Kasper

Why is it restricted to only our own turn? The artefact reads as follows: "Once per battle, at the start of the combat phase, you can say that the bearer will put on the cloak. If you do so, the bearer cannot be chosen as the target of attacks made with melee weapons unless the bearer has made any attacks earlier in that phase." At the start of the combat phase refers to either your own combat phase or the opponent's combat phase. Slaanesh doesn't have anything that lets them fight at the start of the combat phase. So even if you charge or get charged and he rolls the Locus of Diversion, you pop this and the Maw Krusha fights at the end of the combat phase without having suffered any damage.

What kind of validity check do you need? It states in the top if you have too few battleline units or too many heroes/artefacts etc.

I think Ironjawz has a real good chance against Slaanesh, at least a much better chance than most other combat forces simply due to Smashing and Bashing and Ironsunz ability to charge in after the Locus of Diversion has been resolved. I'm pretty sure a Maw Krusha can pound the Keeper into the dirt, if you manage to do the Ironsunz trick or wipe another unit and cause SnB. Alternatively it might be worth giving your Maw Krusha the doppelgangers cloak to deny him hitting you first - That's how other melee armies usually combat the Keeper or Terrorgeist. It sounds like you are just tired of your green boyz. The book is at its all time high in terms of its choices, options and power (one round of like +10 Waaagh stacks from the previous book is hard to beat, but before it was wet noodle for the entire game, only to punch real hard for 1 turn, and then back to useless, compared to now where you are a massive threat from turn 1 = Thats a plus in my book). The army was super monotone previously, so I don't get why you got more tired of the army now. In regards to your specific game against Slaanesh, it obviously doesn't help the case that he high rolls and insta-kills your dude. In general you can't expect much from the game at much smaller point battles. This is also why I just love GGs or the Maw Krusha over Brutes/Megaboss on foot (at least without the Bloodtoffs teleport) - They are MUCH faster which means you can avoid a lot of magic. You can simply outrange it, then MD across the board and smash into a weak spot, instead of slowly creeping up the board and leaving your dudes vulnerable to magic.

Yeah I dont see how that is ambiguous at all. I read it as the condition for being battleline in the 2 specific alligiances is if you have 10 or more models.

You cant bring him in an Ironjawz alligiance list, only Big Waaagh.

So the FAQ didnt eliminate Greenskinz from the Big Waaagh and didnt nerf the Orruk Warboss. I guess you will always take this dude since you wont have to suffer a cut in your points and risk losing the bonuses the following turn. Now it opens the question - Can you stack it with the Big Waaagh ability for +2 attacks in 1 round? The warscroll ability isnt the same ability, and it only mentions a model cant benefit twice from the warscroll Waaagh.

The Realmgate gives no benefit outside of the alligiance ability, and there is no way of disabling the bonus. Hence why we just house rule at our local that I get the bonus by default. Tbh this should just be the standard way of doing it - Ignore the Realmgate requirement.

At first I wasn't fan of the idea of magnetizing Warhammer models, but after getting models with multiple loadouts I figured why not give it a shot. Oh boy it is really easy! You just drill a little bit in the arm and in the hand and glue a magnet in each (Make sure you faced them the right way). There you go, now you can freely switch. It isn't some kind of a proceedure a surgeon is required for. With a little tinkering it is easily done with Gore-Gruntas too. I haven't done it with my Brutes because I don't ever foresee me using huge units with the 2" range weapons.

Spells should be different, but it depends on the specific spell. Arcane Bolt as an example is a direct damaging spell, so it is caused by the caster. It also generated Depravity Points. You should see Endless Spells as an independent unit that is summoned onto the table, and then that unit deals damage.

Based on the rulings of Slaanesh and their Depravity Point generation, I would say no. The arguement was that endless spells are their own thing - It is a caster that summons a unit and he doesn't deal any damage himself. Therefore it isn't inflicted by a Drakkfoot unit.

We had Commanding on one side of the table and Damned on the other. I decided to go for the Damned and placed Big G ontop, it was a great first round of combat for him. I don't think Waaagh is mediocre at all. If you look at 10 Ardboyz having 2 attacks at 1 damage. If you add +1 damage you double their output, if you then Waagh for +1 attack you increase it by another 50%. Adding +1 damage and +1 attack on Ardboyz is effectively the same as giving them 4 extra attacks from the old Waaagh stacking. If you somehow manage to get the +2 Waaagh you effectively give them what 6 extra attacks from the old Waaagh stacking used to be. I think this is VERY strong considering you only spent 1 CP (Sure, it is 1 time per game only) and 1 "free" ability from a Warchanter, as opposed to blowing your entire load on one turn prior to the new book. I'm much more a fan of the current setup where you can have one power turn but still have great output the following rounds. Waaagh isn't the nuclear button it used to be where it was deciding if you won or lost. It is a button to press when you want a little more oompf in one round to delete something important.

How exactly do you want the balance in AOS? Not only is there a big disparity between armies, but there is also a HUGE issue with internal balance in multiple armies. Look at Daughters of Kaine, there is a reason why everyone goes for Hagnar and mass Witch Elves. It isn't just the aesthetics of the units, it is because every other list isn't anywhere close to the powerhouse of Hagnar. This applies to Slaanesh too - If you don't go for Keepers but field mass Fiends, you wont experience the same results at all. This is likely the case for every single army. So an "OP" army can be rather poop if you don't finetune it and go for "rule of cool" when building your list. Should every army be balanced against each other based on 1 finetuned list? You are likely in a situation where you might as well cut 50% of the warscrolls because very few would buy them. Should every warscroll within an army be close to identical? In that case it kinda loses its meaning in my eyes. Almost doesn't matter what you field and listbuilding becomes moot. This is something we often talk about in my local too, and the outcome is usually that you should build your list based on your opponent. As a former Slaanesh player, there is a huge difference how I would build my list vs Beasts of Chaos with random monsters and vs a finetuned FEC list. I wouldn't field the same models against both opponents because against Beasts of Chaos it would be over by turn 1.

