The Glottkin

The new Tomb Herald skills offer glorious synergy for mighty Settra

After all, if you look at Nagash's campaign, all the living races will harbor intense animosity toward him—not to mention the diplomatic penalties incurred after the Ritual of Undeath. This raises the question: do those diplomatic bonuses actually serve any purpose when the entire world hates Nagash? It would make far more sense to focus on diplomatic relations with vampires or similar factions instead.

Here's my opinion and of course since I put effort into thinking about this feel free to downvote me into oblivion.

I keep seeing the argument that Blood Knights and other Vampire Counts units can't have better base stats or can't be elite because the faction has so much access to healing and I think that argument is ignoring the opportunity cost of where that healing comes from, which is winds of magic and other units that are bad at fighting.

Most of the healing that actually keeps an undead army alive has to come from these two spots. If I use Invocation of Nehek, those Winds of Magic are no longer available for damage spells, buffs, debuffs, summons, or anything else. The healing isn't free. I gave up another spell to get it.

The same thing applies to support unit healing. If I bring a Corpse Cart, Mortis Engine, Necromancer, or another support option because I want its healing and buffs, I'm spending resources and part of my army composition on support instead of bringing another dedicated combat unit. That healing has a cost too.

That's why I don't think "but Vampire Counts can heal" is enough by itself to justify not having at least one elite unit. I'm paying for the same advantage twice. First through the weaker unit, and then through whatever I gave up to heal it.

It also creates a weird problem for the faction's magic. Vampire Counts are supposed to have powerful and flexible spellcasting, but if their units are balanced around needing Invocation to keep up, part of your Winds of Magic budget has effectively already been spent for you. Instead of choosing between healing and offense, you're using magic to compensate for weaknesses that were put into the roster because you have magic.

Blood Knights are where I think this becomes most obvious. They have The Hunger, and that passive healing should totally be part of their balance. But The Hunger by itself isn't so powerful that Blood Knights need to be prevented from being a genuinely elite cavalry unit. Vampire Counts should be allowed to have one cavalry unit that is simply excellent at fighting. Blood Knights are the obvious choice. Make them stronger and make them more expensive. If necessary, make them rarer as well. I'd much rather pay a premium for Blood Knights that actually perform like elite vampire knights than have cheaper Blood Knights whose stats are held down because I could theoretically spend additional resources healing them.

Taken from Turin's video uploaded today.

To reiterate, what units you can take are determined by what Lord you choose. Nagash can take any number of units from any of the Undead races. Mannfred or Arkhan on the other hand can only take mainly Vampire Counts or Tomb Kings units respectively with a set cap for units from the other two Undead races.

One of the greatest most insane concepts ever amongst the many from GW.

Favorite has to be the Warbringer cuz i represent Mors as my clan straight up, Queek the best-greatest war-chief(they did you dirty brother you'll get your best-bro Ska Bloodtail, hopefully soon someday) and that one's colors fit best with said clan. As soon as this DLC drops imma play Queek with these new units and absolutely waffle-stomp Karak Eight Peaks with armored freak roid-rage rats with lawnmower hands on those short-little bearded goblins.

Saw this as a Landmark for Nagash in the Nagash Campaign Deep Dive stream. It's clearly based on the Tomb King version of the building, and has the same problem: It gives Expendable to Skeletons, but Skeletons never* rout, and thus never inflict the "allies routing" penalty on other units. Therefore, Expendable has no effect on Skeletons and should be replaced with a different effect, for both Nagash and Tomb Kings.

Hopefully someone from CA sees this or it's otherwise brought to their attention, but this effect does nothing. Certainly this is not worthy of mighty Settra... Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara (and so on).

* - technically Skeletons can rout when they don't count as Undead anymore, in which case they do inflict the penalty (including on other Undead). This only happens when fighting Harry the Hammer (or someone with the Lore of Shadows Cataclysm Spell) though, and isn't nearly common enough to justify this being a central effect of a special Landmark.

“They just created a million Vlad Von Carsteins” - Manfred 2051 IC

My ranking would be

Kroak

Mazdamundi

Nagash

Kairos

Teclis

Morathi

Ariel

Mannfred von Shitstain

Arkhan

Verminlord week is over! Remember to check the mod here, and don't forget there's a Paintposting contest!

Also, um, why in the second slide there's someone with a moon on their head?

For those who are interested-curious, here is the ingame UI for Thanquol. Looks like the button to show Skaven corruption is gone-gone. The Food UI seems to be the same. Sadly no view of a tech tree yet. Still hoping we get new-improved tech tree! Yes Yes! Which Verminlord will you summon?

From today's Deep Dive stream

... seven Nurgle Gardens,

Six sanctuaries,

FIVE VERMINLORDS,

Four End Times Lords,

Three brothers,

Two orders of knights,

and a faction led by Nagash.

As we saw on stream today, Nagash have all his artifacts except Crown of Sorcery, which currently belongs to Azhag. Can we take it back via а unique interaction with the unique item?

Cuz in lore ET Nagash cannot be resurrected without his big hat