Yes, we have no unlocks now, we have no unlo-ocks today

Kind of. The main thing is that we never really sought to cram in our full allowance of heroes, warmachines and monsters when creating our lists. There's probably been times when one of us has tried to get six heroes into a list but that same person hasn't also tried to get six monsters and six warmachines in the same list  at the same time. I feel that now list building will be more about archer unlocks than anything else.

Also you're not allowed to take Irregular units as allies so part of making so many archers irregular might have been to prevent archery spam cheese lists where people were trying to get around the three of the same unit limit by grabbing allies who fill the same role.

I've looked over the dwarven army list and there's actually very few changes. Mostly it's units point cost tweaks (some up, some down). The dwarfs feel less overpriced now but some things became more expensive. Artillery has basically been completely overhauled so I can't compare points there. Interestingly the Greater Earth Elemental is now less manoeuvrable than before (Strider instead of Pathfinder). Trollslayers have lost Headstrong. Big deal. They were fearless anyway so they never went into a wavering state. headstrong literally did nothing for them. They've lost 5 attacks across the board and gained wild charge, vicious and +1 Defence to make up for it.


Looking over the Basilean list things are more noticeably different. Penitents are missing (my advice is to use them as male Sisterhood for now, monks instead of nuns). It's the closest profile. I'd be interested to know why they are missing. They were very cheap for what they did and the Sisters might have done the Penitents job better. It would be interesting to know the reason behind this omission. The Basilean list has become even more of a Synergy list than it was before. Lots of Auras, officer upgrades for men at arms etc. It's in keeping with their hero synergy army theme.

I looked at the Northern Alliance to see how easy it would be to change them into a Varangur army list. They wouldn't need that many tweaks. In my mind I can see how their theme list might look as something like two thirds of the Varangur units are essentially in the Northern Alliance army list already.

I also painted a crossbowman.