Topic: 8th ed power creep.

[Dazgrim]

Are all the 8th ed units more powerful than older units?


I missed 8th ed, but it feels that the units that were introduced in that edition are overpowered within their TOW lists.

Looking at armies I play, Iron Drakes (dwarfs) and Demigryph knights (Empire) are notable better than pretty much anything else in those lists.

[Minsc]

Well, on the other hand of the spectrum you also have a bunch of 8th Ed. Stuff that got removed in TOW;

Luminarks and Hurricanums for Empire.

Verminlords and Stormfiends for Skaven.

And no, I don't think remaining 8th stuff is better than pre 8th stuff in TOW. VC iirc got Vargheists and Crypthorrors in 8th and they're both pretty fairly bad. Not terrible but def. on the lower half of an imaginary VC tierlist.

Ultimately I think it's just RNG/typhical GW randomness if a unit that was introduced in 8th is amazing or meh in TOW.

[thorpyUK]

Are all the 8th ed units more powerful than older units?


I missed 8th ed, but it feels that the units that were introduced in that edition are overpowered within their TOW lists.

Looking at armies I play, Iron Drakes (dwarfs) and Demigryph knights (Empire) are notable better than pretty much anything else in those lists.

I agree with you - you could start to see a focus on GW making the 'newest' units also 'the best', hence the examples you've raised... its like they were pushing the new models by deliberately making them better.
That said, I think overall Empire got more of a debuff than a buff - pretty much everything else got a point increase across the board & some special rules were watered-down