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It's been a thrilling time. GW has started doing FAQ's again. Their process has been a bit confusing, and contradictory.
The FAQ process was described by their social media guy Nick:
Spoiler:
Hello! I'm "Nick"...! I'm the Social Media Assistant at Games Workshop. Part of my job is to compile frequently asked questions from those asked on Facebook and send them to the rules writers in the Design Studio. The rules writers then sit down on a regular (usually every 2-3 months) and go through the list, deciding which ones need to be answered. They send us a finished document with the FAQs and we post them up. We do it that way to ensure that answers are consistent and everyone sees the same answer at the same time.
If there is ever an urgent need for an FAQ because many, many people are asking, we can send a request for a quick decision and a new document as was seen with the recent Alpha Legion update to the Traitor Legions FAQ.
Of course, answering FAQs takes the rules writers away from writing new and cool things we haven't seen yet, so we don't want to keep bugging them every day with a thousand rules questions!
I'm not a rules writer myself, so I can't make calls or decisions on rulings; as such, I'm not sure an interview with me would be all that exciting!
Around a month ago, in an interview with Community boss Andy on Warhammer Live, he mentioned an upcoming project for an FAQ forum style website, so that's in the works. We have no news on when that's coming right now.
In the meantime, please feel free to keep sending questions. We can't provide direct answers on here, as we are not the rules writers, but we can pass them on to the studio in the way described above. - Nick
If you want your question answered quickly get some friends to ask the same question.
When you submit your question, you are likely to get a response like this:
Spoiler:
Hey Ian - we are not a rules answering service, as we are not the rules writers. That means that we in the Community Team cannot give official answers to rules queries. What we CAN do is to pass queries on to the rules writers for possible consideration in future FAQs, which we have done. Sorry I can't be more helpful on this, but we would hate to give an answer only for it to be FAQd a different way later on.
In the mean time, we suggest working out a house rule between you and your opponents pre-game. House rules like that are a great way of solving issues like this.
That doesn't mean you submitted the request to the wrong place. It just means you've got to wait, and see if the rules team picks your particular question for an answer.
