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 auticus wrote:
First Blood's next version is being playtested now. Totally different engine.

oh that's interesting man. Are you allowed to offer any hints at all of potential changes to be expected??

Details no; cannot go over those. When it comes out I will happily go over my thoughts on my conquest channel on youtube though.

I'm hoping it shapes out great because I love weaving in skirmish scale battles with my main battles. I wrote a skirmish system for conquest before the first first-blood for campaign - attaching here.

A couple of the scenarios here made its way to their scenario contest and won - I *think* those will be released in an "official" scenario pack.

Rihgu wrote:
Nords are going to be waiting until Q3-Q4 for new stuff since they got so many recent releases. Same for Spires.

Well that should give me time to get what i have and what is still to come put together at least .

Had three different orders arrive Today.So happy about the Nord faction.The Huscarl miniatures are really well detailed and great figures in general.The sculpting seems to be getting better all of the time.Got one made-up along with a Troll ( I thought they might have been bigger).

Going to have to put the Dweghom away to concentrate on the Nords.

Also ordered the Conquest Companion book to read about the setting.

Watched/listened to some of Aticus's video's.Shame the Nord player forgot to deploy him Giants until later on in the game.

Been flicking through the rule book which came with the two player starter set.Some very nice artwork in it.Is that a picture of a Werewolf at around page 58 or so?

1.5.1 rules dropped and hoo boy does it feel like they took Nords down a peg too far. Dweghom deserve the bump up but it feels like Dweghom are going to ignore objective play in the opposite direction and go for tabling via ranged attacks every game which seems poor for overall game health.

W'adrhun, Spires, and 100k changes seem fine and mostly neutral that I've looked at.

100k - longbowmen got volley 3. I know what my next 100k hobby kit is going to be doing.

 auticus wrote:
100k - longbowmen got volley 3. I know what my next 100k hobby kit is going to be doing.

UUUUGGGH! So many more ranged units for my Hunters to have to compete with. I'm already dreading the "Chapter Mage with Restricted Crossbowmen" now I have to worry about Longbowmen who even at short range outrange me by 1"?? Darn!

I dont keep Underspire logs anymore but here are the unit changes I saw:

HUNDRED KINGDOMS
Officer - add Militia and Militia Bowmen to Mainstay
Mounted Noble Lord - add brutal impact (2)
Priest - added Cleave 1, Holy Fire from 25 to 30 points
Mage - Water from 40 to 55 points, add Court Squires to Mainstay, add Crossmow mercs as restricted

Standard of Steel 65 drop to 50
INdomitable Plate 25 to 15
Mask of Eaklides 10 to 5
The Unwrought 10 to 5
House Colors 10 to 20
Wedge 20 to 30
Laurean Lance - characte re-roll failed to hit rolls when making impact hits and gains Brutal Impact +1

Longbowmen - Volley 2 to 3
Gilded Legion - Clash from 2 to 3


SPIRES
Lineage Highborn from 4 to 6 attacks
Pheromancer, Siphon Strength from 45 to 25, Accelerated Hibernation from 35 to 25, Pheromantic Drive from 35 to 25, Induced Vigor from 25 to 15, Pheromantic COmpulusion from 25 to 15

Assassin - from 80 to 90

Chameleonic Epidermis - 40 pts
Architects Touch from 30 to 25
Plaguelord from 40 to 30
Learned in the Occult - removed
Magus - removed
Cautious Casting - removed
Focused - removed
Stryx - clash from 1 to 2
Vanguard Clone Infiltrators from 180 to 195
Marksmen Clones from 180 to 165
Brute Drones - add Oblivious rule
Centaur Avatara - from 165 to 180


DWEGHOM
Tempered Steelshaper - supremacy Living Metal - heal each regiment from 4 to 6 wounds
Hold Raegh - supremacy changed. Hold Thanes go from changing their weight to medium to gain Hardened(1)

Flame Berserkers - go from Aura of Death to Aura of Death (1)
Hold Warriors - Herald of Stone from 50 to 30
Fireforged gain strong arm
Dragonslayers from 225 to 210, and add Fiend Hunter special rule
Hold Thanes - move from heavy to medium
Inferno Automata - move from Evasion 1 to Evasion 2, gain Aura of Death (2), gain Fluid Formation


NORDS
Blooded Call of the Hunt - cleaned up language
Jarl - reinforcement rolls modified by -1
Blooded - up from 70 to 90
Jarl - up from 60 to 70, Defense up from 2 to 3
Shaman up from 35 to 50 - doesn't pay points for spells anymore and knows them all
Jarngreiper from 25 to 20
The Hunt's Instinct Mastery from 15 to 10
Headhunter Mastery from 30 to 20
Curse of the Vargr - from 5 to 10

Stalkers - from 18 to 20" range
Huskarls - from 135 to 150,
Trolls - from 70 to 80 points per additional stand
Fenr Beastpack from 105 to 120
Ugr from 150 to 165
Mountain Jotnar from 16 to 14 wounds

WADRHUN
Learned in the occult - removed
Blooded from 130 to 115, Aberration from 35 to 20
Slingers from 160 to 145, M from 5 to 6, Bullet Carrier from 50 to 25

Most of the unit point changes were what I had suggested on my youtube as well - so needless to say I'm overly positive about this balance update and its good to see others drawing similar or same conclusions based on their own methods of determining point values.

