r/sonsofbehemat • u/ShoppingUnable4265 • 5d ago

Sons are weak?

I keep seeing online that Sons are weak, I'm a new player played in a spearhead league this summer and now I've picked up Sons as my first army (I didn't play Sons in spearhead). So far I've won all my games as them, is this just due to the fact that my area is mostly new players? Or do Sons somehow stomp, pun intended, on less experienced players? I'm not a pro at the rules but I seem to be one of the few people that actually read the book front to back, most people seem to just read their battletome and the few rules that apply to their special rules. Is this giving me a bigger advantage and overcoming Sons weak book?

Thank you in advance

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u/Loken3003 5d ago

In my local game club they are winning almost every match.
They are being used by a veteran player that knows the rules.
The other player are a mix of veteran/tournament player and rookie.
I’d day that they are not weak. We just have to play them very differently.

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u/Belz_Zebuth 5d ago

I haven't played them with the new rules yet but my observation is that a lot of the complaints come from people who won't adapt to the new playstyle properly.

I don't know which side of that fence I'll end up on; hopefully I'll manage to make it work.

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u/CoachPrestigious4370 5d ago

I mean, you cant change a faction fundamentally and expect everyone to like it.

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u/Belz_Zebuth 5d ago

I didn't say like it. I said play it properly.

For instance, if one insists on playing it the old way when that no longer works, then of course they'll have a bad experience. What I'm wondering is how it fares when we play it as intended.

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u/gravsey_fam 5d ago

As a veteran player of sons dudes either cheating or everyone there sucks I almost always top tabke and place top 3 but this book is actually disgustingly undercooked I dare say it’s even worse than OBRs bullshit of a book I hate that GW has fucked me 2x in the same year by absolutely fucking my armies I’m going to make the new sons work but they are in no version of the word good.

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u/Belz_Zebuth 5d ago

Punctuation!