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ERJAK wrote:

Apples and oranges. The usability of the dice is very different. Sisters have A LOT of d6 damage and d6 shot weapons they'd be very useful for, as well as things like overwatch and invul saves.

Also, correct me if i'm wrong but I'm pretty sure destiny dice can't be used in mortal wound rolls so how are you spending 6 in one magic phase? Especially if going second? Failing spellcasts isn't really something Tzeentch worries about.


Damage rolls and overwatch on melta and vehicle saving throws would probably be the most influential for a sisters's force. Otherwise, it's an army that relies on volume of fire, so a few miracle dice don't count for much.

And no, it can't be used for Mortal Wound rolls in AoS. Mostly I used dice to guarantee spells going off once I exhaust the opponent's counterspelling. Even Tzeentch can roll low, there are plenty of spells that cast on 8 or 9, and turn one spellcasting is so vital I'd rather not leave the big spells to chance.


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Hoc Est Bellum wrote:
 John Prins wrote:
The more I think about it, the less impactful Miracle Dice are going to be.

Reason? I play Disciples of Tzeentch and you start the game with 9 dice in the bank. I often spend 4-6 of those in turn one, because if I don't I might not get much of a turn two or any turn three at all. Most of those are spent on spellcasting, which are often quite powerful in AoS, especially for Tzeentch.

Sisters are starting with maybe 2-3 at the start of turn one, depending on choices? And they don't have psykers handing out 4-6 mortal wounds per power. So Sisters don't have good synergy with this particular mechanic.


As far as I'm aware, we don't know how many Faith the Sisters will start with; the only information we have is on how to gain them. So maybe it's 9 again. Maybe it scales with Batallions like CP.

But even if we start with very few, it seems like Sisters have a much easier time generating them and we might not have a cap on the amount we can store.

As for having no synergy, that's just daft. Anyone who rolls dice has synergy with the mechanic, let alone a faction with D6 damage weapons available to every squad.


I didn't say they had NO synergy.

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JWBS wrote:

I'm not going to re-read the lunacy that is the last few pages of this thread, but I'd be very surprised if anyone actually said that. Even that one guy banging on about how relatively difficult it might be for an Inquisitor to acquire power armour, I don't think even that guy said that.
 
   
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 Lord Damocles wrote:
RIP Argent Shroud.

Martyred Lady is so ludicrously better it's almost comical.


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How? I mean, ok, Celestine is a must. But gaining a couple of miracle dicr and a situational +1 to hit (How many times a unit survives being shot in a MSU sister army?) doesnt seem that much more powerfull than advancing with all of your army all the time without repercusion.

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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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Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.

 
   
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 Galas wrote:
advancing with all of your army all the time without repercusion.

That was never a problem with flamers, only -1 to hit with melta. I guess it could be useful for bolters and heavy weapons, though heavy weapons will still hit at -1. The way it is phrased, you can't use the dirty trick of not moving but still advancing to avoid the -1 ^^'.

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I was stroling through the bulletins and saw this artwork:

Wanted to post link or image here, but cant do that as a new user, so you need to go to BSB:15 and check the last artwork in this article, with sister holding shield here (wchich also suggests that maybe we will get options to give celestians or some other units like canoness prostigium protectivas?)

Don't you guys think that this shows what might be the battle sanctum?
Something like the old Grail Reliquae for Bretonnia?

Also, Celestine is not a must, that's now a warlord trait and i bet you can put it on every warlord, not just celestine
   
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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
 Galas wrote:
advancing with all of your army all the time without repercusion.

That was never a problem with flamers, only -1 to hit with melta. I guess it could be useful for bolters and heavy weapons, though heavy weapons will still hit at -1. The way it is phrased, you can't use the dirty trick of not moving but still advancing to avoid the -1 ^^'.


No one runs flamers and -1 to hit on melta was massive.

This increases the effective range of stormbolters and heavy flamers by D6 which can be huge, especially coming out of vehicles.

OoML is good, but I doubt you'll want your entire army to have it.


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Mc_Link wrote:
I was stroling through the bulletins and saw this artwork:

Wanted to post link or image here, but cant do that as a new user, so you need to go to BSB:15 and check the last artwork in this article, with sister holding shield here (wchich also suggests that maybe we will get options to give celestians or some other units like canoness prostigium protectivas?)

Don't you guys think that this shows what might be the battle sanctum?
Something like the old Grail Reliquae for Bretonnia?

