N.I.B. said:Well boo-fecking-hoo. Your expensive unit is almost useless. Know what, it happens to us all in transition between editions and army books, get over it. I have 6 Bat Swarms gathering dust on a shelf, and I don't care. I have an extra converted Black Coach that I can't use, converted Levy that I can't use, 35 extra Dire Wolves that I don't need, all since GW banned SoC armies in tournaments.
GW can't do point revisions for swarms in the basic rules, of course. Issues like these will be adressed in army books, if adressed at all.
Expensive units that are meant to be legal for what 5-6 years between army books, not a campaign list, which you can still play against friends, so the mini's are not useless at all.
The swarms whilst legal however, are completely useless against anyone. And you reminded me about the other nerf that of skirmishers no longer marching when blocked, so that I agree with, that would have made swarms IMO lose a lot of potential without the crumble rule being added.
I'm hoping the new book addresses the issue because more than anything else, they are great minis (bats that is) add great comedy value to the table!