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But then the Slaanesh player summons 6 more keepers, so really you’ve done him a favor i haven’t matched it out yet, but I’m fairly sure your big unit of blight Kings can one round him if they get the drop on him 48 wounds isn’t a big ask in aos. Skeletons, skaven infantry, a bunch of chaos units, gobbos, and more can easily mass 48 wounds gotrek ruins the day of people whose army plan was “I’m going to shove my big gribblies down your throat turn one.” And Gotrek is a good solution to that issue mechanically skaven are barely going to care though, and I’m not sure Slaanesh realistically will either. This is the final nail in gristle gore. I can’t imagine another undead army having much issue with Gotrek though. Or either of the nova top 10 tzeentch lists. I dunno, maybe daughters of khaine will have a problem? But, man, they’ve been top tier for like a year so many armies revolve around dumping their entire army in your face in a couple turns with units that do as much or more damage than Gotrek will and ruining your day, and I think that is particularly unfun interactions for the game, so more reasons to not do that is pretty solid

It doesn't sound very fun. "You have to play perfectly, but even if you do, hope you get a double turn". I dunno, competitive AoS seems like it has gone off the rails with slaanesh adding like, what, 500, 600 more points a game, Skaven with the ability to do literally everything well with no downsides, and the activation wars.

Man your second game really reads like "Yeah I was winning pretty solidly until my opponent got a free 360 points". That's almost 20 percent more points than you are even allowed to bring. That's bloody nuts.

This game is all about activation economy. A strong shooting attack saves you on economy, and is thus a strong tool. It so is high movement.

For some conversions, I’d source middle earth sbg models. There’s a strong diversity of humans there that can be plugged into a bit more of a generic high fantasy than renaissance landshnecks

My apoc rulebook fell apart less then a week after I bought it. And warcry looks to be the same type of book (and indeed Ash on GMG already noted his fresh copy looks to be coming unglued). It is real frustrating.

Fyreslayers would need more than three units for this to really work out honestly.

You can mitigate the cannons somewhat in deployment sadly. Particularly with how fast or teleporty armies are there’s no reason to set up where the frigates can target you while maintaining the ordination buff, the ordination being a fair bit slower than the frigates

Yes you do it is uncomfortable to acknowledge it, but there are flatly a noticeable number of people in this hobby that are misogynist. As gamers we should openly acknowledge this problem and work to address it and not tiptoe around the subject

There’s an issue I find in this view in that a person can buy an Army, but then find a change shortly making them bad for years. And then the answer becomes, buy a new army or don’t play. But that is essentially “be upper middle class or don’t play”, and I am deeply ambivalent to even more economic gatekeeping in my hobby

Skaven are at the top for a reason. This is the reason. Clan rats in combat effective hordes meatshielding for all their supremely powerful characters and specialist tools

You could make it the.... uh... the magmadroths lodge for a significant buff to the aurics

Endrinriggers are indeed horseshit if they are forced to attack last, which is increasingly being a thing in a very frustrating way in the same way every army was getting negatives to hit after while, but it isn’t the most common thing, and you usually get the activation advantage in the turn you charge and most thing thusly die

I feel the escort wing is getting closer and closer to being good. Almost there

Gw also isn’t just about balancing. There are a lot of things that go into making models, and often balance is put to the side in favor of production targets, sales, or coolness

Chain jay claire to a desk and make him write all the rules, and not just sbg

It also takes several months for an army to be “solved” as it were, so I suspect skaven, gobbos, and flaming dwarves are not fully accurate to the quality of their books quite yet. It takes time to both learn how to play and how to play against a new book

I hear some rumbling that Fyreslayers and Kharadrons really compliment each other in a strong way.

Arkanauts are op what? Who thinks this? On base stats Arkanauts are a weak unit. They underperform heavily compared to most battle lines. What makes them them good is that you can khemist buff them. Their entire existence revolves around one synergy

It feels like you lost to the ability to summon honestly. He threw his army forward, they all died, but that just meant he could pop summons on objectives and didn’t have to care about keeping a reserve

You can still deepstrike and deploy. Both are at the start of the hero phase. You can no longer deploy after using ‘there is always a breeze if you look for it’

Except it is not. I feel people get salty when they can’t throw together their 40k tactical squad and win every mission without building their list to the game or taking advantage of a third to half the rules. Here’s a hint, play with a full 20 roster. The game is balanced around the intent that you can mix out your set up from a roster depending on matchup

Every army since 2.0 dropped has summoning. And it is a ridiculously unbalanced mechanic if you have some armies with and some without

There is absolutely no information on ko, and I would not get your hopes up too much

KO also is apparently not on the docket this year either if you go by their image of what they're doing this year. It is... more stormcast with fyreslayers in the background. Undead stuff, a vampire and it looks like skeles. Chaos. And ogres with gloomspite in the background. If that's their hint of what's coming up, well, KO aren't in it