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AoS Second Edition

Discussion in 'General Hobby/Tabletop Chat' started by Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl, May 12, 2018.

  1. NIGHTBRINGER
    Slann

    NIGHTBRINGER Second Spawning

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    Those that dwell too deep in AoS are our lost brethren. RIP
     
  2. Crowsfoot
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    Crowsfoot Guardian of Paints Staff Member

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    If when they were first released they were not painted gold I would have probably bought a unit or two, now I can't get that out of my head.
     
  3. Ritual
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    SCE are more interesting now they have a flaw. When they were the literal golden poster boys of the game it was freakin dull.
     
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  4. Lezlor
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    I like the silver ones from wardens of the everqueen book. But the dark colour scheme looks really cool. (Sons of Mallus) Got a useable army of them, but they’re third choice after seraphon and mixed aelf stuff (2 spire of dawn sets and a dragon and bolt throwers).
     
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  5. Canas
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    Wasn't that origin story an urban myth? Thought it was disproven at some point.
     
  6. Aginor
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    Aginor Fifth Spawning Staff Member

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    That's what I remember as well. As an archer and someone interested in medieval history I have read some stuff about that period and I vaguely remember a british historian saying that it actually isn't true, they didn't regularly mutilate enemy archers in the european middle ages.
     
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  7. Aginor
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    Aginor Fifth Spawning Staff Member

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    Ok this might be silly but I just read something and... I can't help but laugh a bit because it is too good to be true and also... simplified and probably wrong but I would like to see that happen for a change:

    A guy over at TGA tells a new player that Seraphon will rule the edition and is asked why. He responds with this:

     
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  8. Crowsfoot
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    Crowsfoot Guardian of Paints Staff Member

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    He has a point but I wouldn't say anything is broken just strong, I think the EoG is one of our strongest units now especially combined with a Slann
     
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  9. Canas
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    He only has a point in so much that we have something for any given role. That doesn't necesarly mean we're actually good at any of it...

    I mean yeah, we can do all the things he mentioned. But well what do you expect of an army with 30-ish units. Unless most of those are redundant we're going to have at least something for any given role. In that sense I also don't think it's the case that someone's giving us love as much as it's just a matter of being one of the few actually fleshed out and rounded armies to begin with (there's far to many 10-unit or smaller factions imho). Of course we're going to benefit from all the rule changes in some (minor) way if we have a fleshed out rounded army.

    Also what is he on about with us being shooty? Shooting is something we're fairly terrible at. Similarly how exactly are we tanky? Is he only facing bastiladons in thunderquake hosts?

    Also, until we get a spell-lore (and probably some other magic bonusses..) I would say we're nowhere near magic-heavy. Especially now that our slanns have been turned into summoners as opposed to casters. The only real "bonus" we have left at this point is that slanns have a lot of casts for 1 model, but beyond that nothing about our casting is really exceptional unless I'm missing something massive somehow.
     
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  10. Crowsfoot
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    Crowsfoot Guardian of Paints Staff Member

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    Not casting but our summoning power is pretty good put aside we can’t cast we sure as hell can summon
     
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  11. Lezlor
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    It’s a good thread. I’ve just had a read of it after the quoted piece above) Some good points made about the game in general (“can Age of sigmar 2 be competitive”). I kind of went off tga which is why I’m on this now...
     
  12. Canas
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    well yeah, but then we can't have both "summonign" and "casting-heavy".
     
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  13. Aginor
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    Aginor Fifth Spawning Staff Member

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    Yeah, I also think the person who wrote this has a somewhat distorted view on Seraphon (although I think he is right with the versatility. We are a pretty complete army).
    I don't know which armies he plays or can compare Seraphon to, but especially the "shooty and tanky" bits made me think he is probably playing against a weird subset of Seraphon lists.

    I mean: We have two "tanky" units IMO: Bastiladons and Saurus Guard.
    If you have ever played armies like Ironjawz or Bonesplitterz and ran into an army consisting of Bastiladons and an Eternal Starhost, failing to kill a single Saurus Guard with 90+ attacks at rend-1 (and people playing against me have done exactly that) then you probably think Seraphon are a nigh unkillable army. There are people in my shop who fail to see the ubiquity of mortal wounds in certain armies so they think those two units are outright broken. Because rend-1 immune and rerolling a 2+ save is damn bad news for them then. But at the same time there are armies with such a high mortal wound output that they tear through those Guard like through paper.
    Actually if you consider the 'meta' right now I guess Skinks are actually better "tanks" than Saurus Guard, since you get a lot more wounds for the same points, they work against mortal wounds about as good as against normal ones, they move faster, and they work outside of a bataillon.

    Sure, the Bastiladon qualifies as tanky, even by pretty high standards. And yes he has a 20" rend-1 attack that does decent damage. But its attacks are fairly random, the range of 20" isn't exactly stellar, it is a 4+/3+ attack and he is 280 points.
    ...and that's probably our best ranged unit. Most of our shooting is pretty short ranged (the only one with longer range is the Stegadon and that 25" range bow rarely does a lot of damage), we don't have ranged units that shoot 30" or more, none of them has special rules to do mortal wounds, and we don't have artillery that ignores line of sight.
     
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  14. Crowsfoot
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    Crowsfoot Guardian of Paints Staff Member

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    If he regularly plays against a Thunderquake I can see why he thinks we are tanky, especially if the list includes a Slann.
     
  15. Crowsfoot
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    You can if you run Kroak, Slann, Bearer and EotG :D
     
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  16. Canas
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    Mwha, guard are expensive and require an entire batalion + a skink priest and require to stay near the priest and the eternity warden and require the priest to consistently succeed in its ritual before you get that re-rolling 2+ save and are suspectible to mortal wounds. It shouldn't be that difficult to figure out some sort of counter to that regardless of what army you play unless you only have 2 start-collecting boxes or an equally small collection...

    Imho, I'm more curious about what armies he himself plays as opposed to what seraphon he faces…
     
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  17. Aginor
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    Aginor Fifth Spawning Staff Member

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    Maybe a destruction army. Those have a hard time against us.
    ...but then...so do they against everyone else I guess.
     
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  18. Canas
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    Those shouldn't be completly helpless though. They might be at a disadvantge being generally fairly weak, and lose say 2 out of 3 times, but it shouldn't be the case that they get consistently decimated. Not unless you play some unsupported niche variant of grots or something.
     
  19. Aginor
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    Aginor Fifth Spawning Staff Member

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    I can't even remember the last time I lost against Ironjawz.
    Their lack of shooting and the nerf of their movement ability makes them suck against most lists I played.

    Granted, if my poor buddy had a bit more luck he could have won a few games I guess. I think in the past year it is 12-1 in my favour or so when he played IJs.
    And I cannot imagine that am _that_ much better of a player, and I am not playing our best lists either. No Kroak (yet), no Rippers (Terradons), Thunderquake usually with Troglo+Stega+Basti instead of way better combos like EotG+Basti+Basti.
    He tried mass Gore-Gruntas (almost beat me with that once), mass Ardboys, Brute-centered, Allying with Bonesplitterz, Allying with an Aleguzzler, Rogue Idol (never did a single point of damage I think), allied artillery (Everyone makes fun of those Scrap Launchers but in one game the two things killed ~20 Skinks in a single round

    I hope the recent changes make his army more viable.
     
  20. Crowsfoot
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    Crowsfoot Guardian of Paints Staff Member

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    I've only played mine twice both times against my son with Maggotkin and he wiped the floor with me, they are seriously lacking but with the changes to shooting in combat I hope they are a bit stronger.
     
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