Hello everyone.
So we've had a few days of the NIlfgaard update, where Reveal as a NG archetype was scrapped, and most of the changed cards went into developing the soldier archetype (and a few for tactics).
In my opinion, NG soldiers was already perfectly viable, with great bronzes such as Magne Division, Nauzica Sergeant, the cheapest lock unit and slave infantry (the best bronze in the game, again imo). And Vreemde and Vrygheff made quite a combo already, but now they have even more possibilities.
The new recruit and alba pikeman are great additions to the soldiers, and it seems the new Daerlan soldier is getting really popular, paired with Vrygheff and Vreemde, with the same strategy previously used on Slave infantry - the difference is when you do it on daerlan soldiers, you dont need any other units on board, while with slave infantry you require having several weak units to transform them all into 4/6 slave infantries. Daerlan soldiers= simpler, less vulnerable to disruption, slave infantry= potentially more points.
Then we have Morvran's new ability - boost soldier by 2, 3 charges, on the last charge you choose a soldier to go to the top of your deck.
At first it seemed nice, but when i actually tried it... its weak, and worse, limiting.
In the stream they mentioned a cool combo - on the 3rd charge, put Tibor on top, then use Vilgefortz to destroy a own unit to summon Tibor - it works well, but since Vilgefortz summons and doesnt trigger the soldiers ability, using him with TIbor is the only decent combo, since all the other soldiers are deploy effect.
The other possibility is using Joachim to play the soldier you put on top of the deck and boost it by 8 - using it for a 21 pt TIbor seems risky unless you have last say, and for people who dont want to use Tibor, it feels like a weak finisher.
My point is: the soldier archetype is really nice now in NG, but frankly, it works better with the other leaders - Emhyr and Calveit can easily provide more value, and i even used a Ardal soldier deck that i made before the update that did better than my Morvran deck after the update.
On a side note: they changed Hefty Helge, and were really excited about it on the stream, but i absolutely hate it. I know almost no one used it, but i did and provided really great value on a soldier deck, and being the only immune NG unit was awesome. Now it just has a shield and relies on tactics, not soldiers, and has charges instead of a single order. They made it feel like a buff but it was a nerf, since now it can be locked or seized, and it would have been super powerful with all these new soldier buffs, now its just a glorified Fire Scorpion.
What do you guys think? Did i miss any possible soldier combo?
So we've had a few days of the NIlfgaard update, where Reveal as a NG archetype was scrapped, and most of the changed cards went into developing the soldier archetype (and a few for tactics).
In my opinion, NG soldiers was already perfectly viable, with great bronzes such as Magne Division, Nauzica Sergeant, the cheapest lock unit and slave infantry (the best bronze in the game, again imo). And Vreemde and Vrygheff made quite a combo already, but now they have even more possibilities.
The new recruit and alba pikeman are great additions to the soldiers, and it seems the new Daerlan soldier is getting really popular, paired with Vrygheff and Vreemde, with the same strategy previously used on Slave infantry - the difference is when you do it on daerlan soldiers, you dont need any other units on board, while with slave infantry you require having several weak units to transform them all into 4/6 slave infantries. Daerlan soldiers= simpler, less vulnerable to disruption, slave infantry= potentially more points.
Then we have Morvran's new ability - boost soldier by 2, 3 charges, on the last charge you choose a soldier to go to the top of your deck.
At first it seemed nice, but when i actually tried it... its weak, and worse, limiting.
In the stream they mentioned a cool combo - on the 3rd charge, put Tibor on top, then use Vilgefortz to destroy a own unit to summon Tibor - it works well, but since Vilgefortz summons and doesnt trigger the soldiers ability, using him with TIbor is the only decent combo, since all the other soldiers are deploy effect.
The other possibility is using Joachim to play the soldier you put on top of the deck and boost it by 8 - using it for a 21 pt TIbor seems risky unless you have last say, and for people who dont want to use Tibor, it feels like a weak finisher.
My point is: the soldier archetype is really nice now in NG, but frankly, it works better with the other leaders - Emhyr and Calveit can easily provide more value, and i even used a Ardal soldier deck that i made before the update that did better than my Morvran deck after the update.
On a side note: they changed Hefty Helge, and were really excited about it on the stream, but i absolutely hate it. I know almost no one used it, but i did and provided really great value on a soldier deck, and being the only immune NG unit was awesome. Now it just has a shield and relies on tactics, not soldiers, and has charges instead of a single order. They made it feel like a buff but it was a nerf, since now it can be locked or seized, and it would have been super powerful with all these new soldier buffs, now its just a glorified Fire Scorpion.
What do you guys think? Did i miss any possible soldier combo?
so the problems are quite similar to NR Draug
