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Been up and down the core rule book leaks, and some of the index's like Imperium and Xeno's. My question is has anybody found where the explanation of the keywords are? For instance...flyer, beast, character, infantry, bike, battle suit? I think titanic was one for the wraithknight too, but cant remember...anyways, obviously some are pretty duh, like character and infantry, and I saw the psyker keyword in the core rulebook in the phase, but most of the key words above I cannot seem to find? Anybody have better luck/more observant than me? If I could find those keywords I'll totally start play testing small games of 8th Please and thank you!

P.S. I did some searches on the forum for this question, and didn't find anything, so sorry if this was already asked and answered!

Keywords don't all have any inherent rules to them. They just define the unit.

 CrownAxe wrote:
Keywords don't all have any inherent rules to them. They just define the unit.

Exactly. So if you look at the Onager Dunecrawler's Icarus Array, it states that if the target unit has the keyword Fly you add +1 to hit. And that's how you use keywords. They don't have to have rules tied to them, but they'll come up in rules all over the place.

Keywords are, in general, not special rules (Fly appears to be the exception). They themselves do not tell you how the units work but do define which units can interact via special rules.

So...the keyword may or may not (but usually doesn't) have a keyword that has a special rule, like in the example of fly, but if it does you have to dig through books until you find it...how do I know beast doesn't have a special rule attached to it for example? I might be over thinking this whole keyword thing but...this seems like i could easily miss a special rule.