Re: The new book: Everything in one place! [updated 28/07]
I just wish they'd make the SC's usable for once. So sick of the 'x million points, half the effectiveness' trend of Warhammer SC's (aside from OP stuff like Teclis). Right now, none of our current SC's can hold a candle to the builds we can make out of generics.
Kroak, Mazdamundi and Kroq-Gar need to stop being 400 billion points apiece. Lord restrictions make them impossible to field below certain game sizes anyway, so why bother? They'll never kill that much stuff, or affect the game in a way that reflects that cost. For gods sake, some dragons cost less than them. Kroak should be at most 50pts more than a regular Slann. Same for Mazdamundi, his mount doesn't mean anything when a single cannonball dismounts him. Kroq-Gar is a travesty, his unlock is worthless as it is only a single unit (why it doesn't just change CoC to Core I don't know, its not even that powerful).
Gor-Rok better have a strong ward or something cool to make him tougher than a normal Scar-Vet, otherwise he's just a pretty proxy for one. Chakax is very easy; make him grant ASF to himself and ASL to enemy models in base to base, and his weapon nullifies all magic items (magic weapons revert to their base type, ie great weapon, hand weapon etc). Done. He's a challenge god, but cannonballs and death magic can still get him, like any other melee god hero.
Hopefully our magic armoury won't get completely cleaned out. Burning Blade, Piranha Blade and Shield of the Mirrored Pool are cool and should stay. Blade of Eternities is suitably OP and characterful, it'll probably stay as a Lord weapon. Cupped Hands is gone, I don't even need to see the book. I hope the cursed totem we use to kill Teclis and other Mages Turn 1 stays, its cool and being bound it can be blocked by standard anti-magic anyway. The Banner of Stupidity might stay, I hope the Sun Standard stays too (stacking that with 'Pha's Protection' is hilarious). The rest is either terrible or can be replicated by generic magic items from the main rulebook. Cube would be cool to keep, but I suspect its gone (way too effective against RIP).
Saurus need a cost downgrade or more attacks (Frenzy wouldn't be a bad rule). Also, their Command groups need to be 5-10 points for each guy, the random costings makes writing a list a pain.
TG need magic weapons and a WS/I upgrade. That would justify their cost. Everything else about them is fine really.
CoC need a price downgrade, same stat upgrade as TG, and lances (spears are retarded).
Skinks are fine really, fix Krox to not be terrible and Skrox will work fine.
Salamanders are broken, expect a nerf incoming (sigh). Hopefully Razordons are better though as a result.
Stegs need better stats or a price downgrade, they're very expensive cannonball bait without either. EOTG should give a 4+ ward to its Steg+rider, same 5+ aura it gives currently to stuff around it.
