Faction Focus 2024 Gloomspite Gitz 

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Skragrott now should have the Keyword: “Shelf” It looks like they just show how they nerf the 3 biggest warscrolls of the 3rd edition for Gloomspite. And don’t think this article was meant for gitz players at all

*Looking at a Hipster restaurant menu* -The taste of moss -The flavour of fungus -The licking of a sweaty wall "Hmm..."

Hey Rob ! First, you're the best and your videos are always a glowy moment in the day ! Concerning, what I see and as a Gitz player : - Skragrott : Underwhelming for sure. No bonus to cast/unbind, no Bad Moon Light and no command point bonus...only losses and no benefits. I hope there will be a similar loss for this already super-costy piece. - Squig herd : I use to play 24 x2 in many games and they are strong as hell : they tarpit, they kill, they come back. So I really understand the loss of 1 Health. The only thing I REALLY don't like on their warscrolls are the Beast debuff : not only because it makes this unit worth questionable but because that means every "animal-like" creature in the game should have the same (oh, my monster is score 1?). They should have remove that and change the "Squig gone wild" from Mortal wounds to Auto-wound (on a 4+ perhaps). - Gobbapalooza : 3+ for that kind of ability is strange : why? We are talking about venoms, dances and hypnosis, not something depending on the magic winds. Gamewise, it's just a frustrating mecanics : if you can't use it, your unit is (almost) useless for the turn... - Rockgut troggoths : it's a spearhead warscroll so I don't know what will change for a 2000 game for example but I have nothing to say against it. Throwing boulder stats are more coherent (they are boulders not fireballs) and they kept the nice profile with 2 attacks at rend -2 damage 3. Love all troggoths so very glad about these guys. My hopes : 1) Don't forget the spiders !! Araknarok should do big damages for once ! 2) Fanatics and sporeplattas are amazingly cool and fun : don't make them weak ! 3) Get rid of damage D6 on the Troggboss attacks, Trugg attacks and the Huge Fang-filled Gobs for the Mangler Squigs (D3+2 or 3 is more realistic for such weapons)

Tell me, where is Nathan? For I much desire to speak with him

As a Squig player I was feeling a little down when I saw the faction focus. Really appreciate hearing your input and shining a positive light on things

They should have made Gobbapalooza so that you could do one ability on a 2+, 2 abilities on a 3+, 3 abilities on a 4+ and so on. Or some variation of that. Random is fine, but let them go big or go home. They could have also said you can do as many abilities as you have models left in the unit, but roll a dice for each ability used and on a 1 suffer D3+1 mortal wounds or something fun like that.

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I've never been more excited for a new edition of AoS

Thank you Rob. I look forward to your analysis of the previews every day.

Here's something I never understand about GW's rules design: If an ability is random - i.e. you have to roll a 3+, 4+ or whatever for it to take effect - that ability should be very powerful. Because it is not reliable. So seeing the Bad Moon STILL being random about if it moves whilst other armies have their battle traits active all the time just baffles me. Look at the SCE Ruination chamber. They can shrug off enemy abilities on the roll of a 4+. Unreliably ability, powerful if it actually triggers. Now look at the Gobbapalooza. They used to just give their buff to a unit in 12". Now it's within THREE inches and only if you roll a 3+. And if the ability does take effect it isn't even all that powerful. I get the whole design idea of "Haha, Goblins are so random, let's give them a lot of random dice rolls!" but it feels like a big disconnect between having to roll for your abilities and then only getting a mediocre result if you succeed on the roll. Obviously it is too early to say anything conclusive about the Gitz as an army. And don't get me wrong, I'll always love my horde of backstabbing lunatics. I just hope we don't get "Index: Random Dice Rolls". Also, please GW make my Gitz mean! I don't need alpha strike Squigs with two wounds that nuke any unit they touch. Gitz can be mediocre in combat. But give them some real nasty abilities to make up for it! Make the army actually play like in the lore.

You're so efficient to review this content and release a video so quickly. The article is only minutes old!

