Played a 1500 game today, used the new spells and summoning today. Summoning felt way to good. Brought an eternal starhost, kroq gar, a slann a banner and a lifesswarm, cogs, aabalewind and pallisade. I was over 1500 but he was fine with it since we didnt know all the points changes. My opponent was stormcast and he had the hammerstrike battalion. Summoning felt really really strong and so did the endless spells. Although the lifesswarm is a bit of a let down only healing 1 unit.
I checked at my local store and they said the new Magic models and such are not out yet, but available for pre-order? Not out until the 30th. Where did you get the exact rules for them?
Game stores that pre ordered 15 copies of any of the individual products ( Core, Spells, GH18) received a store copy that was sent about a week ago to those stores. At least that's the story from the GW Product Rep. ( I don't own a store, I am a registered Adventure league DM at my friend's, he does own the store, and we chat business all the time.)
Not sure on the details, but my FLGS already has a copy and was showing off the models to us last Saturday.
Yeah the rules for aerial battles and underground battles look fun (at least the parts I saw leaked).