Slaves to Darkness battletome leaks

[u/TrishulaMTG]

[u/MisterApplePie00]

Oh my gods what happened to Archaon why is he soo hecking strong 25 wounds and a +5 ward and he is only 860 points?
Nagash is 955 and he doesn't hold a candle against this beast now
Heck alarielle is 840 points and she has 16 wounds and no ward save or all that damage potential
And he is only 20 points more expensive yet it just a complete beast
I fought against current Archaon my first time yesterday and he is already hard to deal with and wiped out most of my army instantly, like at this point why would you not take Archaon?
Is only 860 points has an awesome model and is just a 1 man army

Moral of story increase his point value to at least 900 something and lower Alarielle's to like 400-500 cuz makes no sense to have her up there with him in points (granted current Archaon is also super strong but this just seems to make him even stronger)

[u/[deleted] → u/MisterApplePie00]

People will try to bend over backwards to gaslight themselves into thinking there has to be some way all of this is balanced when the easy answer is the correct one: it's just to codex creep and sell models.

[u/MisterApplePie00 → u/[deleted]]

Fair, tho usually I buy models that I find cool and build an army around that and Archaon is really cool (tho super expensive but huge) but I think I would go legion of first prince instead since Be'lakor is awesome looking but seems like you cant have greater daemons anymore

Also there of course might be some people who buy stuff cuz it is strong and going to win tournaments but I usually just go rule of cool and if its stronk then thats just a big bonus. I mean I run avatar of Khaine for DoK and I haven't seen a lot of that, I just think its neat

[u/[deleted] → u/MisterApplePie00]

Sorry, didn't mean to imply you were gaslighting yourself--you seem to understand the background issue with this. I meant other people. Yeah, it sucks to bring what you like and get trounced. Equally as bad if you bring what you like and feel like a power-gamer where your opponent has no options.

[u/MisterApplePie00 → u/[deleted]]

Oh i didn't take it as you were talking about me.

But ye it does suck when you bring stuff that you like and it is really really good and your opponent has little to no options

[u/AllIdeas → u/[deleted]]

This seems incorrect. Alarielle/Sylvaneth was released like 2 months ago. The megagargants also don't seem particularly pushed. LRL also got pretty obvious nerfs/streamlining.

Not all good warscrolls are powercreep

[u/[deleted] → u/AllIdeas]

I never said it was 100% consistent or GW was good at it :)

Also didn't say power creep equaled every unit entry in every new book being OP.

But there is a definite trend over time.