Fireforged got Strong Arm? Do they throw their bazookas now?

Nah, their bazookas just don't have a damage fall off rate! They're hitscan now.

Ordered all of the special edition this year... they shipped finally. Looking forward to getting to the noble lord and tournament champion for campaign in 2022.

 auticus wrote:
Ordered all of the special edition this year... they shipped finally. Looking forward to getting to the noble lord and tournament champion for campaign in 2022.

How many special editions have been released this Year and what others have been released in previous Years?

Placed another order for more figures.Nords,Dweghom and Spires coming along nicely.Still been making up the figures.Got three more Huscarl done Today so now have one stand done .

There have been two rounds. Last years and this years.

Seems like a lot of them are sold-out now.Like the Nord one.

Yep they were limited run. I bought doubles of everything to give away for prizes on the underspire when I was running that or for campaign prizes.

I still have a few left over I plan on donating to the local vanguard here for campaign finale awards.

Other than that you have to hope ebay is kind.

Just found out/realized that if I take a Scion of Conquest with Mantle of the Devoted in a huge block of Blooded, I can have near constant E2 on my flurrying infantry.

Activate Scion (place token), Crescendo (place token) into Blooded (chant Conquest tier 2 because Fanatic), enjoy +3" to Marches and +1E until next activation!

Got the Troll unit finished being built Today.Not the easiest to rank up on the bases.They would work really well for 15mm scale games as Giants.
Next Unit to complete will be the Huscarls.

My veteran huscarls for campaign.

Got a (free) copy of the 1.5 companion, enjoying reading through the fluff right now.

So we know that Old Dominion, Weaver Courts, and City States are the next 3 factions out of the gate, but I'm guessing "the Quiet" (which I'm guessing are the dark elves to the Spires high elves and the weavers wood elves - although I suspect the spires are actually the dark elves in this story) are going to be one of the factions after that, representing the Exile laborer and warrior castes that disappeared way back when.

The Quiet are the High Elves and the Spires are the Dark Elves equivalents in this setting .

 auticus wrote:
My veteran huscarls for campaign.

These are awesome! Are they raiders with Chaos warrior helmets or is that what a huskarl looks like without the cape?

The Quiet are the High Elves and the Spires are the Dark Elves equivalents in this setting .

That was my vibe too.

Rihgu wrote:

 auticus wrote:
My veteran huscarls for campaign.

These are awesome! Are they raiders with Chaos warrior helmets or is that what a huskarl looks like without the cape?

From what I can see these are Huscarls with CW helmets and without their fur capes. And shields are not original too.

They are huscarls mixed with chaos warrior heads and also chaos warrior weapons are in there, with spartan shields.

The spires are definitely dark elf inspired, the Weavers wood elf, and the Quiet high elf. Confirmed in one of their talks on the factions from 2020.

Nice work on the veteran Huscarls.Shields from the Scibor range?

Yep. Scibor shields. I'm finishing up the third stand tonight, should have finished pictures soon I need to get to work on my longbowmen for campaign and start working on my tournament champion and limited ed noble lord.

Did you get the third stand finished Auticus?
Got the third base of figures for the Raiders done Today including the standard.Shame you dont get more weapon options in the set.

Indeed I did. Posted to my instagram

Started my 100k longbowmen now. Gotta get 3 stands done before end of January for our campaign day.

Longbowman test model - gotta get 3 stands done by end of month as we start our campaign!

Nice looking unit of Huscarls.I was wondering what the Heads from the Frostgrave Barbarians would look like on them.Need to find my box of them to see how they fit.
Archer looks good.Is that a standard head?
Which force are you using in the campaign then?

Yep archer is 100% kit as given.

Frostgrave heads I think will be a bit too small. The chaos warrior heads are already a bit too small and they are heroic 28 scale.

I'm going to be rolling with 100 kingdoms in the campaign while building up my nords more and old dominion.

I was looking at the Greyjoy figures the other-day and one unit would work well for the Nords.
If i remember correctly they are quite large figures.