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I have a hypothetical for you all:

Imagine, for whatever reason, taking four Autarchs in a double force-org game. Together they can provide 4 +/- to reserve rolls. Does this mean that they could modify the roll to either a 1+ or a 7+, which would effectively guarantee success/failure?

My gut says "no" but then again RAW doesn't necessarily care what my gut has to say. I vaguely recall that an old FAQ prevented this, but if that was an Eldar FAQ then that no longer exists.

Re-read the Autarch rules. It says "One or more Autarchs". You only get the bonus once.

/thread

Thanks for pointing that out!

The best I've been able to manage is a Dual Force Org Marine/I.G. where I fielded a Land Raider Proteus (+1), a Master of the Fleet (+1) and rolling a '5' on the Warlord Strategic chart (+1) to make my opponent need a '6' to bring in his reserves. Gives the 'Air Force' lists nightmares.

Plus reserves come in automatically at turn four.

Personally there have been heaps of instances where I *want* to stay off of the board.

Yes, but if you come across a Necron 6 x 'Croissant' list, or a Chaos 'Puking Turkey' list, you can often mess up their whole world keeping a bunch of then off the board and perhaps tabling them before turn 4.

 Fedral wrote:
Yes, but if you come across a Necron 6 x 'Croissant' list, or a Chaos 'Puking Turkey' list, you can often mess up their whole world keeping a bunch of then off the board and perhaps tabling them before turn 4.

Autarchs have no effect on opponents reserve rolls.

Awe two Autarchs don't stack?

Darn, well then definitely take a comms relay!

Do keep in mind:
When rolling reserves, a roll of 1 is always a failure. Page 124, third paragraph down from the Arriving from Reserve section. So even if you stack two units that give a bonus to these reserve rolls, you still are only going to receive the effects from one of the two sources. The second source becomes irrelevant, for even if you stacked it down to a negative number a roll of 1 auto-fails.

Can be debated you could adjust your enemies rolls to 7+ but special rules to adjust your enemies rolls are less common. I can think of maybe two, at a stretch three, special rules that do so off the top of my head. Some of these require blind luck, such as a warlord trait, while others are spread throughout different codex. So the possibility of getting 4 special rules needed to deny your opponent reserves completely is slim to none.