AoS First two AoS Games - LM vs Skaven

[soldmi]

First of, I'll honestly say I liked this game, it got my 40k friends to play fantasy with me.
I played two games against my opponent. He has only played CS:M before so it was quite new to him with not having a superior firepower compared to my 40k nid army.

The lists:

LM:
1 Slann
1 Gor-Rok
1 Old-Blood
1 Skink Priest
10 Saurus warriors
5 Templeguard
1 Salamander + 3 handlers close to him.

Skaven:
Isle of Blood plus some extra (sorry I don't remember).

Power creep?:
The lists was really on par, and we didn't really plan well about balance we just tossed things on the table. He won once and I won once. We had a really good time, each battle was a butt-clenching at the end and each time it was so close for both of us. I don't know if it was luck by balance or just shitty dice play.

Units that stood out:
LM: Salamander, mein gott! I was so happy with it that I've bougth another.
Skaven: His rat-ogres did massive damage when they where close. So the turn I won*, my salamander toasted them pretty fast.

Pros:
- Fast paced games
- Fun
- There is some tactics to it
- Close-combat range was a fun aspect
- Summons are cool
- 10 bravery is SWEEEEET

Cons:
- Confusing without a point system
- Slanns don't feel like strong magician anymore due to just have 1 damaging spell.
- Magic is to simple to my taste
- Feel like lizardmen don't have "scaly skin" anymore.
- I can't customize units with upgrades to make them "anti something something"

What next?:
I will defiantly play this game again. I had a lot of fun. Sure I'll square base everything and play 8th when my friends wants larger battles, but for a entry level game. I really hope they build it up with expansions. So it's a thumbs up for a beer and pretzels games. For a tournament game I don't quite see how it will work.

Sorry for a boring battle/review. First time writing something like this.

Edit: some spelling, sorry English isn't my native tongue

 

[Caprasauridae]

Not boring, I enjoyed reading your short evaluation, especially the pros and cons. I have yet to have any AoS games, so can't really comment on any of the points.

 

[Qupakoco]

I think the resounding theme with all the games I've seen reports of is basically summed up with your main points.

Pros: Fast, Fun, Easy.
Cons: Confusing structure, not really a Tourny-type game.

Thanks for the insight!

 

[n810]

- Feel like Lizardmen don't have "scaly skin" anymore.

I get the feeling that the shield that reduces rend, (up to -2)
is supposed to represent out "scaly skin"..?

I mean just about every unit has this item.

 

[KingCheops]

Yes that is the impression. Although from my read of the rules it seems like we only ignore Rend values not reduce them. So -2 Rend is still the full -2.

 

[n810]

Yep, that what I meant, so if we faced a rend -3 and better we would take the whole thing.
Thankfully there don't seem to be a lot of those around.



Ps. hey, you've been around a while... you want a custom Avatar.

 

[Akt'uatl]

I think the beauty of Slann is their summoning ability. 3 different summon spells is sooo great!