Also, Celestine is not a must, that's now a warlord trait and i bet you can put it on every warlord, not just celestine


Celestine is pretty much always a must, one way or another.

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ERJAK wrote:

This increases the effective range of stormbolters and heavy flamers by D6 which can be huge, especially coming out of vehicles.


Heavy flamer units and Seraphim are the biggest winners from AS, but its a solid army-wide benefit.
   
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Sterling191 wrote:
ERJAK wrote:

This increases the effective range of stormbolters and heavy flamers by D6 which can be huge, especially coming out of vehicles.


Heavy flamer units and Seraphim are the biggest winners from AS, but its a solid army-wide benefit.


I actually totally forgot about seraphim, that's a good point.


 
   
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Who butchered the title of the thread, by the way? It looks bad like this /sadface :(.

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Got to give GW credit, rules seem solid and very fluffy.

While at first glance I thout martyred lady was superior to shroud, after thinking about it they are both strong but in different ways.

Martyred lady will force you to run big squads as you will not get the benefit if you go MSU at all. Extra miricle dice is good, but to avoid sticky morale loses you might be using them to stop your Retributor squad from failing morale. Still, glad it stacks with a character.
Shroud will give a lot of speed while maintaining firepower. Seraphim with inferno pistols just got scarier, while flamers went much better.

Srill,horses for courses. I'm just going to do a custom order and pick which one I fancy for a change.

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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Who butchered the title of the thread, by the way? It looks bad like this /sadface :(.


That was me, there's too much stuff too fast now to keep the title up to date.

How about I just do [Adepta Sororitas] Tons of crap-Every Page

 
   
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 Dr. Mills wrote:
Got to give GW credit, rules seem solid and very fluffy.

While at first glance I thout martyred lady was superior to shroud, after thinking about it they are both strong but in different ways.

Martyred lady will force you to run big squads as you will not get the benefit if you go MSU at all. Extra miricle dice is good, but to avoid sticky morale loses you might be using them to stop your Retributor squad from failing morale. Still, glad it stacks with a character.
Shroud will give a lot of speed while maintaining firepower. Seraphim with inferno pistols just got scarier, while flamers went much better.

Srill,horses for courses. I'm just going to do a custom order and pick which one I fancy for a change.


It seems like opposite to me. +1 to hit on the 1-2 sisters you have left doesn't seem quite as valuable as cheap miracle dice+bullet sponges. OoML could see large units of retributors be good but giving a severely depleted battle sister squad +1 to hit is pretty meh.

It'll also benefit msu transport list due to exploding transports being one of the few reliable ways to kill only 1 sister.


 
   
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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
That was me, there's too much stuff too fast now to keep the title up to date.

How about I just do [Adepta Sororitas] Tons of crap-Every Page

Maybe just the release date of the box?

Everything else kind of is just window-dressing until we have actual release dates for them, in a way.

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 Galas wrote:


How? I mean, ok, Celestine is a must. But gaining a couple of miracle dicr and a situational +1 to hit (How many times a unit survives being shot in a MSU sister army?) doesnt seem that much more powerfull than advancing with all of your army all the time without repercusion.


plasma
sub in 1's with mdice on purpose
pick up the model the next turn if you bought a nurse
free +1 to hit

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 Grundz wrote:
 Galas wrote:


How? I mean, ok, Celestine is a must. But gaining a couple of miracle dicr and a situational +1 to hit (How many times a unit survives being shot in a MSU sister army?) doesnt seem that much more powerfull than advancing with all of your army all the time without repercusion.


plasma
sub in 1's with mdice on purpose
pick up the model the next turn if you bought a nurse
free +1 to hit


Not many Plasmas in a Sisters army....

If the Chapter tactics work on vehicles (and thats an if as GW is massively inconsistant with this) not counting as advancing is handy.

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Sisters don’t get plasma usually, unless you mean the Sgts.

 warboss wrote:
Is there a permanent stickied thread for Chaos players to complain every time someone/anyone gets models or rules besides them? If not, there should be.
 
   
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Love it all.

Too bad that is that the floating pulpit is a unique character. Imagine if it was a Elite or Fast Attack choice - you could have three of them moving up behind your advancing sisters. :-)

 
   
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And the Canoness seems to have plasma options on either sculpt.

