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The King Is Naked...
Posted by
Danrakh
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16 July 2012
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...and thus he's going home for now.
I haven't tested AoD list more than few games (local turney, and... 3(4?) home games), yet i found that King is not enough tooled up against meanest muthaf... in town. I mean he's decent enough to hold and breake for example savage orcs big uns (w/o heroes) with little aid of brave 5 hammerers (a.k.a. Lordpedo). But, when facing something truly badass (VC killer lord, proper tooled dragon, heck - even Lizzie cowboy with S7 is dangerous), he too often dies.
Problem is, he can't have more toys, becouse i'm almost capped by lord slot (599/600), and there is no spare points on Anvil as well (MRo Ballance is crucial here). So i wonder if Dwarf Lord can be replaced by someone or something. On his lordpedo duties, my BSB can do more or less the same, only have to watch out for killing blows (which isn't fine, but MRo Challenge > Ro Preservation). The bright side of this is i will no longer have urgent desire to try to hold something that is too nasty for him (as with my Dwarf Lord), and suddenly i have 227 points to spare.
And now we're talkin' about second major observation - in most games i would very like to use a mid-sized miner unit. I need something to hunt down those pesky mages in their bunkers. Lizzies, elves, O&G, even VC - they all can just sit behind some obstacle, safe from my artillery, and cast all nasty spells, which eventually can break through my dispell abilities. Besides they are easy points as long as one have tools to hunt them down. Same goes for annoying things like warmachines, WoC shrines, enemy Anvil and stuff like that.
So 227 points is enough to field 20 miners with musician with some points left, but not enough for standard bearer. There isn't much points i would find digging through rest of list. Perhaps musician on 5 hammerers or (less likely) their standard bearer. I have to find out how to solve this problem. After that, there will be time for some battletests.
I haven't tested AoD list more than few games (local turney, and... 3(4?) home games), yet i found that King is not enough tooled up against meanest muthaf... in town. I mean he's decent enough to hold and breake for example savage orcs big uns (w/o heroes) with little aid of brave 5 hammerers (a.k.a. Lordpedo). But, when facing something truly badass (VC killer lord, proper tooled dragon, heck - even Lizzie cowboy with S7 is dangerous), he too often dies.
Problem is, he can't have more toys, becouse i'm almost capped by lord slot (599/600), and there is no spare points on Anvil as well (MRo Ballance is crucial here). So i wonder if Dwarf Lord can be replaced by someone or something. On his lordpedo duties, my BSB can do more or less the same, only have to watch out for killing blows (which isn't fine, but MRo Challenge > Ro Preservation). The bright side of this is i will no longer have urgent desire to try to hold something that is too nasty for him (as with my Dwarf Lord), and suddenly i have 227 points to spare.
And now we're talkin' about second major observation - in most games i would very like to use a mid-sized miner unit. I need something to hunt down those pesky mages in their bunkers. Lizzies, elves, O&G, even VC - they all can just sit behind some obstacle, safe from my artillery, and cast all nasty spells, which eventually can break through my dispell abilities. Besides they are easy points as long as one have tools to hunt them down. Same goes for annoying things like warmachines, WoC shrines, enemy Anvil and stuff like that.
So 227 points is enough to field 20 miners with musician with some points left, but not enough for standard bearer. There isn't much points i would find digging through rest of list. Perhaps musician on 5 hammerers or (less likely) their standard bearer. I have to find out how to solve this problem. After that, there will be time for some battletests.
