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    They have plenty of chunky heroes, many of them named. The Prime is a good example. The warscrolls are just outdated or overcosted or both for the majority of the units.
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    Good points and entirely possible that 5 or 6 armies can happily deal with HOS but the other 18 suffer and thats an issue. People like to play with their toys and shout if they feel they can't. There is also a question of balance with all summoning. The idea that armies are costed to factor it in doesnt really seem to carry much weight when you see an extra 500pts plus arrive during a game and often summoned to go for an objective. Sure you can screen but if you are heavily outnumbered or lose your screen and cant replace it you are at a genuine disadvantage. I find in smaller games the impact is higher due to the smaller number of units in an army that need to cover the board. You are correct that lots of people dont play the objective game. They play to wipe out the opponents army with objectives as a sideshow. I have seen that happen and very much been guilty myself of this at times. Changing the mindset will definitely win a player games that before they would have lost.
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    @GwendarHow do kharadron overlords use a skaventide spell? Or am i reading that wrong?
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    Or they allow the Skryre battalions to be taken individually rather than as part of the super battalion that means everything is very expensive.
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    It says "if" you decide your army is from a mortal realm use the below rather than malign sorcery. Ok, my skaven are not from any realm at all and my corrupter cant even remember where he picked up his sword of judgement. At least thats how i hope it works.
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    @Sleboda like shadows of the Apt series? Mantis weapon masters and waspkin warriors!
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    Slaanesh got a new book 5 mins ago. I know not everyone is happy with the balance or lack of mortals but it is one of the strongest factions in the game and unlikely to get a new book for several years. Nurgle I agree needs a 2.0 book though. The best thing would be as other have said for GW to flesh out existing factions with a few new units. There are some armies which are desperate to be able to select from more than 3 or 4 non hero units and this would make them much more attractive. Also there cant be any doubt thay stormcast are coming at some point soon. No way are GW going to let the posterboys of the entire game languish in a barely playable state where only a tiny handful of the 50+ units they have being of any use at all on the field.
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    With luck the GH is a help but I fear the only real change will be a bump for the corruptor because of how it does in the Legion.
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    @Cosmicsheep The book says nurgle are allies if the skaven general is Clan Pestilens. It doesnt have to be your whole army. My understanding is that the restriction of having your whole army from 1 clan is so that you can unlock battleline options. So you can take a pestilens or eshin battalion in a mixed skaventide list as long as you meet its unit requirements. If i remember rightly @Gwendar shared a list a while back that was mixed but had a Skryre battalion for double WLC.
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    How about this? I think it could be an interesting mix and at worse cause chaos on the table. Allegiance: SkaventideMortal Realm: UlguLeadersVerminlord Corruptor (280)- General- Command Trait: Master of Magic- Artefact: Sword of JudgementWarlock Engineer (100)- Lore of Warpvolt Galvanism: More-more-more Warp Power!Lord of Blights (140)Battleline20 x Clanrats (120)- Rusty Spear20 x Clanrats (120)- Rusty Spear20 x Clanrats (120)- Rusty SpearUnits40 x Plague Monks (280)- Woe-stave1 x Doomwheel (160)1 x Doomwheel (160)5 x Gutter Runners (60)5 x Gutter Runners (60)ArtilleryWarp Lightning Cannon (180)Warp Lightning Cannon (180)Endless Spells / Terrain / CPsVermintide (40)Total: 2000 / 2000Extra Command Points: 0Allies: 0 / 400Wounds: 166
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    Dont we all? I am doing ok at the moment . I am half way through a stonehorn which when finished will give me 1k painted ogors. Lockdown has meant i have yet to play them. Then I have a backlog of 1.5k skaven reinforcements for my main army (already over 2k). Last a bit of war cry stuff to do for my Skaven warband but that largely consists of finding 2 fleshhounds to convert into giant rats.
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    Who are the inhabitants of the grey shelf of shame?
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    Has anyone tried a Lord of Blights in a corruptor/monk heavy force? His CA on a 40monk unit looks great. -2 to hit in shooting and -1 in melee.
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    Good luck! Let us know how it goes.
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    3 bombardiers? That is a lot of redundancy. You could drop one, make the other two plain engineers and have a third doomwheel or a grey seer.
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    It is a very weird approach for a company of their size to just ignore feedback. Something may very well be characterful or thematic but if it is a mechanic or unit that significantly reduces a significant number of peoples enjoyment of the game it should be changed. I'm not talking about winning or losing here, it is things that leave opponents using most of the available armies just rolling saves and picking up their models without any way to respond (turn 1 death or crippling whatever you do). If I lose, I lose but if i cant actually play the game because my opponent has something which stops me playing (and there are plenty of recent examples of this) it is a bad business move. It's also no use saying just use the 1 or 2 armies that have some sort of a counter to the superpower as that invalidates the use of a significant proportion of the factions for sale. A constantly changing meta with new challenges and new powerful armies to contend with is good. Breaking the game because the rules writers think a particular thing is a cool idea in isolation is silly. Re tome balance, having 1 subfaction which is obviously far more powerful than any other just means chunks of the book need not have been written.
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    Has there been anything that even hints at soublight or a new vamp faction? We have a player in our group who would weep tears of joy and dance a jig if they were announced.
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    It isnt a magic wand for every painting situation but it definitely has its place. Wood, fur, scales, areas of high relief detail and instances when you want a bloched effect. I have had fun with it and found the best thing for me is that it lets me jump straight to subtle layering, highlights, dry brushing etc. As others have said it also blends well. See it as a useful tool in your paint collection and use it when it works for you and the value is there.
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    Finally, FINALLY! The Warlock Bombardier is on preorder next week! https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/02/09/pre-order-preview-heroes-warbands-gangs-and-more/
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    I'm working on my mawtribes at the moment so they will feature in the cabin v the ironjaws soon.
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    Hi I don't suppose anyone has 2 plastic stormvernin models spare they would be happy to sell? One with shield, one without (or mounted on its back)?
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    Sat in a low ceilinged bar somewhere underground. Feet up by the fire smoking a pipe and quaffing an ale while listening to Malakai Makaisson argue with Ungrim and Belegar.
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    One thing GW is great at is fueling the chase for the new hotness.
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