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It wasn't meant as an insult at all. I'm merely perplexed that a single model in a beta made you say the things you said. I agree the Slann is dumb and I said so, but it doesn't bring down the entire book for me. They got most things right and once they gather the new teams for each book I'm sure the last things can be fixed.

Anyway if I came off as rude I apologize :/ I also just got news that my best friends have already sold his paints and is selling his models so maybe I was a little harsh because I'm rather annoyed/saddened.

Anyway I checked the WoC book and it appear that on the whole the LM army got a buff, without increasing our overall power. To put in another way we can now more safely use more models. The same thing appear to be true for WoC although they got hit with the nerf bat in some cases. Especially the chimera got hit exceptionally hard. Somewhat unreasonable IMO. Meanwhile skullcrushers have the same price and are better than ever with S6 on the riders on the charge (MoK) so I'm not seeing how those guys got fixed haha.

The biggest offenders from VC also got somewhat of a nerf. Bloodlines are re-introduced which mean that you can still get a nasty lord, but not everything in one. If you want that super killy lord you can't also have a mage, but overall their book looks interesting. Blood knights at 2W but 50pts will definately make them more worth it, compared to previously. Again I haven't seen a power increase, but more instead more units being viable.

 

No they still have stubborn it's just in the bodyguard rule in the BRB:

Bodyguard (X)
This unit is Stubborn as long as it has a non-champion character is joined to it. Sometimes this will only work with certain characters, when this is the case, the relevant characters will be stated in brackets. Units with the Unstable Special Rule and Body Guard (and relevant characters joined to it) that loses combat halves the number of wounds caused by Unstable.

page 38

 

Hmm.. that depends.. they have plate armour, shield and are mounted, but how are monstrous beasts counted? I don't see anything about barding.

 

Read the paragraph at the end. They're not done adding items and units.

Also Skinks are WS3.

 

Becoming less expensive wouldn't be ideal. We need to be able to take more disciplines. That's it. Alternatively if they don't like that then bring back generations like our 6th edition book. They could all be lvl4 with the cheapest being 250pts with no disicplines (50pts for 4+ ward and other things is reasonable?) and then add something for each level. That fits the fluff and still allow for some flexibility.

Easiest would be to allow for more disciplines haha.

 

They didn't So no 5+ ward and the model just straight up lose a wound upon miscast. Also they lost a bit of effectiveness in CC (less S3 attacks haha).
They're also limited to unit size 1-3 so another nerf for razordons.

Salamanders haven't been hit that hard, but razordons appear even worse now. They didn't need a price reduction, but to be viable in smaller units. Now they remain almost the same, but can't be effective at bigger units. Or maybe you're using the artillery dice to shoot? in which case their shots have been doubled along with the miscast risk. Hm.....

 

Well my point is that it shouldn't ever come to a point reduction. It's absolutely dumb. THAT is flavorless if I've ever seen it "hi you have this super awesome mage, he's level 4 at 300pts, kkthxbb"

I want my slann to be expensive, but flexible. I don't even want them to consider making him cheap as a result xD

 

HKB is killing blow with (X) multiple wounds. Why they haven't specified that is odd.