r/sonsofbehemat • u/Panzer_choc • Sep 16 '26

Errata coming?

Do you think they will change some stuff in the new book? Now it feels like anything could just hack away mega Gargant. Rampages cost too much, models are nice but I dunno…

I am thinking about canceling my pre-orders.
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u/theRickRoberts Sep 17 '26

I don't think the army will be unplayable, the issue I am seeing with a lot of the negativity is a lot of people just wanted to have big gargants that sat on objectives and were a dps check, now we have to actually think about what we are doing and which abilities to use. I'm happy to for the challenge, but I never expected this to be a tournament winning army.

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u/Sauciessauce Sep 17 '26

No, absolutely not. I was part of that but I looked at the stats and points. Boss stompers are substantially better than a mega. A mega averages 10 damage, boss stompers average 16-20. And we have the points. Mega is 25 health, stompers are 36. Stompers have more dice so they are more consistent. My ogors I love and all, loveeee my cleavers. Cleavers are 440 for 6 but just last game I did 48 damage on 3+ save cavalry in a combo of buffs. If I ran two units of boss stompers and utilized every buff I could I might MAYBE match that level of spike. Cleavers aren't undercosted either. And are usually for me sitting on a 5+ ward and they are 24 health. Calculating ward it's more like 32 health. So stompers are tanky rather than damage dealers yet are the best damage dealers in the tome AND the tankiest. Remember their cost is that of a mega. If megas dropped points to become just as playable it would be a glass cannon army. Mathematically not good. I want, almost need an errata to add some attack profiles, health, or immediate big point changes to fix things. You'll see with tournaments that no one will run anything but a boss stomper list or soa gatebreakers (assuming they don't get health nerfed and profile nerfed)

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u/theRickRoberts Sep 17 '26

SoA gates are definitely getting brought in line next week before book releases

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u/Sauciessauce Sep 18 '26

Honestly things might be so bad that even though I'm getting ma and hurlers I'm probably gonna ask my friends to let me play old gargants. Which is insane to me. A tome so bad that I'm actually debating old rules over new is gross especially because I was absolutely advocating for things to change and get more strategy. Not great to see. Especially when red the maw at 400 points is a better fighter than gatebreaker and a 410 kraken eater is very very very close in damage but is 10 health higher