Bound clones are great… I’ve started spamming them as a more resilient cheap blocker. Defense 3 (because of shield). I love the flexibility as well… if I put a character it that’s not high clone, I’ll give it bastion

You can’t take more than 1 mutation on bios and pheros. That means you can’t get your aura of death on brute drones period. Avatar MUST be taken to throw him in brute drones and that’s your 1 mutation. THAT SAID… pheromancer can be in brute drones and take mastery “plague lord” to get 6 aura of death… so that’s something

First Blood Storied Regiment Clashes! You have been slain!

Desolation drones need to be added to Underspires as a mainstay of the pheromancer and heals.

Refusing dual doesn’t hurt enough to make the assassin good. He’s good, but it’s too easy to refuse duals.

I wish you could take siege breakers in Biomancers.

Both the Directorate and Underspire Are good. The highborn doesn’t really give much.

Great video, keep up the great work. Rules note : your characters need to be in the center of the front rank next to the command stand. Page 72 discusses this

I should've watched this before yesterday lol

LETS Go Brennan!!!

MMM hotcakes oh you said hot take oops lol

GET HIM ISSAC!!!!! WAAAAGHH!!!

As the proud Spires player that brings 101 Drones to Adepticon I shall say that Pheromancer is the greatest Warlord. Also the Desolation Drones range isn't that bad when a lot of the heavy armored units are size 2+ being held in place by the 12 stands of FGDs with Pheromancer.

Love the videos guys. Were you saying PRIORITY instead of Priory? I had it playing in the background while slaying grey.

Wicked shirt! Good to know there's Conquest in Dunkin Country

Oh about the tempo thingy: you don't have to put your first unit into the strategic stack. If the supremacy roll is insanely important you will set up your stack so that the unit you actually want to strategic stack goes after all the "must activate ASAP" stuff is done. Ultimately you decide when to give the opponent the tempo of a double turn and when to give it to yourself, so ultimately you want to minimize how good is is for the opponent while trying to maximize it for yourself (which admittedly sometimes doesn't work out ;) )

OK, just got to the part where you ask how often we use the strategic stack. To actually change the order or stall - very infrequently, but it is amazing when it comes up. e.g. both me and my opponent had an objective marker down to 1 health and supremacy rule decided who will take it out and on top of that both our regiments there had impact hits, so charging as the 2nd action gets some cheeky damage in and prevents the opponents charge. I had to put that unit first for the turn - huge if I can win supremacy! I didn't and my oppoent got the VP and charged me. At this point I look at the board and see that my giant is actually in range to maybe charge that regiment, which is now blocking my minotaurs. IF the giant takes them out (a possibility), the minotaurs could get a charge in against a regiment containing my opponents warlord. So the minotaurs who would have been activated first went into the strategic stack and I waited until after the giant to activate them in the hope of clearing the way for a very important charge (sadly my giant left the opposing brute regiment on 2 wounds left, ces't la vie). Though ultimately you use the strategic stack every round: getting hoplites inspired, getting bonuses from having supremacy ability, having Andromachos as an officier in a squad of agema... all of those are worth using the stack for - why not get a free bonus if you can :D

Been eyeing conquest for years and city states may finally get me to take the plunge. Love this deep dive but was hoping for takes on clockworks since that unit on vibes alone makes me want to build around them

Great video!

Legions are Built Different. Good Tactical Genius

Wooo let’s do this 💪

Archangel, Sicarii and Crusaders announced as a new expansion! Restore your faith in 2025! Possibly

You always take the blades. Always Expert scouts gives every infantry without phalanx the vanguard rule. All of them.

You always take the blades. Always

currently favorite way to play armor of dominion is on a ST priory commander and stick him in a block of ashen dawn, now go hunt monsters/Varangian guard/dragon slayers...only gotten into a siege breaker once and your right its sad times

To be fair the main use of Men-At-Arms is that they are cheap objective holders and/or Restricted unlock, which means that any point increase between them and Household Guard is bad.

Porcupine is what Vince Venturella calls it. But he plays warhammer . . .

First off fun video! Would love to see a follow up to the series where you respond to comments! On to feedback- Thors- you are sleeping on this unit as fluid formation is one of the best rules in the game and the thyrean aux hits super hard. My favorite set up is ari with blade aux and andro officer. This gives 10 effective cleave 4 attacks with flurry and usually and other 10ish regular attacks. This on a 3 stand front. Expert scouts is also really important for chariots because they can wheel onto the board and threat super deep on t2. Both blade and the spear are very commonly taken ari gets blade and pole gets spear in pretty much every list i play. Chariots- skorpios is universally considered the better chariot, so much so that it has already been announced that they will be getting a nerf in oct and the flogs will be getting a buff. Ari supremacy is a bit contentious for the best slot as many like the pole better but that double activation round can be back breaking. Also little know fact about it is it pulls a card out of your command stack for the purposes of advantage on the supremacy roll, you would be shocked at how often that helps your double turn go before your opponent.

Sad to see the Tourney Champion didn't get you the last 2" you needed

Freeking love these! Thank you for doing them!!!

Like the color schemes

Freaking excited!! Only a few seconds in, but I love the Jenny Nicholson name drop!

Wooo first! Been waiting for this

Woot!! Go Nords!

This is great! Having trouble finding your narrative games though.... But I really want to watch them! I love narrative content!

Great video, more hot takes please 🤣🤣

Chariots certainly have a lot of rules for such a cheap unit

Selinoi look like a neat little ranged unit with a decent melee attack. If they had a bit more range they would be a better Longbowmen. Mercenary Crossbowmen are much better at actually shooting things, however.

Keep the narrative going! Be looking forward to scenario 3 for a while!

"That is wrong" (referring to the Strategic Stack breakdown). You can't use the strat stack for the last card in the command stack, and you can't leave a card in the strat stack if there are no cards left in the command stack. Also worth mentioning that the strat stack gives Inspired, even through Phalanx. Overall, currently about 20 minutes in and enjoying the perspectives!

Andromachos gives the Command Stand +2 attacks. On top of the leader stand, an msu throws out 18 attacks

Good stuff look forward to the 3rd one

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loved this one! what rivers and trees that can be detached do you guys use also ponds? sorry for all the questions. such neat stuff keep it up!

Lol.... all this town talk makes me think "2 tokens.... and a blue"

so regarding SMITE. the rule book says, "Smite: Enemy Regiments count their total Defense Characteristic as 0 against Hits caused by a Stand with this Special Rule during a Clash Action. This Special Rule also affects the Hits from Character Stands during a Duel Action." would this not also bring the regiments armor to 0 during a clash as well as the target of the dual? making it a really good option?

Hey where are the objectives blue ones from? I would love to grab em! these and cant find much aboit this on YT so thabk you!!!

This looks sick, cant wait to watch you videos on this!

great video man did you get the name from Re:Monster ?

I really enjoyed that. Campaigns are always the way to go! Keep up the good work.