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    Best adopted Stormcast units?

    in Cities of Sigmar

    Posted

    Thanks all!  The is an astoundingly thorough, and helpful few posts.  I really appreciate it.

    I'm glad the data largely lines up with my instincts, as to which units I might finally be able to get back on a table.  You've given me plenty to chew on.  I'll be testing out Evo-kitties next, and already have a Comet on my painting table, alongside my old Knight Incantor.

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    Best adopted Stormcast units?

    in Cities of Sigmar

    Posted

    25 minutes ago, Ravinsild said:

    3 Evocators unbuffed and unsupported save for their own warscroll drastically outperforms Demigryphs. 

    I'd hope so, as they cost almost a third extra.  🙂  I've just always enjoyed those models, and am looking for an excuse to run a few.  😉

    Best adopted Stormcast units?

    in Cities of Sigmar

    Posted

    I was thinking, as I continue to delve into Cities of Sigmar, that it might be a good excuse to repaint some of my Stormcast units, and give them new life.  I frankly loathed trying to run Stormcast in a serious, competitive way, but feel a lot of units have meaningful potential as CoS.

    Any favorites, tips, tricks, etc...?  In early days testing both Knights Azyros and Incantor have proven fun.  I'm thinking of seeing if Evocators on Dracolines can add anything of note, though I suspect supported Demigyphs fill a similar role already as shock-cav.

    Best use of a lot of Phoenix Guard?

    in Cities of Sigmar

    Posted

    Hey folks.  So while picking up a bunch of lots of models for future Fantasy Fisticuffs articles, I found that one ended up including almost 90 beautifully painted Phoenix Guard.  Any suggestions on some fun and competitive uses for them?  I'm really unfamiliar with that corner of the CoS book, but it seems it takes very little to get them up to 2+/2+ hit-wound, re-rolling the later.  Is that enough to make me want to run really large blocks of them?

    AoS 2 - Flesh-eater Courts Discussion

    in Death

    Posted

    Doppleganger Cloak is still very strong.  I rolled people at a tournament this weekend, and it was absolutely key.  Two combat phases + feeding frenzy guarantees that you can even foolishly throw him into, and tie up, half your opponent's army, and likely remove large swathes of it.

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    AoS 2 - Flesh-eater Courts Discussion

    in Death

    Posted

    Random question, but why do people continue to lump in FEC with the broken-tier books like Hedonites?  I know I am a bit out of practice with playing my FEC but I just got absolutely rolled in a bunch of tournament prep games against Big Waaagh, and Ironjaws, as well as against a well screened Cities of Sigmar shooting list.

    I ran the pretty traditional Feast Day, with two AGKoT, a Ghoul Patrol, and an Arch-Regeant, and at no point felt like I had the tools needed to out-class either army by any significant degree.

    AoS 2 - Gloomspite Gitz Discussion

    in Destruction

    Posted

    16 hours ago, Eldarain said:

    Any advice against Bonereapers? Seems like a brutal match up for us. Thought Fanatics might be it but 10 bounced right off those crazy Mortek and got one shotted by the 7 left. Then there were 13 the next turn.

    Mortal Wounds are weakness for OBR so going Endless Spell heavy, with good casters is a very powerful way to work through their support heroes, etc.  They are sort of pillow-fisted, so giant Grot blobs just grind and trade for most of a game, especially in range of the Loonshrine.

    AoS 2 - Gloomspite Gitz Discussion

    in Destruction

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    15 hours ago, dirkdragonslayer said:

    How do y’all feel about Squig Gobbas? Their stats don’t seem bad nowadays. Was making something in 40k and thought about using the Ogor Scraplaunchers to convert so Squig Gobbas. Same base, cheaper price, just need to put squigs in the basket, replace the Rhinox head with a squiggly one (Great Wooly Squiggoth,) and some Moonclan Grots on the base/Chariot.

    Mostly want the Grots from the Scraplauncha for a 40k conversion, but I don’t like wasting bits.

    I ordered a couple after asking about them a few pages back, and have since had a chance to run them three times.  Honestly, they aren't as excellent as I hoped.  They're fun and fill a niche nothing in the book does, but they end up not having the rend needed to get through more durable, key support models.  They do work against fragile, minor characters, but the minute you face a Fyreslayer or Stormcast (heck, even Ironjaws) character, you're putting 320pts (if you take two) to kill a single character every 2-3 turns.

    Their being better anti-horde is irrelevant as Gitz have no problems vs. low-armor hordes already.

    Cool model, fun to paint, and fun to run in more casual games, but just outside of usability at competitive levels.

    AoS 2 - Fyreslayers Discussion

    in Order

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Biasco said:

    To be honest I’ve seen much worse permitted at tournaments but I totally get your point it’s a fair one . The wife just bought me a giant Fyreslayers army on EBay for Xmas... Can’t wait to test it out . Actually thinking trying more Vulkite so I can throw in more bodies and use some SE shooting to snipe enemy characters .

    Hey man!  It's Mark and Nikki!  If you need help testing out Fyreslayer stuff, let me know.  For your need they will not disappoint!

    AoS 2 - Ironjawz Discussion

    in Destruction

    Posted

    5 hours ago, umpac said:

    You can't use the Waaagh without a Megaboss general though, which is a big hit. If you really want CP you could always take an allied Madcap.

    Fungoid Cave Shaman, actually, but yes... they're absolutely stellar allies, and give access to Skuttletide which is just incredible.

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    AoS 2 - Ironjawz Discussion

    in Destruction

    Posted

    I think the fluff implication has always been that Orks fighting and dying draws even more Orks from all over... thus how Waaaghs get going, and keep growing.  Their idea was probably to let the death of one unit summon however many you happen to have the CP + luck to get.

    Whether that is good/healthy for the game is a wildly different discussion.   Slightly cynically, the rise in summoning / model recursion feels like a rule-writing suggestion that might've been born out of its good business sense.

    AoS 2 - Fyreslayers Discussion

    in Order

    Posted

    I've been painting six allied Gyrocopters for him (two units of three discounted fit the allied points at 2k).  Do we think that could help in the match-up?  Bombs blow up their little min-Aetherwing screens, and then just shooting/distractions into Longstrikes?

    AoS 2 - Fyreslayers Discussion

    in Order

    Posted · Edited by Neomaxim

    Anyone have suggestions on Fyreslayers vs. Shootcast?  Is it just a tough match without skewing towards it... adding extra underground Hearthguard, etc...?

    Edit: For context, I am helping my Father-in-law as he is really getting into AoS.  He's competitive by nature, but a deeply good sport, so I was surprised when his first 2000pt game at a store was against someone who brought the 9 Longstrike, all shooty Stormcast, didn't offer a handshake, etc...

    On paper I would've been sure my Dad-in-law had the win.  He was rocking the big Zerker blobs and foot heroes, and had a small unit of the shooter-Hearthguard as ablative wounds for his heroes.  From what he says he thinks giving up first round hurt him as the army took out well above average numbers of Berserkers, which put him on a perpetual backfoot.  No one ever got the double turn either, so it was just attrition.

    Any suggestions I can offer him?  I want him to know he didn't get a ****** of an army, far from, but that there are just plain good and tough match-ups in this hobby too.

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