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The FAQ says a character *may* choose, ergo the armour isn't useless 👍

@@Arctovian yes. From highest save characteristic. Lower save isn't thus valid choice. If you have multiple identical choose either. Choice has to be legal choice and requirement is best save characteristic. You yourself said combo is obnoxious. Unsurprisingly gw prevented it

@bakuchidancer I don't agree. You said lower save isn't a valid choice. Why isn't it? You're saying it's because the character has to choose the best save characteristic? But GW says the character MAY choose. Therefore it's not a mandatory decision. In addition, if their intention was to render the item unusable then they've been remarkably circumspect about it.

As far as I recall, in 8th edition there were levels of stompness but now it's been simplified to just 'if it stomps, it stomps'. Also, behemoths get AP -2 on their stomps, but they don't get the AP if they stomp another behemoth. Personally I preferred it when there were different levels of stompness.

@@Arctovian the previous great era of stomposity

Pretty sure this is AI commentary, but it’s good either way!

I'm sorry to inform you that it's a text-to-speech AI voice! Yes, I'm part of the problem and am hastening the AI takeover of every human endeavour 😭 In my defence I will say that I think I go a bit further than many other people when it comes to TTS narration, and I often do multiple passes of each phrase until I'm happy with the expression and emphasis etc, which may be why it generally sounds a bit less 'stilted' than some others.

@@Arctovian Fascinating but also frightening...It's unfortunate that AI takes the things that make people individuals and turns them into a kind of commodities. Not sure whether I like this whole AI thing. Anyways, good luck with your channel.

Thanks for the comment 👍 1. Me too, I've always done it this way and it just makes sense to me like you say. 2. Good question! I did it like this because it's tied to the channel name in a way (Arctovian Wyssan > Wyssan's Wildform > Lore of Beasts) and because Beastmen were the next army I'm working on (though they may have been pushed down the list now). But it is a bit odd that all my reports are TK and I have a Beastlord avatar. I might fix it! 3. It's been decently fast imo - the first 5 videos averaged over 130 subscribers each, which is a lot more than I expected. However I'll definitely continue at my own pace, and just record games when I'm able 👍

I wish! It's text-to-speech

@@Arctovian where do you do it and what are the settings? It's really good!

​@Ipam6 Thanks! It's elvenlabs, and the voice is 'Brian'. As for the settings, I can't remember all the parameters but I have the stability down very low which allows for more interesting expressiveness. However, the downside is this makes it a bit unpredictable, so I have to do multiple passes, line-by-line in some cases, until I'm happy with the overall effect and how each line is said. imo this helps a lot to make the voice more palatable and less like an 'awkward AI voice'. I also speed it up a bit in post to make it more human-like and less stilted.

@@Arctovian thanks a lot for the detailed reply! Love your short battle reps btw 👍

@@Arctovian how did you achieve a lower voice though? I tried Brian and his voice isn't as low as in this video. Did you edit it in post?

Yep, you just can't use the dragon's full plate if you use the re-roll ability

@Arctovian Just curious as I play Tomb Kings too and have not been able to use this combo in local tournaments due to rules on pg 204.

@@Bigmanc6 in the faq GW mentioned it: "Q: A character mounted on a ridden monster or a chariot can choose to use their own or their mount’s armour value, whichever is better. If the character wears magic armour but I choose to use the mount’s armour value, can I still claim other benefits conferred by the magic armour? A: No. You must use a magic item fully or not at all."

@Butcherl1ke the judge explained to me is how does a 6+ value from the amour ever beat a 4+ from the dragon? Rule states, whichever is better. You would never be able to use the magic armour. I believe that faq is to clarify that you can't use the better or a different save and use the other magic armour abilities. I could be completely wrong but just how I read it.

@@Bigmanc6 A character *can* choose. If you had to use the best armour value available it would say must instead of can. It just means that if you use the Armour of Ages to stop re-rolls, you can't benefit from the dragon's 4+ save.

It's all learning and gaining experience 👍 My opponent learnt about some of the TK units he hadn't faced before, and to be more aggressive in deployment I would think. I'm sure my TK will get demolished in time (I have lost, to Bretonnians in fact, but I didn't take any pictures as the Brets were all unpainted! I might relax that rule in future). I get why he kept the bloodthirster hidden at first though, as the greatbows are pretty scary and he has no way to be healed. Tbh it did seem like a pretty tall order for the daemons and I'm not sure what I would have done in the daemons' shoes. The scorpion and necrosphynx alone were able to manhandle multiple units without breaking a sweat 🤷‍♂️ next time I face them I won't take such a strong TK list

Also a scenario that randomly takes away your units for half of the game sounds pretty dumb, tbh. It's like something from the 80's when game designers didn't think twice about making games remove player agency in various, mostly random ways. Because players were an afterthought to games themselves ;)

@robertchmielecki9216 We rolled for the mission and got it randomly. Each unit rolls a D6 and only doesn't show up on a 1. Can't say it's my favourite mission but I appreciate it giving a different twist to the game, as it can throw a spanner in the works and force you to come up with a different plan than you had in mind, which I like. Of course, there's always the chance that one player won't be affected at all, as was the case here, but that's pretty unlikely. If my King and/or Ushabti had started off the table, for example, the Bloodthirster could probably have acted as an effective deterrent to the Necrosphinx early on, and it would have been a very different game.

