Warhammer 8th Edition Army Changes

[Admiral-Badruck]

I think you are going to wait until 8th where daemons are going to lose all their good points...

[Primarch]

I think you are going to wait until 8th where daemons are going to lose all their good points...

Except, they wont. None of the rumoured changes actually does anything to daemons.
High Elves are taking a beating with the Nerf stick though.
Always Strikes First no longer works with Great Weapons. Suddenly 3 of my best units (Sword Masters, White Lions and Lion Chariots) are all going to die before they get to hit anything.

[Admiral-Badruck]

percentage is going to keep the blood thirster off the table except in very large battles...

[Primarch]

25% Lords + 25% Heroes is the current rumour. That means you can use him in anything over 1800 points.

How about a 1799 point game Badruck?

[Admiral-Badruck]

Sure thing

[Colonel Voss]

Yeah elves are taking a pounding but with the 25% special and 25% rare not valid, they are getting a boost which is good as my current list got neutered something fierce

I'm not sure, but it looks like dwarfs might be getting a serious boost from this rule set.

[Primarch]

Bearing in mind that you still have to field 25% core, that only leaves you with 75% for Lords, Heroes, Specials and Rares.
The High Elves will always have the same problem, whether its in the current 7th ed or 8th ed. Our special choices are so expensive, we can't have a lot of them. In 7th ed I almost never fill my allowed number of special slots because if I do that I cant afford any characters. In 8th ed it will be the same. Even with no limit, I cannot get a lot of special troops because their cost per model is so high.

[Colonel Voss]

Very true, however with the 25% limit I was able only to get a small unit of dragon nights and a medium block of white lions so any little help I can get would be great

[Admiral-Badruck]

Well do your Core units suck that bad?

[Primarch]

We have a choice of bowmen, spearmen or spearmen with bows (or is that bowmen with spears?). None of them are paticularly bad, but the real killing power is in the special section: cavalry, chariots and decent infantry units.