Gidean wrote:Dyvim tvar wrote:That pic with the 2 treemen is awesome. Hope for the sake of Wood Elf players that the points/rules make them worth fielding.
A new model that will likely cost $80-$90 US. You have ANY doubt that GW/Ward won't give it
Must Take rules? Like he did with the Skullcannons? I suspect pairs will be seen as often as we see pair Ironblasters in OK armies.
Ahhh... the old "GW make the new/expensive stuff better so people will buy it!" fallacy. Its probably my favourite Warhammer related one.
Skullcrushers and Ironblasters, you say? Okay, I'll give you:
Karibdyss/Hydra
Dreadlord on Black Dragon
Scourgerunner Chariot
Bleakswords/Dreadspears/Darkshards
Carnosaur/Trogolodon
Bastiladon
Lothern Skycutter
Slaughterbrute/Mutalith
Dragon Ogres
Warshrine
Manticore
Forsaken
Slaanesh Chariot
Burning Chariot
Thundertusk/Stonehorn
Arachnarok
Imperial Griffon
Ushabti
Mortis Engine/Coven Throne
All of these are distinctly average
at best. Many of them are generally poor. A few are so outright
terrible that they are the stuff of legend. This list also doesn't even start to consider old stuff which gets better or worse - if everybody owns unit x, and unit x suddenly gets much better, how does that fit in to the narrative?
When people talk about the 'new filth,' they always seem to develop Convenient Amnesia which ignores anything which doesn't support their argument. Skillcannons, Funblasters, and Demigryphs are in the minority. All this really tells us is that GW aren't all that great at balancing new units: some are great, some are terrible, most are probably somewhere in between. But we already knew that.
Edit: Witches also work fine in unit sizes less than 20. They also don't have to come with a Cauldron to work. I actually think that the Bloodwrack Shrine is the better of the two kit options.