Another illuminating podcast. Effectively a part 2 for CC499. It covers CoK21, Armada, Halflings & their playstyle, speculation on teased silhouette, combined sprues rationale, sales and a discussion on using Mantic minis.
I’ve just pulled out the Clash info (first 15min and another 5 at 50min in):
Working on the book for the bulk of the year
Halflings - stuff not seen in Kings before
RC to look at monsters (promote sales of expensive resin kits)
Master/theme lists - theme lists tweak master units. Example was Gladestalkers: SK ignore cover, Reg Elves better melee, TK something else
Well over 100 pages
Comparison drawn with CoK2018
Will work with EasyArmy from day one
Certain main game mechanics are changing - conditional inspiring given as the example
New ways of implementing how keywords give benefits (Halflings & Tinker mentioned)
Confirms lots of magic carried over from Halpi’s Rift
This includes artifacts, for example the Wizard’s Hat
On the whole this was talked about as a ‘big shake up’ of the game. I got the impression it was considered to be finishing third ed (my words).
Theme lists tweaking master list units sounds good IMO - countless options there. It would allow for some fine tuning of the theme lists.
Also, monsters being tweaked and becoming a solid choice sounds good, as long as it doesn’t tip too far in the other direction.
Only reservations are that such a wide scale update of the game will be harder to balance than a more incremental approach. You’re also getting further away from being able to use the rulebooks to build armies (though most will be using EasyArmy).
I’d recommend listening to the podcasts as there’s a feel for the direction of movement with KoW and Mantic that I haven’t captured in the notes.
Going to listen to the full thing after dinner, but aren’t the Regular Elves the baseline and shouldn’t be getting theirs tweaked? They already have Drakons they don’t need better Gladestalkers!! Also ignoring Cover really isn’t the buff it could be given that Gladestalkers’ issue is Def 5+ spam…
So Kyle hinted the secret winter release would be for a theme list and that there would be some text about it in the ‘Halpi’s Rift’ book. Educated guesses anyone?
Looks like a wingless manticore. Arent’t manticore from persian/Greek/egyptian mythiology? Maybe its for a new theme army based on empire of dust, like the ophidian empire. Then they can sell the EoD minis from before and make some new humanoids/demonic djinns minis. There was a few mentions of the ophidians in the halpis rift lore. Just a guess?
To me that looks like a regular cavalry base? There’s also a chance that’s not a stinger but the prickle of a lion’s tail and some other detail.
In one of the podcasts they remark on the EoD conversion kits being outdated. Redone EoD minis and Ophidians would get more bang for their buck out of any new kits. Plus Ohpidians get a mention in Halpi’s.
Garkan is one of the Wicked Ones.
So not noble orcs.
Possibly orcs allied with the Abyss or just with rules befitting the Celestial Plane (i.e. lending rules from Basilea).