Golem, Hawthorne and Spearman preview
Sweeping Strikes is great!
Lessons of Seragart applies to all the units in your army. Once daqan get crossbow men they are going to be able to make a really wide screening force with their spears.
The link shows up in the Runewars Product page, but then it says "Page not found."
Not in love with white red, but the extra hp is nice.
Dang I should have copied all the pics I guess, they took the article down for whatever reason and put up a Destiny rules re write article.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/5/1/frontline-warriors/
They cut out Hawthorne. I did see an error in it, as it talked about Hawthorne being able to spam Inspiration with a Special Action modifier but on the dial his Special Action is a main action.
31 minutes ago, FrogTrigger said:Dang I should have copied all the pics I guess, they took the article down for whatever reason and put up a Destiny rules re write article.
Quick - check your browsers cache!
Hawthorn had a thing that turns surges into damage for melee.
It was his sword, amulet icon, 10 cost, and you can spend surges to do hits (damage?) equal to your threat
I'm liking the look of Triumphant Cry. That wasn't previously spoiled was it? At first glance I thought it would take a particularly offensive build to make it work, then I realized that the unit equipped with Triumphant Cry does not need to be the one to defeat the engaged enemy, so you could put this on a defensive tarpit unit and it can reform to move to the next target after your other units defeat the unit it is engaged with.
10 minutes ago, taylorcowbell said:It was his sword, amulet icon, 10 cost, and you can spend surges to do hits (damage?) equal to your threat
That
4 minutes ago, Budgernaut said:I'm liking the look of Triumphant Cry. That wasn't previously spoiled was it? At first glance I thought it would take a particularly offensive build to make it work, then I realized that the unit equipped with Triumphant Cry does not need to be the one to defeat the engaged enemy, so you could put this on a defensive tarpit unit and it can reform to move to the next target after your other units defeat the unit it is engaged with.
Also nice for a big deadly spearmen unit with Rune Golem and/or Citadel Arms master, this way if an opponent throws chaff in its way to slow it down at least you get to reform towards your next target. Also if you can an enemy in front and on the flank, if you destroy the one on flank you can immediately reform so that next turn you benefit from ranks and the enemy doesn't get the bonus.
It competes with the very nice, generally useful Marching Cornicen for cheap movement utility.
18 minutes ago, taylorcowbell said:It was his sword, amulet icon, 10 cost, and you can spend surges to do hits (damage?) equal to your threat
Snagged from the Facebook group
Ho ho! The dawn blade is were it's at!
Hawthorne does make for interesting choices in the game once he's released. Does he replace Kari? Do we run both heroes in our Daqan lists? How often will Waiqar cry with Hawthrone giving free candy to his soldiers? How powerful will that passive be?
In fact, I'm quite interested in his passive. Right now, the following unit sizes can potentially use it: Oathsworn Cavalry (trays 2 and 6), Spearmen (trays 2 and 6), and Golems (trays 2 and 6). The 6 tray units of the Cavalry and Spearmen seem the most likely units. I suppose I could see a few players using with the 2 tray unit of golems if they really really want the rerolls.
Man that dawnblade is going to be nasty with Kari. Very few sides of the dice won't be showing damage
2 minutes ago, Kubernes said:Hawthorne does make for interesting choices in the game once he's released. Does he replace Kari? Do we run both heroes in our Daqan lists? How often will Waiqar cry with Hawthrone giving free candy to his soldiers? How powerful will that passive be?
In fact, I'm quite interested in his passive. Right now, the following unit sizes can potentially use it: Oathsworn Cavalry (trays 2 and 6), Spearmen (trays 2 and 6), and Golems (trays 2 and 6). The 6 tray units of the Cavalry and Spearmen seem the most likely units. I suppose I could see a few players using with the 2 tray unit of golems if they really really want the rerolls.
Why wouldn't the other size units be able to use it? As far as I can tell, only 9-tray units don't get to use it.
I'm super excited to start throwing 4x1s of Spearmen, Oathsworn, or Rune Golems. Threat 4 is no joke, and being able to get it for cheap (or at all) is huge.
34 minutes ago, Ywingscum said:Ho ho! The dawn blade is were it's at!
Sooooo much better than the stupid lame-o Duskblade... <grumble> <grumble>
35 minutes ago, playnwin said:Why wouldn't the other size units be able to use it? As far as I can tell, only 9-tray units don't get to use it.
I'm super excited to start throwing 4x1s of Spearmen, Oathsworn, or Rune Golems. Threat 4 is no joke, and being able to get it for cheap (or at all) is huge.
Spearmen 4x1s would be cheap but I think I might rather use the 2x2 for the Oathsworm, if just for the reroll when paired with moment of inspiration. Not sure about the golems though as most of the units I've used with them are generally small. Till the expansion.
So we can run both Kari and Hawthorne at same time, does one have to be a unit upgrade. The rule is one unique per 100 points right?
Lord Hawthorne is pretty powerful, and the other heroes are too - seems a bit like Warcraft 3 - not that there is anything wrong with that.
11 minutes ago, Hos said:seems a bit like Warcraft 3 - not that there is anything wrong with that.
Some of my best friends are Warcraft...
45 minutes ago, Hos said:seems a bit like Warcraft 3 - not that there is anything wrong with that.
The sculpts of these models totally remind me of Warcraft units. Part of the reason I like them so much. Spent a lot of hours exploding sheep back around the turn of the century....
1 hour ago, Ywingscum said:So we can run both Kari and Hawthorne at same time, does one have to be a unit upgrade. The rule is one unique per 100 points right?
200 pts is the norm, so you can run both as standalones in a list.