

I'm overall very happy as those changes bring coalesced and starborne closer to being internally balanced. First off, Trog bomb is gone! Kroak got much less of a point increase than I and many expected, but the actual balance of him hides in the change to arcane vassal. I can talk about some things about seraphon changes. Really seems like GW is trying to soft delete them from the game. The marauders were already too expensive, and now they're also 20 points more expensive than units that are just strictly better than them.

The only thing I don't really like is the increase in points for chaos marauders combined with drops to a number of the cultist units. Big point drops on the endless spells combined with a couple little drops on heroes can effectively make the endless spell specific grand strategy pretty close to free which is interesting. Not sure if it'll do the trick, daemon princes are pretty meh even with a 20 point drop, but 160 for a slaughterbrute or vortext beast and 240 for the manticores is definitely interesting when they all get +2 wounds. They seem to be pushing pretty hard to get people running despoilers by slashing monster costs pretty dramatically and giving us 70 point battleline units again. The changes will drop a reinforcement off my list which kind of hurts but doesn't seem too bad. Most of the stuff that's pretty good got a slight nerf and a number of unexciting units got decent price reductions. Hedonite changes are minor but well targeted. I'll definitely need to give them another run. The Glottkin going down another 50 points is surprising as well, when I first saw them I figured they were about 100-150 points too expensive, but I never really thought that GW would actually drop their points that much. Pretty much my whole befouling host list went down in points and I've got room for a whole extra unit now. Maggotkin got some significant drops on units that really needed it, primarily the daemon side. I'm sorry to hear that a number of factions are having issues, but the changes for the factions I'm playing are pretty spicy.