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
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AngryAngel80 wrote:
Spoiler:
tneva82 wrote:
 Togusa wrote:
 insaniak wrote:
I love everything except the standard bearers. They're nicely detailed, but the standards themselves are stupidly large... Even with power armor, carrying around a chunk of marble the size of your own body stuck on the end of a stick seems impractical even by 40k standards.

The flying pulpit is all sorts of awesome, though. I'm picturing a boat-shaped skimmer made up of Grimnar's sleigh for the front and the pulpit for the stern...


The pulpit looks as dumb as the Space Wolf Santa. No one is going to play thing thing on the table.

I wish GW would stop wasting precious design space on ugly looking models that never see the light of day....


Care to make a bet over that statement?


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AngryAngel80 wrote:
 Thargrim wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:
 Thargrim wrote:
It will probably be 40-50 bucks though, for a basic hq model.
As much as we (justifiably) complain about the price, I think that going back to multi-part/multi-option HQs will only do the game a world of good. So I'll take higher price for more options any day.


True, but when you have to decide between a basic HQ or a brand new PS4 game then things start to feel a bit weird IMO. Maybe i'll be wrong though, and the sprue will be really compact and cleverly arranged and it won't cost much more than a primaris captain/lieutenant. Most of the extra bits just go in a bits bag for me, this is why duel kits like the skitarii infiltrators bugged me, lots of leftovers that I just don't need.


I think we already see the writing on the wall with the costs, the floating tower will end up like 90$$ USD. The Sisters box will be at least the same cost as Primaris Marines troop boxes, the exorcist dual kit will be same price as the impulsor marine tank, the HQs will be around 40$ USD. Just look to the marine line for like models to guess on price of these releases.


With GW upping cost of new releases we'll be lucky if they are marine level prices.


If they are more than marine prices, aside from the few die hards of the sisters supporters I think that would lead to many sister armies being very small and dreams of people picking them up being DoA at that point.


That model is guaranteed to be DoA.

Instead of wasting money on it, I'll be buying more tanks for my sisters, rather than this thing.
   
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 Togusa wrote:
AngryAngel80 wrote:
Spoiler:
tneva82 wrote:
 Togusa wrote:
 insaniak wrote:
I love everything except the standard bearers. They're nicely detailed, but the standards themselves are stupidly large... Even with power armor, carrying around a chunk of marble the size of your own body stuck on the end of a stick seems impractical even by 40k standards.

The flying pulpit is all sorts of awesome, though. I'm picturing a boat-shaped skimmer made up of Grimnar's sleigh for the front and the pulpit for the stern...


The pulpit looks as dumb as the Space Wolf Santa. No one is going to play thing thing on the table.

I wish GW would stop wasting precious design space on ugly looking models that never see the light of day....


Care to make a bet over that statement?


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AngryAngel80 wrote:
 Thargrim wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:
 Thargrim wrote:
It will probably be 40-50 bucks though, for a basic hq model.
As much as we (justifiably) complain about the price, I think that going back to multi-part/multi-option HQs will only do the game a world of good. So I'll take higher price for more options any day.


True, but when you have to decide between a basic HQ or a brand new PS4 game then things start to feel a bit weird IMO. Maybe i'll be wrong though, and the sprue will be really compact and cleverly arranged and it won't cost much more than a primaris captain/lieutenant. Most of the extra bits just go in a bits bag for me, this is why duel kits like the skitarii infiltrators bugged me, lots of leftovers that I just don't need.


I think we already see the writing on the wall with the costs, the floating tower will end up like 90$$ USD. The Sisters box will be at least the same cost as Primaris Marines troop boxes, the exorcist dual kit will be same price as the impulsor marine tank, the HQs will be around 40$ USD. Just look to the marine line for like models to guess on price of these releases.


With GW upping cost of new releases we'll be lucky if they are marine level prices.


If they are more than marine prices, aside from the few die hards of the sisters supporters I think that would lead to many sister armies being very small and dreams of people picking them up being DoA at that point.


That model is guaranteed to be DoA.

Instead of wasting money on it, I'll be buying more tanks for my sisters, rather than this thing.


Good to see you've been reading the thread, Togusa, where you seem to be the only person with so extreme a reaction to this model.

Tell me, why do you think it'll be DOA?

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
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A.T. wrote:
Well, there go the castles. No more 4++ saves for vehicles.

Looks like a conversion rate of 1 command point for 1 miracle dice. Not worth it as far as I can tell, unless there are more powerful effects that require miracle dice to fuel.

