Just now, Hepitude said:

Has anyone weighed in on Faolan's ability to replace 1 speed-3 march with 3 speed-1 marches? Is that just to increase the range? Or is there added utility that I'm missing? It seems like a very strange ability to me.

Looks like you can apply his ability to modify a march by either turn, wheel, or charge for each individual march he breaks down. Pretty powerful!

23 minutes ago, Bhelliom said:

Flank Fire
You may draw line of sight and perform [ranged attacks] from your side firing arc
[Ranged attack] If you drew line of sight from your side firing arc, or terrain you occupy , your threat is equal to the number of your partial and full ranks. Your number of ranks for rerolls is equal to the number of trays in your front rank.
5 points

The Spirit Sword
[Melee attack] [surge] [surge]: Receive 1 Inspiration token.
While you are defending, you may spend 1 of your Inspiration tokens to remove 1 dice icon of your choice.
6 points

So Dice icon -- would that be like, 1 hit from a double hit, or the hit from a hit/surge etc?

3 minutes ago, Parakitor said:

Looks like you can apply his ability to modify a march by either turn, wheel, or charge for each individual march he breaks down. Pretty powerful!

Yeah, he'll be able to thread some interesting needles... He could even do a turn-bank-straight charge!

4 minutes ago, Glucose98 said:

So Dice icon -- would that be like, 1 hit from a double hit, or the hit from a hit/surge etc?

I think so.

Latari Just got deadly.

As much as I've talked about a Mongol cavalry/archery archetype I cant freaking wait to play around with these guys!

This just made my day! These new Latari units are going to be awesome. Love that they finally get a brawling hero with mobility to rival Ravos. The centaurs look so cool and their dial is insane!

They will make a great home for embedded Meagan with the ranged attack option. They will be great for locking down entire flanks.

Release is apparently quarter 3 as well, suck it legion, runewars gets all my money this summer

26 minutes ago, Jukey said:

They will make a great ho  me for embe  dded Meagan with the ranged attack option. They will be grea  t for locking down enti  re flanks. 

270 degrees of Maegan bomb!

I would like to point out that this also brings Latari up to the same number of units as Daqan and Waiqar.

It almost makes me believe that the Uthuk reveal will have that new hero, and then also 2 more units.... probably just one, but I think eventually Uthuk will be brought into line.

1 hour ago, flightmaster101 said:

270 degrees of Maegan bomb!

Ew. Screw Everything about that sentence

2 hours ago, Church14 said:

Ew. Screw Everything about that sentence

I mean meagan would be at most getting 1 red/1 blue from a ranged attack, so getting a bunch of surges is unlikely. (unless of course you have rerolls and/or fire rune to proc another ranged attack......that might get nutty....hmmmmmmmmm)

Wow, FFG has been killing it with all these new units in terms of providing different, exciting, and power-leveling units/upgrades while also fleshing out the factions even more into their own unique armies that truly feel different.

Just playing around with the numbers in TTA, I legit feel like the Latari could field a decent army with all three heroes, Prince Faolan as a standalone and Meagan and Aliana as figure upgrades, that's only 58 points! 63 if you include Legendary Prowess, which seems pretty strong, but that's a lot of room to work with and make a very strong army with powerful abilities added in.

Having played Maegan on Archers before, I have almost always found that Green Lethal does consistently more. Surges are great when they happen, but you might only get 1 on your archer dice, and then you might not have units that you can really damage. I'd say it is typically a 20% surge/80% Lethal on which one does the most damage. Having a red instead of a blue means a higher damage potential, but lower surge potential. So I wouldn't really bank on the surges, but Maegan as a character still might do some nice damage. I guess the other wild card is that this unit is really set up to strafe a flank on one turn with its ranged attack while setting up a charge on the next turn, preferably with flank. So if you've got an extra die in a melee attack, that extra die can make a big difference in Maegan generating surges for her ability.

In any event, I'm very excited by both the hero and the new unit. I'm doubly excited about the Q3 announcement, because I'm guessing we'll get each of our faction-3 heroes, plus the remaining Latari unit, and quite possibly the Uthuk special and ranged.

So, even ignoring things like the Legion delay pushing everything back, is there any way this is a realistic Q3 release? I'm not super familiar with FFG's pipeline, but I figure it's gotta be a few weeks at least in development, same for at the printer, and then the boat is usually 4-6... there are only so many weeks until October!

7 minutes ago, Bhelliom said:

So, even ignoring things like the Legion delay pushing everything back, is there any way this is a realistic Q3 release? I'm not super familiar with FFG's pipeline, but I figure it's gotta be a few weeks at least in development, same for at the printer, and then the boat is usually 4-6... there are only so many weeks until October!

