AoS Second Edition

Kroak at least has some drawbacks in between it requiring Kroak to get into harm's way & the increasing casting value (plus it's more difficult to cast with a shorter range and less reliable damage, even if you ignore those drawbacks...)

But yeah, it's rather a perfect example of the OP-ness of the SCE. And probably they'l still end up not being able to curbstomp in tournaments as they'l eventually get their wizard assasinated during the first turn by a shadowstrike host or some such and drop out of the running. Leaving them in this weird OP yet somehow not winning tournaments limbo.

 

...for more Stormcast.

 

When do I ever help? I am an agent of Chaos. I sow mistrust and unrest. I am the darkness, I am the shadows.


I want MORE Stormcast!

 

Imho the main issue this spell has is it's massive range & the lack of sight requirements, the damage is actually surprsingly normal (per target..). But thanks to the range an SCE player can now very easily use it to snipe key squishy heroes without any sort of counterplay by just continuously casting and dispelling the spell each turn. Armies build around say several skink heroes supporting it with key-buffs will easily be blasted apart seeing as they have low wounds and no ward save.

The only other real use it has would be to deny an objective. But that's slightly less problematic as the continious damage isn't too terrible. Sturdier stuff or things with a ward-save will still be able to hold on to the objective even without dispelling the spell.

 

What's got my trousers in a twist is that it's a giant comet. Y'know, a space rock. Which is entirely our army's theme and not their army's theme. They get thunder and lightning, we get starlight and space rocks, that was the whole idea. And it's only castable by their wizards, of course, so we can't even pick it from their list as an ally and cast it ourselves.
Giving -1 to hit infantry heroes near healthy units and then dropping this is just favouritism. "No worries Seraphon, now your vital buffing heroes are more survivable! Except against SCE, who can hit all of them at once on turn one and probably kill them. Oh, and it penalises your casting rolls as well."

 

If ‘The Aginor Analysis’ is correct the only thing to do is fight fire with fire and comet with comet. Add a SCE Wizard and CP to your own Army.

To be fair: Sigmar has always had a twin-tailed comet as part of his schtick.

In WFB 6,7,8 about 3/4s of the armies had access to the Comet Spell.

The thing that bugs me is that a 10 inch blast radius is no such thing as a space rock (it's not even a micro comet, nor a cometary fragment) a teensy comet takes out the entire table that you are gaming on, and 25 adjacent tables in the ballroom you were playing in.

A ten inch radius, scaled up to 1:1 scale, is only a 100 foot diameter circle.

100 foot circle is a bit less area than a 500lb Mk82 Bomb. Orders of magnitude smaller than any possible comet.

 

Looks like comet will give a hard time, I wonder if my regular opponent will start including it because he has taken a liking to SCE now. Going to be a repeat of history, will have to consult my local GW manager for advice

 

@pendrake to be even more fair, we were all about the twin tailed comet before sigmar stole it from Sotek! Lmao.
That comet is pretty good. But we can unbind it and unless they get the double turn just lol and walk away from it or teleport away. Maybe leave a Bastiladon in range to laugh at the mortal wounds with its save? The comet hurts their models too right?

 

Indeed, Fyreslayers can, if I'm right in that the same artefact can be used on multiple characters, give as many of their heroes Ash Plume Sigils as they want, so that each one can unbind a spell once per game.

Additionally we could take an allied Runelord or two to be especially mean.

They don't have it all in Azyr...

 

Dread is up. 40 points to summon. With some luck you could do that by turn 3! Lol

 

@Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl there is also the one where you can unbind one spell per turn realm relic. Use it on a magma tunneling Runesmiter, your like 99% going to in range to unbind. Sure you have to roll, but it usable more than once. Take 2 one with the Ash Plume for even more awesome! (For you lol)

 

Nice! I didn't think of that - although this one is realm-specific. Which realm?