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 Stoff3 wrote:

 Kevin949 wrote:

Fragile wrote:

No since you have to fire the Tesla at one of the Targets hit by the Death ray

Yup...so I'll save my 75 points if I want an answer to flyers and just take a night scythe. *Sigh*

What is it to sigh about? The Doom Scythe would be utterly broken, imbalanced, overpowered and so on if it would work as you wanted it to. This is good for the game, since Necrons are as broken as they are atm.

Apparently you haven't fought a storm eagle/raven with their many guns and killy goodness. So you're saying that necrons having two vehicles with the EXACT SAME GUN being the only answer to flyers is "fine"? And having ONE weapon that is str 10 ap 1 would make them OP when IoM flyers have access to similar weapons that are twin linked or can be PotMS fired and have like 2 or 3 other weapons to fire as well is fine? Ugh, that's why I'm sighing.

jbunny wrote:
One I did not see is "What is considered Unique?"

...
It'll say so in your Army List.
I'm not sure how that's even a question.


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 Kevin949 wrote:

 Stoff3 wrote:

 Kevin949 wrote:

Fragile wrote:

No since you have to fire the Tesla at one of the Targets hit by the Death ray

Yup...so I'll save my 75 points if I want an answer to flyers and just take a night scythe. *Sigh*

What is it to sigh about? The Doom Scythe would be utterly broken, imbalanced, overpowered and so on if it would work as you wanted it to. This is good for the game, since Necrons are as broken as they are atm.

Apparently you haven't fought a storm eagle/raven with their many guns and killy goodness. So you're saying that necrons having two vehicles with the EXACT SAME GUN being the only answer to flyers is "fine"? And having ONE weapon that is str 10 ap 1 would make them OP when IoM flyers have access to similar weapons that are twin linked or can be PotMS fired and have like 2 or 3 other weapons to fire as well is fine? Ugh, that's why I'm sighing.

And they even cost the same!
Oh, wait...

I'm happy/sad they shut down the eldar psychic defense. One of my buddies runs 2 Farseer with both Runes. trying to pass a leadership on 4D6 was just hurting my Nids...

jbunny wrote:
One I did not see is "What is considered Unique?"

They clarified the axe mortalis and Glaives in the BA FAQ to be power weapons with mastercrafted, so axe is an axe, sword is a sword etc. But still they could have clarified this in the BRB FAQ also.

jbunny wrote:
One I did not see is "What is considered Unique?"

That just means we're back to using the old standby that seems to be lacking in a lot of 40k players, common sense.

rigeld2 wrote:

jbunny wrote:
One I did not see is "What is considered Unique?"

...
It'll say so in your Army List.
I'm not sure how that's even a question.


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 Kevin949 wrote:

 Stoff3 wrote:

 Kevin949 wrote:

Fragile wrote:

No since you have to fire the Tesla at one of the Targets hit by the Death ray

Yup...so I'll save my 75 points if I want an answer to flyers and just take a night scythe. *Sigh*

What is it to sigh about? The Doom Scythe would be utterly broken, imbalanced, overpowered and so on if it would work as you wanted it to. This is good for the game, since Necrons are as broken as they are atm.

Apparently you haven't fought a storm eagle/raven with their many guns and killy goodness. So you're saying that necrons having two vehicles with the EXACT SAME GUN being the only answer to flyers is "fine"? And having ONE weapon that is str 10 ap 1 would make them OP when IoM flyers have access to similar weapons that are twin linked or can be PotMS fired and have like 2 or 3 other weapons to fire as well is fine? Ugh, that's why I'm sighing.

And they even cost the same!
Oh, wait...

I know they cost more but as I said, they have MUCH more to offer as well, as well as higher armor. I'm just making a point that allowing that one weapon to hit flyers would not have broken the game or made the doom scythe super-duper-killy-awesome-most-best-unit-ever. It's just a bummer that our only other option to take out flyers is no longer an option and you KNOW that IoM is going to get flakk missiles up the wazoo soon and necrons won't get jack for taking out flyers (outside of what is available to EVERYONE). But we'll see, I know they're working on coming out with army specific fortifications and the like, so we'll see.

