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I think it's more so that hand-cannons like in your example and the guns they showed in the post would be technologically outdated compared to the current empire kit flintlocks by a few hundred years. It's a sort of bizarre aesthetic disconnect. My thinking is that maybe they belong to a lesser equipped unit similar to peasant troops or flagellants. That or the Dawnbreaker aesthetic will be more late-medieval and less technologically advanced than the more established free cities that we know of. I will admit though that regardless of the reason it's a bit weird seeing a cannon strapped to a stick when we know that widespread steampunk-esque technologies exist, especially in places like Greywater Fastness.

Anybody here think Vigilors are alright? I'm playing in a local AoS event and I'm trying my best to make an army entirely made up of the new models while still being decently playable. Vanquishers are completely out, but Vigilors seem to be a decent ranged unit.

having a unit of grave guard interrupting combat sounds like a good enough case to try and fit a vampire lord on foot into an army

nothing like seeing the new nurgle book with ten times the rules the stormcast book has. looks like having "simple" and lighter battletomes is just exclusive to stormcast this edition while everybody else just gets better 2.0 books.

I'm honestly surprised that I don't see many people paint the clothing/padding under the armor as anything other than black when this illustrates pretty well that red under black can look pretty sick. I always thought anvils would be more visually interesting if the gaps between the plates were red to add even more accents.

The cycles errata from the app was added to the FAQ in a "revision" update.

It doesn't say its a command ability and it doesn't say he has to be on the battlefield so I guess not? It'll probably be a FAQ situation.

The venator is basically a dead warscroll now, but the ballista might still see some niche uses. It's not as good or efficient at shooting as the other shooting units but it's not horrible for its points. The days of dropping 4 of them with an ordinator are long gone though.

I don't see why it wouldn't work this way because the wording is pretty clear, but probably not intended. I would definitely use it this way though in the meantime.

I played two 2k point games today with the anvils stormhost ability against ogors and deepkin. The ability never went off against the ogors as he was running all stonehorns which are really high leadership, but it almost always went off against the deepkin. It saved me from a few clutch wounds on my stardrake and vindictors but honestly I'm not sure if just having the hammer's 6+ ward would have been better. overall it's a pretty lackluster ability, but at least it's unique. any opinions on what's the better stormhost at this point? I'm pretty sure it's hammers.

I was really looking forward to vanquishers and my hopes were dashed

I'm very conflicted on what stormhost has the better ability. I pretty lukewarm about Anvil's new one. It's super situational and can be played around easily.

answered my own question disregard lol

As somebody with a full army of painted sacrosanct anvils I agree with this. Without any white robes and red accents it's just a black model with bits of gold and it kinda loses its visual appeal. It's why I'm thinking about starting a whole separate stomcast army painted as the celestial vindicators.

Unless it's a 5+ in the rulebook

bone dry

honestly AoS needs less books, not more. they can barely keep up with what they have now. imagine how long it would take to see updated battletomes if every single insignificant faction had their own book. I'm all in on big juicy multi-faction books like Cities and Warclans.

their release planning right now probably sounds like a lot of hyperventilating and existential blank stares after covid and brexit tag teamed the entire company. It's definitely annoying, but I don't really blame them. I do hope their normal pace of reveals and releases comes back at some point though.

Honestly for me this is the closest GW has ever gotten to making a "proper" dragon. Get that wibbly wobbly snake stuff outta here dragons are supposed to be built like a double door fridge on steroids.

have you ever even seen a star drake?

these are literally the best looking dragons gw have ever made, and are the only dragons that actually look like dragons. the star drake looks like a hunk of horribly posed plastic compared to these.

This is me right now. I keep trying to make lists to fit the new things into my anvils army but it's hard to think of anything decent knowing there's a looming release and a bunch of missing new units. Thankfully I have soulblight to keep me occupied.

I'm pretty convinced this will be the Carrion King since he's never been described as being dead, just out and about somewhere.

Has anyone built any list with the dominion stuff yet or is everyone sort of in limbo and waiting for the book like me?

I can't believe there's this much drama over a inconsequential errata. Can we go back to the moaning back and forth about Unleash Hell era or is it too late to go back to that one?