As a GLOOMSPITE GIT myself! Living in my Dankhold apartment I really am a fan of what we have seen so far! The gobbapalooza seems risky but that is part of the fun of this army imo! It’s a crazy fun time and I can’t wait to delve into 4ths rules! Also I agree I would love more info on the TROGGOTH, spiders, gobbos and squigs! And more of the wolf rider gobbo faction!

I think this is all looking fun, and I would really love seeing a warmaschine in the future.

Some of the Gobapaloza effects are combat range which I hate, which means they could be attacked and wiped out if they get a little too close.

Looking forward to digging these out again. They were my first tournament army. I went 0-5 with them. Was so proud!!!!!!

still excited for 4th edition.....but not so much my gloomspite gitz after this article dropped lol but great coverage as always. thanks for the breakdowns

Doom divers are a must! Would be neat if their lore is that they touch the bad moon and return bestowed with its fury -splat!

The Gitz are so fun!! Thanks for the great news !

My best Sigmar friend is a Gitz superfan. He's got every model for the army, painted them himself, and he even has a Loonboss moon mask that he can wear over his head. I've been on the receiving end of many a Gitz stampede and struggled many times. I'm certain most Sigmar players have, since they were consistently one of the most dominant armies in 3rd. This article feels almost like a hit piece saying that GW has very strongly prioritized keeping them balanceable by points changes. A lot of the abilities are more tame, and Squig Herd is... Almost useless now? At least compared to its 3e incarnation. I'm not being hyperbolic here when i say that Gitz player morale is understandably low since they were given very little light here (and we know how much they love light). However, i think that for the health of Sigmar as a whole, this is good, since Gitz has been a very "solved" army for a long time. GW hit them with multiple brutal FAQs and points hikes and they're still doing decently well, but again, i think that this article's audience is to people who have played against Gitz. And it's worth remembering a key quote from the article on Monday: A LOT of things are going to be toned down compared to their 3e counterparts but this is because everything is weaker. This is good long-term meta health but it also really really sucks to experience

The Flavor! Thank you sir, this dank dive ironically brightened my day and couldn't have been better timed.

The opening alone deserves a like

I think as a major Gitz player skraggy's war scroll is a bit underwhelming considering he is THE loon king

Rob you guys are killing it with covering 4e. You guys rock

Can't affect companion attacks...... Gobapalooza can't be used to buff them.

Rob these are good videos thank you for doing these daily. Will these go on your podcast feed at any point?

Half way through painting a gitz army! Can’t wait to learn aos4 with the ladz

I'm a *huge* Gitz fan, it was my first army and it'll always hold a special place in my heart. That being said, I think not restricting the Know-Wotz roll might result in people taking a cloud of 40 Shootas and 3 Gobbapalooza so they can give them up to Rend 3 on their Bows.

I still really dislike the randomness of the badmoon rule, but I'm heartened by the fact that it's not really very impactful for my preferred army style (Gitz). The Squig buff is fine, mainly because it'll be most useful in the first two turns, when you can count on the moon being where you want it. Ironically the Trogg buff is the worst. It's great and you'll want it every turn, but you can't count on the moon being where you want it in later turns!

I was hoping for spider reveals!! Sweet video regardless, loving all your aos4 content! Also looking forward to the maggotkin focus

This is "dripping" with flavor! 😅

As much as I'm all for the new edition Im starting to worry a bit that the simplification process is coming at a cost of the loss of flavour and power. The majority of warscrolls we've seen so far have been nerfed quite a lot & many have lost abilities that made them seem more characterful & unique. Just my thoughts 🤔

dosnt companion prevent them form getting a extra rend the squids?

Massively looking forward to AoS4, hope it will support a narrative campaign, cause I have some cool ideas I want to test

The squig herd says 1/6 are hearders so doesnt that mean it just reenforces to 2/12?

The article made it seem like they no longer have ale guzzler giants.

Not an AoS player/collector but I've been eyeing the Gitz for a while now.

There is definitely a lot more flavor in the rules, but it’s definitely a worse army based off what they’ve showed us. Remember though, bravery is gone and that was our biggest issue, so something has to be adjusted. Gobbapalooza is too risky, unless it’s a very cheap unit. Excited that rockguts are basically the same and the potential war machine on the way.

