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Right, you only get one roll, and one roll = one unit. I don't know how I missed that.

I agree that it could use some clarification (probably in the form of a core rules section about "replacement units"), but honestly you have to consider the alternative. You definitely can bring back the replacement unit if it dies, so if you can bring back every unit that died every turn, plus the new units you bring back, plus the replacement units for those if they die, you could have 100's of extra models on the table by the end of the game. That is so clearly not the intent for this rule. It's meant to be a diminishing return on your slain units, not a way to multiply them.

I believe no. The new unit is a "replacement unit", which seems to indicate that you no longer count the original unit as a destroyed unit in future rolls. However, if the new replacement unit is itself destroyed, I believe you can bring it back at half of that strength, which would be 1/4 of the original strength. This could carry on for the whole game--1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc., etc.

If they had instead worded it: "In addition, any rolls that have been replaced count as unmodified rolls and (with the exception of save rolls and battleshock tests) cannot be re-rolled or modified further." ...it would work as I think they intend it, and there would be little or no debate. All I've done is move the parenthetical clause about saves and battleshock from before "unmodified rolls" to after.

Last year's big LVO reveal was the Vanguard Space Marines and the new Chaos Space Marine sculpts. The Shadowspear box came out in March, so the timing would be just about right.

From the relatively light touch they have taken with both of this year's rounds of changes, these seem like a phase 2 of GHB 2019, rather than a fresh attempt to address the balance of factions as a whole. I would guess that they identified Kurdoss, Olynder, and the Coach as warscrolls that needed more radical drops, but they were uncomfortable with making those changes all at once. Notice that most of the changes across the board are not to key battleline units.

Ah, yes. <clears throat>. That's what I meant to say. ^_^; (math is hard.)

It's not even a discount, because you're only getting 40 HGB for 800 points, instead of 50 for 840. Their points cost went up, full stop.

In my last few matches, I've been running Thundertusks because those are the models I have until the Stonehorns make it to the painting table. They've performed much better than my expectations. In both of my last 2 games, my Huskard on TT has been a champ. Those mortal wounds add up, and the +1 to wound prayer has helped the Frostlord push through. Alvagr Ancient was an all-star. I was running it on my FLoTT, and it helped to compensate for his shortcomings relative to a FLoSH. It created an unsolvable problem for my opponent, who had no shooting and no way to push my monsters off the objective, other than to just push in and give me the advantage. However, Alvagr Ancient always needs support. It obviously doesn't do much if it's on a HoTT with nothing but fists and tusks to strike first. In my case, I at least had the Frostlord on top and the Brand of the Svard to get some work done before priority came back around. In the ideal case, I'm not running my combat hero on a TT, so I would always need to make sure that I have other hard-hitting assets around to punish opponents for pushing in to my Huskard.