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Yeah its any thing really that can be summoned. The tourney crowd is already largely poo pooing this though from what I've read the past couple of days because no one wants to spend points for reserves.

Now if this were a free ability you didn't have to pay points for, you'd be seeing some sales of blood thirsters going up.

 auticus wrote:
Yeah its any thing really that can be summoned. The tourney crowd is already largely poo pooing this though from what I've read the past couple of days because no one wants to spend points for reserves.

Now if this were a free ability you didn't have to pay points for, you'd be seeing some sales of blood thirsters going up.

I strongly suspect this ability will be more useful come GHB2

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 auticus wrote:
Yeah its any thing really that can be summoned. The tourney crowd is already largely poo pooing this though from what I've read the past couple of days because no one wants to spend points for reserves.

Now if this were a free ability you didn't have to pay points for, you'd be seeing some sales of blood thirsters going up.

I strongly suspect this ability will be more useful come GHB2

Same here. I'm expecting summoning to get a buff of some sort. The pendulum swung too far the other way when they tried to balance the mechanic in GHB 1.

Hopefully it doesn't go too far back though, that'd be annoying.

I don't want summoning summoning to get to much of a boost (if any). However things like growing units beyond starting size/heavily invested in to get (i.e. Blood Points) should have more leeway if not complete allowance.

Reality is that at 8 Bloodpoints you're looking at an ability that goes off once per game. It might be twice once the battalions come out but currently it'd take some serious work and an obliging opponent to get it off twice.

 Hulksmash wrote:
I don't want summoning summoning to get to much of a boost (if any). However things like growing units beyond starting size/heavily invested in to get (i.e. Blood Points) should have more leeway if not complete allowance.

Reality is that at 8 Bloodpoints you're looking at an ability that goes off once per game. It might be twice once the battalions come out but currently it'd take some serious work and an obliging opponent to get it off twice.

16 min sized bloodreaver units would only take a mere 960 points...

The GHB2 could have changes yes, but we are still many months away from that for now.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
I don't want summoning summoning to get to much of a boost (if any). However things like growing units beyond starting size/heavily invested in to get (i.e. Blood Points) should have more leeway if not complete allowance.

Reality is that at 8 Bloodpoints you're looking at an ability that goes off once per game. It might be twice once the battalions come out but currently it'd take some serious work and an obliging opponent to get it off twice.

16 min sized bloodreaver units would only take a mere 960 points...

And in his own way that player paid his point by handicapping himself. Also 14 min sized unit is 980. 16 would be 1120

 auticus wrote:
The GHB2 could have changes yes, but we are still many months away from that for now.

Yeah but if a few tourney players want to whine about a detail they probably wouldn't use unless it was OP, who cares?


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 Hulksmash wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
I don't want summoning summoning to get to much of a boost (if any). However things like growing units beyond starting size/heavily invested in to get (i.e. Blood Points) should have more leeway if not complete allowance.

Reality is that at 8 Bloodpoints you're looking at an ability that goes off once per game. It might be twice once the battalions come out but currently it'd take some serious work and an obliging opponent to get it off twice.

16 min sized bloodreaver units would only take a mere 960 points...

And in his own way that player paid his point by handicapping himself. Also 14 min sized unit is 980. 16 would be 1120

Oh did they go up to 70 points? Was unaware. At any rate, I'd expect to see armies running 16 min-bloodreavers sweeping the tourney scene soon enough!

*sarcasm*