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It's good to see that the rumoured price for the expansions was true. The Shadespire releases are all quite reasonably priced especially for GW products.
They were playing shadespire on warhammer live yesterday. The setup was very good.
There was also an article on the warhammer community site which featured Duncan's converted warband so presumably that will be acceptable in tournaments. (People were asking about this)
I do hope they do the "hero unit" route for AOS compatibility. Have a unit called "Steelheart's Champions", limit them to one per army, give them slightly different rules than normal Liberators, etc. As it is, they're in the slightly awkward position of not being a legal Liberator unit by themselves because the numbers are wrong. A special warscroll that is for the three of them as a special unit would fix that.
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TheWaspinator wrote: I do hope they do the "hero unit" route for AOS compatibility. Have a unit called "Steelheart's Champions", limit them to one per army, give them slightly different rules than normal Liberators, etc. As it is, they're in the slightly awkward position of not being a legal Liberator unit by themselves because the numbers are wrong. A special warscroll that is for the three of them as a special unit would fix that.
Off topic; Did GHB2 or an FAQ do away with understrength units? Because p. 107 of the GHB specifically uses a 3-model liberator unit as the example of being able to field such units.
On topic; It is excellent news to see that the expansions are $30 a pop. That makes a monthly buy reasonable and since they're small batches, painting and building won't be the usual chore.
Hadn't really thought about converting my warbands, but that's a nice idea! Since you will be seeing the same warbands all over the place, it could be nice having your own, unique look. Would probably be nice for your opponent as well, seeing something new.
Really looking forward to getting my box tomorrow, and figuring out how to best go about this..
As far as hiw far GW intends to support this game, I can confirm, there is product support (nice stuff) designed through March 2018.
Monthly prize kits and quarterly prize kits.
Monthlys are unique art versions of cards, quarterly is that, plus a bunch more. Serious shift in quantity, and hopefully a new standard.
That, along with the new teams should be sufficient to keep interest.
Also, the game comes with a packet that says "This is just the beginning..." so there's that to baselessly conjecture over.
Looks like there are going to be two more Warbands released after Spiteclaw's Swarm and The Chosen Axes.
Another Stormcast Warband, The Farstriders lead by Prime Sanson Farstrider. These guys are described just as hunters. Not sure exactly what that entails model or playstyle wise. Looks like the leader has an axe and hand crossbow.
And another Bloodbound Warband Magore's Fiends, lead by Magore Redhand. Sounds like Magore's Fiends are more classic Chaos Warriors wearing plate armor.
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theharrower wrote: Looks like there are going to be two more Warbands released after Spiteclaw's Swarm and The Chosen Axes.
Another Stormcast Warband, The Farstriders lead by Prime Sanson Farstrider. These guys are described just as hunters. Not sure exactly what that entails model or playstyle wise.
And another Bloodbound Warband Magore's Fiends, lead by Magore Redhand. Sounds like Magore's Fiends are more classic Chaos Warriors wearing plate armor.
If true, I would assume The Farstriders are Stormcast Vanguards of some form. Makes total sense. The core set has the 'power armored guys'. Having a 'scout armored guys' team makes sense.
Where did you get info on the Skaven and Dwarf expansions? This is the first time I've heard Spiteclaw's Swarm or The Chosen Axes.
Also... where my Lizardmen at?
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theharrower wrote: Looks like there are going to be two more Warbands released after Spiteclaw's Swarm and The Chosen Axes.
Another Stormcast Warband, The Farstriders lead by Prime Sanson Farstrider. These guys are described just as hunters. Not sure exactly what that entails model or playstyle wise.
And another Bloodbound Warband Magore's Fiends, lead by Magore Redhand. Sounds like Magore's Fiends are more classic Chaos Warriors wearing plate armor.
If true, I would assume The Farstriders are Stormcast Vanguards of some form. Makes total sense. The core set has the 'power armored guys'. Having a 'scout armored guys' team makes sense.
Where did you get info on the Skaven and Dwarf expansions? This is the first time I've heard Spiteclaw's Swarm or The Chosen Axes.
Also... where my Lizardmen at?
It's true. I posted all the Warbands before they were announced earlier in this thread. Names and descriptions of the Warbands are on pages 8 and 9 in the rulebook. I'll post scans when I get home. I know the info is old, but didn't see it posted here.
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Ok, so they are usable in the form of "Heroic units". Thats very cool.
And yes, this is how they SHOULD write all the rules. Separate the fluff from the crunch, to make the crunch as clear as possible. This is how they should write ALL of their rules.
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Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.
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