Neorealist wrote:Ever wonder if there is a GW employee who just lurks the YMDC forum in order to figure out what they should FAQ or not?

I hope so, but I have to wonder. No answer to the scattering blasts issue? That one is pretty big, IMO.

No manually firing weapon emplacements OR emplaced weapons for Nids anymore. That stings a LOT.

They gave FMC skyfire. Need to reread the flyer rules to make sure that makes any diffrence as the Harpy only has blast weapons.

And after all my debates, Broodlord's can't fire ANY Witchfire powers. (Need to read the Orc FAQ to see what happens to Old Zogwart.)

Looks like I am batting 50% on rules I was debating.

Pyrian wrote:

Neorealist wrote:Ever wonder if there is a GW employee who just lurks the YMDC forum in order to figure out what they should FAQ or not?

I hope so, but I have to wonder. No answer to the scattering blasts issue? That one is pretty big, IMO.

Actually it's not that hard to use one of the rulings in the FAQ for this one. We can use the one about non-scattering blast markers, they have permission to allocate out of line of sight. The one caveat that is in there about the target being in line of sight will not apply to scatter, as the whole question was about non-scattering. That means that if we scatter out of LoS blast markers can allocate wounds.

 Gloomfang wrote:
No manually firing weapon emplacements OR emplaced weapons for Nids anymore. That stings a LOT.

They gave FMC skyfire. Need to reread the flyer rules to make sure that makes any diffrence as the Harpy only has blast weapons.

And after all my debates, Broodlord's can't fire ANY Witchfire powers. (Need to read the Orc FAQ to see what happens to Old Zogwart.)

Looks like I am batting 50% on rules I was debating.

They can vector strike flyers, so not sure if that matters for the Harpy. Blast still wouldn't hit flyers.

 Kevin949 wrote:

They can vector strike flyers, so not sure if that matters for the Harpy. Blast still wouldn't hit flyers.

They are S5 with that Vector Strike so they can't hurt AV12. Not to worried about the AV10 or AV11 flyers.

I need to reread the Flyer rules for why blasts don't work though if they are not Snap Shots.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Pretty cool.

Dreadknights are Str10 with rerolls to everything in melee if they have a Greatsword.

You can reembark into Night Scythes dispite them being a Zooming Flyer.

Not too happy about MSS activating Force Weapons. Thats just dumb.

I was excited about the Str 10 attacks

Blasts don't hit flyers, with or without Skyfire. Tyranids still have no AA. Only a Tyrant with TL Devourers has a chance of damage and he needs to be within 18" of a zooming flyer. That'll be easy. . .

And am I seriously hearing whining about Necron flyers lacking in anyway? LMAO! Take a look at Harpies and realize how insanely good Necron flyers are. They don't take str9 hits from markerlights either.

 Neorealist wrote:
Ever wonder if there is a GW employee who just lurks the YMDC forum in order to figure out what they should FAQ or not?

There's no magical secret as to why the questions that are brought out in YMDC are the ones that tend to make it into the FAQ. I'd guess that yakface is still sending them questions that seem to be bringing up big discussions on YMDC like he used to. Don't believe that he used to, check out the thanks on the old necron FAQ. http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1180146_Necrons_FAQ_2004-08_5th_Edition.pdf

Yay! CSM flying daemon princes for all! With skyfire! Chaos rejoices

 Neorealist wrote:
Ever wonder if there is a GW employee who just lurks the YMDC forum in order to figure out what they should FAQ or not?

They do glance at the various rules boards on several fora every now and again.

At the open day I gave them a list of what the DCMs reckoned were the top 10 or so most irksome queries, and they are, as far as I've seen so far, all answered in these FAQs as they were on the day.

oh, upon reflection I believe the effects of stunned/shaken on disembarked passengers was a different answer that was given on the day.

 Gloomfang wrote:

 Kevin949 wrote:

They can vector strike flyers, so not sure if that matters for the Harpy. Blast still wouldn't hit flyers.

