Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

So, I was reading the book and noticed the guy with the character with the named carnasaur has a spear that gives +1 str on the charge.. RAW would infer that he gets +2 str on the charge because he would also get the +1 str from the weapon being naturally a spear..

Also, when you take a skink chief with the Steggy Lance.. it gives the 2d6+ impact hits for the steg but also gives the chief +2 str on the charge because it is naturally a lance...

What do you guys think? (I know this was a horridly written and rushed codex..)

Ignore the names lance and spear. Magic weapons over ride all mundane characteristics. So the spear is only +1 and the lance would not give the skink +2

Unless of course the Lance says in the description "counts as lance"

10 4

It is a bit OT but it really annoys me when people refer to a WHFB book as a 'codex' it is called an army book in Fantasy

P4NC4K3 wrote:It is a bit OT but it really annoys me when people refer to a WHFB book as a 'codex' it is called an army book in Fantasy

AMEN!!!!

That is a bit OT... cut us 40k switcher-overs a bit of slack will ya?

Okay his spear just adds +1 strength on the charge because it is a magical weapon, and ignores the mundane rules that associate with the name.

The Stegadon lance does get +2 strength on the charge because the first word in the description is is Lance.

RiTides Nids wrote:That is a bit OT... cut us 40k switcher-overs a bit of slack will ya?

all we ask is that you make an effort.

Codex = A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book in all Eurasian cultures. ;
an early manuscript book; a book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll ;


Codex = book.. sorry for any confusion.

Xer0 Ph0kus wrote:Okay his spear just adds +1 strength on the charge because it is a magical weapon, and ignores the mundane rules that associate with the name.

The Stegadon lance does get +2 strength on the charge because the first word in the description is is Lance.

That sounds right to me

Canaan wrote:Codex = A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book in all Eurasian cultures. ;
an early manuscript book; a book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll ;


Codex = book.. sorry for any confusion.

If you call every book a codex, that's one thing. But I think you probably reserve "codex" as the name for 40k and fantasy books that include the Army List. 40k books are called a "codex" Fantasy books are call an "Army Book"

Arion wrote:

Canaan wrote:Codex = A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book in all Eurasian cultures. ;
an early manuscript book; a book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll ;


Codex = book.. sorry for any confusion.

If you call every book a codex, that's one thing. But I think you probably reserve "codex" as the name for 40k and fantasy books that include the Army List. 40k books are called a "codex" Fantasy books are call an "Army Book"

Although true, if you ask someone to hand you the 'Lizardman codex' will they know what you're talking about?...and pass me that 'Space Marine army book' while you're at it

Wow, you guys will troll the life out of anything...