Faction Focus: Cities of Sigmar - What We Learned 

Advance in formation keeps your fortified position, i think. You loose it if you use Move core ability, but this order is not it

I'm hoping dwarves are actually useable now! I don't play Cities, but I really like the Ironbreakers, Longbeards, and Irondrakes. Looking forward to the list building in general and seeing your army take shape! I really like Thalia as well. We named my daughter Aria because it means "lioness", so the image of this hero riding a massive lion creature is very cool. I'd love to paint the model for her someday, maybe replacing Thalia with a young girl model that I can paint to look like my daughter. At that point, I'd *have* to play Cities. Although by the time I finish my other projects and am confident enough, we might be in 6th edition 😅

Edit: My apologies for not reading some of the rules carefully enough. It was late and I really wanted to get the video out. But at the end of the day, I have to get the basics right. Video was a bit long 😅 What can I say, I was beyond hyped for this article!

Cant believe this video was 30 mins, it felt like it went by so fast. Lots of cool changes. I hope that your ogre's changes bode well for my carnosaur, which also kind of sucks in 3e but it literally a gator riding a t rex, so how could I not have it ! Hopefully youre right about the dwarves. Theyre so ingrained now into thr Cities lore, that I cant imagine them not remaining

Another great video with some interesting takes. I'll share my own in a bit, but first, I wanted to make a few slight corrections to some of the rules you covered that I think are relevant enought that they might affect your opinion. First I wanted to point out that with Advance in Formation, you can pick a unit of *any* racial keyword. Only the *first* target needs to have the **HUMAN** keyword, the extra target you pick can be a dwarf or elf. Thats my understanding at least, since it just says "an additional *Cities of Sigmar* unit" not "*Cities of Sigmar HUMAN* unit". Secondly, you said that Cavaliers need to "all be within 1" to roll devestating charge. That's not true, it says that you pick "an enemy unit within 1", and it says you "Roll a dice for each model in this unit that is in combat" so that means that all the models need to be within 3" for you to roll those dice not 1". Making a unit of 10 significantly scarier to units/factions that don't like taking Mortal Damage.(Stormcast) Finally, a concecrated Objective gives the 5+ Ward to *any* Human keyword unit contesting the objective if the entire unit is contesting it. I'm not sure if your commentary on Concecrate the Land's value was said only in the context of Steelhelms because you thought only they could get that benefit or if its because they're the one using the ability, so they're the prime example to guage their quality by. As for my personal thoughts, I love this. Breaking down the barriers established in the last book brings back more that feeling of "jolly cooperation" their 2nd edition book had. I love that Orders are now just a thing you do and not Trap Cards you set on your Heroes, the idea and the fluff were excellent, but the mechanics were a bit fiddley, so this is a great change imo. I love the buff to the Fusil-Major, it's a beautiful model and I'm very happy that I have a more mechanical reason to put them on the table now. Cavaliers got nerfed. Pretty hard too, 4's and 4's is not a great profile for your units main weapon, but TBH, they were too good before. They were a glass hammer, for sure, because despite their low wound density they could hit like a ton of bricks. But now the draw seems to be more on the impact attacks they do on the charge, compared to the raw efficency of their weapon profiles. Or maybe theyre meant to hose down lighter infantry. After all, they can throw out alot of dice with their base profile and "Strike Them Down". So, who knows, maybe we'll get a Blazing Weapon style Spell(or even a Prayer???) that makes all the dice they throw out that much deadlier. Or maybe the Cavalier Marshall could give them the combat juice they need to hurt those more armored units? I don't know, we'll have to see the full faction rules to really say. But one thing is for certain. They're not the "all purpose" melee Hammer of CoS anymore, and we may need to look at other units to work in-tandem with Cavaleirs to fill whatever offensive role they can’t. Finally, I'm not a fan of the Battle Formation, the static benefits are only for the first Battle Round, unless you keep your shooting units in Fortified Position the whole game. Yes, the defensive benefits tou get are nice in that one round, but for the rest of the game it does nothing for you. So the Heroic Traits and Artefacts that are exclusive to it had better be boarderline broken in order to justify this downright bad(imo) static ability. There are other points I *could* bring up, but I think I've hit all the biggest ones. I have to say, like many other factions, I'm excited for what the Cities of Sigmar have in store! Even if all but 10 of my Steelhelms lie unbuilt and unpainted because I want to finish doing work on other armies first, Stormcast *especially*. I also want to do alot of kitbashing, converting and customizing with them, including printing custom decals for my custom-made city. Which is all a bit of a ways off.

Sigmar lied!