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Yep! But if a behemoth stomps another behemoth they don't get the -2 AP on the stomp

@@Arctovian thanks for the clarification, mate. Much appreciated

@@danielvahrenholt4159 No worries! The sickening thing is, the Bloodthirster DOESN'T have any stomps itself, which is ridiculous imo

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Thanks for the comment and kid words 🙌 Definitely need to fill Core out with something actually useful. I have some chariots and archers ready to paint up, and I know some light cav would be good to screen the chariots, but realistically I think it may be a while before I get round to buying light cav for the army. I'd perhaps go down to 25 spearmen, although any less and I feel they may as well not exist - I've seen how quickly they can evaporate under enough pressure. Settra looks cool, another 'one day' project for me I think, he's probably quite a while off. Good luck using him!

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Thanks for the support 👍

Thanks for the awesome comment, and I'm glad you're enjoying the reports! I've actually been on holiday for a week hence the delay. I'll be back next week but I don't have any reports 'ready to go' as of yet so I'll have to see when I can get another game in. I play quite a few other tabletop games and have other time-consuming hobbies too so I'm not always able to play as much as I'd like. I was hoping to get a couple of reports up per month on average - certainly at least one - but to be honest this channel has received a much more positive reaction and faster subscriber growth than I anticipated, and that certainly does fuel my interest in playing more ToW, and trying new armies and list archetypes etc. I just don't know how frequently I'll be uploading reports right now; it's not uncommon for my only free days to be eaten up by other commitments. It may be a bit slow going for the next few weeks while I try and sort out more games and paint up enough models to play a variety of lists (I also have my own Chaos Dwarfs in the works) but I tentatively hope to build up some steam over the summer so please do bear with me!

Thanks for the comment. Flaming attacks doesn't remove regeneration in ToW - go figure! RE the K'daii killing a a scorpion, I thought so too but I just ran the numbers and it's absolutely brutal - the scorpion hits 2 key breakpoints (WS4 and T5) which reduces both of the K'daii's rolls to a measly 4+. On top of that it gets a 6 up armour and a 6 up regen - 10 K'daii attacks only average 1.7 wounds to a scorpion! Their blazing body rule adds another 0.2 wounds but it's still not great. They really want to be blazing through WS2/3 T3 infantry. I believe they should have a 5+ ward, heavy armour, a 3rd wound, or a stomp attack - just *something* to sweeten the deal.

@@Arctovianyeah... hitting on 4+, wounding on 4+ means 2,5 wounds. 2,08 against regen 6+. 0,37 wounds from Blazing Bodies on top of that. I do not see the 6+ armour of scorpion but I might have missed something. True... Only Flammable works with flaming attacks... Man those K'daii are so fragile. Not very playable I believe.

@michaciemniewski9791 Scorpions have heavy armour (whereas the K'daii who literally have armour modelled on them have nothing 🤷‍♂️) so against the -1 from the K'daii they'd still get a 6+ save 👍

Thanks 👍 That's like double what they should have killed on average I think? 5 with blunderbusses in the front rank, so 10 shots, 6.66 hits, 2.22 wounds, 1.54 killed on average after armour and regen. Blunderbusses aren't so scary against T4

@@Arctovian true. There is a mage in a front rank. Not shooter. True. T4 is good against blunderbussiers. Volley fire could be a bit morę useful... But I feel like CR are very expensive. I have a similar list to try myself. I just pit my mage inna Taurus. There is no that much punch otherwise. I like the marching column usagę turn 1.

Thanks for the great comment! You're right about the sphynx - I was just out of range to heal it, and I don't think I could avoid another volley from the tank, so I wanted to make sure it didn't die without doing anything. RE skeleton archers, I agree - I just don't have any models as of yet. I have some on order but it will likely be quite a while before they're painted up. I hope to try out an Ushabti-heavy list and a monster-heavy list before then. Good point about the list terminology- I'll bear that in mind! Ao is just 'Armour of' (I think I used to write Ro and MRo for Rune of / Master Rune of when I played Dwarfs back in 8th edition so it must be slang hangover from that) and LA is light armour, but I'll about such jargon in future 👍

@@Arctovian Ah, that makes sense with the range then, was hard to tell from the picture. At least the sphynx went out in a blaze of glory, so that's a plus.

Thanks 👍 Scorpions are incredible, not sure why they've been given 'all the rules' though! I may try out a couple of caskets. Their damage relies on failed Ld tests which is unreliable but I think they could also be used well for their defensive spell too, I believe it stacks so giving the enemy minus 2 to hit my whole army could be interesting

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There are a few little things that I think should be tweaked with CD to make them 'just right' imo: Fireborn 5+ armour, or slight pts increase and 5++ or 3rd wound Bull Centaurs heavy armour and Furious Charge LET A CASTELLAN RIDE A FRICKIN TAURUS OR LAMMASU!

It came out last week. I've just built 2.

@@suchasnack6015 Still sold out of US markets :/

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Praise Hashut! I mean Settra 😳

@@Arctovian lol

Thanks for the support 🙌

I believe they were from a range called Russian Alternative that don't exist in themselves any more but there may be STL files of them

Thanks Maugan 👍

Thanks for the support 👍 I wish my voice was that nice 😫

it's an ai voice lmao

@MirelurkCakes shhh! You mean an Awesomly Impressive voice, I'm sure 😃

TK priests can summon ambushing units 'from beneath the sands' if they pass a Ld test. The units arrive within 12" of the priest but not within 6" of the enemy, and can't charge afterwards. It's a really good ability and this battle was the first time I've properly made use of it, I'll definitely think about it more in future too

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They're gone 😫 if you play 40k though my other channel Priority Orders Discarded is overflowing with them, too many tbh 🤣

Thank you David 🙌

Thanks Andrew 👍

Thanks! The chaos dwarfs look so good and I believe my opponent will be adding more lava to the bases too

Thanks! They're mummified legions snake riders from Etsy

Praise Hashut!