New FAQ: AKA rewrite your purestrain lists...

[nidzy]

Purestrains adjusted up to 15 ppm. Probably the right move here? was hoping for parity with the nid dex but whatever.

www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/23/updated-faqs-and-boots-on-the-groundgw-homepage-post-2/

[autoxidation]

And Old One Eye finally buffs himself. Woo!

All flyer lists are dead! Rejoice!

Page 215 – Sudden Death
Change point 2 to read: ‘If at the end of any turn after the first battle round, one player has no models on the battlefield, the game ends immediately and their opponent
automatically wins a crushing victory. When determining if a player has any units on the battlefield, do not include any units with the Flyer Battlefield Role – these units cannot operate within a combat airspace indefinitely and they cannot hold territory without ground support. Furthermore, do not include any units with the Fortification
battlefield Role unless they have a unit embarked inside – even the most formidable bastion requires a garrison if it is to pose a threat.

[acehilator]

"Flyers have been adjusted" ... were? Did they forget something in the FAQs again, or am I just blind?

[armyofterror]

New sudden death rule. Flyers don't count as "models on the table" for being tabled.

[purestrain]

BWAAAAAAA HITTING ON 2's REROLLING 1's WITH HIS TALONS THEN DUMP THE OTHER FOUR INTO THE CLAW AND RUIN THE DAY OF ANYTHING!!!!!

[autoxidation]

Jul 23, 2017 15:37:50 GMT purestrain said:

BWAAAAAAA HITTING ON 2's REROLLING 1's WITH HIS TALONS THEN DUMP THE OTHER FOUR INTO THE CLAW AND RUIN THE DAY OF ANYTHING!!!!!

That's incorrect. The additional attacks have to be made with the same weapon.

"Berserk Rampage: Each time you make a successful hit roll for Old One Eye (except for thresher scythe attacks), you may immediately make 1 additional attack with the same weapon against the same unit. These additional attacks do not confer extra attacks."

[gigasnail]

Pretty gnarly they are responding to issues so quickly. I had hope, but it was a fool's hope. Color me impressed.

[acehilator]

Jul 23, 2017 15:34:27 GMT armyofterror said:

New sudden death rule. Flyers don't count as "models on the table" for being tabled.

Skimmed to fast, lol.

[cypheon]

Important point on flyer changes. It affects units with the battlefield role "flyer", but not all units with fly. Harpies still count as boots on the ground, as they put it.

[teodo]

That is a great flyer change. If you meet a list like that, just take out the ground troops. Boom.

[thespawnofcryptus]

Jul 23, 2017 16:11:59 GMT cypheon said:

Important point on flyer changes. It affects units with the battlefield role "flyer", but not all units with fly. Harpies still count as boots on the ground, as they put it.

That's because it doesn't need to land to refuel, as long as it keeps eating ;-)

[Jbizzy]

I wasn't expecting such a big increase to the purestrains. But at such a low cost it looked like they invalidated most of the other cult units...

[killercroc]

Yeah it was kind of inevitable. Sure it sucks and makes them a bit more expensive, but Purestrains did make almost everything else in the cult not worth taking.

[nidzy]

Jul 23, 2017 16:27:14 GMT killercroc said:

Yeah it was kind of inevitable. Sure it sucks and makes them a bit more expensive, but Purestrains did make almost everything else in the cult not worth taking.

This is exactly right. Why would I take an acolyte when a genestealer is cheaper and more effective? This allows acolytes to run about the same cost as stealers when they take a special weapon or two which feels about right to me.

[cypheon]

Jul 23, 2017 16:24:29 GMT Jbizzy said:

I wasn't expecting such a big increase to the purestrains. But at such a low cost it looked like they invalidated most of the other cult units...

Well... metamorph weapons invalidated metamorphs. Points price for the big melee weapons hurt acolytes. Loss of RTTS hurt every unit with CA in the 'dex, as half of the results put you worse off than standard deployment. Also losing the ability to deploy via CA hurt everything, as well.

Now, i am not crying "final nail in GSC's coffin", but, currently... their only tactically reliable ability is using blood brothers to field AM artillery (or snipers, in my case).