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New FAQs (Tau, Space Marines, Eldar, and maybe Farsight): http://www.blacklibrary.com/faqs-and-errata.html

In the text the tau one is dated April 2013, but I'm pretty sure it is new. The Farsight one is dated 10/14/2013, and it might not be new.

Overall, I'm very disappointed with the lack of content of the new FAQs, but their existence is a step in the right direction.

Those are the old FAQs, just reposted.

Actually, no. Before the Tau FAQ wasn't online, now it is.
It's still the old one, but at least it's up.

Never mind.

Ah I see.
Yes, those are indeed the old FAQs. No new content here.

But at least you have something to stop missile drone spam.

So we still don't have anything official on grav weaponry and cover saves or IC's joining Riptides... wonderful.

Why would there need to be anything on IC's and Riptides?

What's wrong with grav weapons? The rules for them appear to be pretty straight forward.

People are weird with allowing/not allowing cover saves/ invuln saves with vehicles.

I love the fact that they have an older FAQ up for Death From the Skies. They have version 1.0. I have Version 1.1 from two months later.

I guess they didn't like how the new erratas worked in the 1.1 FAQ... or they lost the original.

Yeah, changing "Zooming Flying Monstrous Creature" to "Swooping Flying Monstrous Creature" makes Flyboss' OP.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
What's wrong with grav weapons? The rules for them appear to be pretty straight forward.

Yet RaW they bypass both cover and invulnerable saves on vehicles when this is clearly not the intention. Whilst firing at a mixed saved unit has literally no way to resolve.

Why people want a FaQ on Riptides and ICs I don't know the rules there are very clear.

Co'tor Shas wrote:Why would there need to be anything on IC's and Riptides?

The (old - dead horse) argument is that since the Riptide itself is not an IC and only ever consists of a single model that IC's cannot join it. The opposing argument being that since the Riptide has the ability to take drones the unit has the potential to consist of more than one model, therefore allowing IC's to join. There's even a third position on this one (like me) who think it's situational in that if you take the drones, it's OK, the IC can join, but if you didn't pay the points for the drones then Riptide (for that battle) always consists of a single model and therefore cannot be joined by an IC (for that battle).

CthuluIsSpy wrote:What's wrong with grav weapons? The rules for them appear to be pretty straight forward.

You would think so, but yet here we are. Side A says that since the grav weaponry does not cause a penetrating or glancing hit on a vehicle no cover save can be taken. Side B says that it's a shooting attack therefore a cover save can be taken if the vehicle is obscured.

The other issue with grav weaponry is, how do you roll to wound on units with mixed armor saves?

The (old - dead horse) argument is that since the Riptide itself is not an IC and only ever consists of a single model that IC's cannot join it. The opposing argument being that since the Riptide has the ability to take drones the unit has the potential to consist of more than one model, therefore allowing IC's to join. There's even a third position on this one (like me) who think it's situational in that if you take the drones, it's OK, the IC can join, but if you didn't pay the points for the drones then Riptide (for that battle) always consists of a single model and therefore cannot be joined by an IC (for that battle). 

So you believe that ICs can't join Monat suits? Because before this new codex came out not a single person made that claim. The rules here are clear just because people like you don't want them to be is not really relevant. It's like asking for an FaQ that Vet Guardsmen are Bs4 because they surely can't be as good as a marine...

Ver straightforward. Riptides are NEVER required to consist of one unit during army list creation. Therefore, ICs can join them with no issue. Doesn't matter if you take the drones or not. It's EXACTLY the same as joining a single Crisis Suit or an Necron Lord joining a single Canoptek Spyder. Always allowed under the current ruleset.

Short version: these aren't new FAQs. Topic's over.