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 vipoid wrote:

Lammia wrote:
The ability to fix a rule for one unit without breaking the rule for another.

You mean like how they fixed only the specific deep-striking units that were causing issues?

Oh wait, no, they just nerfed every single unit with deep-strike.

Phew, glad the same ability has 400 different names. That really came in handy.

That's definitely an example of something we'd like to avoid. I'd could be argued that deep striking had a macro level problem, but your point is valid.

Karol wrote:
out of LoS units being closer then characters and similar stuff seems to be standard here. Only time I could imagine for this not to work, if there was little, if any LoS blocking terrain. And even then the SoB bodyguards can just kneel behind an exorcist . Or do people play it that they can draw LoS through vehicles?

The provided example was a Hive Tyrant, not a sisters model. The Tyrant Guard are considerably larger than SOB bodyguards and I'm not certain 3 of them could fit behind a Rhino.

Karol wrote:
out of LoS units being closer then characters and similar stuff seems to be standard here. Only time I could imagine for this not to work, if there was little, if any LoS blocking terrain. And even then the SoB bodyguards can just kneel behind an exorcist . Or do people play it that they can draw LoS through vehicles?

It's the Tyranid that have the bodyguard. Getting attacked by Sisters.

The real issue is character targeting rules and body gaurd rules being allowed to be used when they are OLOS to the shooting unit. I don't see much issue with the rules themselves. It actually seems reasonable that some units would be better at sacrifice than others.

This game is about 90% target priority and selection. Rules like this that that away. It creates situations where you literally can't win the game because there is no possible way in a 6 turn game you'll ever be able to select the targets you need to. Not sure why anyone would want to play that stupid game anyways.