They are S5 with that Vector Strike so they can't hurt AV12. Not to worried about the AV10 or AV11 flyers.

I need to reread the Flyer rules for why blasts don't work though if they are not Snap Shots.

Blasts and templates are specifically mentioned to not be able to hit zooming flyers.

 pretre wrote:

 CrashCanuck wrote:
I'm glad that any unit embarked on a transport that must come in from reserves (Drop Pods or Flyers) do not count for reserve totals.

As I predicted, this will become the new kroot blocking off a full reserve army though.

Flyer Guy: "I reserve all of my units on flyers."
Me: "Okay, turn 1 I move nothing. Your turn."
Flyer Guy: "Okay, I'm all in reserve so move nothing."
Me: "Okay, I win. You want to play another?"

I love it.

 Gloomfang wrote:

 Kevin949 wrote:

They can vector strike flyers, so not sure if that matters for the Harpy. Blast still wouldn't hit flyers.

They are S5 with that Vector Strike so they can't hurt AV12. Not to worried about the AV10 or AV11 flyers.

I need to reread the Flyer rules for why blasts don't work though if they are not Snap Shots.

Because blasts can never hit flyers and blast weapons can't be fired as a snap shot.

"Therefore, any attacks that use
blast markers, templates, create a line of/area of effect or
otherwise don’t roll to hit cannot target them"

They have an official FAQ e-mail now.

copper.talos wrote:
And now units can assault in their turn after having their assault vehicle-transport destroyed in the opponents turn. Another case where the rulebook said clearly one thing, but the author meant another...

Which FAQ is this in?

...in the Tau faq does it look like we just got target locks back again?

What is it?

 pretre wrote:
They have an official FAQ e-mail now.

And it only took them 25 years!

Can someone post that email address?

edit: @Grugknuckle

Q: If a unit disembarks from a destroyed vehicle during the enemy
turn, can it Charge in the Assault phase of its own turn? (p80)
A: No, unless the vehicle in question was an Assault Vehicle.

What's the reasoning on Dreadknight swords getting S10?

 60mm wrote:
Blasts don't hit flyers, with or without Skyfire. Tyranids still have no AA. Only a Tyrant with TL Devourers has a chance of damage and he needs to be within 18" of a zooming flyer. That'll be easy. . .

And am I seriously hearing whining about Necron flyers lacking in anyway? LMAO! Take a look at Harpies and realize how insanely good Necron flyers are. They don't take str9 hits from markerlights either.

Broodlord spam with telekinesis power 3 Objuration Mechanicum is all the AA the tyranids need... sick!

masquerade81 wrote:
Broodlord spam with telekinesis power 3 Objuration Mechanicum is all the AA the tyranids need... sick!

That just became a BIG risk. I used to do that all the time. Now with the Assial, Shockwave and Crush not being able to be used it is a risk. 2 in 5 chance you get powers that the Broodlord can't use and you are stuck with them. Should only happen 1 in 25 times.

Still think that OM and TK Dome are probably worth the risk. And there is still Gate.

And now that the question of stealers being able to assult if you go second has been diffinitvly answered there should be less fights about that as well.

masquerade81 wrote:

 60mm wrote:
Blasts don't hit flyers, with or without Skyfire. Tyranids still have no AA. Only a Tyrant with TL Devourers has a chance of damage and he needs to be within 18" of a zooming flyer. That'll be easy. . .

And am I seriously hearing whining about Necron flyers lacking in anyway? LMAO! Take a look at Harpies and realize how insanely good Necron flyers are. They don't take str9 hits from markerlights either.

Broodlord spam with telekinesis power 3 Objuration Mechanicum is all the AA the tyranids need... sick!

Having to spam multiple expensive units and cross your fingers on a psychic table that is half unusable by said units to get mediocre chance at AA. Not sick. Sad.

No Flakk missiles for Imperial players. I'm happy with the Necron FAQ updates. Shame about the Death Ray not being able to hit zoomers and swoopers, but not care. Tesla Destructors