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Nehekhare

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Rumour is that Phil Kelly wrote the 40K book and Ward wrote the Fantasy one...

 

Given how Kelly worked with our CSM Codex, I'm not confident in this Daemon Codex. >_>

 

Well if rumors are correct he gave Greater Daemons T7 and the Nurgle one is T8. So it will hardly be "underpowered"....

White Dwarf only has the fantasty Greater Daemon stats, and only for Nurgle;

 

M6 WS6 BS3 S6 T7 W6 I4 A3 Ld 9

 

40k wise, we've got Beasts and Plague Drones;

 

I won't post the numerical stats, but I'll confirm that Daemonic Instability and Deep Strike are on both models special rules lists - and Beasts of Nurgle have "It Will Not Die!".

 

The Tzeentch chariot looks a little better in the magazine, to the point where I kinda want one. Plus, if you build the flamer chariot, you get a Herald on foot.

Well, looks like some other big changes... like six screamers being wiped out by tactical terminators with power fists.

 

I guess their close combat attacks aren't AP2 any more. Go figure...

 

Lysander, on his own, assaults a unit of 6 Flamers and is 'locked in' with the pyrocaster.. instead of being murdered by overwatch?

 

Guess flamers aren't AP2 any more either... or maybe they can't overwatch? hmm. Go figure.

 

Looks like it's back to being Nurgle's game again. *sigh*

 

Lysander, on his own, assaults a unit of 6 Flamers and is 'locked in' with the pyrocaster.. instead of being murdered by overwatch?

 

Guess flamers aren't AP2 any more either... or maybe they can't overwatch? hmm. Go figure.

 

 

According to the info we have now daemons' "abilities" are psychic powers: that means they cannot be used with overwatch. It's just my guess ;)

 

 

On the plus side, Skyfire Soul Grinders, and Daemon Prince spawning Horrors.

 

Can they choose to grant the skyfire rule to their weapons or have they only skyfire weapons like Hydras?

Not sure yet. I'm sure they can choose skyfire. It was in the WD battle report and speculation. Becuase it shot down two flyers in two turns. Some say it could have been a mysterious objective, but Soul Grinder wasn't a scoring unit.

Well, looks like some other big changes... like six screamers being wiped out by tactical terminators with power fists.

 

I guess their close combat attacks aren't AP2 any more. Go figure...

 

Lysander, on his own, assaults a unit of 6 Flamers and is 'locked in' with the pyrocaster.. instead of being murdered by overwatch?

 

Guess flamers aren't AP2 any more either... or maybe they can't overwatch? hmm. Go figure.

 

Looks like it's back to being Nurgle's game again. *sigh*

 

Well if they've nerfed flamers that can only be a good thing. I wouldn't make snap judgements based off the bat rep. you learn next to nothing from white dwarf anyway.

Well, the flamer-on-a-chariot has an AP3 torrent.  If the fancy flamer is AP3, I imagine regular flamers will be AP3 as well.

 

The models have grown on me after seeing the 360 view, but the more I hear about the rules themselves, the less optimistic I feel.  So far it sounds like a cascade of nerfs with nothing particularly good in return, but we'll see.

I'm not sure I trust those rumors.  The description of how instability works in particular seems off.

 

I mean, the shroud thing might still be the case - one could reasonably guess that simply from the CSM prince rules - but I'm not convinced those rumors on the whole constitute any actual insight rather then guessing and deductions based on existing information and leaked white dwarf pages.

So then your oblits/warp talons/possessed would count as "daemon of x" if you give them marks, i.e. rerolling saves of 1/shrouded? I've seen a similar argument come up from the wording of the CSM entry of the Daemon prince alone ("DaemonS of x ..." meaning all daemons, not just the DP). Doubt it though, because daemons (USR) are not daemons (units from C:CD).

 

But hey, have you read Jervis Johnsons' latest article? you don't need rules, even the designers have no clue what they're doing, so just roll a 4+ ;D

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