AoS General's Handbook finally announced !!

+1 on charge
+1 on save
Jaws attack on a wound roll of six does double damage (which means 2D6 damage!) EDIT: Or in short: "NOM"!
Everyone has -1 to hit when attacking the Dread Saurian
Re-roll charge and save
increase or decrease one dice roll per phase on that unit

I think this is quite near the maximum of buffs you could put on a Dread Saurian when playing pure Seraphon.

 

That only works on heros with the Saurus keyword, so not on the Dread Saurian.

 

They just released the PDF for them along the FAQs!
Dread Saurian 380
Skink Chief stays Edit DAMMIT! Lost Seraphon keyword. Also no Command ability anymore so useless now. . Damn you GW!
Tehenauin renamed
Oxyotl renamed
Jungle Swarms renamed and cheaper but don't get the Seraphon keyword

Dammit so none of them is playable anymore in pitched battles except in a grand alliance Order army.

 

Good news for @NIGHTBRINGER !
Tomb Kings unit lose Deathrattle keyword, also the liche priest loses Deathmages keyword. So not usable anymore for Deathrattle armies. Only mixed Death. Don't know about points yet.

Stonehorns also got nerfed by the FAQ!

Sayl nerfed as well, also some Kharadron units that were OP it seems.

 

Nothing new in the Order FAQ about Seraphon.

 

Can anyone ask on Facebook or so what the he'll they were thinking?
(About keyword changes)
Maybe we can still play Oxyotl?? I'd like to have a clarification on that.

 

Going through the phases of grief and loss now. I loved playing my Skink Chief and I love the model I built and I am sad it was basically hit with a sledgehammer by GW.

Part of that is trying to find facts helping me to accept it is OK that they removed him.
So I did some math and at least for Skinks it looks good.

Before the change we spent 380 points for getting 40 Skinks and the Chief so he could buff them.
Using blowpipes that combo made around 12 wounds each round.
Now we dont have the Chief anymore, but the Skinks have become much cheaper.
So now we spend 200 points for 40 Skinks. They do less damage because we cannot buff their hits anymore, so they only cause around 9 wounds per round now.

Since they are almost just half the price now we can field another 30, AND we dont need that hero slot.

...so basically we are better off now. At least with Skinks.

I also liked to buff Stegadon or a Bastiladon or a Troglodon with him though. That won't be possible anymore. But then those got cheaper as well so their points-to-caused-wounds-ratio actually increased I guess.

I will still miss him though.
Perhaps he found Sotek and becomes a priest now so I will play him as that? Don't know....