What do you guys think about the price of theese first gloomspite releases?
Prices seem to be OK - I expected the Squig Hoppers to be around £20-30, and I knew they were to be in boxes of 10. Squig Herds are a tad more expensive than I thought but still not shocking, and was expecting the Loonking to be £20 as GW seem to think that charging the price for a character to be the same as those of the units they lead is now acceptable
Also the loonshrine feels weird. No battleshock tests near it and a summoning mechanic, but only for stabba's and shoota's. Seems far less impressive than the other faction terrain, and one of the few that I can think of that doesn't work for every goblin army. If you don't have stabba's and shoota's to begin with the summoning mechanic is useless. And given that pure troggoth or pure squig armies are supposed to be viable as well that seems weird.
The Loonshrine rules are pretty good for me as I already have 60 (soon to be 80) ordinary Night Goblins and to be able to both spam them when they die and make them fearless is great for me as, true to their original Fantasy form, they have dreadful morale. I’m just worried that my small Battle for Skull Pass version would be seen as far too small for use in competitive games. In any case, it’s good to see the number of Nettas reduced to 3 per unit so there’s no more full units of Nettas (which has been a tactic advocated on TGA in the past) so things have become more balanced again.
They look good, though I do think they seem a bit heavy on the damage. Even if they're fairly squishy.
As for Squig Hoppers and herders, I think the idea is for them to be squishy but fast and dangerous if they get into melee (read: shoot them with everything if you play Kharadron or Disciples). They can also move through enemy units and deal mortal wounds to them which is great fun, allowing you to bounce them straight towards the enemy’s squishy missile troops and deal mortal wounds to their tough melee units they put in your way (Stormcast are going to be stuffed by this tactic
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I do hope the skaven get something interesting in there. I tried starting an army a little while back. But the lack of a tome & the fact that each subfaction is only really capable of "spam this one unit" did rather ruin that….
But yeah, looks like some of the forgotten 1st edition factions are getting updated. It explicitly states more stuff is coming for the skaven and flesh court.
What factions are left now that need a tome? Free people, "normal" aelves, "normal" ogres. That's all right? Seems like we should be getting close to 1st edition races being updated.
You missed out Dispossessed yet you remembered the Freeguild, but no matter. Certainly this is a good sign that Skaven and Flesh Eater Courts will both be getting tomes (for the Flesh Eaters it’ll be a much-needed update while for Skaven it’ll be the first time they’ve had some love since GW divided them into Pestilens and then all the tomeless clans - I’m guessing that they’ll be getting a Beasts of Chaos type book while Flesh Eaters will remain a separate army from Legions of Nagash), and this almost certainly means GW will start running through other 1st Edition races and those that didn’t get a tome the first time - I imagine this will occur between releasing new factions like Darkoath as smaller releases for when they only have a couple of weeks to release something for AoS.
While there is no specific rota between which Grand Alliance gets stuff, I imagine that a good mix of Order, Chaos and Destruction armies will get some love as part of this, which is great because we’ll hopefully see a good bit more variation on which armies will appear in tournaments - I imagine after Skaven and Flesh Eater Courts, for instance, they’ll most likely decide to return to Order and update Seraphon and Fyreslayers, before they then do Ironjawz, Beastclaw Raiders and Bonesplitterz. I’m certainly hoping they do some sort of Dwarfs VS Greenskins box and subsequent release at some point (either Fyreslayers or Dispossessed vs either Bonesplitterz or Ironjawz) in a similar vein to this to really bring back the classic rivalry from Fantasy. That would be great to see.