2 CPs to turn multimeltas into inferior lascannons. Entirely reliant on the cost of the multimeltas IMO.

Litanies of faith - handy if a cheap item or character ability, don't see it as a relic.

Argent shroud - no

Martyred lady - two potentially useful abilities. Pretty much guaranteed 1-3 miracle dice each turn.


Argent Shroud looks fething amazing, that's what I'll be running as I get to double my move and still shoot each turn.


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 Dysartes wrote:
 Togusa wrote:
AngryAngel80 wrote:
Spoiler:
tneva82 wrote:
 Togusa wrote:
 insaniak wrote:
I love everything except the standard bearers. They're nicely detailed, but the standards themselves are stupidly large... Even with power armor, carrying around a chunk of marble the size of your own body stuck on the end of a stick seems impractical even by 40k standards.

The flying pulpit is all sorts of awesome, though. I'm picturing a boat-shaped skimmer made up of Grimnar's sleigh for the front and the pulpit for the stern...


The pulpit looks as dumb as the Space Wolf Santa. No one is going to play thing thing on the table.

I wish GW would stop wasting precious design space on ugly looking models that never see the light of day....


Care to make a bet over that statement?


Automatically Appended Next Post:
AngryAngel80 wrote:
 Thargrim wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:
 Thargrim wrote:
It will probably be 40-50 bucks though, for a basic hq model.
As much as we (justifiably) complain about the price, I think that going back to multi-part/multi-option HQs will only do the game a world of good. So I'll take higher price for more options any day.


True, but when you have to decide between a basic HQ or a brand new PS4 game then things start to feel a bit weird IMO. Maybe i'll be wrong though, and the sprue will be really compact and cleverly arranged and it won't cost much more than a primaris captain/lieutenant. Most of the extra bits just go in a bits bag for me, this is why duel kits like the skitarii infiltrators bugged me, lots of leftovers that I just don't need.


I think we already see the writing on the wall with the costs, the floating tower will end up like 90$$ USD. The Sisters box will be at least the same cost as Primaris Marines troop boxes, the exorcist dual kit will be same price as the impulsor marine tank, the HQs will be around 40$ USD. Just look to the marine line for like models to guess on price of these releases.


With GW upping cost of new releases we'll be lucky if they are marine level prices.


If they are more than marine prices, aside from the few die hards of the sisters supporters I think that would lead to many sister armies being very small and dreams of people picking them up being DoA at that point.


That model is guaranteed to be DoA.

Instead of wasting money on it, I'll be buying more tanks for my sisters, rather than this thing.


Good to see you've been reading the thread, Togusa, where you seem to be the only person with so extreme a reaction to this model.

Tell me, why do you think it'll be DOA?


It's ulgy.
It'll likely have trash rules.
40K Rewards "Boys over Toys" to borrow a phrase from the Orks.

This model will likely be points heavy, a sitting target. I'll likely rather have more basic infantry or whatever specialist squad is bonkers low points for their dmg output than this thing. Sorry my opinion triggers you all so bad.

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initially i was kind of mad at how much various stuff Order of Our Martyed Lady gets, since my sisters army is descended from scattered minor orders under folk who come from the Argent Shroud orders.

because it's a lot, predicated on losing units or models, and when it comes up the accuracy WILL help...

But i won't forsake my original order for it as of yet. though i do wonder what the other orders gained. Bloody Rose or valorous heart was the one to beat before as i recall.

im happier with this effect than the last one as an Argent Shroud. that extra mobility will be useful, even if inconsistent. Well... hopefully.

so that WL trait only works on infantry now? hrm. well, one way or another, looks like Beacon of Faith is a WL trait worth picking up, but we'll see if it's a must. thankfully you don't Have to run celestine if you don't want to anymore, though you probably will anyway(did i ever name the spirit that appears to my forces? ach, ill find one, it sure isn't celestine by name.).

hrm. these strategems are... alright. command point for a miracle die is not what i wanted to see just yet for that. the storm of retribution is... vaguely okay? i wonder how it'll pan out if thats a per unit thing. i tend to run retributors purely with heavy bolters so.. i don't know if it's worth that number of command points offhand, but it'snice that it benefits no matter what weapon option the unit... Appears to have...

oh... we really aren't getting anything new for range bands on retributors. are we getting ANYTHING that'll use new/longer rangebands? so many bolter variants... im probably not getting anything i hoped for out of this for new stuff.

