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Skarboy wrote:

Nantukoshade wrote:Boarding Planks are no different than assaulting a BW with a nob are they? Same strength and all that? You just get to stay inside you vehicle, right?

Yes. Plus since it's not technically an "assault," things like walkers don't get to swing back. Throw your PK/tankhammer at them and enjoy. Counter-intuitive and strange? Yes, but that's GW for you.

Yeah, I know that walkers don't get to swing back, and it isn't technically an "assault", what I was getting at is the fact that I thought we had decided that a PK Nob was a bad way to krak a LR, and that all a boarding plank is. A PK delivery system. Good for krumpin most everything else, but not LRs.

How about a pk warboss? That's 11 on the charge. Giving you a 3 to glance, and 4+ to pen.

Definately better than a nob. Does using the plank give him the bonus to Strength?

It's a charge none the less if I remember the interpretation correctly. So he gets the +1 for furious charge.

Ok. I was just wondering if he did, because it isn't an "assault". Also, do they get to make all of their attacks, or just one?

Pookee wrote:How about a pk warboss? That's 11 on the charge. Giving you a 3 to glance, and 4+ to pen.

10, ten, X - on the charge... sheesh.

Nantukoshade wrote:Ok. I was just wondering if he did, because it isn't an "assault". Also, do they get to make all of their attacks, or just one?

Yes, the boarding plank says something to the effect of "treated as/counts as (something like that) disembarked and charging". So, a PK nob would get all of his attacks at Str 9 and the warboss at Str 10. There is a movement restriction on the boarding plank (something like either vehicle moving over 12" or the vehicles moving a combined 12", don't have my 'dex handy), and you have to get within 2" of the vehicle in question.

TBH, they're not that bad of an upgrade on a BW, I can just never find the points for them in my lists.

For the plank, neither one of the vehicles can have moved more than 12".

A little caveat that is really important for the Ork vehicle, because of the RPJ. Red paint job just alters the classification of your move when it's 7" or 13" to still be combat speed or cruising speed, which the plank doesn't mention anything about. It's just a flat 12" limit on movement in distance of either vehicle.




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ChrisCP wrote:

Pookee wrote:How about a pk warboss? That's 11 on the charge. Giving you a 3 to glance, and 4+ to pen.

10, ten, X - on the charge... sheesh.

Do people a favor and cite the ruling for statements such as this, instead of this type of reply. Here, I'll show you how it's done (as I learned the hard way while researching why you would made such a statement in a rude way)

Page 6 of the BRB, 3rd paragraph, left column: "no modifier may raise any characteristic above 10..."

See, not so hard is it, and gives people a recourse with which to research it themselves and understand reasoning, rather than just blindly accepting.

Pookee wrote:For the plank, neither one of the vehicles can have moved more than 12".

A little caveat that is really important for the Ork vehicle, because of the RPJ. Red paint job just alters the classification of your move when it's 7" or 13" to still be combat speed or cruising speed, which the plank doesn't mention anything about. It's just a flat 12" limit on movement in distance of either vehicle.

Page 93, Codex: Orks, Red Paint Job: "Ork vehicles with red paint jobs add +1 to their move in the Movement phase but do not incur penalties for this extra inch. For example, a vehicle could move 13" and still count as moving 12"."

ie still counts as 12" for Boarding Planks - no caveats, little or otherwise, required!

Ok, ok. Something to watch out for. Just gonna have to keep your LRs more than 2 inches away from all the BWs and Trukks out there with Boarding planks before you pop em.