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New FAQs are up. Some changes I've seen:
Farseer powers cannot affect units out of transports.
Nids now disembark from Spores like infantry from vehicles,
No Cover Saves from Vector Strike, Random allocation
Force Weapon activation before FNP.
Units in Nightscythe don't take damage.

Most importantly, (for me that is)

Abaddon is not prevented from joining units with a Mark of Chaos.

Also the Noise Marine changes are very interesting. They can now take a Blastmaster when they number less than 10. At 10 models they may take a second Blastmaster. Also the Champ got his Close Combat Weapon.

Finally a clear answer on seeker missiles vs flyers.

Q: If Seeker Missiles are fired at a Zooming Flyer or Swooping Flying Monstrous Creature, what To Hit roll do they require? (p31)
A: 6+

Great.. Eldar needed a nerf to guide..
Also inb4: "I was right, rules lawyers are stoooopid!!11oneone"

 Voodoo_Chile wrote:
Also the Noise Marine changes are very interesting. They can now take a Blastmaster when they number less than 10. At 10 models they may take a second Blastmaster. Also the Champ got his Close Combat Weapon.

Noticed that as well; that's going to make a lot of Emperor's Children players very happy.

Also, good to see that they've picked up most (all?) of the major rules issues for Dark Angels that have been discussed already. (Admittedly I'm not completely up to date with them, so there might still be some in dispute.)

Pretty pleased so far.

The helldrake finally got a ruling. You measure the baleflamer from the base any direction you see fit. lol

Trasvi wrote:
Finally a clear answer on seeker missiles vs flyers.

Q: If Seeker Missiles are fired at a Zooming Flyer or Swooping Flying Monstrous Creature, what To Hit roll do they require? (p31)
A: 6+

Great, good to know the idiots at Games Workshop have no idea what the implication of their rules are, it's totally reasonable that you have to burn 6 one shot weapons and fire 36 markerlights on average at a flyer to get a single seeker hit.

edit: In hindsight perhaps a bit overzealous of me, but this issue has always bothered me whenever it comes up.

Does it say anything about if units coming in from Reserves count as moving?

olcottr wrote:
Does it say anything about if units coming in from Reserves count as moving?

???

The rulebook says that units move on from Reserve, so why would that be covered in a FAQ?

Q: Some units have rules that mean their selection permits other
units from that detachment to be selected as if they belonged to
different parts of their Codex army list (Heavy Support choices
chosen as Troops for example). If such a permissive unit is killed, do
these rules immediately cease to apply (e.g. units chosen as Troops
that were not Troops originally cease to count as such and so cannot
be Scoring units, or worse become illedgal units due to excess choices
from one or more sections of the army list)? (p109)
A: No.

I cannot believe that required an FAQ. Who actually used the argument "Ha, Khârn is dead, and I see you already took 3 units of chaos terminators, well, since those berzerkers aren't troops anymore, you now have more than 3 elites, which is illegal, therefore I win!!!111" in a game?

Also:

Q: How do I determine the Arc of Sight for a Heldrake’s ranged
weapon? (p52)
A: Treat the Heldrake’s ranged weapon as a Turret Mounted
Weapon, measuring all ranges from the edge of the Heldrake’s
base nearest to the target unit.

Helldrake now gets a 360 arc of sight courtesy of what could be one of the strangest FAQ rulings I've ever seen.

@Avatar:
I don't think that was the intent. I think it's more like:
My SC died, does my Elite unit still score \ does that unit counts as FA or troops for this particular mission (if you get points for killing FA)?

I'm fine with the hell drake ruling, that head can clearly articulate in "real life", so I allowed it in game

MarkyMark wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
On another note - Blessings can be used the turn you arrive from Reserves.
Iron Arm Doom just got significantly deadlier.

Really? how?

It says outflank and reserve rolls, so thats when rolling for a 3 plus to see if they come on, not the scatter dice or movement from reserve.

Moved it over here since more general than range wound allocation. (Where the comments were)

Iron Arm has nothing to do with outflank or reserve.

Q: Blessings are manifested ‘at the start of the Psyker’s Movement phase’ – does this mean they happen simultaneously with Reserves rolls, Outflanking rolls etc and if so which is resolved first? (p68) A: They do occur simultaneously – as such, the player whose turn it is decides in what order these things occur as per page 9 of the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook.

Before, he'd have to cast Iron Arm off the board and couldn't, so your opponent gets a turn to try and ID him. Now he arrives from Reserves (since that's part of rolling for Reserves) and can cast the Blessing then. Eternal Warrior the turn he lands will be nice.

rigeld2 wrote:

MarkyMark wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
On another note - Blessings can be used the turn you arrive from Reserves.
Iron Arm Doom just got significantly deadlier.

Really? how?

It says outflank and reserve rolls, so thats when rolling for a 3 plus to see if they come on, not the scatter dice or movement from reserve.

Moved it over here since more general than range wound allocation. (Where the comments were)

Iron Arm has nothing to do with outflank or reserve.

Q: Blessings are manifested ‘at the start of the Psyker’s Movement phase’ – does this mean they happen simultaneously with Reserves rolls, Outflanking rolls etc and if so which is resolved first? (p68) A: They do occur simultaneously – as such, the player whose turn it is decides in what order these things occur as per page 9 of the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook.

