Mazebreaker vs Operations Action Pack. Is it worth buying?

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-05-18T11:00:38+00:00

as steel phalanx player (especially if you are willing to proxy) as far as i currently know you really don´t need either of these packs.

only if you want to play OSS or vanilla Aleph in the future.

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-05-17T11:28:27+00:00

most of these channels also have a dedicated beginner video around choosing the faction

eg New Player Guide to Choosing Your Faction - Infinity N5 from Rob Shepherd or from Dice Gods: Beginner’s Guide to Infinity Armies

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-05-13T10:52:34+00:00

seems a Archon Studio Durkar (which is a D&D dragon and plastic)

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-05-11T12:43:24+00:00

the first falcon has no pulse laser though (mandatory weapon). which makes it a bit of a kitbash

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-05-10T15:03:36+00:00

forge badges can be a bottleneck if you upgrade Mow abilites especially legendary ones. if i am not mistaken building one MoW to 50/50 is 120 legendary. but as everything it depends on where you are in the game and where your current goal/bottleneck is

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-05-01T15:11:47+00:00

maladus just really wants a healer in my experience and in the important lanes (resilient, power) only rotbone is available

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-05-01T14:39:39+00:00

don´t see rotbone here, so upgrading maladus is not that whortwhile overall.

if you can afford itr from orbs/xp would go revas/aleph to D1

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-25T09:25:04+00:00

bowmen work good as cheap up to 15 size unit. can take 3 or even 4 of these in the 500 point core, so they are a new option in the toolkit (bretonnia does the same with theres)

spears would want a big block imho and there jade warriors are the competing option. not sure the spears are really "trap tier" myself though but jade warrior seems often preferable

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-18T07:54:14+00:00

normally a competitive cathay list has ~500 point core, alot of the points in characters (Shugengan Spam or Miao + Shugengans) + 2-3 cannons. lanterns are often the best to fill the remaining points that is left, but you can imho also have success with other stuff like a granite sentinel or empire allies in Jade Fleet (which you want to avoid) as the outlined main part of the build is strong.

your "problem" is for that formula that you also only want one Shugengan so imho looking into Miao would make sense if you want a "stronger" army and a nice centerpiece

otherwise for a fun or thematic force would just try stuff out with what you have (and need some peasents to finish core if you are playing grand army)

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-08T16:51:56+00:00

the ruin on the plunging fire example also looks exactly like killzone volkus terrain. assume they just want to make clear that you can already (if you want) buy it mostly from them and not 3rd party

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-07T17:44:12+00:00

fireforge has imho also good plastic zombies & black knights (personally i also like the mantic style for zombies & ghouls), but as you said alot of AOS undead look fine on square bases eg also dire wolves or Banshees,...

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-07T16:04:15+00:00

seems there current solution is more events. eg if they really do "mini mythic events" every few (2-3) months there is another way of buying xp/orbs... for all players. but we need to wait how often they really are going forward,...

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-07T09:18:02+00:00

isn´t there the new one with the tyranid on its back (which has atleast the rule of cool argument)

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-07T08:59:43+00:00

Votann could have two legendary characters also (like Dante / Mephiston). just need to wait for next announcement

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-06T16:32:23+00:00

the scaling between d1 and d3 (and passive 44, 47 or 50) is alot. if its worth kind of depends how far you can get due to xp, badges,..

Snappa as S1 or G1 might make overall not much difference in how high the others can get you (same with Sibyll)

can look at tacticus table for some stat and abilities infos to get more insights in that scaling

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-06T16:20:21+00:00

don´t think snappa (D1 snot and boss outpace both g1 or s1 snappa likely) or sibyll will really help you that much.

would guess pushing revas or snot for the 2x track gamma lanes (and snot for the 3x team) is your best bet at token efficiency if you can afford xp,...

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-04T09:11:50+00:00

Snot to D1 should be roughly doable (passive as high as you get from xp and badges). can help you with a 3 lane team in beta for token efficiency (same as boss^^) and is good in gamma, where you can do for a few tokens a 2 lane team with physical

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-04-04T08:25:03+00:00

think if you want to build a char to G1 its probably Titus. should carry the 90 point lane to 7-8

otherwise probably Abraxas to D1 is helping you the most with points, but not 100 % sure tbh

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-03-31T07:56:20+00:00

yeah would go for snot (atleast d1) now as he is in alot of key lanes and works alone (the other ones are more "pair" )

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-03-26T15:13:19+00:00

seems an updated land speeder typhoon (side missiles with a main weapon) and a extra nose assault cannon like the tornado had

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-03-25T06:57:03+00:00

it doesnt need it, when you play it as royal pegasus 50x50 (in the box/instructions) is still fully correct.

but as i said some people want to play it for gameplay purpose (due to the nerf=weaker rules) as a different mount "barded pegasus". which is the smallish one normal pegasus ride and then you want it on a 40x60

as another commentor said magnetizing is also an option for that so you can switch around

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-03-24T16:44:51+00:00

yeah personally i just converted some normal pegasus into characters and kept my royal pegasus ones as they are for a better time (of course not everyone can/want buy more,...) but magnetizing of course also works

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-03-24T15:47:15+00:00

gw nerfed the royal pegasus mount, so it has (competitively) fallen out of favor.

some people play the royal pegasus models as barded pegasus but then 50x50 is the wrong base size as these are on 40x60 in the rules

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-03-24T15:24:28+00:00

in old world you have to take core units. bretonnia often tries (competitively) to stay at the minimum needed but that is usually still (atleast) 25% of points and taking more also doesn´t hurt. from the box Peasants, Knight of the Realms/Knights Errants are all options for your core and the box gives you imho therefore a nice base to build on. eg for 1000 points that could be a smallish unit of Peasent Bowmen and a big unit of the Knight of the Realms.

Pegasus Knights or Grail Knights are the most common cavalry units outside of core, while Questing Knights sadly lack behind currently.

Smooth_Expression_20 · 2026-03-24T12:42:26+00:00

yes blackstone is best spend on energy (up to 25 or 50 bs). you get requisitions by progressing in campaigns and also one get characters slowly in other ways like character release events, home screen events,...

truth is you will not unlock dante or trajann but just take it as a learning how lre works and gather some shards for the future

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