WHERE ARE MY SPIDERS???!!!

Best AOS show! U "sell" 4ed better then the GW ;) im soo hyped

The article mentions Spider Riders multiple times. But the minis haven't been available for forever. Add in the retirement of the big spider, and other weird things. Can we assume the Gloomspite are getting a Spider focused refresh?

I have not played Gitz in competition, but I am building an army, based on battlereports was aiming for the more Quig based build, it seems that will be a hard nut to crack, it might be a whole new army build going forward, cant capture and no saves is a bummer of magnitude. Hero also seems debuffed as well as the almighty GobbaPalooza. Maybe the spiders will have to rise to the challenge??? Definately a less exciting feeling compared to the skaven (favorite faction for me - soo) and other armies reveals ....

I can't wait for the new edition to come out. Still focusing on Worlds first, but this is hard 😁

I'm really excited for the Nighthaunt tomorrow and really looking forward to Slannesh. But 4th might convince me to play a Destruction army for once

If we're getting Warmachines, please let it be Sky Pirates!

Feels like the index army is just a cut down battletome. Then I see the skaven and they seem very different from the current book.

Great video

Looking forward to the Spiderfang!

Anyone else noticing that the GW team spoke about ‘fixing rend’ as it had climbed too high and everyone had it, yet every unit shown for aos 4 has 1-2 rend……..

I feel like the answer is no. But if a unit of 20 + herders squigs dies and you use the shrine to bring 10 + herders back can you then use the herders to start returning that unit back to full strength?

that is amazing

So control score doesn’t alter the control number just adds x amount to unit?

Kruleboyz players: I'm gonna poison dat zoggin moonshrine

Like if you think Rob only owns black tshirts

Brilliant

Amazing job as always with these videos! Wish I could say the same about gitz...Weird choice of warscrolls to show off, when they're just less interesting repeats of current warscrolls, especially gobbapalooza. Also, how often are we going to see that command for a half strength replacement unit?

Huge squigs always sound fun.

As a Gitz player I'm terrified their squig nerf is going to reduce hoppers and bounderz to 1 wound as well. Part of what makes Gitz fun is the unit variety and if they nerf the other squigs as well it will devolve into just a troll faction.

It's a shame the number of dice rolled is based off the *unmodified* casting roll but it's still a strong spell and Skragrott still seems good but I'd hope he'll be cheaper now that he's lost his aura of counting as the Bad Moon which was his main appeal for me at least.

Troggs count as 2 and are 5 wounds. Age of sigmar has peaked.

*DEEP BREATH* gitzgitzgitzgitzgitzgitzgitzgitzGITZ

Spiders still a thing! Woot!

I don't understand the companion keyword, friendly abilities can't change the Stat line of the attack but they can receive the +1 rend on the attack? I'm a tad confused ngl

So dank

My only criticism is I think the gobbapalooza should’ve had 5 abilities to choose from. 1 ability for each sculpt. Picking only 1 ability is fine that’s reasonable

I just started printing a Truggoth army after my BoC were canned.

MY GOODNESS, JUST LOOK AT THE GOBBAPALOOZAS FLAVOUR!

Seen a lot of doom and gloom about skragrott but being a wizard (2) seems really really good this edition

Hey Rob, what’s the largest piece of food you’ve ever found in your beard. Have you ever found a spaghetti letter? Or a big hunk of ferrero rocher? I guess I’m asking, how flavourful is your facial hair? (I’m guessing quite)

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If you bring back a unit at half strength like say a reinforced unit of squigs, can you bring on 4 hurders and 8 squigs then bring that unit back up to full reinforced capacity or are you limited to 2 hurders and 10 squig for the rest of the game for that unit?

Great vid as always. Unfortunately they seem to just have shown scrolls that were nerfed heavily, would have prefered something to be hyped up about rather than just looking at everythint they lost. A strange choice for the faction article

The simplification of the Gobbopalooza makes me hopeful that the Humanpalooza will also be simplified.

