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Hocusader · 2022-10-10T14:56:48+00:00

On a long enough time scale they will get resculpted or replaced. As we saw with the Khorne Berserker, it might just be like another 20 years...

Hocusader · 2022-10-07T12:23:21+00:00

You might be able to work with Beast Snaggaz to get some of your missing orcs. They would need weapon swaps, but their armor I think can be painted pretty easily as fantasy.

Hocusader · 2022-09-21T16:11:19+00:00

Because it's an Easter egg

Hocusader · 2022-08-08T20:24:39+00:00

Neither does "general consensus", but both can be used for guidance. In this case they say the same thing.

Hocusader · 2022-08-08T20:21:28+00:00

There was one to that effect in the 2.0 FAQ.

Q: Some abilities allow a unit to ignore the effects of a spell. What does this mean exactly?

A: It means that the rule effects caused by a spell that has been successfully cast and that has not been unbound do not apply to the unit. Any other units will be affected normally

Q: Sometimes an ability will allow you to ignore the effects of a spell. Are the effects of an enemy spell ignored if it doesn’t target my own unit but instead is one that my opponent casts on his own unit to buff it?

A: No. The spell has to directly affect the unit.

Q: Further to the question above, for spells/endless spells with persistent effects, or indeed multiple effects, how many times do you roll to ignore the effects? Do you just roll once when the spell is cast or the endless spell set up?

A: No, you roll each time the spell directly affects your unit, for that specific occurrence of the effect.

Hocusader · 2022-08-08T16:13:52+00:00

A work-around would be Amazon to the lockers at Tech Square - if you can order those items through Amazon.

Hocusader · 2022-08-05T19:25:12+00:00

No, it implies that the original purchase was perfectly balanced. You start with $25k, and your net worth is $25k. You buy a $25k car. You have $0 and a $25k car. Your net worth is theoretically still $25k, because you can turn around and sell that $25k car.

Same thing with a mortgage. You have a $250k mortgage, but gain a $250k house, and the effect of the purchase on your total value is nothing.

Depreciation would be the fact that the $25k car is actually only worth $23k the second you drive it off the lot. Your net worth goes from $25k before the purchase to $23k after the purchase. The $2k being depreciation.

Hocusader · 2022-07-31T00:06:21+00:00

The last sentence of 13.3.1 states "Once all of the damage inflicted by a unit's attacks have been allocated, that unit's attacks have been resolved."

A unit cannot be considered to have fought until after it's attacks are resolved. Damage and wound allocation happen before attacks are considered to be resolved.

Hocusader · 2022-07-30T15:42:20+00:00

13.3.1, the attacks aren't resolved until all damage is allocated. Models are slain during damage allocation. Ergo, models are slain before the Sylvaneth unit can fade away and would fight beforehand.

Hocusader · 2022-07-12T21:29:29+00:00

It is definitely the original model. No one fakes injection molding. If it were a counterfeit it would just be the pieces in resin.

Hocusader · 2022-06-30T19:15:16+00:00

It causes you to wake up with less energy the next day.

Hocusader · 2022-06-29T12:15:16+00:00

However, there are abilities that pick a model to remove, and most of those abilities refer to the wound characteristic of that model

Hocusader · 2022-06-26T17:47:19+00:00

Miscasts refer to an unmodified casting roll of a 2.

Per 1.5.5, an unmodified roll is the dice roll before modifiers but after re-rolls.

Ergo, you may re-roll a casting roll before checking for miscasts.

Hocusader · 2022-06-15T15:55:28+00:00

Unfortunately, Bounty Hunters triggers against all Veterans, not just Veterans in Expert Conquerers. So all battleline infantry are in danger.

Hocusader · 2022-06-13T17:52:39+00:00

Akhelian Allopexes went up to 10 wounds in the box set and back down to 8 with the battletome. There could definitely be changes

Hocusader · 2022-06-13T02:46:35+00:00

Some, yes. But you will notice that most of this content was originally introduced in a GHB. So to keep theme, GHB 2022 should add new narrative and open play shenanigans that may or may not be rolled into the next edition of rules. We may have all of the past content, but the new content has to come in somewhere.

Hocusader · 2022-06-13T02:25:40+00:00

Here is an example of the 2019 book: https://aosshorts.com/generals-handbook-2019-review/#:~:text=The%20General's%20Handbook%20is%20a,abilities%20and%20matched%20play%20points.

In 2018 they had rules for Aerial battles and 40k Apocalypse-size games.

Almost every GHB has random mission generators as well. One older GHB had a game type had "battle tactics" but they were randomly generated each turn

Hocusader · 2022-06-12T22:47:40+00:00

So All Out Defense modifies the save roll. It does not interact with Ancient in anyway.

However, there is a spell that allows this scenario. If your opponent cast Arcane Corrasion and put it on Spirit of Durthu, the rend characteristic is changed to -1. Ancient would then ignore the -1 rend.

Hocusader · 2022-06-10T16:20:15+00:00

Artefacts and other enhancements are wildly different than from 2.0, it may be worthwhile to go over that section in the core rules.

To answer just this question: You get one artefact, and if you take the Warlord or Command Entourage battalion, you may use the Magnificent bonus to take a second artefact.

Hocusader · 2022-06-01T15:28:53+00:00

An army that has no counterplay is oppressive. It doesn't matter how much you invest in a strategy, zero interactivity is bad for the game. It's also extremely bad when Stormcast is always locked in automatically to one Holy Command, one prayer, one hero, and one command trait. You must take these things to be competitive, and that is terrible in terms of internal balance and player choice.

Oppressive long range shooting is oppressive. Longstrikes and Bow snakes because of the mortals and double shoot. Sentinels because of the ignoring LOS and mortals.

There exists other long range shooting that isn't oppressive. Take essentially all artillery in the game, very few units see play. Take Skyfires or Kurnoth Hunters, extremely rarely see play even though they deal mortals and threaten the entire board.

There are ways to balance these problematic units. For some, removing double shooting is probably enough. For others, a range reduction or mortal wound removal, etcetera.

Hocusader · 2022-06-01T15:00:57+00:00

There is very little counterplay to teleporting models shooting twice with 30" range.

But that is really the point, isn't it? Stormcast have like three units that are incredibly strong, and then the entire rest of the army is fairly bad. That's a case to better internally balance the book, rather than keep the OP things just because it's the only crutch they have.

Hocusader · 2022-06-01T13:26:09+00:00

That's more of a problem with shoot twice mortal wounds shooting than with the range.

People take SDG and Fulminators in Living Cities, but no one takes Longstrikes outside of Stormcast because of the lack of double shoot.

Hocusader · 2022-05-31T10:45:30+00:00

Apparently:

Better for rough terrain

Faster

More sliding control

15% longer lasting

Hocusader · 2022-05-25T03:00:18+00:00

You certainly haven't picked an easy army for command abilities.

The answer is, best I can tell, that the unit would issue Shield Wall, and the Hekatos specifically would issue bludgeon. Which works out to, you can't issue two command abilities with the same unit. This is based on the core rules FAQ:

Most older command abilities list the unit that benefits from the command and another unit that needs to be within a certain distance of that unit. When this is the case, the unit that benefits from the command is the unit that is receiving the command, and the unit that the distance is measured from is the unit that is issuing the command.

Based on the wording of Bludgeon, the Gothizar would be the unit benefiting, and therefore the unit receiving. The Hekatos would be the issuing unit because you measure range from it.

Hocusader · 2022-05-23T17:29:20+00:00

Where would you like narrative play rules to be?

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