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If I have 23 gretchin how many runtherds must I take? 2 or 3?

- Salvage

I think 3 because each controls 10 and the extra three create the need for another handler. not worth it imho, just take 20

Well, codex says for every 10 gretchin you need one more runtherd, i take that to mean that for every full 10 grot models another runtherd must be purchased, much like it is understood that I can't take 2 special weapons in a 12 boy mob.

Good analogy KIL. Waiting for the logic fiends to tell me if I can burn some points in extra grots or not ...

- Salvage

I would also thend to 3, since you basically started the 3rd 10 grotz.

Boss_Salvage wrote:Good analogy KIL. Waiting for the logic fiends to tell me if I can burn some points in extra grots or not ...

- Salvage

"For every 10 Orks, one Ork may take ...."
"For every 10 Gretchin, you must take one ...."

so unless 11 Orks can take two weapons 1 Runtherder can handle 19 Grots.

MIN/MAXing lives on in 5th ed.

That's it.
For every ten gretchin, you must take a runtherd.
In other words: if there are 10 gretchin standing there, 1 runtherd must stand beside them.

Imagine there's a group of gretchin (lets stick with 23).
23 equals
10+10+3

10 <---Need a runtherd
+
10 <---Need a runtherd
+
3 <---Don't need a rundherd, because we remember that for every TEN gretchin, you need a runtherd.

I hope that helped you :-)

Thats quite nice, just drop points by taking only 29 grots.

I can deal with that, and was how I was approaching it in the first place. Thanks for the clarification all!

- Salvage

so really, i can take 29 grots and only 2 herds?

indeed.

I agree that two Runtherds for 20-29 Grots is correct by the RAW.

Although it seems pretty strange that a 3rd Runtherd is required only by taking the 30th Grot, so much so that it seems unlikely that they intended it that way.

yea, i agree with yakface, who is watching out for the other nine grots?