AoS General's Handbook finally announced !!

I wanted to talk about that as well. That Allies thing.

I haven't really checked all armies but it really seems that the only army that can summon us as allies are SCE, and SCE are the only ones we can take as allies.

Lore-wise (from that little info I know) that kinda makes sense I guess, since the Seraphon don't seem to care much about other factions, they just come and kill Chaos if it suits them and then just leave again.
Sigmar seems to be the only one actually talking to them and sometimes cooperating.

From a gameplay point of view it is.... halfway understandable because of a few reasons:
- Seraphon are a vast faction, with basically everything except long range artillery available to us. If we have to do something it is very likely that we have a unit in our army which is suitable for the task. I'll have to check if other big factions such as Tzeentch also have very few allies. Or let me just check Stormcast, they surely don't.... wait... ok SCE have everything... moving on.
- We have very cheap Skinks now, if everyone yould take them many people would, so Skinks everywhere? Probably GW thought that's not desirable. Except for SCE because it is very important that they get everything.
- We can take Stormcast as allies because everyone should play Stormcast because those are the best. Which is obvious of course because they are Stormcast. Ok joke aside, SCE fight for all Order so it makes sense for them.
- Maybe our allegiance abilities are so strong that they would break the game if we could choose certain Order units. We'll see soon I guess.


I don't like how Seraphon are a bit isolated now. I had hoped that we could choose anything except SCE because I don't want to play the poster boys but want to use allies.
But keep in mind we can still play an Order army and get all that. Granted, we cannot use our allegiance abilities then, but depending on how good they are it might be worth it if the ally is great for some list.

Still.... yeah, it doesn't really sound as if we get new units soon.

 

You could do that all the time. Since we didn't have allegiance abilities there weren't many reasons to play pure Seraphon. In the future there might are, which is why I am hopeful for our abilities in the GHB2017.

 

Seraphon vs. Nurgle sounds a bit one-sided to be honest. I know we discussed that a while back and my impression was that we would rip them to shreds when playing halfway well. ...but so do SCE I guess, I would have loved to see Seraphon in such a box. Not going to happen though, the only things I expect in boxes are
- SCE plus one of the following per box:

- Khorne
- Ironjawz
- Nurgle
- FEC
- Tzeentch

 

I don't fully understand I think. Knights and Guards have been Battleline-ifs all the time since the GHB1 was released.

Which units would you like to have as battleline? We have enough IMO. Provided we keep our list pure Seraphon:
Warriors, Skinks, Guards and Knights.
Everyone else is a hero anyway, except Slamanders and Razordons, which would be kinda weird, and flyers which....well, actually it would be awesome to have Rippers as battlelines.

 

Dammit I won't be able to watch it. Guys, please grab a pencil and take notes!

 

Oh and I also read the Slann can teleport TWO units around the table?

 

That and some units can even do more, like Troglodon or Stegadon.