I have a feeling that I'm going to really hate the new Elves just because I have a feeling that they're going to be very overpowered when they're released. Like people have said, older armies get updated to be just ok while new armies tend to be OP as heck to spur more sales.
Pretty much. I'm confident that Lumineth are going to be overpowered, with some abilities (or models) simply broken.
I already know what many of my friends are saying: but new seraphon are overpowered, they can do this, this and that.
Yeah, we can do many things... employing a large number of support characters, relying on combos and spells, buffing 1 unit at a time.
to push ourselves to the point (or even over it) where new armies already are, simply by existing, with no need of synergies from other units.
To be fair, they have made the new Ghazghkull powerful enough to take down anything short of Magnus (including Guilliman), but I’d be sceptical if they ever did that for the Swarmlord, because they largely don’t care about the proper Xenos races (Necrons, Orks, Tyranids, Genestealer Cults), only the more human xenos races like Eldar and Tau.
Swarmlord should be truly powerful. Not primarch level, but much stronger and resilient than it actually is. A 'nids player shouldn't be forced to field multiple swarmlords in the hope that one of them will do
something.
The same can be said for Necrons and Eldar.
Tau: we already saw what they received with psychic awakening; their special characters are just a slightly souped up version of the basic counterpart. But i could live with it, as it's supposed that Tau work more as a fully coordinated army, less reliant on a single named powerhouse.
I would be against powerful single characters for Genestealer cult: after all, each cult is basically a throw-away army, which by eaten with the arrival of the hive fleet…
Would rather have had a Bretonnian or Khemri team, but these would be great for making Snotling Bases and Pump Wagons for Warhammer Fantasy Greenskin armies.
