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AoS New seraphon formations in Order: Battletome

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Does anybody know what these new formation are, and what are their beneffits?

-Heavenswatch starhost
-Bloodclaw starhost
 
This is what I am wondering. Is it worth chucking the £20 out for those two and to force dust off my Dark Elves ready for battle?
 
:bag: ... not yet ...
 
Hi guys, here I am to save the day. The two formations are based around the notion that the two greatest icons in Seraphon are the Oldblood and the Starseer, and that only their stars can rival the brightness of a Slann. First off, there's the

Bloodclaw Starhost:
  • 1 Saurus Oldblood (on/off Carnosaur).
  • 3 Saurus Heroes in any combination (no Astrolith though)
  • 3-9 units of Saurus Warrios, Guard, or Knights
Abilities:
  • +1 to all jaw and shield attacks.
  • Heroes in the Starhost can use their command ability provided they are within 20" of the Oldblood.
Wow what a battalion; the next one is the

Heavenswatch Starhost:
  • 1 Skink Starseer
  • 2 Heroes from the following: Starpriest, Priest, Trog
  • 3-6 units from the following: Salamanders, Razordon, Flyers, Skinks, Bastiladon, EotG, Stegadon
Abilities:
  • Target an enemy unit the Starseer can see - everything from the battalion can re-roll hit and wound rolls of 1 against it.
  • Monsters in this battalion heal a wound in each of your hero phases.


Wow, what another battalion! Hope you all enjoyed.
 
Shit, those are nice.
Definitely better than the shit formation we got in Thanoquil.
These things could definitely be very, very nasty on the table.
 
Loving the formations, much more useful.
 
Ah, another reason to be hated in my meta... :p

That said...
Why GW is discontinuing antire armies, when they could have given goodies such these ones, with a mere addition of some miniature to existing armies, re-launching their whole line of products?
If you introduce a formation that works around a lot of units of tomb kings' horsemen, even old players would have buyed them, to fied the new toy.
 
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Who knows, but they did what they did and cut Tomb Kings and Bretonnia; I guess the higher ups just had no faith in the two products. The pitfall of AoS seems to be a focus on the EPIC - the two most promoted armies are Chaos and Stormcast; the armies with big, muscular dudes as their mainline infantry. Nothing wrong with that, but it certainly doesn't advocate the goofiness of the Egyptian bone people and the historical emphasis of the French knights.
 
I think this might be solved allready somewhere else in the forum but what if you have a situation like this:

Your army is:
-one oldblood on carnosaur
- 3 units of guard
-Sunblood
-3 units of saurus warriors
-Eternity Warden
-3 units of saurus knights
- scarveteran on coldone

Would that get you the bebefits for all four formations ( bloodclaw, sunclaw, eternal, and firelance warhosts)?

If yes.... That is F**ing insane and awesome at the same time.

Cheers guys
 
Xlanax_lot said:
I think this might be solved allready somewhere else in the forum but what if you have a situation like this:

Your army is:
-one oldblood on carnosaur
- 3 units of guard
-Sunblood
-3 units of saurus warriors
-Eternity Warden
-3 units of saurus knights
- scarveteran on coldone

Would that get you the bebefits for all four formations ( bloodclaw, sunclaw, eternal, and firelance warhosts)?

If yes.... That is F**ing insane and awesome at the same time.

Cheers guys
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I thought units could only be part of one formation unless they were in the starbeast constellation?

If your fielding the models in 4 formations yes it is legal but they only benefit from the one formation.
 
A unit cannot be part of two formations at once. The new formations are for mid-sized games comprised of varied units. The older formations are for people happy to use the same unit more than once.
 
indeed, units can be part of only one formation. but certain formations can be part of another formation to get more benefits. But these are not in that category
 
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