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  1. 2 minutes ago, Ragest said:

    Can you give a hint about where those rumors are coming from? I'm not saying i don’t trust you, but just to have a general vision about if all of them come from tue same source or not.

    Chap in the stormkeep discord. Same source previously advised menagerie change, translocation nerf and sdg points increase. Wasn’t specific on details, but has given a lot for winter faq.

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  2. On 11/30/2021 at 7:14 AM, Bosskelot said:

    Stormcast don't have as many different units as Marines, but they definitely feel like they do. I've been trying to figure out why this is the case and it might just be because a lot of them aren't as distinct, there are no vehicles (obviously) and a lot of the names are just nonsense sounding or completely non-descriptive; the characters especially.

    Obviously Primaris have that same issue with the names, but at least you sort of know just from hearing the words what a Captain, Chaplain, Apothecary and Techmarine do. What is a Lord-Imperatant? A Knight-Azyros?

    Fortunately GW has managed to make most of the SCE units terrible by removing rules, giving them awful rules, or pricing them so high they will never see play (Lord exorcist lol), so you don’t need to bother thinking about them at all.

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  3. 5 hours ago, NauticalSoup said:

    Would be nice to see points reductions on the gigantic stack of nearly four chambers of SCE units that are currently comically overpriced, rather than just having the current iteration of The List nerfed into the ground.

    SCE don’t get buffs we get nerfs. Ignore the 20-30 useless warscrolls, forget about the trash command traits, the garbage battle tactics, the trash grand strategies, how most of the holy orders aren’t worth the CP, and how 7 of 9 artefacts are irrelevant. Longstrikes, dragons and Fulminators make people sad so they get hit without anyone stopping to ask why nobody takes anything else in the book.

     

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  4. 24 minutes ago, Kasper said:

    The real fix would have been to reduce base size to 5 and cut their pts in half. Would have helped non spam lists more and in those HD horror spam lists they would max be able to bring 2x15 blobs which are a lot more managable.

    That’s still 2 units of 90 models for 210 points each, supported by a swarm of 70 points for 30 models.

    The real fix is to delete the flipping warscroll  

     

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  5. 12 hours ago, CommissarRotke said:

    i'll probably regret asking this but... link?

    Search for them on youtube, but really don’t waste your time. They have clearly not done their research, they evidently have no practical experience, and they talk up things that are irrelevant or trivial.

    One might come away with the impression that this was an emergency video put out to drive sales for a webstore they own following the SDG nerf. 

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  6. Well I for one certainly enjoyed the Facehammr video where they openly acknowledged never playtesting a game with Stormcast and yet still encouraged/supported/partially responsible for the SDG nerfs.

    It must be nice to play a tabletop war game where only models which haven’t been released yet are oppressive and need nerfs, and there’s nothing problematic with anything that you can actually go and buy right now

  7. Stormdrake Guard needed a nerf as much as Sentinels, Wind foxes, Megagargants, Morathi bow snakes, Archaon (again), Horrors need a nerf.

    The difference is that one of these isn’t even out and on the tables yet, and the others have been playing games and oppressive for months.

    One of these got nerfed at the first opportunity, and then nerfed again with immediate effect. The others lived through multiple book faqs, GHBs, GHB faqs, GHB faq-faqs, and GHB faq-faq-faqs, and get to enjoy being oppressive for a few more weeks (assuming they even get hit at all). Of these archaon got a tickle of a nerf and horrors are just as horrible as before.

    Sentinels in particular have been through Lumineth 1 FAQ, Winter 2020 FAQ, Lumineth 2, Lumineth 2 FAQ, GHB21, GHB21 FAQ, FAQ-FAQ, FAQ-FAQ-FAQ, without so much as a flipping scratch, and with just as much community outrage.

    Meanwhile gargants actually got better thanks to the WD update.

    So yes, SCE have been treated differently. Arguably, announcing points ahead of time is for customer benefit, but it also demonstrates that GW could take action at any time to address oppressive stuff and choose not to (unless it’s SCE).

    Also exhibit A remains the constant inclusion of battleplans like tooth and nail.

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  8. 15 minutes ago, Jaskier said:

    @PrimeElectrid it's pretty simple; they are patching SDG early before they are available to purchase so people don't feel ripped off when their brand new unit gets nerfed in the month of release. All the other changes to problem units, if they are coming, will be in the December FAQ as fits their usual update timeline. It's less about "fix this thing now" and more "don't buy too many of these right before we nerf them." 

    It's honestly a very refreshing decision on their part, as they could have easily waited until after the initial sales rush to nerf them. 

    That doesn’t address anything I said.

    All they have said about that balance update is that it will help underperforming units, not reign in the stuff at the top.

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  9. 1 hour ago, NauticalSoup said:

    Does it really reflect well on SCE players that we whine this much when an obviously overtuned unit gets reigned in? It's not like SCE are performing so badly we need a crutch.

    I'm glad they nerfed it now rather than after people had bought a bunch. There was absolutely no way they weren't getting nerfed so this is a best case scenario. The original points were a joke.

    So a nerf was needed, but:
    1) 340 is too high, and 300 for the knight is crazy high. Think of what you can get for 300 in other books.

    2) They already nerfed dragons once through celestial menagerie. So now we have the classic GW double nerf. Will they go back and fix menagerie? Or the other garbage command traits? Like hell they will

    3) What about the 20+ garbage warscrolls that aren’t worth the paper they are written one? Will they get needed rewrites/points changes? Maybe in another 12 months. GW typically nerf the main offenders in any one cycle and consider the matter closed (because that’s all that people moan about on social media)

    4) what about literally everything else. Sentinels, Seraphon, mega gargants, Morathi and the bow snakes, Tzeentch-Archaon, horrors have been oppressive for months. Everyone could see this as quickly as they could see SDG are strong. Where are the emergency patches to address them? They’ve all been through multiple faq cycles and literally one of them (archaon) got a tickle of a nerf.

    Finally, I don’t really care for being taken for a fool by whoever writes WarCom copy. Either they lied about needing data to do the winter update, or they lied about “play testing” SDG and finding them too good (spoiler: it’s actually both and this was driven by anti-SCE hate by influential people on twotter)

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Chikout said:

    It's a totally different team so it should have no effect. I'm not sure if the AoS team have a replacement for Jervis yet. Even if they have, that team has probably gone through a lot of turmoil. 

    Yeah so I’d prefer that GW invest resources in timely and quality updates for both games

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  11. 3 minutes ago, Chikout said:

    From now on 40k is going to have quarterly rules updates. Will AoS follow suit? Should it?

    https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/09/game-balance-is-at-the-heart-of-this-official-warhammer-40000-rules-update/

    My immediate concern is that GW moved post book FAQs out to 4 weeks from 2 because they couldn’t meet that 2 week deadline. If they are now committing to quarterly updates for 40k - doubling the work - where does that leave AoS? 

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