I've been going through books, and some of the rules for Giants, Kairos Fateweaver, and Wulfrik are just amazing.. xD Kairos Fateweaver: Spoiler Secrets and Ciphers: When you make a casting or unbinding roll for Kairos Fateweaver, add 2 to the result of the roll if, just before rolling the dice, you can correctly spell the spell’s name backwards, aloud, without hesitating or looking it up Wulfrik: Spoiler The Gift of Tongues: At the start of the combat phase, Wulfrik can issue an indelicate challenge in his foe’s tongue if there is an enemy Hero within 3". Issue your opponent with a challenge of your own – you can be as mocking, rude or insulting as you dare; if your opponent rises to the bait and they change expression, even so much as crack a smile or a glimmer of shock, Wulfrik’s challenge is successful and you can re-roll failed hit rolls for any attacks he makes this phase against enemy Heroes. Giants: Spoiler Timber!: If a Giant is slain, both players roll a dice, and whoever rolls highest decides in which direction the Giant falls (the player commanding the model wins any ties). Place the Giant on its side in the direction in which it falls – any unit (friend or foe) it lands on suffers D3 mortal wounds. Remove the Giant after resolving any damage caused by its falling body. Drunken Stagger: If you roll a double when making a charge roll for a Giant, it immediately falls over instead of making the charge move. Determine the direction the Giant falls and the damage it causes as if it had been slain (see Timber!), but instead of removing the Giant after resolving the damage caused by its falling body, stand the model back up again as the Giant drunkenly regains its feet! Also, Trogs are pretty damn good now.. Blastadons too, man! Like, woah.... also, Razordons and Salamanders switched roles?! O_O
Step 1: Add all the favorable stat numbers. Wounds+Brave+Range+Attacks+2Hit+2Wound+Rend number+Damage = A On models with multiple lines use the longest range number. On models with multiple lines add up the total number of attacks from all lines. On models with multiple lines use the highest damage number. For Any number written as N+ use the following: 6+ =1; 5+ =2; 4+ =3; 3+ =4; 2+ =5; 1+ =6 (7 minus N) Step 2: Add Save + Move together = B Step 3: Multiply the the results of the first two steps. A x B = nnn Step 4: Divide nnn by 10. That is 'Rating Formula Draft 1'. Feel free calculate more models with it. Suggest changes to it / tinker with it.
How are you pricing abilities, unit composition, armywide cohesion, weapon options, battalion availability, etc. into this? Isn't this also specific to each army, as all armies operate with a different meta? I guess I see where the raw numbers are coming from, but this formula leaves a lot to the imagination. It seems like they're trying to get away from standardized point values, after all... especially when you consider the 'unbound' nature of AoS force organization.
OK, going backwards... I have no idea what you mean by "different meta" can you explain the phrase? (That was not a warhammer buzzword ages ago / it's new to me.) Also, everything has been released all at once...so, different how? Options: these do need to be assigned a value and added in within step 1. "Armywide cohesion" ? neither adds or subtracts points IMO. Please explain more, about why you think it should. Abilities: these also need to be assigned a value and added in within step 1. The idea behind multiplying the Move and Save values against everything else is that those two values (if higher) make it more likely the other factors will get used or stay in the game.
I could have used the wrong terms, so I apologize if I did. In any case, what I'm trying to convey is that the armies of WHFB have different playstyles, and so their value of particular stats differs given such a playstyle. In other words, the stat's hard number is going to carry more weight for some armies than others. Why should a Glade Guard's number of melee attacks carry the same weight as a Saurus Warrior's? Yes, but how are you pricing these? That's my point - you may think that the Skink's Hit & Run is worth 0.6 pts/model, but what if I think it's 0.9? As an example, WoC of 8th edition were regarded the "close combat army," so its traits were indicative of that. Since their shooting is pretty bad, the melee units (Chaos Warriors, for example) are absurdly powerful. In any army with decent shooting, they'd be horribly, ridiculously underpriced. Yet, WoC remained cohesive because their meta is combat-oriented. The point that I'm making here is that the army appears one way on paper (underpriced, overpowered), and plays differently on the table (pretty reasonable). If you price them as they are, unit by unit, stat by stat, and disregard the army's roster as a functional whole, I think that you've miscalculated. But, to even assign those numbers in such a radically different system strikes me as a misstep as well. I mean, the quantity of special rules, exceptions, etc. has skyrocketed. What about all of these abilities that affect die rolls? Being able to field a unit or model with that ability: doesn't that drastically impact the value of the units affected? How does that opportunity change your final sum? Is it fair for the army that doesn't have that opportunity? For example, I field a Skink Chief with 40 Skinks... their shooting attacks now hit on a 2+, wound on a 4+. That is downright lethal - very little will stand up to a single round of that, let alone the ensuing combat. How do you price that? I don't mean any offense, but I have serious doubts about a point-based currency in a game like this. In 8th, it worked, yeah. But, I don't know that it can work here given the dynamism and explosiveness of these new armies, this new hyper-synergistic playstyle.
I left them off on the first pass. Nearly all units have some positive extra ability going for them so I figured it would be close to a wash?? But by draft 2 or 3 some input on assigning numbers would be useful. On the other hand TikTakTO is firmly ensconsed with other flyers. Yay !?
Just note that not all of our troops have the daemon tag. Slann don't. Swarms don't. Don't forget that if you need to apply some spell effect like for Light of the Heavens - "If successfully cast, then until your next hero phase any battleshock tests for Celestial Daemon or Chaos Daemon.." (buff celestial daemons only, hex chaos daemons only. Table-wide effect. No effect on little swarmy )
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Hmmm, may be time to build a new thread to work out potential list building scenarios. We may actually have to reach out to the other communities on this, haha. Also we may need a "Seraphon" Sub-thread.
Here is the NZ edition: http://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/age-of-sigmar-compendiums?_requestid=4975240 or Are you after the base rules?
Well Lizardmen, when I either click the picture or click download on another page, it just has that cross. I just updated and fixed the installation for adobe reader but nope.
I've read through the rules and it is all kind of confusing. The fact that GW hasn't provided a proper "balancing" tool, nor any real guide in listbuilding is really putting me off. It feels like that there is no structure. The only thing they have provided are the very restricted Hosts and thats about it. Rule wise there are some fun and nifty rules but the whole looks like it will be abused as hell. Plus I prefer the look and feel of setting up a nice 2500 points game with carefully painted regiments. All painted and assembled to the point that they look good on a tray as a single unit. AoS just looks way to much like 40k (they even use the same terms: Rend, Pile in, etc.
Finally! Had to jump onto the other laptop, as I recall that doesn't have Adobe, might check and it was perfectly fine! Yes, now I can save it and check it over later on with my boyfriend... when he decides to wake up. Hearing about Tetto makes me a little sad, I like Tetto
Been reading, loving the Basti. Might persuade me to put him back on the table, depends if my boyfriend will play. He is raging at the moment. Apparently Settra (TK) and Josef (Dwarves) have some odd rules.