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Well they need to be on the board for the benefit to work.
Right, but the Soulscryer and Tidecaster can be off the board and then come in at the end of any of your Movement Phases.
Since the Command Ability is issued during your Hero Phase(which is after Movement), you can keep those two safe for the nastiness.
(hero phase is before movement in AoS)
STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME FEEL BAD!
Shows how much AoS I've played recently though. Idoneth are (pun totally intended...) getting me to dive back in. I'm nothing without my little cheatsheet.
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NinthMusketeer wrote: Hopefully the battletome will tide you over until all the models are released.
I did a Battletome, shipwreck, and 2 boxes of Thralls for week 1. Going to do Reavers and an Akhelian General week 2. Not sure if I want to run Ionrach or not(they'd make my Scourge Privateers hella nice though!).
I'm guessing week 3 will be the Ishorann characters(Soulrender, Tidecaster, Soulscryer) and week 4 will be the Akhelian stuff(Eels and Allopex) while week 5 will be the Leviadon.
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obsidiankatana wrote: Leviadon is Akhelian stuff. But that still sounds like a believable timeline to me.
Ehhh...it's kinda wonky as they've shown us that Leviadons have the Akhelian keyword but they've acted like they consider it to "not" be an Akhelian unit--if that makes sense?
NinthMusketeer wrote: Hopefully the battletome will tide you over until all the models are released.
I did a Battletome, shipwreck, and 2 boxes of Thralls for week 1.
Going to do Reavers and an Akhelian General week 2. Not sure if I want to run Ionrach or not(they'd make my Scourge Privateers hella nice though!).
I'm guessing week 3 will be the Ishorann characters(Soulrender, Tidecaster, Soulscryer) and week 4 will be the Akhelian stuff(Eels and Allopex) while week 5 will be the Leviadon.
Sounds like the release will be making waves through all of next month.
NinthMusketeer wrote: Hopefully the battletome will tide you over until all the models are released.
I did a Battletome, shipwreck, and 2 boxes of Thralls for week 1.
Going to do Reavers and an Akhelian General week 2. Not sure if I want to run Ionrach or not(they'd make my Scourge Privateers hella nice though!).
I'm guessing week 3 will be the Ishorann characters(Soulrender, Tidecaster, Soulscryer) and week 4 will be the Akhelian stuff(Eels and Allopex) while week 5 will be the Leviadon.
Sounds like the release will be making waves through all of next month.
We're not allowed to do these anymore, remember the first thread got shut down because of them...
I'm having a hard time coming up with a cool basing scheme for mine. I'm doing a dark green cloth, bronze/copper for the Namarti's metals and silver/gold for the Akhelians. Gold for the Isharann. Thinking about red or blue tattooed whorls and swirls on the Namarti.
NinthMusketeer wrote: Hopefully the battletome will tide you over until all the models are released.
I did a Battletome, shipwreck, and 2 boxes of Thralls for week 1.
Going to do Reavers and an Akhelian General week 2. Not sure if I want to run Ionrach or not(they'd make my Scourge Privateers hella nice though!).
I'm guessing week 3 will be the Ishorann characters(Soulrender, Tidecaster, Soulscryer) and week 4 will be the Akhelian stuff(Eels and Allopex) while week 5 will be the Leviadon.
Sounds like the release will be making waves through all of next month.
We're not allowed to do these anymore, remember the first thread got shut down because of them...
I'm having a hard time coming up with a cool basing scheme for mine. I'm doing a dark green cloth, bronze/copper for the Namarti's metals and silver/gold for the Akhelians. Gold for the Isharann. Thinking about red or blue tattooed whorls and swirls on the Namarti.
Thoughts?
Blue will give it a very ocean/water theme but I don't think it would actually look good. IMO red is the better option as the contrast will make them stand out and add strong accent color to the paint scheme.
As for puns, I'm sure the mods will be caught in a riptide on that subject since there's such support for them.
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NinthMusketeer wrote: Blue will give it a very ocean/water theme but I don't think it would actually look good. IMO red is the better option as the contrast will make them stand out and add strong accent color to the paint scheme.
Yeah, trying to decide if just do a "red" or "RED"...
