First of, I'll honestly say I liked this game, it got my 40k friends to play fantasy with me. I played two games against my opponent. He has only played CS:M before so it was quite new to him with not having a superior firepower compared to my 40k nid army. The lists: LM: 1 Slann 1 Gor-Rok 1 Old-Blood 1 Skink Priest 10 Saurus warriors 5 Templeguard 1 Salamander + 3 handlers close to him. Skaven: Isle of Blood plus some extra (sorry I don't remember). Power creep?: The lists was really on par, and we didn't really plan well about balance we just tossed things on the table. He won once and I won once. We had a really good time, each battle was a butt-clenching at the end and each time it was so close for both of us. I don't know if it was luck by balance or just shitty dice play. Units that stood out: LM: Salamander, mein gott! I was so happy with it that I've bougth another. Skaven: His rat-ogres did massive damage when they where close. So the turn I won*, my salamander toasted them pretty fast. Pros: - Fast paced games - Fun - There is some tactics to it - Close-combat range was a fun aspect - Summons are cool - 10 bravery is SWEEEEET Cons: - Confusing without a point system - Slanns don't feel like strong magician anymore due to just have 1 damaging spell. - Magic is to simple to my taste - Feel like lizardmen don't have "scaly skin" anymore. - I can't customize units with upgrades to make them "anti something something" What next?: I will defiantly play this game again. I had a lot of fun. Sure I'll square base everything and play 8th when my friends wants larger battles, but for a entry level game. I really hope they build it up with expansions. So it's a thumbs up for a beer and pretzels games. For a tournament game I don't quite see how it will work. Sorry for a boring battle/review. First time writing something like this. Edit: some spelling, sorry English isn't my native tongue
Not boring, I enjoyed reading your short evaluation, especially the pros and cons. I have yet to have any AoS games, so can't really comment on any of the points.
I think the resounding theme with all the games I've seen reports of is basically summed up with your main points. Pros: Fast, Fun, Easy. Cons: Confusing structure, not really a Tourny-type game. Thanks for the insight!
I get the feeling that the shield that reduces rend, (up to -2) is supposed to represent out "scaly skin"..? I mean just about every unit has this item.
Yes that is the impression. Although from my read of the rules it seems like we only ignore Rend values not reduce them. So -2 Rend is still the full -2.
Yep, that what I meant, so if we faced a rend -3 and better we would take the whole thing. Thankfully there don't seem to be a lot of those around. Ps. hey, you've been around a while... you want a custom Avatar.