r/AOSSpearhead

Hello everyone I’m seeking some advice. I’ve been playing spearhead for about 3-4 months now, I’d say I’ve definitely got the rules down and I own 4 different teams. Sylvaneth, both khorne, and helsmiths of hashut.

Here recently my 9yr old son wants to try to play a game with me, I’m super excited about this but I also worry that the amount of rules will be a lot for him. Any advice on how to best approach this to make it as fun as possible for him?

In probably the best game of Spearhead we've played (so far) the newly nerfed Bad Moon Madmob take on the newly nerfed Cursed Shacklehorde.

This was a long game so I've edited it down a little more than usual so hopefully it's all good.

Hope you enjoy - Rob

Hi,

I have just started playing Spearhead and have played a couple of games. However, I felt that the player who starts the first turn has quite an advantage over the defender. This is especially true if the defender's army is rich in shooting units. This is because they cannot shoot until their turn and are usually weaker in the combat phase compared to pure melee units.

What suggestions do you have for countering the attacker during the first turn, and how are these situations resolved by the game rules? I see that the twist cards should help the losing side, but I'm not sure if they really negate the damage advantage that the attacker can deal.
Thanks!

Do you have to redeem Battle Tactics upon completion, or are you allowed to choose not to score them in order to preserve the Command for a later turn?

Specifically, I have hit the conditions to score Hold Ground, but the attached Command is a D6 heal on any Combat phase and that would be incredibly useful on my hero who is hanging by a thread. (Test game)