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You buy your lovely big cumbersome codex and drag it from game to game rapidly flicking through the pages trying to find rules and stats whilst playing and the GW provides a pdf with a load of rules changes that are sometimes careful changes to text and not just points updates. What a pain in the backside to then have to cross reference your codex with the print off updates to make sure your getting it right.

Isn’t it easier to just use the codex as it was released? Unless you have a photographic memory.
   
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Unless it's a big change then not really. Most FAQs seem to be missed out Keywords or typos for me anyway, such as a 10 man named Kill Team being only 3 Power.
   
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Not really, since most FAQ's so far are relatively light on content and it's not hard to remember for me at least. But then I play DG and my codex and FAQ aren't really extensive. If anything I'd like a few more pages in my codex for lore. 9th edition codexes are a bit too skimpy on lore for my liking if I'm honest. Makes sense for the Bible that is Codex: SM, less so for all the others that are half the size yet the same prize.
   
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My drukkhari FAQs mostly address abusable combos that I wasn't taking anyway. So my FAQ is mostly a mental note reading, "Some of the OP stuff got nerfed. Review if fielding formerly OP stuff."


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the FAQs are mostly pretty light, especially for the 9th edition stuff.

Sisters of battle basicly made offical what just about everyone but the most idiotic RAW TFG morons already knew

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mrFickle wrote:
You buy your lovely big cumbersome codex and drag it from game to game rapidly flicking through the pages trying to find rules and stats whilst playing and the GW provides a pdf with a load of rules changes that are sometimes careful changes to text and not just points updates. What a pain in the backside to then have to cross reference your codex with the print off updates to make sure your getting it right.

Isn’t it easier to just use the codex as it was released? Unless you have a photographic memory.


In the interest of fairness I always play with the appropriate FAQ.

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I always try to play with all the FAQ's. Why wouldn't I?

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Please don’t complain about FAQs and errata. I played when GW almost never did them. It was way way way way worse. Imagine iron hand broken nonsense for YEARS. Rules arguments that were never settled etc. It is not that hard to print the FAQ and put a copy in the book. Sorry I am not trying to be mean but the alternative is much worse as I said.
   
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Soooo......we're complaining about gw actually trying to fix things now? Some folks are never happy I guess.....
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Soooo......we're complaining about gw actually trying to fix things now? Some folks are never happy I guess.....


I don't see this as trying to fix things, because they haven't addressed any of the fundamental problems (huge changes to one army at a time followed by years of nothing, zero playtesting, balance changes made seemingly at random). They're pushing FAQs more, sure. Despite all this supposed massive pivot to trying to make the game better the end result still looks a lot like 7th to me in terms of bloat and balance.


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 xeen wrote:
Please don’t complain about FAQs and errata. I played when GW almost never did them. It was way way way way worse. Imagine iron hand broken nonsense for YEARS. Rules arguments that were never settled etc. It is not that hard to print the FAQ and put a copy in the book. Sorry I am not trying to be mean but the alternative is much worse as I said.


I don't think there's that much difference between Iron Hands broken levels of nonsense sticking around for years and a new army being Iron Hands broken levels of nonsense every few months, personally. The game's as much of a mess now as it was in 7th, it's just it changes so frequently you can't adjust or homebrew your way out of the mess as easily.

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I don't play with the actual codex, I just use photocopies of the stuff I bring to the table. It's like 15ish pages in total per game at most. Much faster than double checking stuff on the actual codex, which also doesn't get damaged by the frequent use.

Erratas are just an additional page or two of photocopies.

 
   
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Bamberg / Erlangen

I only bring Battlescribe print outs with me to a game and always use the latest FAQs.

   
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Why would I do that?

FAQs and Errata fix problems, for what reason would anyone want a more broken game?

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A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
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 Jidmah wrote:
Why would I do that?

FAQs and Errata fix problems, for what reason would anyone want a more broken game?


yeah I don't get this bizzare additude among some people that FAQs and errata are bad. it's like... mind boggling.

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Most FAQ and errata are addressing the blindingly obvious or fixing things the average player would never realise was broken anyway (e.g. minor wording changes to stop some obscure rules interaction etc.) I normally just give the document a scan every time it is updated in case there is anything interesting and only ever refer to it if I'm genuinely unsure if something in the codex is right. I keep a copy on my tablet in case but so far I've never had to refer to a FAQ in game. It really isn't a huge deal - it is just handy for GW to confirm "yes, we did intend this to work in this way" a few months after the codex release.
   
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Bristol (UK)

FAQ is better than nothing, but ideally GW should just not make the errors in the first place.

We're still seeing errors that someone familiar with the game reads once and goes "that can't possibly be right", Paragon Warsuits or Gaunts Ghosts are a great example. I find that an unacceptable level of quality for what is a pretty expensive book.
   
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 Jidmah wrote:
Why would I do that?


They've never put out a SAQ that you disagree with?
   
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ccs wrote:
 Jidmah wrote:
Why would I do that?


They've never put out a SAQ that you disagree with?


