The Soulblight Gravelords have a new battletome and I just go over the new tome and give my thoughts on what the new book brings and if it was improved.
Yes that is true. But as has been brought up before with similiar armies reliance on magic for ranged output just isn’t as efficient as purely dedicated ranged units. As it can be highly matchup dependent. A strong magic army opponent with lucky rolls can gimp you spells through unbinding, etc. Being able to just shoot usually wins out statistically. And cheap shooting at that.
@@rmulshine not entirely there are several armies in the game that can take substantial punishment but still has dedicated shooting options. As it’s a tactical option that SBG is really lacking and I feel it could have been integrated into the overall army.
I'm just impressed w/ how much effort went into this book. the last book was already written with 3e core rules in mind, and while it had been power crept by later 3e books there were relatively few complaints about how the army or its units worked in general. there were no big model range updates to push, there was another book coming out at the same time with studio focus on the major upcoming seraphon & cities releases, to say nothing of 10th ed 40k. If there was ever time when the devs could have gotten away with a low effort, mostly copy-paste release with only minor updates if any, this was it. And yet they went full effort here, rewriting the faction rules, subfaction rules, & each and every war scroll from the ground up. Not always for the better - i wish they had left the big chariots alone - but yeah. Definitely can't complain about a lack of effort.
Yes it was a very well put together tome. With this book they had ever reason to just phone in but they actually went to the effort to create a (mostly) well-balanced book with rewrites that actually addressed key issues with the last book. Now if we can just get some archers.....................................
Seem's lazy to me, a bunch of low effort blunt force tricks to force a few things that will ezmode games like keeping negative only mods on dark mist, being able to blanket 5+ wards on zombies, and bringing back ethereal amulet vlozd while buffing its damage and healing.
The ranged support is there, it’s just magic phase mostly. Spirit gale, wind of death, and a mortus engine can go up to 7 MW to a whole enemy army
Yes that is true. But as has been brought up before with similiar armies reliance on magic for ranged output just isn’t as efficient as purely dedicated ranged units. As it can be highly matchup dependent. A strong magic army opponent with lucky rolls can gimp you spells through unbinding, etc. Being able to just shoot usually wins out statistically. And cheap shooting at that.
@@gamethink4862 yeah but shooting armies can’t take 50 damage a turn and giggle about it.
@@rmulshine not entirely there are several armies in the game that can take substantial punishment but still has dedicated shooting options. As it’s a tactical option that SBG is really lacking and I feel it could have been integrated into the overall army.
I'm just impressed w/ how much effort went into this book. the last book was already written with 3e core rules in mind, and while it had been power crept by later 3e books there were relatively few complaints about how the army or its units worked in general.
there were no big model range updates to push, there was another book coming out at the same time with studio focus on the major upcoming seraphon & cities releases, to say nothing of 10th ed 40k. If there was ever time when the devs could have gotten away with a low effort, mostly copy-paste release with only minor updates if any, this was it. And yet they went full effort here, rewriting the faction rules, subfaction rules, & each and every war scroll from the ground up. Not always for the better - i wish they had left the big chariots alone - but yeah. Definitely can't complain about a lack of effort.
Yes it was a very well put together tome. With this book they had ever reason to just phone in but they actually went to the effort to create a (mostly) well-balanced book with rewrites that actually addressed key issues with the last book. Now if we can just get some archers.....................................
Seem's lazy to me, a bunch of low effort blunt force tricks to force a few things that will ezmode games like keeping negative only mods on dark mist, being able to blanket 5+ wards on zombies, and bringing back ethereal amulet vlozd while buffing its damage and healing.