Kelsicle

I think I agree with what you did here. The command ability doesn't say that your General is issuing the command, only that the Megaboss has to be the General and on the battlefield. I agree that the Weirdnob can use the CA EDIT: Scratch that, just re-read the FAQ section @Orkmann refers to, he is right, the Unit that the aura is measured from is considered the issuer of the Command, in this case the Megaboss. So yea, you shouldnt have been able to do that.

100% this. People have been crying out for Eel nerfs for years without thinking about where it will leave the army as a whole competitively. I have the feeling we will be in a weird place where we have to drop a unit of eels and end up with a 70 point hole in our lists with nothing cheap enough to fill it.

I struggle to accept the rumours that there will be an Indomitus style box released in June. Indomitus was released in July to line up with the new Financial Year. It seems crazy to tack the box on to the end of the 20/21 Financial year instead of using it as a launch platform for sales into 21/22. I cant imagine they need to pad the numbers for 20/21 given the 9th edition launch.

Definitely get them through the apple store. If at any point you decide to not maintain your Azyr membership or GW decide to stop supporting it you will lose your battletomes.

@Duke of Mousillon allocate wounds one after another, however once you have allocated a wound to a model with multiple wounds, you have to continue to allocate wounds to that model until it dies or is fully healed.

Agreed, over the last two weeks we have only had Roll Models, A Stormcast showcase and a very lack lustre Death Match series. I used to check the site and these forums daily but I’ve been down to once or twice a week lately with so little information flowing.

Agreed, I havent noticed this before but thats brilliant.

I'm seeing a lot of talk about certain units representing the elements, however I dont believe this will be the case, the release isnt likely to be big enough to get enough representation in to theme an army with elemental units.While some units may have runes that favour one over another, I think the elemental side of things will definitely be the subfactions/enclaves for the book, with army wide bonuses that represent the elements.

I’m a big fan of the models, unfortunately the points increase made them a little uneconomical, especially with the Arcanum tax.

Some other little teasers in the trailer they posted: Looks like the Veiled Lady, to the right of the banner, and a potential monster down the bottom.

Yea I just can’t pick out the hammer head?

I must be blind but i cant pick the hammer out of that picture at all, can someone point it out to me?

Well this is awkward. Touché!

Sorry to burst your bubble but this is a Core Rules thing for Named Characters:

Great thread! This is the kind of list I am building towards after picking up the Sacrosanct Battleforce so I'm glad to see some discussion about it! My competitive list is similar to above, with LAoCD, Castellant, Heraldorm Lord Ordinator, 4 Ballistas, 6 Dracoline and 15 Sequitors as Battleline. This one is probably less effective, but will pack a punch when I can get all the Evocators into combat: Allegiance: Stormcast Eternals- Stormhost: Celestial VindicatorsLeadersLord-Arcanum on Celestial Dracoline (220)- GeneralLord-Castellant (120)Knight-Heraldor (100)Knight-Incantor (140)Battleline5 x Sequitors (130)- Stormsmite Mauls and Soulshields5 x Sequitors (130)- Stormsmite Mauls and Soulshields5 x Sequitors (130)- Stormsmite Mauls and SoulshieldsUnits6 x Evocators on Dracolines (520)10 x Evocators (440)Endless Spells / Terrain / CPsExtra Command Point (50)Total: 1980 / 2000Extra Command Points: 1Allies: 0 / 400Wounds: 113

Could be nice to have the spears as the main weapon profile with the swords being a special ability that activates on death? Attack with swords before removing from the table kinda thing.

Look forward to your review, what list are you taking?

I was given the Battleforce as well, and am in a similar position - love the models but don’t want to get stomped every game. On the other hand though I think the Battleforce is the base of a pretty solid middle tier army, add in the Lord Arcanum on Dracoline, some Balistae and Knight Incantor or two and you have an army that will compete in all phases of the game. Unless you are trying to go 5-0 at tournaments and be ultra competitive I don’t think you have too much to worry about. My approach is going to be taking my time to paint them up to a decent standard over the next 3-6 months and hope that a new tome will drop this year 😬

Still a chance that there will be warscroll changes when the errata drops?

Great point I hadn’t thought of this.

Yea, the faction erratas haven’t come out yet only the GHB

FAQ is inbound, some points updates, but not live yet:

Watching Ben Johnson build 6 Varanguard and Archaeon on his Twitter makes me believe that they are going to be strong in this book.

Stormcast really struggle at lower point games due to the cost of units. Many of the buffs/synergies come from heroes and it’s hard to fit them in at lower points.

To me it looks far too vertically upright to be a weapon pose, modern sculpts tend to be more dynamic (for example the rockgut trogoths Would be comparable to what a giant pose would look like). I think terrain or endless spell