Yes, indeedy! Thinks are looking up. ;)

They'll be easy to spot. They'll be the ones complaining about the change. :)

Its amazing how many units suddenly have "misprints" on thier dial or on thier pog. Whizkids really ought to look into quality control at thier factory.
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Excellent. Needs a 9 to centerpoint-drift-hit now instead of a 5. A worthy change but artillery as a mechanic still needs looking into.

Still much more playable than every other artillery unit in the game, but now at least marginally mortal.




A survey asking hard questions and a significant fix to lameness in as many days. Good work, keep it up Wizkids.

I recently paid that for one, but I'm not complaining. This change
needed to be made for the good of the game. I'm all about that!

:)

@David Wilson
Good attitude. It would be nice to see more of that here.

I don't think the change is going to affect our venue much. I think we have one SS Arrow IV among all of our players.

I appreciate WK's willingness to fix things, but this changes little.

It's still the best Artillery in the game. Instead of hitting everytime, it now hits most of the time (it has 50% chance of hitting on it's worst click). You can now hope to miss and increase your range.

You'll still be able to deal with Heavy Armor units. You can still repair it from salvage to a 50% chance of hitting the pogs for 2AP damage.

This might fix Warpog (I doubt it), but there's still little reason to choose any other artillery over this one.

IMO, the most significant aspect of this change is that it marks the first time an errata has been issued for playability reasons. Hopefully this is a tool that Wizkids will continue to use.

Yes, I'm so happy. The SS Arrow IV tank is much weaker now.
WK might have taken a while, but finally a great change.

My armies will now contain 1 SS Arrow IV not 3. I might even take a mech (BH).

@Masta,


Okay, how would YOU have changed it? I think WK toned it down
quite a bit while still keeping it playable. As for choosing other
artillery pieces, I can think of two important reasons - range and
pushability. For 17 more points, the :^^^: Sniper beats this guy
at both, hands down. Plus, it's tougher! ;)


@spot,


Like it says in my sig, I just try to Keep It Real. ;) We had one
guy at my venue who was running a quasi-warpog army, but
that'll change, now. :)

Great change. Now I can field my Liao Hellstar for fun. Now if I can get the thing to stop critical missing....

I would have given it 1AP dmg from the second click forward.

Still playable, extremely fragile, not really better than everything else, not worthy to build an whole army around, a support piece.

I, too, spend quite a bit of money to get one, but I'm not complaining about the change either. I knew when I bought it that at some point something would be done to make it more balanced for the "good of the game." I'll still play it, I just won't be pushing as much with it anymore. ;)

True, but think about this: In order to really take advantage of the repair out of salvage as you've pointed out, you'd need a repair vechile for each one, or at least one for every pair depending on how you deploy. That's MORE points you must spend as non-combatant "protection" (this includes the meat shield since it's unlikely to do any real damage in game) and it places more pressure on your Arrow IVs to win the game by themselves.

If I had to face it you better belive my first shots would be at those same repair vechiles to knock them down and hopefully into salvage. Now you have 40-80 points worth of units just wasting space.

Also realize that you're going to have to take the click for the one use AP whether the shot hits anything or not. In this sense, a good heat efficent mech with some water to run around in could conceivably run the Arrow IVs out of ammo.

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Well, that is significat. maybe preliminary results of the survey had something to do with it.

At least Armor units have a decent chance now. Still powerful, but not uber powerful.

Nice. Very nice. Even as a die-hard Swordsworn player I welcome this change, weakening the piece so that it's not an uber-unit anymore yet still retaining its utility as one of the most powerful artillery units in the game.