8th Ed. ETC Thunder Thunder Thunder !!!! :)

[Ejpok]

Hello,
As many tournaments here are on the Stupid ETChammer, there are many new ideas that come into my mind. And since now there is a Team game in a short while. I've decided to Try this:


1 Slann Mage-Priest
General; 2 Discipline; Magic Level 4; Battle Standard
# Focus of Mystery
# Focused Rumination
Cube of Darkness
Divine Plaque of Protection

1 Skink Priest @ 405.0 Pts
Magic Level 1; Lore of Heaven
Dispel Scroll
Dawnstone
1 Ancient Stegadon with Engine of the Gods
4 Skink Crew
Javelin

1 Saurus Scar-Veteran
Great Weapon
Armour of Fortune
Dragonbane Gem
Venom of Firefly Frog
1 Cold One

22 Saurus Warriors
Shield; Standard; Musician
1 Champion

10 Skink Skirmishers
Blowpipe

10 Skink Skirmishers
Blowpipe

10 Skink Skirmishers
Blowpipe

10 Skinks
Javelin; Shield; Musician

10 Skinks
Javelin; Shield; Musician

1 Ancient Stegadon
2 Giant Blow Pipes
5 Skink Crew
Javelin

1 Ancient Stegadon
2 Giant Blow Pipes
5 Skink Crew
Javelin

1 Stegadon
Giant Bow
5 Skink Crew
Javelin

The point of this army is that Lore of Death and Shadow spells are limited to 4 PD max. And there is huge limit on the Warmachine count. Besides in Team games I will be paried againts armies like Skaven or VC. I was thinking of using Lore of Fire, but this lore is a little too situational
What Do you think?

 

[Hebus]

First, in ETC, you have a maximum of 2 DD. With Focus rumination counting as 2 DD, a cube of darkness 1DD and a Dispell Scroll 1DD, you've too much of them.
The limit on warmachines is 4, which permit to have a nice anti monster force. And you've go nothing to deal with them. Against an army full of warmachine, I do think you'll lose one stegadon each turn or couple of turn. Which means you'll lose one or 2 stegadon before getting into close.

 

[Ejpok]

Dude,
Rumination dosen't consume your DD limit. Cogitations Does. Rumination adds only 2 PD. Don't forget that there is Stupid Line of sight not Tlos...

 

[Hebus]

Oh yeah, I made a confusion between those 2 (french book, french name! it's *french accent* Aphorisme apaisant and Concentration métaphysique *french accent* )
What does TloS stands for ?

 

[Arli]

True line of sight. In other words, put your eye at the same level as your model, if you can see the target, so can your model.

 

[Hebus]

True line of sight. In other words, put your eye at the same level as your model, if you can see the target, so can your model.

Okay, that's was I would have guessed
As far as I'm concerned, I do think TLoS sucks, and like the ETC los. TLoS are easy to mess up and spend 20 minutes to tell if you do see or not the enemy...

V. Simple Line of Sight
All units and terrain pieces are divided into the following three categories.
- Blocking: Hills, Buildings and impassable terrain.
These block Line of Sight, even to other blocking terrain (You can't see through it).
- Non-Blocking: Rivers, marches and swarms.
Does not block Line of Sight (You can see through them/it).
- Interfering: All other terrain and units.
Does not block Line of Sight (You can see through them/it).

What I dont understand is your point about it :
are you talking about not getting shot by warmachines by using vision ?
'cause when you take a look at ETC maps, there are not a lot of building, hills and impassable terrain in the middle of the map AND there are a lot of hills in deployment zone. And your unit does not block LoS.

 

[walkertexasranger]

looks like a fun this to play!
Any opponent that hasn't brought 4 cannons or a dragon is going to be wetting themselves as you progressively plonk one monster after the next on the table haha.

I would try and get some chamo skinks in there though, a unit of 5 can take care of one war machine which would help a lot.

 

[Ejpok]

Well,
4 warmachines but Empire has Cannons 0-3 and Stank is a Cannon too. Besides, in ETC you get to be picked to the right opponent and not to make an allrounder list