THE STORMHOSTS OF SIGMAR ARMY LIST - play test draft I

Nice work Kevin!

On the whole the army will suffer from high cost, low movement (except flyers) and lack of magic (only expensive level 1-2 wizards and no scroll). On the other hand everything is stubborn and hard to kill.

Small point: in the army list entry for the Lord-Relictor you've written Lord-Celestant rather than Lord-Relictor in several places.

Unfortunately my vacation is over so I won't be playtesting anytime soon.

Thanks for the comments.

I just reposted a new PDF because the typos I made with the Lord-Relictor really annoyed me - thanks for pointing that out Anton. Vazalaar, I added skirmishers to the Warrior Priest while I was editing it, that was an oversight, thanks.

I'm certainly not convinced of balance yet, but hopefully we will get some nice playtesting results.

Thanks!

The warrior priest unit is cool. Reminds me of the old Eshin Triad that I didn't make any friends with.

The question is what can an expensive unit of 6 Warrior Priest achieve? With two hand weapons, the unit will have 18 attacks with WS 4, Strength 4 with hatred and a 5+ armour save. Not bad but any other unit that costs 420 points or less will uterly destroy the unit.

All the WP spells are at the casters unit, so no extra benefits there that a single WP wouldn't achieve.

You do have the chance to channel 6 power or dispel dice.

Why not make WP an upgrade to the Flaggelant unit? And per 20 Flaggelants you can add a WP to the unit.

Or add a kind of Henchmen to the WP unit?

I feel like warrior priest attacks should have always been magical. These guys should come with magical attacks. In a semi-unrelated comment I am seeing them in the same weight class as a unit of vc wraiths.

Great work as always Kevin. Here are my comments:

I find it interesting that the hatred Chaos special rule includes Skaven but not Orcs and Goblins. It seems to me either both armies should be included or neither (and I would personally lean towards neither).

With the riders of the storm special rule I think you will want to address what happens if the template moves off the table. Is the unit destroyed, does the template stop when it touches a table edge or something else? Also, if a hit and misfire are rolled what happens?

With the celestial hammers. I believe this is a BS based shooting attack that will need to roll to hit but I don't believe this is clear. I would add some text to clarify. Also, the minis have two hammers, so do they get to throw both? Shooting attacks are one shot unless there is the multiple shot (x) special rule. So currently I would say they get one shot, if the intent is a shot for each hammer this should be stated.

With the warding lantern bound spell, what is the duration? I believe the spell description should state either until the start of the casters next magic phase, remains in play or for the remainder of the game.

With Lord Celestant Vandus Hammerhand and the generic Lord Celestant on Dracoth I think for that many points (610 or 500) they should have 7 wounds that way a single cannon ball can't take them out. I don't think this is out of line either since the Lord Celestant on foot has 5 wounds and you are using the combined profile. I think the addition of the Dracoth would warrant a total of 7 wounds.

With the Stormcast Judicators a 10 point increase over the liberators does not seem like enough of an increase to me. The skybolt bow is really good. The Judicators also really don't loose much in the way of still being able to fight in close combat.

vazalaar, good point about the Priests.