From the updated list of SM changes
viewtopic.php?f=73&t=19332 SM warhounds going up to 300pts appears to be a done deal now
How has this suddenly gone through? There are 11 pages of discussion about warhounds in which the majority view a token price increase to warhounds as a waste of time.
Warhounds are a staple of SM armies - increasing to 275pts was a good step as 1) 250 was too cheap and 2) players with no shame could no longer take 4 at 3k.
Increasing to 300 is pointless - 1) 25pts isn't big enough increase to make alternatives a viable choice and 2) it is in reality detrimental as tacticals will just be replaced by devastators to gain the points back.
So the change has really one sole detrimental affect and no positive ones - and is not even widely supported.
As I've said elsewhere the change I would make to SM is to drop the addition to ATSKNF on BM in assault resolution in the 2008 errata.
1) It gives the Air assault+teleport armies a completely unneeded boost. This boost has the effect of completely overpowering the effect of the drop in SM armour prices. (As shown in EUK events). To put it simply making a poor option decent is pointless if you are going to at the same time make a good option great by effectively giving a free chaplain to air assault+teleports
2) It makes no difference to ground assaults -ie assaults in later turns by tacs+devs. they have been boosted by the leader removes 2 BM so now they should be on less BMs than larger units by the later turns anyway.
3) It is very poorly written -as can be seen in the confusion over ti in the thread about it and in that at every tournament this year it has been queried more than once
