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That pivot occurred with the GHB and has only been increasing , especially with 2.0.

Ever since they did a pivot on AoS to try and bring back the more dedicated competitive gamer they have strayed further from balance. It makes sense from a short term financial decision. They are getting a sales boost for people chasing the meta, but I think in the long run they will cause more harm. Of course developing warcry they can use that to help drive new gamers into their offerings. I do know that malifaux is becoming way more popular than GW (minus 40K) around these parts.

Awesome, can't wait to see it in stores

True but the difference is your equipment will not suddenly be unusable via a rules change whereas in WH a model can be dropped from competitive play and that investment is gone. (Not really an issue for casual players).

I probably fall under the "affluent" hobbyists, and I still wouldn't pay that price for some plastic. But then again I'm not a competitive player, so that may be the difference. I think competitive players are the ones who will pay the price no matter what.

Agreed the Eldritch council was interesting and would have liked to seen a wider variety of mages.

The months leading up to the Seraphon battleforce box saw my local GW get all their seraphon models recalled except the start collecting box, then boom they got reboxed into the battleforce. Same thing happened with Slaves to Darkness as well.

Probably whatever they have excess stock of.

Crazy......... It's a deep state conspiracy against Stormcast.

There is a Slaughter brute of khorne warscroll in the PDF File.

What does everyone think of the Slaughterbrute? I love the look of the model, but I just noticed the Slaughterbrute of Khorne isn't in the AoS app anymore.

@scrollbuilderdude I think the slaughterbrute of khorne is missing, the regular one is in the app just not the khorne version.

Anyone plan on stripping and redoing their models? I am hoping to avoid that.

Agreed, to have to spend a CP for such a low chance of anything happening,...

True but most legends can't be allied with non-legend armies

Thx the sorceress was what I was thinking but honestly not a good fit with stormcast. Guess I'll have to get rid of them 😔

Bummer so close

Didn't get a chance to watch the gaming book reviews, are the seraphon allegiance rules in it or just grand alliance ones?

I have a Drakeseer and lore master I would ally into my stormcast army. Suggestions for using them as other things? The dragon is red and was pro painted so I don't want to strip it. The lore master I don't mind stripping.

The battleplans were usable by any army, so although the stories were stormcast heavy they were the protagonist of the realmgate wars, and the way the mortal realms/races were being introduced. IMO, I'm not interested in a grounded mortal realms, crazy over the top stories are what I was interested in.

I really enjoyed the early AOS novels, because I could then recreate the battles in the novels (with different armies) by using the campaign books. It felt like a really cohesive design that everything worked together for a living narrative that was constantly updating. The current way of doing releases and lore really does not interest me anymore. I'd rather a campaign book every quarter or every six months that was constantly moving the story forward that was tied into novels and army releases. Really I just want campaign books in the style of the realmgate wars ones. They were great.

I've noticed this as well, they also need to check each model can see the unit being targeted. I think improving the LOS (or just following the ones we have now) will make placement more strategic

Unless Archaon gets killed by the Celestant Prime immediately the Celestant Prime will be toast. The Prime can not handle a protracted combat with Archaon

I agree LOS for spells and unbinding should be there. Also you shouldn't be able to cast at a target if a target is within 3" of you (just like shooting). Also I'd like to see better LOS rules so you can't shoot through a unit so easily. It makes placement a lot less interesting

😨 When everyone is saying 4" move is a weakness and the majority of stormcast move 4-5" and hit less hard