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 Gir Spirit Bane wrote:
Wait? What happened to Death Guard to cause so many people to be annoyed? they nerf the terminators and not reduce the plague marines or something?

They had a lot of things go up. Poxwalkers, both Terminators, Foul Blightspawn it looks like, and a lot of the stuff that went down doesn't go in the Terminus Est.

Plagueburst Crawler went down 15 points though.

 Blackie wrote:
Plagueburst Crawler went down 15 points though.

It and the other vehicles that went down can't go in Terminus Est.

The issue with DG is they got an internal rebalance which, PBC aside, would have made some sense in February 2021 - but just seems stupid in January 2022, when DG are a decidedly mid-tier faction that definitely didn't need nerfs.

Its the general feeling this hasn't been done in a holistic way - but rather kneejerk jumps this way and that. It would be nice if GW had to set out their thoughts behind these changes. But it assumes there is some depth there beyond "we looked at tournaments, we looked at emails, we looked at the marketing team and lo".

My Necrons saved a bunch of points...which are pretty difficult to spend on anything else. The problems in that army are more to do with their weird rules rather than points, but it's odd that none of their HQ got cheaper as they're almost universally overpriced. My other armies didn't really change much. A few drops to Death Company and some other random units isn't really all that impactful.

Crucially, these changes don't really open up new builds or possibilities because there's a complete lack of proper effort from GW. We're seeing little shifts in points on 1 or 2 units when something like the SM Codex probably has literally half of its units poorly costed. It's so half-assed I think this will be the last CA I buy. They even took the core rules out of the mission pack FFS.

The points were a tactical nuke against Sisters of Battle.

The changes to subfaction were just urinating on the grave site.

Sisters only got a 43% win rate at the LVO. That's bottom half. That's also BEFORE the nerfs come in.

Our lists are going up between 60 and 100pts. Our subfactions can't be combined anymore. The Bloody Rose supplement was utter garbage.

Sisters are dead and buried competitively.

While the Imperial Guard changes were a joke. My pure Scion list is happy with everyone elses nerfs.