BaylorCorvette

It's been a couple months since I've been on these forums, life is just so darn busy. But when I saw the releases last night I had to check here to see how excited @KingBrodd is. Happy for you man!

Yeah, obviously take it with a grain of salt. I saw numerous "leaks" about the winter FAQ which proved to all be wrong. I'd say there is a next to zero % chance that OBR comes out in Jan or even Feb given that we have heard nothing. Maybe they make some big announcement for New Years, but given the information we have I would expect a Fyreslayers and/or IDK book before OBR atm.

So here is my Prince Vhordrai kit bash I've been working on. Nearly complete but had to share

Could this be an Age of Sigmar model!?

Overall these are great changes for the game as a whole. From the SBGL side of things Black Knights have play now and with bats at 75, Black Knights at 100 and Wolves at 135 we have a very good spread of chaff / summonable / fast objective grabbers. Nagash changes seem fine, I'm not really one to play god models so I don't really care personally what they do. All other faction changes are pretty good and I'm glad to see GW was not heavy handed with point changes. Sentinels went up a fair bit which is good, Blood Stalkers going up is good, change to Unleash Hell is great with the reduced range and its MODELS within range not unit so a double nerf to that. The change to Kragnos is going to be interesting and is going to really put the hurt on armies that do not have chaff to help absorb 3D6 charges. Fortunately SBGL have the chaff to deal. I'm very surprised the Mawcrusha did not go up in points. Also, thank GOD about Amulet of Destiny going to a 6+ ward. Overall I'm very happy with the updates as it relates to SBGL. A little surprised Belladamma did not get a points increase but hey, my successful tournament army remains unmolested by GW and that's great!

I understand about logistical issues causing delays and that product releases are hard to project out. However, an FAQ is literally only a digital release and is one of the very few things that GW can actually control so it's weird that there has been no comment at all about it. I am wondering if they are wanting to wait until they also do the Nurgle FAQ to drop the Winter FAQ. If that is the case, the delay of Nurgle would make sense as to why we haven't heard/seen anything. Then again it could just be GW's wonderful lack of communication 🤷‍♂️

What if this is our FAQ 😂

Agreed with all of this. The Mount Traits are very lack luster. I was really hoping we would see the return of Mist Form, allowing our VLoZD's to retreat and still charge, or better yet just give them Riders of Ruin. Also would have liked to have seen a re-roll on The Hunger ability. Either for Legion of Blood or something. At the end of the day I wasn't expecting much from WD and I feel SBGL (an already good book) received a few more weapons to their arsenals which is just fine. I may try out Radukar the Beast to try and play with Deadly Coordination.

Unfortunately it is unmodified cast rolls of 9+.

That's a good point, I hadn't fully digested that yet. I still don't like a battle tactic relying on a single dice roll but it's just another option in the arsenal at this point.

Speaking from a competitive side only: -Allegiance Abilities are decent and certainly usable. -Mount Trait is a bit disappointing, as others mentioned a slightly more reliable Pestilential Breath. But for me useless since I run Prince V instead. -Core Battalions are terrible (I was really hoping for a 1 drop battalion just in case GHB updates make it so we can only run 1 of the same battalion. I run double battle regiment currently) -Grand Strat is OK, but still think Broken Ranks is the go to in most cases. -Battle Tactics are actually decent. Although it is a shame that Unstoppable Armies doesn't proc on if you return a unit, RAW you have to roll a 5+ and cannot increase those odds, so only a 33% chance to get a battle tactic. OK if you literally cannot do anything else.

Ah, the mystical unicorn. I too wish to see it one day.

Kinda reminds me of Kastelai "leveling up" that Vampire units get if they destroy a unit. In the case of Kastelai it is a nice bonus that some units get throughout the game. Maybe they will get a Command Trait like Rousing Commander were you can proc the "bonus" on demand for a round.

I think I've read that it is usually third Friday of the month, that would put it on the 17th. We might get either a Warhammer Community article that could shed some light on it or a possible a leak from somewhere before then.

Same. I'm holding off on additional list building and thus model buying / building / painting until I know what changes are being made. I think we are assuming before end of year but I don't know that GW has actually made that commitment this FAQ pass?