u/DrRedwing

1DP Carnival of Excess?

Today has not been the most exciting for us given our reveals unfortunately (although the fly changes are pretty big for us).

Most people were quite disappointed to hear that the flexible detachment structure has been unfortunately quiet about the potential of using detachments to bring in allies. However, after looking back at the knight reveals, I noticed that their old grotmas detachments have been cannibalized into 1DP detachments which felt surprising. Interestingly, both of those detachments provide 500 points of relevant allies as well as incredibly powerful rules relative to other 1DP detachments so far (+1 BS, new keywords in heavy, healing on tanky knight units, reroll leadership with buffed battleshock mechanics, etc.).

What are the odds we get a rework of our demon's detachment from the codex with a similar structure of 500 points of demons and restricted strats/enhancements? There could be a discussion of datasheet power/variety between our demons and the allied cultists/admec units, but it isn't like our demons are particularly strong or versatile (especially with the fights first nerf on the only demon unit that sees play). The sustained hits and potential crits on 5s can be a good damage increase albeit with the tax of needing to bring demons to gain the buff. However, healing knights and giving cheap units to those armies is very strong by comparison!

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u/DrRedwing — 2 days ago