Eh, they are older than night goblins and skaven, older than the previous skeleton warriors, which were given an update.
Their weapons look kinda crappy, especially the clubs. Plus, their shields are no longer consistent with the modern models. So an update wouldn't be bad. Weird though that they weren't announced earlier though if they're truly being replaced. Maybe they're not getting a full blown update, but simply a repackaged box with the new shields on the sprue or something. "no longer available online" usually indicates it's removed from the range, so at least something is changing. Maybe they finally figured out how to put 20 skinks in a box instead of 24
I know it's slow news currently, but please no status update for every single kit that goes out of stock or whatever. It's always the same when a new Battletome comes out... it's not a surprise Skink refresh this time around, either.
I never asked for new skinks but I would gladly see them updated, I suppose the drawback is that they would likely be put up in price by 28%.
The Blood Bowl stuff is top notch all the way, the others are more hit and miss. I am not a fan of the nose area and jaw structure of the new minis.
Gotta love how the new rules for ossiarchs and soulblight being teased right now are both more fleshed out & seem more powerfull than anything that was teased for us. I do hope they'll make some new articles to show off some of the actually good rules, and not just try to distract us with pretty models.
I'm cautiously optimistic for our book, but GW has never been able to balance Seraphon well, so I would not be surprised to find out that all the focus was put on the new models and lot of the rules will be underwhelming...
I wonder if the change to Scaly Skin in the latest metawatch thing is indicative of anything in the coming tome (you'd hope so since it's out in like... a couple weeks, but they've done weirder things before), I could definitely see it but I do hope not. Coalesced being monsters/saurus vs starborne being skinks and magic is something that i think is a little lame if we're going to have the standard 4-6 subfactions anyway.
The "Scaly Skin" rule was changed to this in the Seraphon errata from last year. I'm not quite sure why it's in reprinted in this Battlescroll? It is called a "battle trait" in the Battlescroll, instead of just a "rule."
Be optimistic! New books are exciting and it's good to cherish that. Soon the book will be out and then it's just the cold light of reality hahaha.
This is a rather interesting thing for 40K; actually attaching leaders to a unit. Honestly, great idea for bodyguard type rules especially for squishier heroes. A lot easier to use than look-out-sir type rules.
It would be an especially interesting trade-off for buffing heroes if they had buffs that did not allow them to buff themselves and in turn the unit they were attatched to. Whether rally would survive as a rule if that were the case is doubtful though.
yeah, it has some potentially very interesting interactions, on top of providing some much needed survivability for minor heroes, while also allowing minor stuff to be a bit more active (e.g. a starpriest attached to a unit can do a little bit of fighting without having to worry about immeadiatly getting murdered). It's also an excellent way to give stuff like Oldbloods & Sunbloods a purpose if attaching them to a minor MSU would turn the combintation into a halfway competent force (instead of the MSU merely being cannonfodder and the foot hero being basicly useless like is so often the case right now).
Honestly, if they got rid of aura buffs and instead either made it a series of "choose one unit within X inches" and "X and any unit X is attached to" rulings, that would be fantastic. Even better if they limit how many heroes can be attached to a given unit.
I am on fence with removing them entirely, but I do think they need to limit it if they remain on non-endless spell models. We as an army have show how easy it is to dump a few buffs on a unit and launch it across the board one way or another. Auras do force the unit to stay near the buffing piece, and that does count for something balance-wise. It could be "<buff> up to x units within x inches for as long as they remain within x inches..."
Anybody else in the mood to graciously accept a full leak of the new battletome? Just to pass the time? lol