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When you upgrade Grave Guard with great weapons, do those great weapons still count as Wight Blades?

And, would a kind moderator mind moving this to the correct forum? My apologies, should of looked before I clicked.

I would say no, as when you buy them a GW, it replaces their current weapon.

When you upgrade them to carry GW they still have the wight blade rule. First sentance of the Wight blade rule: ANY weapon carried by a grave guard makes magical attacks.

Yeah, well you two certainly found the problem I have. One rule says one thing, another says the other. I doubt anyone's ever had that problem in a tabletop game before.

heacy hitter wrote:When you upgrade them to carry GW they still have the wight blade rule. First sentance of the Wight blade rule: ANY weapon carried by a grave guard makes magical attacks.

What does a Wight Blade do again? If it simply means they have magical attacks for any weapon they use, they still have magical attacks; any other bonuses are lost.

The wight blade special rule gives magical attacks and killing blow. The rule also states that it applies to any weapon carried so it would apply to the great weapons too.

Yes, whether Grave Guard have GW, or their regular kit, they are magical and confer killing blow.

Wight Kings have a slightly different rule, which is where maybe some of the confusion lies.

Well for wight kings its just any "mundane" weapon. So anything you didnt buy from the magic items section of the book.

1- Wight picks up a sword. His unnatural and consuming hunger for the life-essence of the living manifests in ghostly flames that dance along the blade.

2- Wight picks up a big ol' axe. His unnatural and consuming hunger for the life-essence of the living manifests in ghostly flames that dance along the blade.

Agreed!

Warpsolution wrote:1- Wight picks up a sword. His unnatural and consuming hunger for the life-essence of the living manifests in ghostly flames that dance along the blade.

2- Wight picks up a big ol' axe. His unnatural and consuming hunger for the life-essence of the living manifests in ghostly flames that dance along the blade.

QFT

Duke_Corwin wrote:The wight blade special rule gives magical attacks and killing blow. The rule also states that it applies to any weapon carried so it would apply to the great weapons too.

The wights are given the wight blade special rule, the wight blade is not an actual weapon. It just gives the model killing blow and the weapon counts as magical.