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I think it's 100% that there'll be a wizard on each side in the box, and if the Warlock Engineer is no longer a wizard, that doesn't leave a huge amount of options for who will take the spellcasting slot unless they're putting a Verminlord in there too.

I wonder what units the warlock engineer will be able to take in his retinue. He's not a spellcaster any more, basically he's just a good jezzail unit attachment that can wander off, but it may be that his retinue unit selection makes him a good choice too.

They have to be an Infantry hero for the unit not to be able to shoot them but yes, I think k that's accurate based on the rules we've seen which, crucially, are obviously just a very limited slice. That said, I don't think it's a problem. 40k ran into issues because of some weird rules interactions and because you had units like battleship commanders and primarchs being untargetable, which won't be the case here by the look of it.

Yeah, that's a surprise he doesn't have the Wizard ability. Warlock engineers losing the ability to cast spells is a bit of a headscratcher, albeit it does enhance the focus on the 'engineer' part. Will arch-warlocks still be wizards?

I wonder if it was just an accidental early post today, or if someone got the schedule entirely wrong and uploaded the wrong miniature for this week.

I like the fact he's got a jezzail, as it means there's a character to nicely pair up with the jezzails in the box. I wonder if he gives a bonus to jezzails or the like.

I actually don't think Big Waagh is necessarily gone. It may just say 'you can take units with the Ironjawz or Kruleboyz keywords'. Hell, it *might* be a 'subfaction' you can take for either army.

I'm liking a lot of what I'm reading here. Most of all, I'm liking Vindicators actually feeling more like spear-armed troops, and the loss of missile fire in melee. It feels like a return to the more strategy-game feel of old that AoS has often felt a little lacking in some places up to now.

I'm assuming the Memoriams will be a token that you can spend for an effect or bonus, rather than minis with their own stations, if only to avoid the issue of a unit with models in it that have wildly different stat lines.

Human priests as grounding anchors for the Ruination soldiers is very nifty. Having some literally be those stormcasts' descendants is very cool, albeit seems to run thr risk of making things worse when some poor ****** sees his many-greats-grandchild die on the battlefield in front of him 😛

Fantastic couple of models, those. Necromunda continues to knock it out the park with miniatures.

I do hope that, in general, summoning is scaled back a bit this edition. It's a pain playing a monogod Chaos faction and having to accept the inevitability that a bunch of your faction's weighting for its power and playability is going to be in summoning daemons when you're more interested in the mortal side of them.

Yeah, "there are four battle formations to pick from for each army on release of the new indices" is not the same as saying there will always only be four per army. I expect battletomes to roll out plenty. It's certainly better than the 10th ed situation with indices where each faction started with one, and only one, detachment type per army, even if the new AoS formations are less rules-intensive than the 40k ones are.

Anything that cuts down on the amount of 'dice roll to see if you get to make another dice roll' effects in the game is fine by me.

Looks pretty good. Big question, for me, is if these 10 are the sum total of commands that will be in the game, or if there will be faction- or unit-specific ones as well.