Episode 61: Winning with Valour in Florida!

The other thing that I want to pick up on from what you were talking about earlier on was just in 11th, and this is referencing the Navigator and how different it is now.

In 11th, the layouts are so good.

You can look at a layout now and go, okay, uh for example in a lot of the layouts the expansion or even your opponent's home objective is within six inches of a table edge so you can keep a unit off the table and just go for example you're playing the mirror match you know all the knights are going to have to come forward that leaves your opponent's home objective you want to take the opponent's home objective you're just going to walk something on from the side edge which has happened in a couple of games for me um also just how close they are to your deployment zone so you can legitimately start something hidden, walk it forward six inches or even, you know, in advance of seven or eight, whatever it might be.

And it's hidden again on your expansion.

Now, if that's a navigator, great.

Or if that's a unit of sisters, great.

Whatever it might be.

And for me in my game, it was subductors, for example, could just walk up, just start hidden, walk up and hide and just go, now you have to come and deal with it because I'm hidden.

So having sisters, subductors, navigator, whatever it might be is really important, I think, given the terrain rules now, it makes it even more important.

And for me, I realized that it took away any bias for me of going first or second because I'm confident in the list.

Because if I go first, cool.

I'm going to put sisters out on my expansion and the central objective.

They're going to be hidden and behind a wall, so they're going to go to ground.

And if you leave them there on turn one, I'm going to sticky those objectives because that's what they do.

And so it puts pressure on my opponent to have to do something to remove them.

And it creates, again, hard decision points.

And I love...

I had the matchup twice.

No, just once.

But I played against Lions of the Emperor, Adeptus Custodes, what has been the bane of knights everywhere for the better part of...

since their codex happened and this detachment came with it.

It's now taken hold, not purged, which it was previously.

As a result, it is significantly weaker into us because priority, if priority and taken hold in their match, just play their table sides.

Priority wins on primary every time it will outscore.

So taking hold has to get aggressive.