Genuine advice post. A bit rant but I'm new to CWE and just don't understand.

Feels like with these atrocious point nerfs, I'm basically forced to spend 75 percent of my points in an overcosted shell solely because everything else is even worse.

It feels like if I'm not trying to table someone immediately I'm basically forced to start with 10x blades with axes, 2x falcons and 2x serpents and that's half the points gone already.

The troops are overcosted 3T garbage that had their unique qualities nerfed into oblivion (defender bombs basically making troops worthless, everything else costing too much for how ridiculously squishy they are, even rangers losing their penalty to hit), which basically forces you to use a flotilla of tanks, which all of them are 7t (except wraithlords) with no invulnerable saves, so the only things that make them even remotely tanky are spirit stones and serpent shields. They will still die almost immediately to lascannons.

So ok, I've got fast and mobile ships, but no troops to back them up and they aren't even remotely tanky. What the hell is their purpose if I'm not souping or running groups of kamikaze shining spears?

The attributes are ok, but most of them got shat on with the rules changes to where a lot of them feel utterly pointless.

What am I actually meant to spend points on? Everything was nerfed with the message of "don't buy a lot of these" to the point where you can't buy a lot of anything.

So troops are a tax, tanks have nothing to support them, lords of war are useless, the named characters are garbage, almost all the elites are unplayably expensive, there's literally nothing this faction can do anymore except seemingly run a melting pot of efficient ppm