3 hours ago, Tvayumat said:

I'm not sure whether to expect berserkers or blood harvesters as infantry, but I'm hoping the single tray unit is a scorpion rider.

the Blood Harvesters from BattleLore look just like the Berserkers from Runewars (boardgame), so I feel like it's essentially the same thing. In this game, I expect the Berserkers unit to be composed of figures with scythes like the original Berserkers and some with a mini-scythe in each hand like the Berserkers from Rune Age and BattleLore.

40 minutes ago, Daverman said:

It seems to me that if we're getting an Obscene as the Uthuk hero it'd be unusual to put a lesser Obscene as a siege unit in the same set... I'd prefer some variety. If not a Chaos Lord, maybe a Grotesque? I like their imagery in Battlelore, and this would be a chance to improve on them too!

I see what you're saying, but since they gave us a Leonx-riding hero with a Leonx Riders unit for the elves, we'll see the same "lack of variety" for the Uthuk.

Maybe they'll do something different and give us archers, berserkers, fleshrippers and Ravos and not have a big siege unit right off the bat. I mean, Ravos is basically a siege unit so we woukd still have a powerhouse unit. I could also see them giving us fleshripper brutes as our siege unit since they are the same size as obscenes in battlelore: command.

On 15/4/2017 at 3:55 PM, Klaxas said:

3 hours ago, DaShamrockKid said:

Maybe they'll do something different and give us archers, berserkers, fleshrippers and Ravos and not have a big siege unit right off the bat. I mean, Ravos is basically a siege unit so we woukd still have a powerhouse unit. I could also see them giving us fleshripper brutes as our siege unit since they are the same size as obscenes in battlelore: command.

Looking at the cover of the lorebook guide book we see the uthuk scrabble-like unit.. For me we Will have four trays of fleshripper, Two trays of berserk, one scrabble (cannot recall his true name) and Ravos

Sorry @Klaxas , I did a mess with the quotes and totally overlap your post

Lol sok I was wondering when I said all that

I'd be disappointed if the Chaos Lord came out as a siege unit. I feel he should be a far larger centrepiece figure like the dragons will end up as.

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And I'll cry if we don't have Fleshrippers right off the bat. I'd also hope for the siege unit to be a new unit rather than something we have seen previously. Although I suspect we'll get the beetle thing (doomcrawler was it called?).

Still having so little knowledge of the faction, I am just going to sit over here and wait to see what happens

3 hours ago, Lyraeus said:

Still having so little knowledge of the faction, I am just going to sit over here and wait to see what happens

The only knowledge you need is that the Uthuk are the best faction!

23 minutes ago, Muz333 said:

The only knowledge you need is that the Uthuk are the best faction!

Agreed!

Although I was thinking about it this weekend and I imagine the Uthuk Y'llan may be tricky to play. If they have a lot of self-hurting mechanics, you'll have to judge whether the points you lose for damaging yourself is made up for by the points you game for getting your effect.

I imagine the Uthuk Y'llan may care less about achieving objectives and may do better just trying to wipe everything out. At the very least, I'll try to play them that way a few times!

Uthuk are a self-harming mechanic race?

that sounds right up my alley since i play these games with the mentality that "Your health is a resource, use it" - its why in xwing i get labeled a bit of a kamikazee flier because i'll willingly tank damage if i think i have a good chance to get more damage on you.

3 minutes ago, Vineheart01 said:

Uthuk are a self-harming mechanic race?

that sounds right up my alley since i play these games with the mentality that "Your health is a resource, use it" - its why in xwing i get labeled a bit of a kamikazee flier because i'll willingly tank damage if i think i have a good chance to get more damage on you.

Same reason Uthuk works for me. I'm harming myself every time I roll the dice ?

No reveal today then as FFG have already posted two news articles, which is all we get each weekday. ☹️

Just now, Muz333 said:

I reveal today then as FFG have already posed two news articles. ☹️

Do they only do two articles per day?

1 minute ago, Budgernaut said:

Do they only do two articles per day?

Unless it's a product release then yeah, that seems to be all we get.

Edit:

Actually it looks like they've been playing more articles lately so hopefully I'm wrong!

No! I won't believe it. I can't believe it! :cry: :sob: :wail:

In about an hour it will be past their normal postings time.

Probably going to be a while for the second wave stuff to get on the boat. Besides, plenty to do in the meantime!

whhhhheeeeeerrrrrreeeeee is the news article...

3 minutes ago, jek said:

whhhhheeeeeerrrrrreeeeee is the news article...

I practically broke my refresh button yesterday. I'm trying to take it a little easier today.

I'm not expecting to full army announcements in back to back weeks. Maybe next week, for sure by mid-May if it co-releases with the elves.

2 minutes ago, kaffis said:

I'm not expecting to full army announcements in back to back weeks. Maybe next week, for sure by mid-May if it co-releases with the elves.

But see, the reason they announce products when they do is to allow the distributors and stores time to start ordering product in time for the product's release. If the two armies are to be released concurrently, I would think they need to be announced at around the same time.

My assumption last week when Elves were spoiled and Uthuk were not was that they just wanted to have more news articles, so they were splitting it over 2 weeks instead of announcing the whole "wave" of new armies at once. But maybe you're right and we won't see them until next month. Or maybe they were never intended to be released at the same time.

Ya know what ISN'T a RuneWars announcement? Jedi Consular source book....grrrrrrrr I WANT MORE STUFFS!!!

Forget Uthak, give me more on elves riding battle cats!!!

I think they maybe meant for the essentials pack to be this week, but then everyone got mad that the army box didn't have that stuff so they announced it early and now we need to wait till next week for another article/announcement.

4 hours ago, Budgernaut said:

I practically broke my refresh button yesterday. I'm trying to take it a little easier today.

Youv'e got serious skills to almost break a digital button.

2 hours ago, Ywingscum said:

Forget Uthak, give me more on elves riding battle cats!!!

Hell, I'd settle for just the points and formations for the archers! FFG are such teases, and I'm really curious how big a bread and butter ranged unit can get, and how the ability to melee poorly affects the cost. I'm thinking it can't possibly go a full 3x3, and a four threat seems gratuitously strong. So either it goes 2 wide and deep (2x4?), or it maxes out at 3x2. They might slip something clever in there, like a 3x1 to give it a fourth formation since it's the basic unit for elves, rather than a support unit like reanimate archers.

2 hours ago, Willange said:

I think they maybe meant for the essentials pack to be this week, but then everyone got mad that the army box didn't have that stuff so they announced it early and now we need to wait till next week for another article/announcement.

Wouldn't surprise me, this actually makes a lot of sense.