ScionOfOssia

Your criteria was “Not Mounted” and “Generic”. All 3 aren’t mounted and the only reason the eidolon doesn’t walk is because it can fly instead so that’s just a skill issue for everyone else.

Verminlords. Mega-Gargants. Eidolons of Mathlann. All can be brought in duplicate (Minus the Akhelian, the command trait is locked to the general) and don’t have mounts, and are generally pretty good in melee.

It lets you ignore Look Out Sir, not Fade From Memory, assuming that stays.

Any rumors about potentially seeing Endless Spells split up into individual sets for the Lore of Manifestation?

Sure, except we also don't know anything about what anyone gets besides the battle traits of the Stormcast and like, 6 dudes- We literally don't know enough to say what they do or do not get.

God I hope so, those models are great and can change how you play.

Yeah, pretty much everything I’ve seen thus far has looked at least good. I’m EXTREMELY positive on the Magic changes (Partially because I suspect the Boneshaper is getting Shardstorm as a shooting attack and this justifies buying the remaining Endless Spells to add to my collection). This has me optimistic, but you’ll need to check back in once we know the Index for the OBR and IDK.

Honestly, it seems like you get to pick a Lore of Manifestation and a Spell Lore. Naturally, I’m going to exclusively run the one with Shyish-themed spells with my OBR unless I have to choose between OBR manifestations and those. And I’d probably still choose 4 options over 3 unless those 3 are really good.

Ah, that would probably explain it. Literally nobody at my LGS plays Spiderfang who apparently get their own lore, and our Warclans never play Big Waaagh so I’ve compartmentalized them as Kruleboyz and Ironjawz. The rest, nobody here plays or at least they don’t own a wizard for them.

I honestly didn’t even know factions could HAVE multiple lores. I play OBR and Deepkin, and the former only has 1 lore while the latter have a grand total of 4 spells in their lore and 3 wizards in their entire range.

Also, I can’t believe we’re not calling Magical Intervention “Unleash Spell”

I hope they amp the Soulreaper and give him some form of sustain or wound negation then, because right now it feels like it’s having an unresolvable identity crisis between “Squishy Wizard” and “Frontline Combatant” and it’s trying to split the difference but does so in a way that means it’s not good at either.

Any bets on us seeing how the Lore of Manifestations works tomorrow? I want to know because if it does let you summon the universal endless spells, I need to pick up a box of Malevolent Sorceries, and the Forbidden Power box from my local mall, where I can hopefully pawn the terrain off on someone else who likes doing terrain.

I feel like the loss of the BoC has really impacted the narrative this edition- The setup for something as good as the Broken Realms series exists, but it feels like they didn't commit to it because the plotline needed to set it up was scrapped. You can see this because I'm pretty sure every codex covers how the faction handles Incarnates, but the Incarnates themselves weren't ever used as a plot point outside of Thondia. (Speculation) This was probably due to both leading up to a BoC refresh and a different story than the Dawnbringer Crusades that probably focused more on Kragnos, . I think the only major through lines I can think of for the crusades that are actually starting to pay off are the CoS, FEC, Skaven, S2D, and the OBR of all people (Specifically the "Mysterious Hooded Speaker of Nagash's will" is literally Arkhan, the OBR battletome says that this is just what he's doing currently). It feels weird, I think is the main point of all of this.

They don’t seem to be particularly interested in looking into why certain units aren’t taken- Why would I take a Morghast Harbinger, a unit which is anti-synergistic with the core Bonereapers mechanic (Relentless Discipline makes Deep Strike units actively harmful to take), isn’t around for getting buffed by our spells and Ossifectors, and frequently drops in unsupported, when for the exact same price and a single command point, I can have the infinitely better Necropolis Stalker, or 10 points more and I can bring the infinitely better Morghast Archai. This thing would need to be way cheaper for me to ever consider bringing it.

Yeah, reviewing the battlescroll changes there are some odd or funny changes to the OBR- The Soulreaper wasn’t being taken at 110, so why would it be taken at 120? Deathriders to 200 points- Just bite the bullet and make Trample The Defiant harder, because these guys were already pillowfisted at 180 and at 200 they’re literally just there to score Trample and then die violently. Arch-Kavalos Zandtos to 170 and the Liege-Kavalos to 190- Congratulations Zandtos, now they’re not even pretending you might be better or even remotely as good as your generic counterpart. Mortek Crawler to 160- It wasn’t worth it at 170 and it’s not worth it now. It has an unreliable tactic, poor to mediocre at best shooting. If you want to make it worth bringing, let its stele bypass Look Out, Sir! and give its midrange shot a few more attacks, or something to not suck completely.

The only surprising change is them increasing the cost of the bloody Soulreaper- Was its usage rate of 0% too high for them?

Well, they’ve put themselves in an excellent position to expand OBR, FS, IDK, and KO- OBR square off with Skaven in the Prime Innerlands (Hopefully with Nagash’s return bookending the edition), FS fight to stall the Skaven coming from the east, the Idoneth wreck havoc on their navies, and the KO fight the Much-Great Sky Kill-Armada in Chamon.

I’m still seeing Nullstone Cache, but I’m on Apple, so that’s probably what’s up. Can you see what changed?

They may not have had a Big Stabba, but they DID have players.

I just push my mortek up in a blob and it’s never too much of an issue when my guys are already packed in like sardines.

Please god no, unless this will speed up Thunderer shooting.

“We’re removing Sacrosanct to fight bloat!” Looks inside Battletome Bloat

What plot is there for Arkhan? He’s the lich that shows up, speaks Nagash’s will, then vanishes. I could’ve told you he was doing that since the OBR got their tome.

No, but Half Aelves are apparently common enough that it wouldn't be particularly scandalous, except if the child is a male and sent to live with their father to avoid having their souls drained, and Half Ogors are mentioned in Yndrasta: The Celestial Spear where they're cast out of the tribe to die for being the runts.