...Litanies of Faith is great, that's what i was hoping for when I heard about miracle dice, but i expected it in strategem form. what other relics are to come?

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 Togusa wrote:

Well when I see every player running three of them, I'll come back an apologize. (That's not going to happen though and we all know it.)


Well, it is a special character... kind of a safe bet you got there.

I will get one and love the idea of flying pulpits spouting hymns and heavy flamers.

For myself, can't wait to see the terrain piece. Soo many table enhancing possibilities...

A ton of armies and a terrain habit...


 
   
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 Togusa wrote:
*snippity snip*

Well when I see every player running three of them, I'll come back an apologize. (That's not going to happen though and we all know it.)

Also, I gave you three examples.

Here they are again for convenience.

It's ulgy.
It'll likely have trash rules.
40K Rewards "Boys over Toys" to borrow a phrase from the Orks.



1 - Your opinion, not any kind of fact - an opinion not shared by the vast majority, judging by online reaction.
2 - Speculation - we’ll know in a week so any posturing now is silly.
3 - Tell that to Knights.

Finally, it’s a Special Character so you couldn’t run three anyway. Better luck with your next hot take!

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How about we ignore Togusa's opinion and move on with actual discussion?

At first I was unimpressed with the Argent Shroud's ability, but then I considered the mechanics of the Sisters of Battle as a whole.

They're quite short ranged. Flamers are 8", Bolters rapid fire at 12" and meltas get their double damage at 6" and won't take a -1 for advancing. Heavy Flamers don't get to shoot if you advance, and even Multi-Meltas shooting at -1 will benefit from this because you can get into that 12" sweet zone that much faster.

This trait gets you up in the opponent's face that d6" faster, and if you can use a miracle dice on advance rolls, then maybe even a guaranteed 5" or 6", and still able to fire. Vehicles like the Immolator will be able to rush in and get things roasting or melting that much faster as well!

It won't benefit things like Exorcists or Retributor squads *as much*, but it will still help the army be very fast and relatively accurate, and most importantly ALWAYS SHOOTING. You never have to make the decision of advancing or shooting with anything in an Argent Shroud list. You can always advance. Is the enemy just out of your sweet flamer range? Advance and get on up there.

In practice, I think it's going to be quite good, even if it's a small sentence of a rule.

As for the war pulpit, I love it. I think it's a gorgeous model. I'll be getting two, one to use as is, and one to convert to thE TOP OF A FREAKING BANEBLADE
   
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 JohnnyHell wrote:
 Togusa wrote:
*snippity snip*

Well when I see every player running three of them, I'll come back an apologize. (That's not going to happen though and we all know it.)

Also, I gave you three examples.

Here they are again for convenience.

It's ulgy.
It'll likely have trash rules.
40K Rewards "Boys over Toys" to borrow a phrase from the Orks.



1 - Your opinion, not any kind of fact - an opinion not shared by the vast majority, judging by online reaction.
2 - Speculation - we’ll know in a week so any posturing now is silly.
3 - Tell that to Knights.

Finally, it’s a Special Character so you couldn’t run three anyway. Better luck with your next hot take!


1. Fine by me.

2. Let's see, just about all the new stuff they've put out this year has been really lackluster in the rules. Anyone running the new primaris tanks? No, no they're not.

3. I don't see many knights anymore, I do see armies footslogging their basic troops, bought up to 11 though.

4. Didn't know it was a special character. In my opinion, that makes it even worse.
   
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I really hope the Hover Pulpit ends up being like this kit where it's technically a special character kit, but does have the option for a generic leader.

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IanVanCheese wrote:
A.T. wrote:
Well, there go the castles. No more 4++ saves for vehicles.


Good IMO, these abilities look useful but don't force you into boring optimal strategies. We don't want another Tau on our hands.

Really happy with that Retributor strat, properly buffs the unit regardless of weapon choice and doesn't mess around taking up three different strat slots for them. Both those Orders look useful too, though obviously Martyred lady is more generically useful.
I'm irrationally mad at the WL trait change. The reason everyone took Indomitable Belief was all the other WL traits apart from Righteous Rage were actual trash and Righteous Rage was niche at best.

They haven't fixed the WL trait problem, just changed it...

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I really hope the Hover Pulpit ends up being like this kit where it's technically a special character kit, but does have the option for a generic leader.

Yeah, I'm really hoping that as well and if they were smart that's what they'd do.

   
 
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