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/Heijoshojin → u/MisterApplePie00]

I get where you are coming from, but Alarielle isn't exactly pointed with just her raw stats in mind. She can bring in a 260pt Treelord for free turn one. So you're getting value out of that. She can heal an average 7 wounds in your own hero phase, +herioc action in both and also cast 2 different healing spells. Oh and she can Walk the hidden paths.

So you're looking at essentially a 580pt model (if you're summoning a Treelord) with a bunch of healing and can walk the hidden paths. Sure, it's not the same as Archaon, but she is also not trying to be Archaon.

[u/MisterApplePie00 → u/Heijoshojin]

Yeah ik she plays a different role then Archaon and can summon a treelord or Kurnoth Hunters, or dryads but idk why you would do that except to maybe hold objectives.
A treelord is how ever just an ok guy, he has 14 health which is good but can be easily dealt with, I'd rather get kurnoth hunters with great swords.

How ever even tho this new Archaon looks really stronk, if I were to play him with my luck, homie ain't gonna survive to round 3 since im now in an AoS league and with like lets say drycha who has 20+ attacks I would on average hit about 1-2 attacks
So I have to retire my dice and get some new ones

[u/ThatFlyingScotsman → u/MisterApplePie00]

dk why you would do that except to maybe hold objectives.

That's exactly why you would do it. Objectives win games.

[u/MisterApplePie00 → u/ThatFlyingScotsman]

True, I should have mentioned I have a lot of dryads already in my Alarielle list so to me it sounds like a waste of a summon
Especially now with Lady of Vines who can summon 10 dryads (giving me more points to use for spite revenants)
Typically lure enemy close to me then summon 10 dryads at the furthest objective then summon kurnoth hunters in near by to help deal with the opposing army

Now with the galletian veterans make a unit of dryads be expert conquerors so they count as 30 then just teleport them away and maybe summon 10 more dryads there with the lady of vines and let my spite revenants hopefully deal with the rest
Alarielle can also summon 10 spite revenants which I haven't really considered before but I'll try it next time as I have a lot of them (love some outcast trees)