AoS Second Edition

So the Branchwraith's summoning is tied to a spell--is this the first "unbindable" summoning we've seen?

 

Summoning from On High. You have a Slann who is off-board (...looking down from far, far, above** in the Azyr...) but he just keeps sending new stuff in every turn...

**(from a realm far, far, away @NIGHTBRINGER , ”...far, far, away...” !)

They’ll never ^ do that. Fits too good with the fluff they wrote.

 

Hence it's vastly less restrictive. The restriction on Slaanesh is essentially "do what you're already supposed to be doing". The only way for a slaaneshi-player to not generate any summoning-points would be to be well, amazingly terrible.

However, if the slaaneshi restriction was say "only heralds generate summoning" they'd have th same issue we currently have.

Anyways, I'm curious how they'l implement our "drawback" for summoning, cuz that'l be what it'l all depend on I guess.

it would be far better than binding it to the specific model though. Prevents us from being forced to just Always field a slann.[/QUOTE]

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/05/25/25th-may-faction-focus-sylvanethgw-homepage-post-3/

 

mm, at least now there's 2 factions where the summoning is restricted to specific models. Shame they did't clarify how the branchwraith works, it could've anwsered a lot of questions for us. The summoning from Alleriella is just a 1-shot ability so that's directly tied to her model anyway so all that's needed as a drawback for that is just a cost-increase for her (if anything) as it's easy enough to predict it's value.

 

I chuckled

 

hush my speling of things is briljant

 

Alleriella* (lol) is 600 points as of now, that's a heavy point cost for that summon. Granted you get anything you want but still lol.

 

Don't know if this was posted before, but apparently the Faction Focus tomorrow (Saturday) will be about Seraphon. This guy predicted the summoning focus 1 hour before it dropped, and the Sylvaneth Faction Focus did mention a look at Endless Spells for tomorrow, which he also correctly predicted. Fingers crossed!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/8lswnp/potential_knight_codex_release_date_leak/

 

I hope he is right! Lol

 

And Engines of the Gods now figure in to summoning!

 

Honestly, this will be so huge for the Engine of the Gods, the biggest drawback it had (rolling 14-17) now has become one of its strenght. We'll have to see the limitations of it though, as in can we really summon anything we want... But I'm really excited nonetheless!

 

Hilariously, both the Engine of the Gods and the Slann Starmaster models have been out of stock at the USA webstore for weeks. And I don't have an Engine of the Gods yet!

 

Same here, ordered mine 3 weeks ago at my local game store but no luck yet

 

Y'know, we're seeing overlapping and possibly contradictory information from the Summoning article and this nifty graphic. In the article, as we talked about upthread, it was intimated that Slann Starmasters (not just Slann, thus excluding Lord Kroak) and Saurus Astrolith Bearers would perform summoning rituals. You'll recall we were talking about whether that meant they both had to be present and working together.

This graphic, however, just says Slann (thus including Lord Kroak) and adds in the Engine of the Gods. If both sources are correct ("correct") then our summoning mechanics just might be very robust indeed!

 

Hopefully we get our focus tomorrow indeed! I want this mystery solved already! Lmao

 

why the hell do the skaven summon clanrats though, that's a tad odd.


Also, have we had an indication for what this means for tzeentch horrors? Cuz that'l still be an interesting one

 

I think they will split still without having to pay points, the FAQd it so if you start a new unit the most you get is 10. I think it's just that one spell? Not sure never play against them

 

Well those filthy abominations had to have a focus sometime unfortunately.

I thought it pretty boring myself.

Nothing that Fyreslayers can’t handle. That terrible character will return to her grave when my forces get to her.