Massively happy my tyrant can now fire his HVC in combat, was a bit annoyed when 9th came along and it was all 'Look! tanks and monsters can blaze away in combat!! unless you have a blast weapon of course. I can however see some great kraken based 1st turn movement shenanigans with the strats and maybe even a tervigon for its synaptic imperative ability thing. Not sure what to say about the biovore changes til ive had a chance to use them, but having to do an action to make mine units seems a bit of a downgrade. Resonably decent overall for the generic relics, quite like the new relic HVC and the maw claws (which just seem to be a weapon 'upgrade' now rather than replacing anything?) but again, I've used chameleonic skin for ages so stoked to see it get even better. Still not gonna get any til they replace that awful finecast monstrosity though.

Pyrovores.after years of been utterly rubbish, and 1 edition of being kinda ok (8th) are starting to look kinda tempting. ok so these things doubled in price, but woah.thats one heck of a statline/damage output increase. Very glad my hiveguard have always been shockcannon. Really like the two part fleet trait system, makes you feel like you are adapting to your enemy by being allowed to change some of it. Some quite insane strategems there with loads of ways to spew out mortal wounds.

Venomthropes cover aura not being linked to how many you have in the unit means 3 man squads might be useful again. Looks like my dedication to fielding Screamer killers has finally paid off.11 attacks on the charge!! -1 dam!!! Ultimately, I've always prefferred GSC stealers being better than fleet ones so i'm not actually all that upset about this at all. maybe theres now an argument for the extra carapace seeing as no advance and charge naturally? points gonna really start adding up there as mine are deffo getting the old style rending sacs treatment.10 man max squads is disappointing though. Like the changes to the other fleets too, nothing truly awful, even if it does seem, kraken, levi and behemoth may be the overall better ones at least gorgon got some interesting stuff this time.ĭidn't think they'd make fleet stealers quite so different to GSC ones but at least they have forward deployment shenanigans now and there is a very small chance that the infestation node might actually see the table in a casual game. Well, very happy with the kraken stuff (especially the new version of the relic skin.no rerolls to hit against me!! hahah!!!) and the whole +8' to move when advancing is gonna make hormies stupid.

This is a copy and paste from my thoughts over on dakka, quite long and rambly sorry.

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