Also can't decide on whorls/Celtic styled swirls and knotwork or if I want to do something more Pacific Islander styled.
screamer pink, wash carroburg crimson, with a more red-tinted highlight could work for a more subtle red look. As opposed to doing evil sunz scarlet or going bright. The basing on these is also tricky. For me the eavy metal brown basing with grass just doesn't look right with the coral and fishies on the bases. I'm thinking about using one of the grey or more dull basing pastes, going for an ocean floor look.
Thargrim wrote: screamer pink, wash carroburg crimson, with a more red-tinted highlight could work for a more subtle red look. As opposed to doing evil sunz scarlet or going bright. The basing on these is also tricky. For me the eavy metal brown basing with grass just doesn't look right with the coral and fishies on the bases. I'm thinking about using one of the grey or more dull basing pastes, going for an ocean floor look.
I totally agree. I don't like the one-basing-fits-all approach normally and it looks particularly bad on Idoneth. I wish GW would sea how basing variety would really improve army appeal.
Thargrim wrote: screamer pink, wash carroburg crimson, with a more red-tinted highlight could work for a more subtle red look. As opposed to doing evil sunz scarlet or going bright. The basing on these is also tricky. For me the eavy metal brown basing with grass just doesn't look right with the coral and fishies on the bases. I'm thinking about using one of the grey or more dull basing pastes, going for an ocean floor look.
I totally agree. I don't like the one-basing-fits-all approach normally and it looks particularly bad on Idoneth. I wish GW would sea how basing variety would really improve army appeal.
I'm actually of the opinion that I like the normal basing. They bring the Ethersea with them, but from all indications it's not a real "sea" but rather an intersection between their reality and ours.
Sadly no. By the time I got down there they were practically sold out of everything deepkin. Only 1 sea avatar, 1 high king and a handful of the sunken sinks left. Plus a few tomes. Which is actually a great sign for both the deepkin and AoS in general, or in my area at least.
Sadly no. By the time I got down there they were practically sold out of everything deepkin. Only 1 sea avatar, 1 high king and a handful of the sunken sinks left. Plus a few tomes. Which is actually a great sign for both the deepkin and AoS in general, or in my area at least.
King comes out next week, not this week. Do you mean the Accountant?
A lot of Thralls were being bought today to make Mandrakes at my shop. I was one of maybe two who bought it just for the Idoneth.
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So glad GW killed off the old Warhammer World so we could have underwater elves with strange names, no souls, riding turtles and shipwrecks that looks like they belong in a fish aquarium....
Shame we didn't just keep the boring old Dark Elves hate everyone, High Elves are arrogant and rude, and Wood Elves are just rednecks of Elfkind...
Also, the Idoneth are a pretty good callback to the Sea Elves of the Warhammer Fantasy universe seeing as how they existed there too. We didn't have the Namarti or Leviadons, admittedly, but Sea Elves existed.
Rolsheen wrote: So the Akhelian King is equipped with a "King's Shield" which does what? Not a weapon, not an ability (Like Volturnos's High King's Shield)
It gives him a 3+ save. If the king uses the falchion he doesn't have the shield's effect and thus the save is downgraded to a 4+, but his default status is the use of the shield.
So finished going through the battletome. Pretty vood overall, a few things that I can see are a bit better/worse in the artifact/spells department but overall well rounded. Battalions are decent. It looks like taking an enclave is also part of allegiance rather than a side option, which is interesting.
The one issue I am seeing is the Soulrender being too strong at that point cost with the ability to bring back models so easily and allegiance making it difficult to snipe. I strongly suspect Mor'Phann render spam is going to be be a cheese list for Idoneth.
But overall another really good battletome release.
Rolsheen wrote: So the Akhelian King is equipped with a "King's Shield" which does what? Not a weapon, not an ability (Like Volturnos's High King's Shield)
It gives him a 3+ save. If the king uses the falchion he doesn't have the shield's effect and thus the save is downgraded to a 4+, but his default status is the use of the shield.
Rolsheen wrote: So the Akhelian King is equipped with a "King's Shield" which does what? Not a weapon, not an ability (Like Volturnos's High King's Shield)
It gives him a 3+ save. If the king uses the falchion he doesn't have the shield's effect and thus the save is downgraded to a 4+, but his default status is the use of the shield.
Where does it say this?
It's an assumption based off the rules provided. It doesn't explicitly say it provides a 3+ save, but when your Akhelian King draws his falchion he subtracts one from his save roll. Pretty reasonable to suggest that's because he has put his shield away for that phase.
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