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That ability also made your entire death army immune to battleshock ON TOP of the rerolls. Absolutely monstrous nerf.

How does one find the new points costs?

Think it depends on your playstyle and who you're playing with. If you're playing friendly games vs your friends and family, I wouldn't worry much about what tournament lists consist of. I've only used the throne once or twice and it's been pretty good. But it I was going into a tournament setting I probably wouldn't take one (although there was one tournament list that did very well using it I think). If you're just playing games against family and friends, try it out. The game comes down to dice rolls anyway. Use what you want and like and have fun.

Even just having multiple +2 dispellers is insane imo. One of my biggest weaknesses when playing with soulblight is its difficult to dispel (arkhan used to fill that gap). So this is huge for me. Also a vamp on foot with 6 attacks is pretty cool, they're a bit too swingy at 4 attacks. Now we have two cool choices (in lob) for a measley 140 point lord with an inbuilt 3+ save and a caster. I'm super happy with that. Also very happy with the battle trait. It'll come in nicely when I've got a wounded belladama or a foot vamp in particular, in combat, with a unit that'll definitely nuke the enemy unit. Now the hero can attack first to get the hunger heals and still not risk the enemy attacking back before killing them. The rest I could take or leave but they're nice to have as options, it'll be nice to reroll damage on dragon breath, I'm always rolling a 1. I was expecting some utter garbage so very happy with this additions to an army I already love.

Where does one find the pictures?

Do we know when this white dwarf is available?

Do we know if all the aos warscrolls will still be free? Loved the AoS app currently but never cared for the army builder as there are more simply, easier to use and better army builders out there for free. What I did love was using the app for the warscrolls, adding them to your 'army' for quick access in each game. I hope this is still a feature. I subscribed to the 40k app on release and regretted it, never signed up again. Total poop compared to the AoS one.

Can we still use the exalted bloodthirster?

It's late here and I've had a lot of wine so sorry if this sounds stupid... how do the grave guard pile in 6??? I need to try this.

I think Behemoths are a double edged sword. As you say, they score extra in some plans, there are also battle tactics for monsters, or ones that score more from being completed by monsters, which is huge in a lot of plans that give 2VP just for doing a battle tactic. However, the other edge of the sword is your opponent gets 1VP for each monster they kill. There are also battle tactics specifically for slaying monsters, so you give them the opportunity to complete those too. Some plans you score more for heroes nearby and if you've sunk 900 points into two heroes I think there's little room for others. I think I also remember seeing some where battleline score extra, which again with 900 in two heroes you'll likely have less for battleline. I think multi-behemoth lists Will be good, but just beware you are also giving the opponent (potentially) more VP too.

Core rules 27.3.3 a hero cannot take more than one artefact of power. Edit reread your post and you mean two different heroes... that is quite funny

Could you point me in the direction of this rule?

Yea I've used soulpike almost every game with Belladama and it's been really powerful. Got a unit of zombies near a stegadon in one game and it cast twice (9+) and did like 10 mortal wounds or something crazy. Also just FYI, not sure if it was a simple mistake or you weren't aware - it's within 18, not wholly within, which makes it fairly decent range too. It's a very scary spell for anyone with average and lower bravery.

Nagash already went up by 95 when the soulblight book (intended for 3.0) came out. Then he went down 5. So he went up a total of 90 for 3.0, which is pretty standard as most stuff on average seemed to increase about 10% Might be miss-remembering but I'm sure he was 880 before soulblight.

What are your opinions on the price hike... do you think its some form of summoning tax? I don't play slaanesh, but comparing the stand-out units seems crazy... 230 for 5 slick blades vs 195 for blood knights. 180 for 10 archers vs 150 for sentinels. 130 for daemonettes vs 115 for bloodletters. It definitely feels heavy handed, I'd like to think there's a reason. I have experience playing vs slaanesh and those costs really seem out, I'd put slicks at 170 maybe 180, archers 140, daemonettes 115.

Core rules page 12 under 'modifiers'

Knew I'd seen it somewhere but couldn't find it again! Edit: not sure if I'm being really stoopid. Could you tell me what page/section? I can't even find a matched play section lol. Edit 2: saw the post above about YouTube videos thanks. Assuming this will be in the GHB too, as it's not in the free core rules and I cba to watch a 40 min video to find it...

Where is this? ghb leak? I just want to see all the rules dammit

Is being 1 drop so important now? The first turn is just a roll off.

Yeah, it's just RAI vs RAW.

So slain is 100% different to flee now. this makes resurrection a bit more confusing...

Yup as they aren't the target

Yeah this is going to be great! I'm I'm so happy we can finally have a magic based vampire lord with more than 1 cast! May not be ideal, but who cares I love me a magic focussed vamp.

I've been using a mod called SAGA AOM and they have tons of armies. There's a vampire one with mannfred riding a wolf. I scaled him down to match 60mm and use him as belladama. (He also moves on his base like wizards chess which is cool) For radukar I use the big varghulf thing from cursed city and scale it to 60mm. I know it's not the same, but it at least looks cooler than a blank base.

This could make some way too good to ally in to other armies IMO.