Following the release of the General's Handbook, find out who these Galletian Veterans are, why they're so important in pitched battles, and what a Bounty Hunters core battalion can do for you. Louis Aguilar explains all. Terrifying Entity is the one we’re going to be testing first – with the number of interactions based around terrified , having your general project a 6” Aura of Dread rather than 3” could be quite nasty. It doesn’t give your general any personal bonuses, but Nighthaunt heroes have always been more about buffing their army rather than being blenders themselves. This multipart plastic kit builds one Awlrach the Drowner, a unique Hero and Totem for Nighthaunt armies. Propelling his odious, decaying skiff with a deathwood oar, this ghastly figure offers a tremendous boost to his army's mobility by delivering units across the battlefield. He’s also a worthy painting challenge, loaded with grisly nautical details and a variety of textures to experiment with, from rusted iron and rotting wood to vengeful, ethereal spirits. We may have been a bit harsh on Nagash all of, uh, three paragraphs ago, but we really don’t think he has competitive viability at the top tables. He’s a model that’s very binary with victory almost decided at the list building step; if your army can solve the problem of him existing, you win, and if you can’t, you lose; there’s not a lot of tactical nuance or gameplay here. Bringing Nagash to a friendly game can lead to some real feels-bad moments when your opponent can’t solve him and you take off half their army, or they kill him round two and you’ve flat out just lost the game. We love Nagash at Goonhammer, but we’d happily see him reduced in power to increase in survivability and fun for everyone at the table.

Letters, painting advice, and beautifully painted miniatures. This month: a big green god and the Martian Mechanicum. We first saw this new Nighthaunt miniature at AdeptiCon, and it’s time to find out what makes him oar-some on the battlefield. GW revealed the Season of War: Thondia supplement along with some new models including the Thondian Strongpoint Terrian and Awlrach the Drowner at their Adpeticon Preview! In the first part of a limited-run series, six Captains of the Legiones Astartes embark on a mission to build and paint armies in preparation for the invasion of the Death Guard's toxic home world. These are enormous benefits and will really change how the army plays. In the old rules your ghosts only got the 6+ ward save while within 12+ of a Nighthaunt Hero, limiting their ability to spread out over the battlefield. Now it’s just innate; you can use your various movement shenanigans to put your models exactly where they need to be without risking them losing their save.Your opponent won’t have anywhere to hide, which will pair perfectly with the battle traits we showed you last week. These are much more exciting to us than the Grand Strategies, offering a range of tactical choices. We’re expecting at least one of these to be achievable every turn of the game, so all that’s left now is practice how to get the most out of them! Credit: PierreTheMime Units In his mortal life, Awlrach promised aid and safe transport to desperate travellers, only to send his victims to a grisly death in the briny deeps. When Awlrach’s spirit made its way to Nagash, the reward for his treachery was an eternity of service. Now this sinister boatman dredges up wayward souls to bolster the Nighthaunt hosts, and ferries them through the ethereal plane to wherever they will cause the most terror.

If you’ve been looking for a box of AoS Terrain the Thondian Strongpoint may be perfect to both fill out your table and to play games with the new supplement… Season of War: Thondia supplement Plus this box has the new Krondspine Incarnate of Ghur that is supposedly a new type of unit altogether! You can get this model and a ton of terrain in the new Thondian Strongpoint box set that looks to have everything you need for the new Season of War Thonida supplement! One of the broader trends here is to strip out sources of rerolls wherever they were found and replace them with new effects or simply rewrite the scroll entirely. Despite having a whopping 16 leaders out of 27, many of these leaders have been tweaked and written to have a specific niche, resulting in a selection where you can make an argument to include almost everything here. Leaders Let it never be said that we here at Goonhammer are afraid to change our minds or admit mistakes. A unit of contention in our Arena of Shades review, Myrmourn Banshees are looking like some of the real big winners in this book. With all the benefits of running a tonne of small units, a unit or two of these ladies can put out some serious hurt (rend -3 on a good Wave of Terror charge!) while also helping shut down an enemy magic phase that is likely already struggling with the plethora of excellent wizards you’re likely already taking. Spell-eaters lets you roll 2D6 every time an enemy spell is cast, not unbound and targets a unit within 12”, and if you beat the casting value (adding +1 if your banshees have three or more models) the spell is unbound or dispelled. This is superb , as it really doesn’t matter how many bonuses the enemy has. Nagash and Teclis can both cast with some absurdly high numbers, but these ladies don’t care – your casting value six spell stays at six, doesn’t matter if you rolled a 16 to cast it. A unit or two of these is our third near auto-include unit. List building and competitive thoughts

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You can use this to yank a full unit of Chainrasps off one objective and onto another to secure a Conquest Battle Tactic, for instance. Or for a more aggressive move, you can reposition a unit of Craventhrone Guard behind a wall and fire through it with their spectral bolts.