I was elected to lead not to read

Well the new empire book is out!

And first things first I really think the cover art is not my taste (as in it b***s)But it does actually make some sense.

If you look at it, it basicly  focuses on the one character in the foreground.
 Now why do I think that makes 100% sense whit the content of the book?
Well....
They made empire characters really cool.

Ok so why do I think they are really cool? 

Let me explain

There are about 5 or 6 types of characters. And almost all of them buff your units in some way.
For a army that is supposed to  work like a actual army (as in the command structure is there to lead the army instead of doing the fighting for them) that makes perfect sense.

So lets look at what we got

First of lets start whit something completely new.

This (extremely cool looking) guy is  witch hunter. Now he only comes as a hero choice.
He has about the stats of a captain (a bit worse). And he is here to battle witchcraft.  The way he does it is by having magic resistance (2). And that is very nice indeed if he joins a horde. Also he himself is immune to fear and he and the unit he is with will never have to take terror tests. NICE.
He also has some nice special rules to help him hunt down those heretics. Lets just say you don't want him in combat whit your wizard. As a mater of fact you don't want him shooting at your wizard either. (Also just to say it again what a stunning model)


 And the Old is new again.




 Look here at the  warrior priest
These used to be my favourite characters.  Simply because the where 2x times awesome rule wise and fluff wise. What more do you want?   They are about the same now. There is still a lord and a hero version. And they still make your on troops  righteous bastards (as in they  spread the hate) But there spells changed some what.
No more unbreakable.  Aaawh But  re roll to wound  for your whole     unit seems nice. I would say still awesome on both sides of the game. 




 And now the title will make sense (finaly)


And then there are your Captains and Generals of the empire.
I never really much liked the  old empire captains and General. They where okay in the stat department, but far from combat monsters. But they where a bit to expensive to spam (like say ng big bosses)No thing has changed on that front in this book in fact the stat cost ratio got worse since they went up in cost(they are not  the only thing that went up in price more on that in a later post).
But now they are leaders not fighters .

Your line will hold more easy now cause these guys make any unit  they join COLDBLOODED when it come to break tests.  I mean wow. Keep one of these guys whit your great sword and that block will have to die to the last man cause it's never going to break. NICE.

 Makes  sense that someone called a elector count is good at leading but not fighting. (oh and is probably a pretty shifty liar to knowing  elected officials)

There are still some other characters to talk about (knight marshals ,wizards en engineers)
But i'll save those for  later post

Over the next week i'll post some more of my visions on  the new empire book.

Cya
And may the dice gods bless you