Grand Alliance:Death. Thoughts and observations

[Menkeroth]

Currently reading it, and, I have to confess, having quite mixed feelings on the subject.

First, it's really that small - 90 pages compared to practically 300 of the two other books? Well, yes, it's only about Nagash and his forces instead of the great armies of Chaos and Order. But...

Second, it could be better, but where are the tomb kings? They are gone.

Third, the books is still an "alliance book" - all the fluff is small and restrained. A bit of this, a bit of that. They are going to write more if they are to make a battletome!

Fourth and so on - that said, the information is much needed and we have now nothing else. The fluff is still too abstract and general, but it's something at least. Plus some specific bits like what Neferata is and was up to, blood army of the vampire lord Harrowgheist (I hate this GW-style names, but still), Legion of Cold Iron... Not that bad for a start. Also interesting and quite refreshing to split all the undead into different sub-factions, although they are mostly small, but it's overall now. More field for development of all the undead, from the wight kings and vampires to skeletons and specters, and this I find also good.

What do you think?

 

[El Syf]

I was just a bit taken aback by how little fluff there is in it.

 

[Menkeroth]

Yes, it's only a little bigger compared to the other books. It's understandable as it's only a compilation, but without our battletome it's frustrating.

 

[Mnemloch]

What I found interesting is it "fluffs" only 2 of the 3 mortarchs.

 

[Seneschal]

I am quite peeved but I am honestly not surprised given what's happened in the last year. Very little effort went into the making of the book and it's very telling. I read a friend of a friend's copy and I am absolutely not buying it.

 

[Menkeroth]

What I found interesting is it "fluffs" only 2 of the 3 mortarchs.

Aye, Mannfred is yet more behind the scenes, but I think it's only a matter of time and he was one of the main characters in the audio-drama series. Not bad for a start.

 

[Lord Elpus]

I actually quite liked it. Sure I would've liked some archers and the Catapult retained, but the book feels quite like the old Undead book of bygone days.

 

[Menkeroth]

A sort of, to be sure. Only a collection, but still. If they expand this in our future-maybe-battletome, all will be fine.

 

[Sception]

'BattletomeS'. Plural. Battletomes are books for individual minifactions, which are part of the encompassing grand alliances. 'Death' is a grand alliance, battletomes would be more narrow. Battletome: deathrattle, Battletome: soulblight, etc.

 

[Menkeroth]

If, then yes, but do you believe GW will be so generous to make books for all the units, even if some of them are quite small-numbered?

 

[Mnemloch]

Yea but Battletomes can release new units too. It is a shame they did a GAoD before any Battletomes, but I think they wanted to play with the paperback in AoS.

 

[Menkeroth]

Maybe. Grand Alliance of Destruction comes also before all the other books except the tome for the new Iron Jaws orcs faction.