Not sure if this will reach you, but one way that opponents will get into combat with the wyldwoods is when they charge. If i have a unit near a wood, and they want to charge that unit but the wood is closer. They might charge the wood and then pile onto your unit. This is when they will be within the combat range of the wood since they can't pile away from it. But then they will instead fight your unit and not the woods.
A lot of the sulvaneth community is not enthused with this faction pack. What the opponent needs to do to counter this army is save their unbinds for Treesong and zone the player out of good Wyldwood placements to keep them off the objectives and pull back. It happened on my first game with them. The opponent went first and ran up. I had no good place to put the wyldwoods except off the sides which bare touched the objective so they got to bait me out from using my battle traits if I wanted a chance at scoring. This is a very high skill ceiling army. If you do not have either Alarielle, Lady of Vines, or Belthanos you do not have a functioning army. Because they can either act as a woods or work independent from woods. The best path forward for list building is to treat the wyldwoods as a cute bonus but not a central part of this army.
I mean... the whole army is literally written around your trees. It doesn't seem like you can treat them as a "cute bonus" and still have a functioning army
Does lady of the vines have to ability to teleport anywhere through strike and fade and walk the hidden paths since she as counted as an AWW? since when she is set up she is within 6 inches of herself?? Or just other units can?? I am not clear on that. Thanks in advance for any advice or input.
As a 40k player who dabbles in aos, i at first thought it was kinda meh, and it sorta is, the prices are stupid for how many strings are attached to most of the ability (which is them main problem imho. Only works on 9+ if today is a fullmoon is just straight up bullshit) but this felt fine (kinda sorta) until I saw the amazing fun stuff in other armies. roll 500 d6, if 1 of them is a 6 do 12 mortals on every enemy unit on every table in a 50 meter radius. also that hero costs 220 points. I think you are 100% right, they had a certain very badly thought out, playstyle in mind when designing and so they defanged everything that ~~might be fun~~ disincentivies that specific playstyle, and they massively overshot.
Not sure if this will reach you, but one way that opponents will get into combat with the wyldwoods is when they charge. If i have a unit near a wood, and they want to charge that unit but the wood is closer. They might charge the wood and then pile onto your unit. This is when they will be within the combat range of the wood since they can't pile away from it. But then they will instead fight your unit and not the woods.
A lot of the sulvaneth community is not enthused with this faction pack.
What the opponent needs to do to counter this army is save their unbinds for Treesong and zone the player out of good Wyldwood placements to keep them off the objectives and pull back. It happened on my first game with them. The opponent went first and ran up. I had no good place to put the wyldwoods except off the sides which bare touched the objective so they got to bait me out from using my battle traits if I wanted a chance at scoring. This is a very high skill ceiling army.
If you do not have either Alarielle, Lady of Vines, or Belthanos you do not have a functioning army. Because they can either act as a woods or work independent from woods. The best path forward for list building is to treat the wyldwoods as a cute bonus but not a central part of this army.
I mean... the whole army is literally written around your trees. It doesn't seem like you can treat them as a "cute bonus" and still have a functioning army
Does lady of the vines have to ability to teleport anywhere through strike and fade and walk the hidden paths since she as counted as an AWW? since when she is set up she is within 6 inches of herself?? Or just other units can?? I am not clear on that. Thanks in advance for any advice or input.
Humm, where is my regrowth spell? 😭
As a 40k player who dabbles in aos, i at first thought it was kinda meh, and it sorta is, the prices are stupid for how many strings are attached to most of the ability (which is them main problem imho. Only works on 9+ if today is a fullmoon is just straight up bullshit) but this felt fine (kinda sorta) until I saw the amazing fun stuff in other armies. roll 500 d6, if 1 of them is a 6 do 12 mortals on every enemy unit on every table in a 50 meter radius. also that hero costs 220 points. I think you are 100% right, they had a certain very badly thought out, playstyle in mind when designing and so they defanged everything that ~~might be fun~~ disincentivies that specific playstyle, and they massively overshot.
Wholly 6 within hard to cast, very hard to place, easy to destroy terrain, else: you have no battle traits.
Greetings prasie algorithm gods!
5h late... I will pretend i was first (i was second)
I dislike playing named characters for much the same reasons as the person in your chat. I love making my own narratives with my dudes, and I hate that SIR CHAD™️, FIRST BEST KNIGHT THAT'S BETTER THAN YOU©️ (original character, do not steal) comes stomping through that to steer my story in a particular direction.
You are also correct, you can just call your named characters different things and fit them in, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth