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When Balthasar Gelt arrives in Grand Cathay

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The hellstorm rocket battery and cathay missile launcher will now have to compete on who will "accidentally" blow up their own frontlines faster.

Oh hell storm is winning 100%. I love them but goddamn I’m glad spearmen are cheap because they die aloy

u/SOMETHINGCREATVE avatar

Empire is order tide skaven, tell me I'm wrong

You ain’t wrong. Cool steampunk tech, in fighting, cheap infantry, power comes from ranged and artillery(and heavy cavalry)

Bretonnia disagrees

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see you can get light wizards the cataclysm spell now, and the light one stops the entire enemy army
why do you need a front line? the battle is going to be over before the enemy gets there

And for 45 SECONDS! I feel like it's gonna be such overkill and I'm all for it

u/Last-Bee-3023 avatar

What would you do to an enemy that is stationary for 45 seconds?

You even get time to think about it. You've got 8 schools of magic and an entire arsenal of arsenals. That is a lot of delete buttons. Like, think of a sped-up Lumiark of Hysh shooting at a paralyzed target. While Comets rain amidst the rockets. With gunners doing their thing from the flanks.

No, I will just pop 8 hellstorm rocket batteries and watch the chaos going with my Black Glasses and popcorn.

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I cant decide who to play first. Epidemus or Gelt. I am so excited for both of them.

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Well, now. That is no way to talk about the Moon Empress.

Where does Gelt actually go back to?

Also, I know it's a My Chemical Romance, and possible Romance of the Three Kingdoms reference, but sticking "Romance" in the name of the ability is really fuelling those "roommates" flames.

u/TheSnowballofCobalt avatar

Firstly, the pun is absolutely peak Warhammer cheesy writing.

Secondly, why can't supreme gold man and warpstone huffing dragon man not be in a totally platonic relationship? :3

Oh, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but people are mentioning them dating a lot in the sub, so I found the choice of word amusing.

I'm not what I said that seems to have bothered people.

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u/MustachMulester avatar

I think I saw in a video that they get teleported to Altdorf

Interesting. Do they get no land?

u/MustachMulester avatar

Did not look like it. I didn’t like the Altdorf teleport. I was hoping it’d be on the eastern end of the empire. Ideally Franz and Elspeth will still be alive by the time Gelt gets back so it seems like you may have to take a few turns traveling in order to be able to get a full province to yourself.

Seems like an odd way to do it, and potentially not worth it in most cases, but it does leave where your campaign fairly open ended, which is cool.

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He gets no land, but he gets a buff that removes upkeep and landless attrition for 10 turns (along with some other bonuses).

Ah, ok. Cool.

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