newbis wrote: LunarSol wrote:
New themes are the planned release structure for MK3. I believe starting in October (July/August/Sept are Grymkin releases) we'll see this roll out, with Cygnar getting the Gravediggers theme along with the release of Siege2 and some more Trencher stuff. The idea is that all the new Cygnar models for the year will be out then as well. Either October or November will see Trolls get the Northkin theme, which presumably means Borka3 or something along those lines and a bit more ice/fire in Trolls.
No theme list ever devised will make Borka2 playable. I wish they'd spend more time fixing obviously broken stuff than just patching over mediocre units with themes.
Borka2 has never been in bad in practice as he looks on paper. Battle Charged is a strong spell in general and his feat lets you play very aggressively quite safely. He's interesting to run with Rok and a bunch of Slag trolls that can really do some impressive work with their counter charges. His biggest problems are that Doomie3 and now Ragnor compete for the time walk nature of his feat favorably and don't need to be in as much danger to contribute and he above all other casters suffers from the limitations of the krielstone that have been made much worse in MK3.
I'm less curious of what the theme force will do for him as the models released alongside it. He's always been a little desperate for new Northkin stuff that doesn't rely on his spell to make his feat work and more stuff that's immune to cold would be a huge bonus. The theme force could really help by giving him something similar to the
WG theme with Advance move on his battlegroup and something to protect him. Alternatively, some Fury support like Fury starting on the stone (which honestly, should just be a thing and not a theme bonus) or something like Whelps gaining serenity.
Most likely though we'll see some sort of extra rule given to Northkin models, since that would apply uniquely to him as well as Champions that Skaaldi is attached to. No idea what that could be, but it provides a lot of room for him to personally benefit from the theme. Alternatively, giving the bonus to things immune to cold specifically gives him a ton of unique interactions, but pretty much guarantees you won't see the theme useful with anyone else.