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My problem with Seasons of War LRL is he doesn't play the real filth! I want to see Jordan running circles around Carl's Ironjawz with Foxes.

I think I misunderstood your point. I thought you were arguing that SCE were losing all it's most powerful tools and now had nowhere to go. I agree, the changes aren't going to make any of the weaker units stronger. Knight Questors, Azyros will stay on the shelf. Evocators won't see play. etc. The change made the gap between S tier units and A tier units smaller. Did not effect the others. That's the issue with books with tons of Warscrolls unfortunately. GW doesn't have, or doesn't allocate enough ressources to look at every book and try to fix internal balance. I know my Sisters of the Watch always jealously look at Irondrakes and wonder why points can't be swapped.

I generally agree except for the fact Stormcast has a lot of models that will now be taken instead of the Stormdrakes and Justicars. SCE were very much in a position of lots of A/B tier units outshined by S tier ones. Judicators (Xbows), Chariots, Fulminators, Annihilators, Liberators, Vanquishers, Vindictors will all be seeing plays now. You do have a lot of stinkers but I'd be really shocked if SCE don't top 5 any tournaments.

There were tons of strong Stormcast lists that didn't lean on dragons, Thunderbolt Volley change is a bigger hit but I think they'll still be great over all. Fulminators are still amazing. Grandhammer Annihilators. Knight-Judicator spam lists aren't affected. Chariots are really good and are probably the take over Dragons now. Hard to say what will be the go to list, espescially with so many core changes through the GHB but Stormcast will fare better than most armies. I do agree the book has 40+ useless warscrolls though....

I agree, this seems like a step towards 40k. Or how I envision 40k as an outsider that occasionally listens to bat reps while painting. You'll be building your lists with the intent to fulfill battle tactics as efficiently as possible. Quick or deepstriking Gellant Veteran units to snag that extra VP.

Ranking infantry is an amazing change but isn't a buff across the board. Any 2" infantry won't be affected by this, but will now have to contend with many units gaining +1 dmg against them. I do agree that creating more attractive battalions is great since it'll push people away from one drops or make it a more punishing decision.

Oh boy! Horde meta! *Pulls his 120+ Darkling Coven troops off the shelves. The second battalion is any troop (not leader, artillery or behemoth). Units in this battalion gain +1 melee damage vs any Galletian Veteran (and not only those in the x3 scoring). Oh... *Puts his army back on the shelf. Maybe I'm just overreacting but this seems like a pretty insane change. So many of my armies can't help but run these Galletian Veterans. Kruleboyz HAS to run Boltboyz and Gutrippaz. Giving everyone easy access to this battalion seems dangerous.

Wasn't there an image leak of 3.0 instructions for Rippa's Snarlfangs? Making it a likely candidate for Destruction tome for Autumn. Did I dream that?

Staring contest champions AoS 3.0. They haven't been destroying tournaments, haven't kept up with it but I struggle to remember a big 5-0 tournament finish for them. They are better than expected, I recall when the book first drop someone mathed out how they had more bite than the previous book. Just lost all of the flavour, no run and charge Big Stabbas, no flavourful anti-monster interaction, no buckets upon buckets of dice. Just more efficient. Wurrgog Prophet mask rule is also pretty broken, but I feel they need it and it's the only real fun thing in the army, I hope they don't remove it.

I'm replying with the assumption that the previous rumours are 100% accurate. Big targets for the GHB/battlescroll updates are SCE dragons, living city, Seraphon. GHB / BattlescrollDragon hero phase move goes awayThunder lizards scaly skin also goes awayLivllLiving City Strike then Melt Away must finish the movement outside 9" of any enemy These all seem like great changes, Seraphon have been doing great and are still winning lots of tournaments, I agree that I hope they change Scaly Skin rather than simply delete it. The book still has teeth and I'm sure we'll keep seeing it. Living City - Good change, probably kills the city but it's been waaaay overperforming. This is the GHB, which makes sense why it feels 6 months behind, the full Slaves book is printed and leaked 8 months in advance this book was probably sent to print in November/December last year. Which would explain the lack of changes to Nurgle. Archer changes are part of the 3.0 Battletome, not a GHB nerf. I'd agree with you that it feels like kicking someone while they are down since Lumineth haven't beenbdoing too great, but these changes probably come with point adjustements/warscroll changes that could make those units still powerful. They do seem to have hone in on the biggest NPE of Lumineth, insane LoS ignoring mortal wound shooting and the foxes ability to basically roadblock any combat army.

Strike then teleport for Sylvaneth? I'm jealous. I started AoS with a Cities Wanderers army, bought a prince and some Sisters. I wanted a mobile shoot and run army.. was very dissappointed. Shoot then nudge your archers 6" away, really didn't fit that imaginary playstyle. Rules previewed for them look amazing, but I must resist and not make a new army.

Sisters and Witches in Draichi Ganeth (sp?) seem pretty nice with a Gladiatrix. They'd be going up to rend 3 with Mindrazor. The extra reinforcement could also be nice.

Leaks for the DoK 3.0 tome have me a little excited for Har Kuron again. Mostly because I own a Melusai Ironscale and Blood Sisters. These are 2nd hand rumours so take them with a grain of salt until we know more this weekend. Melusai's remain mostly unchanged, same points but the Blood Sisters now deliver their mortal wounds on a 2+ after they've finished their attacks. Which is nice. I like the idea of an Incarnate of Ghur + the snake/hero combo to have 2d6 run + 2d6 charge both rerollable. Getting another +1 to cast means we can get +3 for that all important vitriolic spray. Witchbrew + SoS/Witches was already iffy because of it having a lower chance to go off but now it's utterly useless in Har Kuron. If points are favourable Shrines will be slightly better because of the built in +1 to prayers. Overall seems fun. Wonder if Avatars might be worthwhile now too.

290 pts for the Shadowborne... hard to make that appealing.

I mean this is 100% what will happen. Every Underworlds warband has released with corresponding warscrolls for AoS. Which means, if these are Malerion Dark Elves, they need a home in AoS. Unless we think DoK are getting a surprise Malerion half added to their army safe to say it'll just be the UW warband folded into DoK.