Yeah I don't doubt the list have some juicy damage rolling when buffed up, but my issue is still the mobility. Also, no sane person has 40 Brutes, lets be real!!! 😂 As @Tezia99 mentioned above, mobility is just so huge and FUN to play with, and it only gets amplified by Mighty Destroyers. Having a unit of Brutes go 8 feels so bad to me instead of a unit of GGs go 18 or a MK/Big G go 24. I guess it depends on playstyle, but I simply love that we can be almost anywhere on the map and we don't have to rely on a turn 1 alpha strike plan. I don't mind hanging back a bit and try to see an opening/let my opponent do a mistake and then exploit it. This is also why I love the Ironsunz, the possibility of your opponent doing charges and leaving an opening for you to counter-charge is great. Edit: Also I don't find Waaagh that back. Sure it isn't what it used to be, but when you have +1 damage and +1 hit/wound ontop, 1 extra attack on multiple attack profiles (again why I fancy GGs and MK) is much stronger than what it sounds like. +1 damage on especially 1 damage profiles really amplifies the damage output.

Brutes might be great all juiced up on paper, but when are you realisticly gonna have it? I feel like Mighty Destroyers is a waste on them. It feels much better slapping the Warchanters +1 on either the MK or GGs and then send either of them flying with a double movement to secure a sweet charge. Between Waaagh (once a game, sure), Big G's CA and Mighty Destroyer on the MK/GGs, you are kinda starved for CPs and granting Brutes a +4 movement feels really bad to me. You talked about how sometimes we are forced to take unit X due to how our units are priced. I honestly think my list building is gonna come down to this - I will take Brutes when the points require it. Otherwise I would much rather have the speed of GGs or the coverage of Ardboyz.

So I had my first game with the book tonight and ran the list below - I might have taken an idea or two from @Malakree 😂 I faced Seraphon with the dreaded Thunderquake batallion (dual Bastilladons + Stegadon etc.) and I have always had a bad time against this one. It has always felt like they turtle up in a huge fortress that is almost impossible to break in. Not today! He decided to concede at the end of his turn 2 after Big G killed the Stegador in one round of combat. Smasha (+2 from SFV) making D3 MWs on a 4+ wound roll is honestly quite insane on units without any MW saves. I completely forgot about the Ironsunz command ability, but honestly wouldn't have made a difference. When it came to his charge phase, my stuff was already locked in. I decided to go second in turn 1 and gambled a little on the double turn, which paid off big time. I misdeployed my Maw Krusha but due to 2 turns in a row he managed to get in where he should. He teleported a unit of skinks within 12"of Gordrakk in turn 1, which meant I couldn't Mighty Destroyer for an extra movement and hit somewhere weak. He also managed to zap him with the Stegador and obviously rolled a 6 on the D6 MW ability. Ouch! Bad start. It was quite smart really with the teleport of the skinks and I didn't think about the possibility at all when it came to my idea. Honestly when I think of Mighty Destroyers, I never think about the charge part if within 12", only that it moves you and you can fight again in the hero phase if already in combat. Mighty Destroyers is certainly something your opponent can mess with. Even with the new book I honestly don't like Brutes at all. They are slow as poop compared to Gore Gruntas or the Maw Krushas and they didn't do anything the entire game. I guess they could be useful to have sitting on an objective though, but I would probably rather have Ardboyz for that. Honestly our Waaagh combined with Warchanters giving +1 damage and Gordrakk giving 3 units +1 to hit ontop is quite insane. Everything hits on 2s and wounds on 2s or 3s. I don't miss the old Waaagh bomb one bit and I love the possibilities we have now. So pumped for future games!

It is in addition. So you can move a Maw Krusha 12, then move it again 12 in the movement phase. Or it can fight twice in your turn etc.

So if you destroy a unit in the combat phase and there are no enemy units left within 9", then you should be able to move D6 too. Assuming you took some wounds obviously.

I have thought about this too, but considering what you get from the clans, I think you are much better off just grabbing a Megaboss on foot and take all the forced stuff on him. In this case I would probably switch your prophet for one.

You really think 1 Warchanter is enough? The buff feels too good to pass up on imo. It doubles the damage output of most of our units. Or is it just because you don't think you will be able to make use of the Warbeats due to lack of movement?

I personally wouldn't include the Warboss in any list. It will 100% be FAQ'd within a couple of weeks.

I think it is significantly more fun for people to play where both players throw dice and models from both armies die, rather than one army shruging off almost every wound.

Hearthguard Berzerkers are pretty close to tanks. It is an example of a unit that I personally don't find enjoyable. It causes tons of issues in casual play and in general it is just not really fun to face against.

Honestly I would rather not see it at all, so I'm okay with healing generally being weak and only good in few specific scenarios. I want models on the table to die, it is no fun and actually rather frustrating to play against an opponent with a model that just wont die but keep killing your stuff.

Healing isn't bad at all on tanky units with high save and FNP ontop. The moment the unit isn't tanky, sure the healing isn't great and you are likely better off casting a damaging spell on the opponent. Gotrek comes to mind, and you can also make a rather tanky Megaboss on Maw Krusha with 2+ save and 4+ against spells/endless spells. Healing D3 or D6 isn't meaningless on those models when 1 single wound actually translates into multiple attacks/wounds in reality due to saves.

The core rules only specify artefacts and hero traits, nowhere does it specificly mention mount traits. Beside that, Stormcast unique heroes are able to have mount traits, so there is really nothing that indicates that Gordrakk CANT have a mount trait.