Whats going on, thoughts and games

So, its been a while since ive posted anything. Ive recieved all my tanks and birds for the Grey Knight, finished 5 of the 6 assassins and awaits the arrival of etched brassings, doors and what I now like to call "dancing TLAC Dreads". So not much happening on the painting front, more on the gaming front tho and alot of cool rumors! So lets start with rumors, Storm of Magic. The WHFB counterpart of Apocalypse. What does this bring to the table? Alot of fun! What does it not bring? Tourney rules tweaks. Now thats not a bad nor good thing, i prefer tourney rules even under casual play. As our fantasy casual play has taken a rather big turn regarding fantasy. But it should be fun aswell. Lets take a look at what you can do with this addition.


You get:
Monsters, terrain, magic.


Monsters: Looks solid enough. A new dragon,manticor and a weird lookin bird. Whats good about it is that I might finaly get to use my chaos dragon again. As the point size of these battles imo are gonna get raised to above 3k, hopefully all the way up to 5k. Now for "new" players 5k might seem alot, but for us "oldies" 5k aint that high. Ofc with the % system you need to have quite alot of core troops. Most armies have cheap ass core troops, so Skaven, The Empire, OnG and other mass armies will probably suffer under this, and GW will sell more and make more money. But the average gamer will have no problem to field a large army of 3 - 5k Goodlyness. Fun!

Terrain: This is where it gets interesting. As far as I can see and read, the new terrain pieces is ace! And the rules of them will be devastating. Im taking a far guess but they will have some rules that can be gamebreaking. +X to cast, loremaster, +X wiz lvl, new spells etc. All fun and games!

Magic: If you have been paying some attention to the rumors and pictures flooding the forums around, you will see that some of the spells are rather big, 20++++ to cast on many of them. They will be devastating and game changing. Now, from a competative POV, this is not good. A wizard ranging from 50-300 points taking out armies single handed. But this will never make it into the tourneys anyway, wich means this is gonna be fun! You see, your wizard gets 4d6+ dices to play with, and new spells! Im guessing the spells either will cost points, or the average wizard will cost more points to be able to cast them. Think of your wizard as a Titan. He will be the centerpiece of your army, and he will incinerate the oponent. What im not getting is what happens to the dwarfs? I have yet to see a single rumor about what they get, or if they get anything. I do realy hope that GW does not give them a "renegade" empire wizard, or a wizard for hire. I hope they get their own rune lore that will be as bad as the next lore. And for "monsters" I do realy hope the airship is in! Everyone that have read Gotrek and Felix would know what im talking about, if you haven't I recommend you read them.