AoS Forbidden Power discussion

There is 1 Nagash player at my store and no one wants to play against him...

Imo bringing Nagash, who is basically a god was a bad idea by GW. Imagine if you could field any of the major Chaos Gods or Sigmar himself. It would break the game..

 

He and Allarielle are the only proper gods right? Though Kroak should overshadow both fluffwise if they ever came around to actually make him do anything beyond sit in his spaceship.

But yeah, it's weird as hell that literall gods have gotten models. I'm curious who thought that'd be a good idea.

 

They could've not made em gods after the end times though.

 

Then make up some fluff as to why they're not super powerfull, put them on par with the most favoured daemons like Kairos that would also have the benefit of explaining how the entire pantheon managed to have so much trouble with the gods of chaos (the pantheon squabbling amongst themselves doesn't really cut it, it's not like chaos presents a united front either with all it's backstabbing and powerstruggles.). Or just make up some nonsense that the models are mere avatars/projections of their respective god's powers as for some reason the gods themselves can't go to the battlefields themselves cuz fluff. There were ways to avoid all this nonsense.

On that note, where are most of the other gods? I know all Geltz has had in AoS is a few throwaway sideways references but I'm not sure about some of the others.

 

That'd still influence the rest of the game. Especially if they have a proper model. It's not like a special character sheet released in white dwarf or something like that.

To be honest a better approach might've been to threat them like the titans in 40K, basicly impossible to field in a "normal" game due to their excessive point costs. Plus that way they can be even more ridiculously OP compared to the average model and Nagash can't accidently be killed by a Lucky skaven

 

Does anyone have the point costs of the Forbidden Power items? I haven't decided to pick it up yet, but points could make a huge difference.

 

If you wait a couple of days I'l have the book and can see

 

The points are on warscroll builder.

Penumbral engine - 100 pts (terrian costs points?)
Lauchon the soulseeker - 60 pts
Shards of Valagharr - 40 pts
Soulscream Bridge - 80 pts
Horrorghast - 60 pts

 

So, given that, is there any reason to buy Forbidden power for us? The spells are expensive for minor buffs/debuffs. The movement is great for non-Seraphon.

I am not sure if I want to spend 100 pts on a terrain piece that I may not get to use due to terrain placement rules.

 

I won't be buying it. The Penumbral Engine Mystic shield might be useful if I'm camping EoTGs or the extra Cmd Pts for a Saurus build. .. But it would guarantee flip to the one I don't want and stay there all game. Lol

 

Only reason i am thinking of Right now is to mount the Penumbral Engine on to a Stegadon or Bastilodon to make a cool unique Version of a Solar Engine/Engine of the Gods

Gr, Imrahil

 

That is a wonderful idea now I'm going to have to buy it just for that

 

That is the reason for most of my buys ... sadly there are even more lovely models i am not able to buy

But for this kind of money I'd buy something else... maybe some new Seraphon models coming up
(fingers crossed)

Gr, Imrahil

 

Isn't it a tad large for that?

And I think the main appeal for us is the book given that the book itself is supposed to have new artifacts and spells .The endless spells are somewhat underwhelming, with the exception of the shards. That one seems like it could be quite usefull.