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How does summoning work now with Death units?
Before it used to be a spell with two casting values, now it just says SUMMONABLE.

You don't summon new Death units anymore, outside of a few allegiance abilities. It got replaced with Deathly Invocation.

What's Deathly Invocation?

It's an ability some hero's have which allows you to return wounds (not sure if models can be returned as well) to units with the summonable keyword. It is indicated on the warscroll and is not the same for all hero's (some can heal more units at the same time)

Deathly Invocation is great, but is the only way to get summonable units from reserve onto the table via gravesites?

 Rolsheen wrote:
Deathly Invocation is great, but is the only way to get summonable units from reserve onto the table via gravesites?

Looks like Gravesites are the only way to bring in new units, unless I've missed something. I don't think this will be too big a problem, but of course have had zero games under this system so that's pure speculation on my part.

It's pretty good actually, a great new tool for Death armies. Technically requires Grand Host/Legion allegiance, but really generic Death allegiance is near worthless now (unfortunately). Placing the gravesites near (but not on) objectives seems to be pretty good.

ThePauliPrinciple wrote:
It's an ability some hero's have which allows you to return wounds (not sure if models can be returned as well) to units with the summonable keyword. It is indicated on the warscroll and is not the same for all hero's (some can heal more units at the same time)

That's an improvement. Still can't really use it in my soulblight though which is a shame.

Fellbats and bat swarms are summonable.

Blood knights took a hit though with the banner change. Kinda sucks.

That banner change killed a lot of my interest after seeing it. Something I loved was the resurrection mechanic but I'm not buying units I think look horrible just to do it.
Even worse is the new banner is kind of useless to me as I mainly play against Lizardmen who have stupid Bravery.