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Heard something about Empire wizards carrying the Sword of Justice being able to reroll wounds on all oftheir spells. RAW supports this technically (item description simply says "Model may reroll failed wounds", not "Model may reroll failed hits in close combat"), but it just doesn't seem right to me. I don't want to use it, and have people argue with me down the road and waste 20 pts on it.

Also would this work with hex spells that trigger damage later in the game (net of amontyk, flame cage)?

Wow....sounds legit, if a bit unintended. I personally wouldn't use it as I think a few peeps might argue about it and even if you won they'd be thinking TFG in the back of their minds. I wouldn't mind playing you with it though...nice loophole anyways.

Jeeze this would make a lvl 1 of fire pretty sweet, Earthing rod, Sword of Justice.

i voted no because thats just cheesy, even if it is justified!

I've heard of a bunch of empire generals who do this. Nothing in the rules or faq says that you can't, but that doesn't mean that you should. RAW vs. RAI in it's purest form.

Technically: Yes

However in a tournament I'd rule that they couldnt, following the intent of the errata in the WoC army book:

Page 113 – Rending Sword
Change to “The bearer may re-roll failed To Wound rolls in close combat.”

Rudra34 wrote:I've heard of a bunch of empire generals who do this. Nothing in the rules or faq says that you can't, but that doesn't mean that you should. RAW vs. RAI in it's purest form.

interesting thought....

the RAI argument is a very grey area/personal interpretation way of debating.... i can easily argue they intended to allow this for example....


the empire book has had several huge updates in the erratas, to the point that you kind of HAVE to use it or the book does not play as it should in current fantasy....

despite updating the WoC errata to alter this, gw decided not to update the empire one...





i voted yes because the rules allow it