[Hammer Time (for Dispossessed)]

I could use some advice actually, I really appreciate you making this thread.

 

I recently acquired the following:

- 30 hammerers

- 30 ironbreakers 

- 20 longbeards

- Warden King

- Runelord

- gyrobomber

 

Can you suggest any lists that would work well with this as a core? I was thinking maybe a Living City one with the ironbreakers protecting some shooting units that start on the board, then the rest turn up on the sides and charge.

 

Thank ye kindly!

[Warcry - Skaven Discussion]

On 2/2/2020 at 12:34 PM, Groomy said:

Found this. So let’s go!

Im thinking:

- cheap leader

- fiend melee

- shooty ogre 

- stormvermin w/shield

- stormvermin w/shield

- clanrat w/ spear

- clanrat w/spear

- packmaster 

There’s a growing wave of people claiming a 45pt leader is a typo so this list might not live long but the options and synergies are interesting. Packmaster will give a shooty ogre some mad bonus power. Fiends and rats will protect the boss and the fiend will hurt things. Thoughts?

 

The 45pt leader is absolutely a typo, there's no way they'd make him cheaper than a regular Clanrat.

As far as list writing goes I'm assuming the Clanrat Leader is supposed to be 145pts, if he ends up being less than that then at least I haven't gained any advantage for that.

I think the giant rats deserve a lot of consideration, they're very fragile but 35pts and Move 8 is an excellent combo.

 

[AoS 2 - Kharadron Overlords Discussion]

1 hour ago, Nick907 said:

So easy to do it led to a global recession.

I think it’s a great way to illustrate my point; which is that bad design can be exploited. Blaming corporate greed is out of order, sort of like when players stacked Thunderers with mortars after KO was first released. The rules allowed for the unit to equip the special weapons and buff with the khemist. The designers didn’t have the foresight to think that players would do this, but blaming the players is backwards since they were acting according to what the rules allowed. So a unit of 5 Thunderers could launch 10 mortar shots 36” across the board and cause up to 30 wounds.  Not the player’s fault, but rather the unintended consequences of poor design. 

Oversight certainly,  I think they tend to have a blind spot when it comes to what people do without specific restrictions.

They've said many times that the models get produced first and then rules are written to best represent the models - including weapons. They probably saw the Thunderers kit had 1 each of every special weapon and assumed most players would use it like that, with only 1 of each special weapon per 5 Thunderers. 

[AoS 2 - Orruk Warclans Discussion]

1 hour ago, Malakree said:

I realise this is a bit harsh and not something which should ordinarily be posted on here.

MWG are bad. They are meh teir players making content for "casuals".

As casual watching it's fine. For a commentary on the state of the game or strength of various factions they are pointless.

You can play casually and still get all the rules right.

MWG's issue has nothing to do with them being casual and everything to do with them not reading the rules properly.

[AoS 2 - Cities of Sigmar Discussion]

6 minutes ago, zilberfrid said:

Havind Stormcast everywhere means the allegiance abilities need to be balanced for double the warscrolls, which means they will be bland. Plus, I don't like them.

Why must they be bland? A stormcast player would be sacrificing their own allegiance and storm host abilities for that of the free city,  they'd have to be pretty good to compete with that. 

[AoS 2 - Sylvaneth Discussion]

22 hours ago, Emissary said:

One thing is that the Harvestboon +1 attack command trait stacks with the arch-revenant +1 attack command trait since they have different names.  

I think winterleaf is best for kurnoth hunters because you can get rerolls of 1s through the arch-revenant and the extra attacks are so good.

Where are you getting this information from? I understand from reading the thread that there was a leak at some point (I think the eBook was briefly up for purchase accidentally), but despite some concerted searching I haven't found anything about Harvestboon. 

Is there a link somewhere to other pages, or would you be so kind as to list the changes here?

Thanks!

[AoS2 - Dankhold Troggoth Discussion]

My troggboss is mainly identified by his battered captain's hat.

 

Sailing ability not included.

[AoS 2 - Nighthaunt Discussion]

1 hour ago, Spooked said:

It isn't totally within.

Thanks for the reply!

Due to how Bound Beneath Indomitable Will is worded though, I'm not sure how big a benefit it is? Since it works on a per-model basis rather than a per-unit basis like Deathless Spirits. 

With Deathless Spirits, when a model from a unit wholly within 12" is allocated a wound, you get to try to save it.

With BBIW, the model itself needs to be within 12" to get the extra save, so practically speaking it still needs to be close to a Hero.

Maybe that is a bigger deal than I rate it, but it seems pretty insignificant considering the requirements to get it.

[AoS 2 - Nighthaunt Discussion]

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I can't see the point in the benefit given by the Nighthaunt Procession megabattalion. 

Isn't it identical to the benefit we already receive from Deathless Spirits? Or am I missing something obvious?

[The Rumour Thread]

16 minutes ago, Ekrund Oath Splitters said:

You could say the same about any rumour monger. Until the product is out it is all just speculation i am just saying worse case scenerio is that KO are out on the 3rd week of april. We already know khorne is redone for april so that takes up 1 week and shadow war may be released in april too so a possible of 2 weeks gone.

This may just be wishful thinking on my part, but I don't think they'd be putting out all these tidbits of background info (stoking the hype fire as it were) if the Overlords weren't going up for pre-order within the next few weeks. The whole reason GW stopped announcing releases before about a week prior was because there was a drop-off in interest after the initial reveal, by the time the new release actually happened people had moved on. They'd want to take advantage of the hype they've generated and not overextend themselves.

I think the safe bet is on the first few weeks of April, maybe pre-orders for the first wave up on the 1st with the releases stretched out over the following weeks.