Do the gobbapalooza still get two level 1 wizard? if so still useful for the unlimited spell even if you mess up the 3+

Yeah this index is a nerf for Gitz as it stands, so will box my squigs up and patiently wait until their 4th tome comes out with this impending squigapult.

Fly me to the moon ...

Did we read the same book?😂 where was the part about the moon being cheese??

I can’t be the only one whose life gets a lot more difficult depending on where the moon is? Am I right lads??

Ive never seen a spell affecting enemy units wholly within range. This sneaky distraction seems susceptible to enemy stretching his units just to be not wholly within. And no mage in this army is a fighter. I really dont like it. It should stay as it is now in gobbapalooza's fungoid cloud spell.

Do you have a portfolio of stock images my friend? 😂

I hope they flesh out all the factions with terrain and manifestations. Why can't orcs have nice things?

I have to say, my favorite changes in all of AoS 4 so far have been the to hit/to wound ones. Instead of the "this is an elite unit so it has to have 3+/3+" seeing the trolls being 4+/2+ is just such a flavour win. That was something that really started to bother me in the current adaptation

As a Gitz player im sad. Everything got nerfed HARD, except rock troll. Squig heard with a 6+ save and 1 wound will be gone before they get to fight, they will not come back cuse the Loonshrine got peppered with shooting turn 1 and 2 and is destroyed. I don't see mush posetive in this article, we got lots more to see so i HOPE for all my Gitz heart that the rest will make up for this

I have 22k points worth of gloomspite gitz and i havent played in years, i dont really care what new rules they make as i know ill only get to enjoy them for 3 months then be at the bottom for 2 or 3 years.

Your content makes me want to get in to this game, build all the armies, meet everyone in the community and dive into to tournaments. And GW's treatment of their fans and their financial decisions, makes me want to walk away

Shame the battle trait basically doesn't exist randomly. Combined with the (ostensibly) stripped back warscrolls a lot of the mechanical diversity of playing Gitz is under threat.

Sad about the lack of depth in this addition so far. I'm all for simplified rules, I think some of the core rules are genuinely exciting for interactive gameplay but the warscrolls feel like the biggest scoop of vanilla poo

I’m so down on this reveal. Everything is worse. Show me a positive? The beast issue is massive for those using a squig army because those squigs are your battle line! Jeez what a mess. Even trolls are worse. I would also say, they just made this faction quite good for high skill players…which I’m not sure about. I’m not sure why Skragrott got nerfed so bad, but jeez I actually started my army for the gabopalooza and I can’t see a reason to ever take them again! Please someone…tell me something positive other than bravery is gone.

Squigs got nerfed I think

I was 😂 when i heard that loonshrine is free. 40 GBP and then its free

Skraggy nerfed, lost the +1 to cast and his warscroll spell is now 7+ instead of 3+. I cannot be mad really, the spell was bonkers in AOS3. I am so salty they butchered Gobbopalooza. Not only lost a cast and their warscroll spell, they made the ability a 3+ roll instead of it just picking it to go. Losing both the spells and making the ability unreliable is a step too far imo. It is just a 15W goblin shaman with no warscroll spell and an ability where sods law means it won't proc when you need it to. Squig herd not really nerfed the recursion of it so can see it being bonkers still.

Soo, they guttered my army...which is fun

The flavour is pretty intense right now

Gitz look pretty shit in this preview skragroth and squig heard nerfed to the ground

New player getting into GSG, looks like 4th Ed is gonna reward mixed cavalry GSG. Been hearing loads of doom and GLOOM from current players, still excited regardless. I think the Skraggy is still gonna be a good include depending on cost.

As a GSG player, this reveal was not good. Nothing revealed was excitingly “new” and all of the scrolls are worse versions than their previous rendition. I’m hoping the totality of the army is better but this wasn’t as exciting as either the Skaven or Stormcast previews. I’m currently not hopeful and quite disappointed.

so far not looking good. Nighthaunt buffed quite well, Gitz nerfed heavily

I love my gitz but this seems actually horrible

I don't like you, bit I liked the video, ahahhaa