Munga wrote:As someone who sucked it up playing necrons by the old codex I found deathmarks extremely interesting. This, however, seems pretty broken. I haven't even had a chance to buy the models yet, and people have found loopholes. This is so cruel that it is going to be fixed as an errata. Really, it's worded all wrong, but you know that's not what was intended. Don't be TFG, unless you are trying to play in the forementioned (and completely fictional) cheese league.
This is legal, because it was not mentioned in the very recent Necron
FAQ update.
There were many nerfs in the recent
FAQ updates for all armies, but this one was not mentioned. They even mentioned
ID with the abyssal staff, and whether characters without
DS can
DS with Deathmarks (they can't). But they did not mention the interaction between Grand Illusion and
HTH.
They are the
RAW, and neither you are I are capable of telepathy or have a patch in to the mind of the designer.
If you wish to play like a scrub, that is your choice.