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maybe GW realized the massive backlash from the upcoming release of yet more Stormcast and decided to pull the release and repurpose the awesome gryph models for a new line of elves!

You can have this when I get to shoot in your shooting phase just like you get to attack during my combat phase. That's why shooting is balanced the way it is, it happens half as often as the combat phase.

I think I get what you're saying. Stormcast need new units that are simultaneously: fast, long ranged, high armor, multi wound, high damage, high rend, mortal wound dealing, low points cost. Right? You say that if they get that they will stop needing to teleport in order to dominate all the tournaments? I tend to agree with you.

implying they don't have this already...

I count 4 in the picture with at least another two on the way. My dark elves have exactly two, darkshards and repeater bolt throwers. Stormcast is already spoiled for choices in the ranged department.

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Come on now, the stormcast eternals need a third type of crossbow infantry WAY more than elves need a proper release of any kind. And clearly it is much better that stormcast receive more mounted troop options than dwarves or undead getting a battletome. Right?

categorize all buffing abilities by effect and either have them increase the bearer unit of that buffing ability by a set amount or increase the points of units with that buffing ability by a fixed scalar. Do the same for buffing command abilities. That's the only way I can see to address that issue. At least that way you'd insure that you were treating buffing abilities uniformly across all units. Like you pointed out trying to address the "potential buffing" a hypothetical unit could receive is tantamount to madness and wholly unnecessary if you consider what I said in the previous paragraph. I believe there are is lots of room for many opinions on the subject and enough bright people out there with great ideas. Like you @deadalus81

The pic is a better shot of the sheet. Between the rerolling failed saves and mortal wound generating bypassing armor the hunters have a big advantage. Don't get me wrong though, a score of 0.00308 is two or three times better than a lot of things in the game. for reference some benchmarks to get a better perspective: Darkling Coven Executioners: 0.00375 Extremis Chamber Fulminators (charged): 0.00566 Vulkite Berserkers axe shield charged >20 models: 0.005859 Witch Aelves: 0.0017 The units are really all over the map, something I didn't expect to see when I started investigating the data.

this looks like baseless wishful thinking. Anything to back this up? The blood bowl dwarf model shoulder pad teaser pic doesn't seem to point to a dwarf release. The pic from the tzeentch book (?) where dwarf iron breakers and gyro copters are depicted being killed doesn't seem to confirm anything either. I could be wrong but I don't think there is anything solid that actually would lead a person to take seriously steam punk dwarves.

I get Hunters with great swords clocking in at 0.01345 (effective wounds)*(expected damage)/(point squared) Brutes with gore-hacka pull a 0.00308 respectable relative to most in the game but still order of magnitude off. I think it would be a little closer if I factored for the unit champions and special weapons for each unit but I don't have the time. Pic of calculations. (assumed enemy rend of -1 and enemy armor of 4+) picture is blurry. my screen cap paint paste crop skills have failed for an unknown reason.

compared side to side with everything I have ever analyzed (most units) kurnoth hunters are literally an order of magnitude more efficient point for point than anything else in the game. Prove it to yourself by determining the (damage out)*(effective wounds)/(point squared) coefficient for any unit you like. The numbers don't lie. if you don't like math and don't believe in probability because you think dice are always random so there is no point in doing math then move along and ignore this post.

Nope. Not taking the bait this time. I see you with your bait but I'm not going to bite. Also enjoy my newest guys for cause why not.

Here is a picture of the dark eldar raider baseplate overlapped on the cape pattern. I am reposting the work of an anon from another site who deserves the credit.

Is there anything concrete behind the rumor that Steamhead Dwarves are going to be released? It sounds like just a lot of wishful thinking from disgruntled dwarf players who didn't like their all slayer release.