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..and inevitably I have a few questions.

So, I played my first games of 6th, after all I'd read on here (and having been playing Warmahordes in the meantime) I was apprehensive to say the least, but it was rather fun I'll admit. Anyways, a load of questions arose, mainly due to GW's less tight rules writing than PP, but I digress.

General:

How many objective markers do you use in a missions? It does not seem to say it anywhere how many are used in each mission like the 5th book did. That or it's squirrelled away somewhere.

The Initiative step for HTH, how is this done? Do you simply pile-in models the 3" in the priority based on their I stat then fight the combat or do you pile in I10 models, do their attacks, pile in I9 models and so on?

With models with different saves/characters are *really* supposed to roll the dice one at a time from the wound pool going from closest to furthest, this was made a bit more confusing WRT how said process interacts with Tau Drones, which I'll get to later.

Tau:

Are there any rules for how Drones interact with the new wound allocation process? As it appears that unless they are the closest model they cannot do their job. We house ruled it to say Drones count as the closest model to the shooter regardless of where they're placed in the unit (except for Blast and Template weapons obviously), but it would be nice to know if there's an actual ruling on this.

Farsight still goes with what the codex says for the Dawnblade right? I've not seen anything that gives it an AP value in HTH, correct?

Space Wolves:

All codex psychic powers are warp charge 1. Correct? Couldn't find anything that said different.

Only Njal's Runic Weapon is a Stave. RP's RW is an unusual Power Weapon (as it's a FW that wounds Daemons on a 2+) so it's appearance does not matter. Correct?

FNP is only lost from attacks that cause ID now?

Daemons:

I seem to recall an early FAQ when 6th ed. came out saying Khornate characters must issue/accept challenges. This appears to be gone from the FAQ or is it buried elsewhere? Tell me I'm not going mad.


That's all I can remember for now. Maybe I'll remember a few more things that came up. Thanks in advance.


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 Grimtuff wrote:


How many objective markers do you use in a missions? It does not seem to say it anywhere how many are used in each mission like the 5th book did. That or it's squirrelled away somewhere.

The Initiative step for HTH, how is this done? Do you simply pile-in models the 3" in the priority based on their I stat then fight the combat or do you pile in I10 models, do their attacks, pile in I9 models and so on?

All codex psychic powers are warp charge 1. Correct? Couldn't find anything that said different.

Only Njal's Runic Weapon is a Stave. RP's RW is an unusual Power Weapon (as it's a FW that wounds Daemons on a 2+) so it's appearance does not matter. Correct?

FNP is only lost from attacks that cause ID now?

These are the ones that I'm 100% confident on doing, I'm not going to try and answer ones that I'm not 100% certain on in case I feed you the wrong information.

1. It says on each of the individual missions, under the sub-heading of 'place primary objectives' where applicable.

2. The latter, charge your full distance, and if you get into combat you run through the initiative steps and units that aren't already in B2B pile in 3", do their attacks, and then move onto the next initiative step.

3. Yes, unless the specified in the FAQ.

4. Yes, it doesn't matter that it looks like an axe it's still a power/force weapon because it's unusual.

5. Yes.

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Daemons - no such faq existed, however the new marines book has the requirement for all characters to accept or proffer a challenge
   
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 Grimtuff wrote:


With models with different saves/characters are *really* supposed to roll the dice one at a time from the wound pool going from closest to furthest, this was made a bit more confusing WRT how said process interacts with Tau Drones, which I'll get to later.

Tau:

Are there any rules for how Drones interact with the new wound allocation process? As it appears that unless they are the closest model they cannot do their job. We house ruled it to say Drones count as the closest model to the shooter regardless of where they're placed in the unit (except for Blast and Template weapons obviously), but it would be nice to know if there's an actual ruling on this.



Yes, you should be rolling one at a time, or allocate wounds evenly around the unit. I prefer the one at a time and let the closest model take the brunt of the attack. It's why wolf guard in terminator armor with a storm shield at the front of a grey hunter pack is a viable tactic.

There are no rules about how drones interact. If they are the closest model, they take the wounds. If they aren't the closest model, they don't take the wounds. You have to be more strategic this edition about where you place models in a unit. The same can be said when moving to get in a shot on a specific model, so it works on both ends of the table.


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 Grimtuff wrote:


Farsight still goes with what the codex says for the Dawnblade right? I've not seen anything that gives it an AP value in HTH, correct?


It's not in the BRB that I could find and it hasn't been mentioned in the Tau FAQ, so yes, use the codex.

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nosferatu1001 wrote:
Daemons - no such faq existed, however the new marines book has the requirement for all characters to accept or proffer a challenge


Only thing I'm finding in the C:SM FAQ is that a Chapter Champion must always issue or accept is possible. Not seeing this for all characters. What am I missing?

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Chaos marines.
   
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Sorry, i thought context of "new" marines would mean Chaos marines to everyone. Sorry if tha twas unclear don!
   
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LOS! lets shield drones do there job even better as far as keeping a Character alive go.
   
 
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