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Just re-read the description of the Artifact - they really carry around a brick, oh my

"I'll give it the brick" - you'll give it the Fragment Artefact against melee wounds, or you won't use it? Not sure if that's a saying that means "I'll ignore it", haha.

Oh, thanks! I didn't know

But it's so high, haha. e: Ah well, Wolves also don't protect it from being high. So the consensus is to just be smart with its positioning, no dedicated support? I'll up my positioning-game, then :'D

How are y'all going to protect your Coven Thrones? With Kastelai, I think Standard of the Crimson Keep to survive shooting better and some Wolves to keep it from getting charged. Other plans?

Barrows mostly have Skeletons, no? I guess I was just surprised on the mentions of Zombies as I figured Kastelai Vampires to actually raise no shambling hordes at all, given their take on martial honor. Skeletons are the better fit there as at least, they once were warriors, while Zombies don't fit that at all but apparently, the Kastelai don't care x)

I know, right? I was really keen on knowing if there's Skeleton Guards in Crimson Keep or if they only summon animals, but turns out, they usually raise Zombies. It's mentioned twice, the Wolves and Bats too, Skeletons not at all. I'm okay with using Zombies if my Kastelai Vampires are said to do so all the time, but I also thought the two other Battleline options to be more probable.

I also think that the Unit Champion thingy will be a big deal with Skellies. Makes me wait with the block of Zombies I wanted to get initially till we have full rules and a bit more opinions. Zombies are featured in two of the Kastelai descriptions in the tome, so apparently, Kastelai Vampires rather summon Zombies, lore-wise.

Yeah, I thought it's either this or 1 per General, but not 1 per round anymore, but I also think that 1+1 is probably right - as long as it's not plain 1 per round anymore, I'm happy.

Prince V now has a way higher chance to use his CA too 👀 e.g. Mortarchs, a General VLoZD.

Ah, yeah, you're right. We were so CP hungry in the last book regardless if Soulblight or Legion of Blood. Now there's Kastelai and enough CP. Finally ❤️

As long as I get 2 CPs per round, I'm good. Either 1 per General (without 1 anyway) or 1 anyway + 1 if any general both give at least double the amount of before.

The multiple command points - do we now get 1 for every general we have on the field every round? The wording in the article irritates me.

I magnetised both the Vargheist heads and the Dragon head; you need to remove a fair bit of plastic at the Vargheist heads as else, your magnets will create super-long necks. The Dragon- and Terrorgheist-Head you'll need to fill out to properly place the magnet while you'll have to create the surface on the neck.

What's supposed to be the best target for Prince Vhordrai's CA in a Kastellai list? I'm thinking of playing something along these lines: 455 Prince Vhordrai 310 Coven Throne 280 Vengorian Lord 125 Necromancer 390 Blood Knights (10) 135 Dire Wolves (10) 255 Skeletons (30) 50 additional CP That's 2.000 flat. The Vengorian Lord is there to have a target for Vhordrai. I mean, I could use it on the Coven Throne and get it some buffs to have it be stronger, but with the battle profile, I think it's kinda wasted. Or remove the Vengorian Lord, ignore Vhordrai's CA and only use CP on the Coven Throne's?

If the named character is really important to how the list plays, I like to have "my" characters be the ones beneath them in hierarchy. For example in a Legion of Blood-List, I had my Vampire Couple who have a ton of backstory be part of Neferata's army and played them as a VLoZD and a Coven Throne with Neferata being the general. If all leader slots are taken by named, you can e.g. put them as Unit Champion and Musician or some such for Blood Knights, for example. Only because they are your most beloved doesn't mean that they have to necessarily lead.

I've been playing Soulblight & LoB before, so I'll be Kastellai now. What I'm planning to do is: 455 Vhordrai 310 Coven Throne 280 Vengorian Lord 390 Blood Knights (10) 135 Dire Wolves (10) 135 Dire Wolves (10) 50 CP (1) Which puts me at 1755 pts. I could either put 9 Fell Bats in there; or 40 Zombies, or 5 Blood Knights and cap at 1950; or 3 Vargheists + 3 Fell Bats, or.. suggestions? Belladamma rather not, in terms of theme; I'll do Vyrkos separately.

I'd love it to be a Soulblight model. I'm playing Legion of Blood, but I'd go full Vampires in an instant if they received a proper tome. It's due, the Knights will ride again.

I so hope this is Soulblight. The arm looks like Mannfred's, but the sword looks rather used to me, which is more of a FEC thing.

I feel you and I'm doing the same. What I'd currently miss for variation purposes is another Dragon and a Coven Throne, but since it's completely unpredictable what will happen - Soulblight tome, Soulblight scrapped and kept for The Old World, a last LoN tome similar to CoS for the older models - I'm waiting. I also sincerely hope we do not get Vampire Coast, as I dislike the concept and want my Vamps of old. Since I simultaneously don't want to start another AoS army as there's a chance that Soulblight does happen, I managed to get my friends into 40k, so I'm painting Harlequins meanwhile 😜

Don't you think that LoN will eventually give way to separate books? Arkhan and Nagash already comfortably reside in OBR, Neferata and Mannfred are fine off, sharing a potential Soulblight Book with Deadwalkers incorporated - the only thing holding its own against this is Legion of Grief, which doesn't make sense to be released if Legions was considered a band-aid (Or does it? I haven't been doing the hobby actively for too long, are armies published between books an indicator of what's to come?). I wouldn't mind another LoN book, as I like mashing Vampires with Ghosts (the looks <3), but I don't think LoN is going the CoS route, with the little amount of armies Death has.

Oh, there's even gonna be river? I feared they'd not do any water-centric things because of Idoneth Deepkin. Lookin' forward to this, thank you for the explanation!

Death Player here. I adore these new models (although my Dwarven friends despise them, haha). I already liked Teclis and the Hollow Knight, but with today's release, I'm halfway sold. Since y'all are probably already more invested, will there be other elements too? Fire, Frost, (-Phoenix)? I always loved the Aspects Eldar have and if there's old Fire and Ice with a bit of Earth now, I'd really love to play these.

I started LoB half a year ago, got some FEC from the SC boxes I needed for the dragons; thinking about investing into FEC as I'm super-scared that Vamps are squatted or at least ongoing souped like CoS (or Old World only, in the years to come), while FEC are a "real" AoS army with the new lore and models from this year.

If you scroll down a bit, you find a thread (don't know how to do links, I'm afraid) that's called "Court of Nulahmia List Help", it's two sites all about fielding a LoB-List competitively. I'm new, but the guy posting has given amazing tips and insight.