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 Peregrine wrote:

 Troike wrote:
It's kinda annoying the relationship between GW and FW is so ambigous.

There's nothing ambiguous at all. It says perfectly clearly "these are official rules for standard games of 40k". The only "ambiguity" comes from people who hate FW rules clinging to the slightest hint of ambiguity and demanding that GW give them the exact statement they want as an excuse to keep their no-FW policies. If GW ever did "clarify" the situation they'd just move to some other excuse.

Except that some local stores simply do not allow FW in tournament games. Friendly games are always at the discretion of your opponent. My local store is one such store that only allows FW for apoc level games. In reality some FW lists are good or simply a different flavor, others less than great, others pretty strong. Nothing I feel OP (for what is approved) but it is different enough that I would need to start collecting books I have no interest in, as FW stuff isn't really meant for tourneys but more for fluff mechanics.