9th Age 9th Age (beta) out now - check link in first post

They have minor slip ups like that throughout the document. For instance on page 66 under the special rules for Universal Knowledge they state "Cannot be combined with Focus of Mystery". This is extremely strange for a couple of reasons...

1. There is no more Focus of Mystery, they have renamed it "Master of Mystery"
2. Since you can only purchase a single Frog Discipline per Slann, that restriction is completely redundant

It's simply the case that they have made changes and forgot to make updates throughout their document.

 

How is the Steggy nerfed? Compared to the Ancient Stegadon, the new Triceratops....

• +1 leadership
• +1 initiative (although under 8th edition rules, the steggy got to use the initiative 4 of the skink crew)
  
• +1 attack
• 40pts reduction
• lost terror?

 

Now that makes sense, you had me confused there for a moment.

 

I only read PinkTaco's breakdown. But what they have done is overall disappointing. I would prefer to use the 8th book over this one.
How do they justify this change to the Slann without even buffing the Skink Priest? I mean, have they played Lizardmen? Do they understand what it is Lizardmen are supposed to do? Like, how the army plays as a whole. They completely missed the mark, the feel of the army, the fun. The army is missing one of it's biggest selling points. It's incomplete.

What's the reasoning behind removing the smaller steg? Was it supposed to be replaced by the bastiladon? Than at least give the bastiladon stubborn since he not only needs it to fill the roll and should have it as a tank dinosaur anyway. Stegs are arguably as important as the Slann. When you picked Lizardmen, It was probably because you either liked the Slann or the Steg. 8th had it right, LM should be able to fit a steg anywhere in their list, aside from core. It's versatility was one of it's strengths. It didn't need a buff. I would certainly trade that buff for it's versatility back. Until reading their "9th" version, I figured the natural progression was going to be to have the baby steg mountable by a hero, and mountable by the slann.

This book doesn't feel like a 9th edition. More like a version 7.9. It's missing things. Like the designers ignored the past books, the fluff, and the players. It's like AoS again. The betrayal doesn't cut as deep, but it's there.

 

The thing to remember is that these changes are just to tide us over until they can go book by book. They have been taking a lot of feedback, and you can find things in these changes that were a direct result of our feedback.

So, if you don't like something, leave feedback on the site. Hopefully we will have a great army book to look forward to.

 

I don't really think it's my place. I doubt I'll be playing it at all. I was just floored to see the designers miss the basics of what makes Lizardmen, Lizardmen.
Also, I just mentioned the two big LM blasphemies involving the two biggest show pieces of our army. I'm sure they've gotten sufficient feedback regaurding the two already.

At a beta launch, I imagine they would have a pretty good feel for how the game plays and all the armies and just need to do some tweaking here and there. I'd be shocked to find out that they plan to do much more to each army before release on top of balancing.

 

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"Note from authors Please note that this army list is a temporary solution, a place holder for until the army gets a properly updated armybook (with new units, extended magic item lists, more advanced rules, and so on)."

This is just hints. Its a beta.
I think this looks promising for a first draft!

.......not counting that Razordons have gotten from "ok" to "........no......NOOOOOOO!"

BS3
Multipleshots (2D6) ...meaning BS2 before any other modifiers.....

 

oh oh oh!!!
Skinks might not have poison on javelins anymore!
BUT!

• Skink Hunters
• Strength 3
• All models may replace blowpipe with Javelins and shields (free)
• Javelin: Range 12”, Strength (as user+1), Quick to Fire.
  
  NOT a bad substitute!

 

"We are not GW, we will listen"

,- 9th Age Motto!

 

It could be strength 6 with just 1 casting by also using the lore attribute on them.

 

Nope, the attribute is Focused, meaning it can only target a single model

 

Ok everybody. Time to get your anonymous masks on and destroy theirs site with a looot of feedback to the 9th guys about us wanting our slann back! And other things like steggy back in special (even only 1 model in special would do a great deal for me personally).