u/ch4ppi_revived

I played against a friend. Me DG, he played GK.

I basically played the same list for the last 10 games against him, so he knows my list quite well. He usually switches army list and detachments a lot, which always mean I have to kinda relearn what the strats and detachment rules are. Today we played our first game of 11th. I played a new combo of detachments, mixed it all up ended up with a detachment that basically didn't support my army and he played some new combo of detachments.

Stage is set, we play and I want to shoot at the Paladins on central objective that are in combat with my demon prince. Everything sets up to shoot and charge them, then I fall back. At which point he reveals he has a strat that lets him take his Paladins back into reserves.

Now for me this is a bit of "Gotcha". I don't know all the strats he has and imo no one can expect me to read up all the strats/rules and remember them all. He said I should have asked, when I fell back, if he can do anything then, which I feel like would lead me to have to ask about basically every move I do.

Just as a counter example: He wanted to move a unit back far enough so my poxwalkers werent able to get it in contagion next round. I told him ** "Yeah if you go there I can still get you in contagion, but Id need to use this strat." **

Please let me know, how you see it in your games?

Just a quick comparison with newrecruit. Let me know if something is wrong and Ill change it

Tallyman and Plaguecaster leader, so we are good.

+5 HBL

-10 DP with wings

+20 Morti,

-10FoulBlightspawn,

+5 Icon Bearer,

-10 LoP,

+10 Tallyman,

+10 Noxious Blightbringer

- 5 PM (for 5 and 7)

-5 Helbrute

+40 Defiler/+60 for autocannon/lasers

-25 first PBC, then normal (PBC dead)

Demons:

+15 Rotigus

+15 GUO

-5 Plaguebearers

+5 Nurglings

+5 Beast of Nurgle

-5 Plague Drones

Not gonna lie, we kinda got the bad end of the stick. Also Foul blightspawn is a bad datasheet for now.

Please help me to not get worried about infantry. As far as we know the rules, there has been a lot of changes, that are slightly in favor of big models/vehicles and a lot stuff that is bad for infantry. Just a list of some things:

• Cleave
• New coherency
• Infantry has a lot more trouble to gain Cover, since partial cover is gone, especially big bricks
• Big models have it VERY easy to get cover
• Big models can toe footprints to get full vision
• Free Pivot
• Fly
• Maps seem to have bigger open spaces? (could be wrong here)

Infantry don't seem to gain much apart from Hidden? That's it no?

Nothing is like game destroying I think, but it all warps the game in one way towards vehicles, unless I'm underestimating Hidden hardcore. Am I missing something?

I was hoping for more interesting "damaged" rules for vehicles as well.