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Ixquic wrote:Under the current rumors having the Skirmisher rule is a serious liability so any unit that has that will probably not get much use.

what rumors, skirmishers are still good as ever. just with a special ranking form... which I still don't belive.


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anybody think the rumors of the huge magic item list is just all the items from the books at higher costs ? I mean they said that the codex takes precedence so the army the ACTUALLY belong to gets them at a discount.

Skirmishers now need to be in a strict formation which limits their ability to hide from charges and they've lost their 360 line of sight (and you should believe it since its now confirmed to be true). These downgrade them into basically what amounts to a regular unit that just doesn't get any combat bonuses. They've gained a worthless stubborn in the woods ability that is incredibly situational since typically ranked infantry doesn't want to chase them into woods in the first place (especially not fighter ones that benefit like wardancers or dryads) and won't matter when typically lightly armored models are facing two to three ranks worth of infantry attacks and will just be murdered.

I don't understand the logic of that rule either tbh.
It is now a loose rank formation rather than an open flexible one.

Anything to do with selling movement trays like those I have seen used in LoTR perhaps?

gendoikari87 wrote:what rumors, skirmishers are still good as ever. just with a special ranking form... which I still don't belive.

Skirmishers who are fielded five-big are just as good as ever. Everything else, not so much. Here's a thing about Skirmishers: Barring Squig Hoppers and Dryads, they aren't meant to get stuck into bigger combats (and even then they tend to go after weak targets & flanks). None of the current rule changes are helpful to Skirmishers. At all. Non-360° LoS limits their shooting. Being put on a base limits their mobility. Being skirmishers by default limits their combat potential.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:I don't understand the logic of that rule either tbh.
It is now a loose rank formation rather than an open flexible one.

Anything to do with selling movement trays like those I have seen used in LoTR perhaps?

this one is not true, it'd be too confusing of a system and just plain ascenine.