WHFB 7th Edition FAQs

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**syr8766**

See, I don't disagree with that:

The rules are clear.
And I am a bad person.

I'm just not clear what effect that has in game terms?

*Sigh*, at least in Warmachine, it's spelled out in p. 5.

**imthedci**

Posted By syr8766 on 12/27/2006 5:50 AM
*Sigh*, at least in Warmachine, it's spelled out in p. 5.

I'm sure that if GW had a Page 5, it would come with disclaimers and require an FAQ for when it does or dosen't apply. And eratta...yeah...lots of eratta... :S

**Abadabadoobaddon**

Posted By imthedci on 12/27/2006 6:37 AM

Posted By syr8766 on 12/27/2006 5:50 AM
*Sigh*, at least in Warmachine, it's spelled out in p. 5.

I'm sure that if GW had a Page 5, it would come with disclaimers and require an FAQ for when it does or dosen't apply. And eratta...yeah...lots of eratta... :S

I think it would just call you a bad person for trying to win by playing by their rules. In a very snarky way.

**Zubbiefish**

There's nothing wrong with piles of eratta. It's inconvenient but at least problems are adressed. It's WAY better than having nothing.
I think the point is (I'll use Warmachine as an example) that in Warmachine the rules writers spell out that they expect you to use every trick and every advantage at your disposal to win at all costs. But you have to follow the rules to do it.
GW has told you that if you follow the rules you're a bad sport. The next FAQ will tell us that if we don't break the rules in order to pull off a loss we're big meanies. The one after that will tell us that realy we shouldn't play the game at all. Just buy the pretty figures and be happy that they let us buy them at all 'cuse they're way cooler than what we deserve.
The last one will tell you kill yourself and leave your estate to the company.

**syr8766**

Posted By Zubbiefish on 12/27/2006 8:19 AM
There's nothing wrong with piles of eratta. It's inconvenient but at least problems are adressed. It's WAY better than having nothing.
I think the point is (I'll use Warmachine as an example) that in Warmachine the rules writers spell out that they expect you to use every trick and every advantage at your disposal to win at all costs. But you have to follow the rules to do it.
GW has told you that if you follow the rules you're a bad sport. The next FAQ will tell us that if we don't break the rules in order to pull off a loss we're big meanies. The one after that will tell us that realy we shouldn't play the game at all. Just buy the pretty figures and be happy that they let us buy them at all 'cuse they're way cooler than what we deserve.
The last one will tell you kill yourself and leave your estate to the company.

I await the FAQ on the method of suicide and estate leaving before taking further action.

EDIT: so back in the day, my buds and I tried to write a role-playing game, and we filled it--on purpose--with dozens of meaningless and contradictory table. My favorite result on one of them was that on a d100 roll of 100, you called Gary Gygax (phone number provided) and ask him.

**Toreador**

I still don't remember clipping being truly "fixed" in the last edition. I remember the big long articles on it, and what you should and shouldn't do, but I remember the same conclusion. That you shouldn't try to do it. It didn't seem to firmly state anything just like the FAQ.

A couple of weeks ago we had an issue of clipping, with a unit and two chariots. The chariots could only contact diagonally after the unit had charged. There was grumbling about it, but no real argument and in the end it was allowed. All parties involved were not exactly happy though, so it would be nice to see a fix, but it isn't absolutely necessary. But, I play for fun.

**Hellfury**

Posted By syr8766 on 12/27/2006 8:33 AM

Posted By Zubbiefish on 12/27/2006 8:19 AM
There's nothing wrong with piles of eratta. It's inconvenient but at least problems are adressed. It's WAY better than having nothing.
I think the point is (I'll use Warmachine as an example) that in Warmachine the rules writers spell out that they expect you to use every trick and every advantage at your disposal to win at all costs. But you have to follow the rules to do it.
GW has told you that if you follow the rules you're a bad sport. The next FAQ will tell us that if we don't break the rules in order to pull off a loss we're big meanies. The one after that will tell us that realy we shouldn't play the game at all. Just buy the pretty figures and be happy that they let us buy them at all 'cuse they're way cooler than what we deserve.
The last one will tell you kill yourself and leave your estate to the company.
I await the FAQ on the method of suicide and estate leaving before taking further action.

EDIT: so back in the day, my buds and I tried to write a role-playing game, and we filled it--on purpose--with dozens of meaningless and contradictory table. My favorite result on one of them was that on a d100 roll of 100, you called Gary Gygax (phone number provided) and ask him.

oooh great idea. GW should leak all 12 of Kirby's cell phone numbers so that we might ask him how many inches movement allows in the opponents shooting phase.

**syr8766**

They should also start installing animatronic Andy Chambers (from 1994, natch) in every game store in the world. Put in $1, have him read your (army's) fortune.

"Your Ork army is beautiful. Too bad it will lose. You should have played Chaos!"

**nyarlathotep667**

But Andy was an Ork player!

**syr8766**

AND a chaos player! Remember your history!

**malfred**

I think Sai Andy was a robot.

**syr8766**

I'd have recommended a 'Fat Bloke' machine, but it would just be offended by the question, and I'm pretty sure you couldn't put a bacon buttie in a machine...

**nyarlathotep667**

Not to mention that PD would scare off the "Fat Bloke" bot after asking said "offensive" question.

**Dice Monkey**

Posted By nyarlathotep667 on 12/27/2006 12:41 PM
But Andy was an Ork player!

He was not a good one. I was undeafeated with my Orks. They were a blast to run, shootier than any other army with the vaccine squig and a 100 strong ablative gretchin screen they were nigh unstoppable. They were the most fun of any thing to play and caused more havoc with weird rules and support choices than any army in the history of the game. Of course that was before the dark times, before 3rd-4th edition.