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Of course I don't think every FAQ is great and perfect, but neither are the rules to begin with. It doesn't change the fact that a game with FAQs and errata is vastly superior to one without.
Not to mention that for 8th and 9th very few FAQ and errata fit that bill - and the few that did were quickly reverted by GW.

I also doesn't really matter whether I "disagree" with rules. If someone asked to ignore a FAQ because they "disagree" with it, they would get a hard no from me unless it's an obvious mistake made by GW.
The only reason I can think of why a person wanted to play completely without FAQs and errata would be because they are trying to abuse something that has been axed.

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7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. 
   
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Italy

The entire set of FAQs for an army is like an additional page to carry, or 2-3 at most if we also consider those from rulebook and/or expansions. How can this be some kind of big deal?

 
   
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Battleship Captain





Bristol (UK)

It's not the weight of the FAQ that's the issue, it's the mental drag of needing to remember that the rule is no longer the same, or having to check both the rule and the FAQ when unsure.

Also, at least for me, having to print it is a ballache as I don't have a printer. So I'm left either roping in a friend or doing at work whilst the boss isn't looking (also not an option atm because I'm WFH).
   
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Bamberg / Erlangen

Couldn't you just note the relevant changes down in the same place where you save your army list?

   
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Port Carmine

My opponent not using the most recent FAQ for their army is a deabreaker for me.

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I always use FAQs, but it can be annoying to have it all updated sometimes. I started playing Infinity recently, and while they're slow on FAQs, it is nice to have all of them at the touch of a button when checking a rule.

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UK

I remember when GW did an edition FAQ and Errata - the week or so before the edition ended and a new edition came out... Yep you went the whole edition and got your answers on the last day pretty much before it all changed. Granted some of those changes were in codex which took time to update, but back then that was about as good as you could get.


FAQ and Errata today are fantastic - fast and updated regularly through the year. And honestly they are not that long - most are a short few value changes and the majority is more dealing with specific interactions or answering questions on how abilities play out.

If you can't print them you could write them down - the value changes are pretty simple to note out. Heck if you wanted you could neatly write them in the codex

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For me, any changes are big enough to remember, or not relevant to me. or I write them down into my book if needed. I don't bother printing them out, and maybe once every 5 games we actually need to look up an FAQ, and usually it's because it just came out a couple of days ago and one of us hadn't seen it yet.

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its usually just a few printed pages and slots right into the codex so yes. Also i find its the most aggrivating opponents who will not bring their FAQ and more importantly ignroe them to take the strongest most busted thing and try to use them in pre FAQ format pointing at their codex listing despite faqs having brought things down. These same people will also use points from codex or chapter approved depending on which is lower sometimes mixing and matching to get the most models possible. Fortunatly these players usually need that handicap and are rubbish at the game so I just smile nod and destroy them anyway.

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Gadzilla666 wrote: Soooo......we're complaining about gw actually trying to fix things now? Some folks are never happy I guess.....

Jidmah wrote:Why would I do that?

FAQs and Errata fix problems, for what reason would anyone want a more broken game?

BrianDavion wrote:yeah I don't get this bizzare additude among some people that FAQs and errata are bad. it's like... mind boggling.


Nobody's saying FAQs are bad. They're saying maybe for casual play the improvement they make to the game isn't worth the additional hassle of bringing a completely separate document that needs to be cross-referenced to resolve questions. A lot of them are a couple pages of niche rules interactions and then maybe one change that's a big deal and good to have authoritatively settled, so if you can just remember those major resolutions/errata/changes I find the FAQ itself is largely unnecessary for gameplay.

I don't agree that FAQs are burdensome, but there are other ways to deploy FAQs besides paper printouts that can address these concerns. For starters, it's a non-issue with a digital living ruleset, where FAQs and errata are integrated directly into the relevant entries. Does the app currently do that? (I honestly don't know)

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Casual play: you can do whatever you want, use points, power levels, made up rules... As long as you agree on everything beforehand of course.

Matched play or tournaments: FAQs are rules, you can't ignore them or pretend they don't exist.


 
   
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Hey team, when I started this thread it wasn’t complaining about the existence and purpose of FAQs, just a question about playing habits.

Otherwise I’d start a thread, not about GWs attempt to fix aspects of the game but to discuss the method by which they do this.
   
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 catbarf wrote:
They're saying maybe for casual play the improvement they make to the game isn't worth the additional hassle of bringing a completely separate document that needs to be cross-referenced to resolve questions. A lot of them are a couple pages of niche rules interactions and then maybe one change that's a big deal and good to have authoritatively settled, so if you can just remember those major resolutions/errata/changes I find the FAQ itself is largely unnecessary for gameplay.


No, the question is literally about playing an unFAQed game, not about playing using the FAQ without having the physical document. And honestly bringing an army list is much more of a "hassle" than to bring a FAQ, and that isn't optional either.

If you hate flipping back and forth between FAQ pages and codex, there are solutions for that. Heck, just put a sticky note on each page that is affected by a FAQ and jot down four words describing what changed.

7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. 
   
 
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