FFG articles are notorious for being wrong, and FFG is notorious for missing their own deadlines, and I guess October technically is the 4th quarter rather than the third. So who knows? If they are thinking Q3, then it is probably fair to say "years' end," which I'd still find acceptable.

17 minutes ago, Bhelliom said:

So, even ignoring things like the Legion delay pushing everything back, is there any way this is a realistic Q3 release? I'm not super familiar with FFG's pipeline, but I figure it's gotta be a few weeks at least in development, same for at the printer, and then the boat is usually 4-6... there are only so many weeks until October!

They did about half a year between the last releases and this one. And it sort of looks like they're going to be settling down into a 'mature game' schedule of regular but not frequent releases. So my guess is during the Christmas season.

Anywhere between September and January is fine with me, at least we have lots of things coming. Darnati excitement will be enough to get me thru those months.

I love Prince Faolan's ability! I can't help but imagine him as an anime character (with that ridiculously huge sword) dashing between enemies with his arms straight out and slightly behind him, doing that blurred-leg dash that animators love to use. And then to think that this ability is actually good on the field! Theme: A+ Power: A+ Well done, devs.

I'm really curious about Faolan's character upgrades. Since hero character upgrades usually give a feature of their standalone unit, I'm thinking one of them has got to be the option to treat marches as modified by turns or charges, but I'm not sure whether that'd be his mounted upgrade or his infantry upgrade. Darnati could probably leverage it potently -- charging with +1 defense; charging on their late, long, green marches; gaining wheels; or turning/wheeling while skilling or reforming... Those are all great options! Leonx don't benefit nearly as much from that -- they could reform, or shift after a turning/wheeling march, and they'd get access to wheels... which would be nice, but not nearly as dramatic. Still, if the upgrade were cheap, it might be a contender. I suppose the Ventala need to be considered as a champion upgrade target, now, too... oh, and that nixes the notion of the treating marches as modified because they already have some of that. So this is my call for the infantry upgrade.

Not sure what I like for the other one, though. Perhaps something less obvious/sneaky like granting the option to convert an action late on his unit's dial to a late attack with bonuses? Since he's the only Latari with melees on two initiatives... This could be an interesting option for Leonx, since they don't have the counter-charging tools Darnati can access through figure upgrades... Adding stable blue dice and then taking away one might be interesting, too. Both of Latari's cavalry units have that juicy 3-deep formation that begs to be converted to 3 threat, but then they suffer from very low consistency. Adding dice and removing one would be a bit better than a single reroll on 1 stable rune, and much nicer on 2, and could justify a decent cost upgrade... But on the other hand, Aliana's figure upgrade just straight-up adds a white for 12, and gives an impact as a bonus... So probably not.

I could see foalans figure just adding a dice, but would prefer add brutal. Changing marchs to charges could be weird (charging archers? Hmmm), if he added his goofy long march text that would be nuts and probably broken. I think whatever his special is, it'll be made to sync with Darnati and Leonx the most, as Meagan seems to fit better with archers and centaurs.

And now I'm thinking about alliana embedded in centaurs and my brain is going 'ooooo, nice'

Ah, right. Brutal is a good call, Latari could use it and don't have it (on anything else, that I can think of?)...

4 hours ago, Jukey said:

And now I'm thinking about alliana embedded in centaurs and my brain is going 'ooooo, nice'

Since her ability works with melee only, I think you want to keep her with the Leonyx. I would put Maegan with the centaurs, instead.

I feel like the blue dice modifier for melee attacks on the Pride Trooper hero might give us some insight on Thuk’tar and Gorgemaw. The card as we saw it (I think) has the lowest damage output for a hero save Hawthorne, has no consistent army buff effect like Hawthorne, and is the most expensive hero. So I’m thinking there is something like a Red and/or Blue die modifier.

10 hours ago, kaffis said:

I'm really curious about Faolan's character upgrades. Since hero character upgrades usually give a feature of their standalone unit, -snip-

You have some really great thoughts, but I'm guessing Prince Faolan goes the Vorun'thul route, with a figure upgrade ability wildly different from anything on his card. As you said, they usually give a feature of the standalone unit, and I think the Prince will be an exception.

23 hours ago, Polda said:

Kinda makes me excited for the next Uthuk hero article.

We might see a new UY unit alongside Worm bros. 

Well would you look at that...

Can't believe the Faolan Alt-art leaked too...

22 hours ago, Wraithist said:

Well would you look at that...

Right? RIGHT!? Now I need to sculpt snakes on the Viper Legion guys. Darn pesky FFG...