Before, he'd have to cast Iron Arm off the board and couldn't, so your opponent gets a turn to try and ID him. Now he arrives from Reserves (since that's part of rolling for Reserves) and can cast the Blessing then. Eternal Warrior the turn he lands will be nice.

On a turn where Swarmlord was forced to outflank by say, scenario rules, he could walk on the board and cast iron arm then .?

No. the reference to reserves and outflank means that you can roll these first and then cast any blessing you want to the units that arrive.

GW FAQ wrote:Q: If I have the classic Howling Banshee Exarch model with a power
axe, does she strike at Initiative 1 (for Unwieldy) or Initiative 10 (for
the Banshee Mask)? (p31)

A: Neither. Treat the axe as a stylised executioner for +10
points.

Way to completely dodge the question, GW. Thanks! What if any or all the other banshees in the squad are modeled with axes? Can I arm them with Executioners as well for +10 points a model?

Stormbreed wrote:

On a turn where Swarmlord was forced to outflank by say, scenario rules, he could walk on the board and cast iron arm then .?

Actually if you look at the rules for Reserves arriving you see that at the start of the turn you actually roll for all your units to see if they are arriving and after that you pick one unit that is arriving, move it on from reserves, rinse and repeat.

So technically speaking the argument could be made that only the rolls to see what Reserves will be arriving are occurring at the start of the turn and therefore this ruling only tells us that we're allowed to know what units will be arriving before casting Blessings, not that this would actually allow a unit moving on from Reserve to have a blessing cast on it.

This is in tune with the caveat on pg 125 of the rulebook which says: "unless stated otherwise, a unit cannot charge, or use any abilities or special rules that must be used at the start of the turn in the turn it arrives from reserve."

But it is definitely a confusing FAQ answer for that reason and needs to be further clarified.

Resolving the reserve roll includes moving the units on the board. So using the FAQ you have permission to resolve the reserve rolls and then cast blessings.

rigeld2 wrote:
Resolving the reserve roll includes moving the units on the board. So using the FAQ you have permission to resolve the reserve rolls and then cast blessings.

Well not technically. You resolve all the rolls for reserves first before moving any reserve units onto the table. As long as you don't go and move any units that started the turn on the table, there's no reason you couldn't roll all the reserve rolls first, do some other 'start of turn' action next and then come back and move the units arriving from reserve onto the table.

But I do agree that the FAQ answer seems to strongly imply what you are saying...but my point is there is a window of doubt there, especially given that the FAQ question asks about 'rolls' and not specifically reserve units actually arriving on the table.

Resolving the roll is simply determining the result of the roll - applying any modifiers, etc. I see it the same as Yakface, in that all this does is let you see who is coming on the board before being forced to cast blessings.

It cannot mean "...and move on", as you do not resolve that beofre resolving other dice rolls for reserves

 yakface wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
Resolving the reserve roll includes moving the units on the board. So using the FAQ you have permission to resolve the reserve rolls and then cast blessings.

Well not technically. You resolve all the rolls for reserves first before moving any reserve units onto the table. As long as you don't go and move any units that started the turn on the table, there's no reason you couldn't roll all the reserve rolls first, do some other 'start of turn' action next and then come back and move the units arriving from reserve onto the table.

But I do agree that the FAQ answer seems to strongly imply what you are saying...but my point is there is a window of doubt there, especially given that the FAQ question asks about 'rolls' and not specifically reserve units actually arriving on the table.

I've always read that combination of rules to mean that a psyker arriving from Reserves couldn't cast start-of-turn powers, but a psyker already on the board COULD target a unit arriving from Reserve with start-of-turn powers. I'm not sure that the wording of the FAQ changes that interpretation for me.

 Gavin Thorne wrote:

GW FAQ wrote:Q: If I have the classic Howling Banshee Exarch model with a power
axe, does she strike at Initiative 1 (for Unwieldy) or Initiative 10 (for
the Banshee Mask)? (p31)

A: Neither. Treat the axe as a stylised executioner for +10
points.

Way to completely dodge the question, GW. Thanks! What if any or all the other banshees in the squad are modeled with axes? Can I arm them with Executioners as well for +10 points a model?

Banshees were restricted to only swords via the last FAQ IIRC. Stupid ruling as they are entirely irrelevant at this point and I10 axes on the charge might have made them usable but no, we cant have that.

Farseers really needed another nerf? Oh well, i stopped taking WS even before 6th came out. Harlequin spam ftw.

They could have clarified the reserve rolls/psychic powers so you could cast power that alter the reserve rolls. Like GK's psychic communion, although i didn't know there was any issue there.

The Farseer casting out of a vehicle with no Fire Points was actually a big bone of contention in our group and was due for a FAQ'ing. Our Eldar player may not be happy with the ruling but at least they made one!

 yakface wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
Resolving the reserve roll includes moving the units on the board. So using the FAQ you have permission to resolve the reserve rolls and then cast blessings.

Well not technically. You resolve all the rolls for reserves first before moving any reserve units onto the table. As long as you don't go and move any units that started the turn on the table, there's no reason you couldn't roll all the reserve rolls first, do some other 'start of turn' action next and then come back and move the units arriving from reserve onto the table.

But I do agree that the FAQ answer seems to strongly imply what you are saying...but my point is there is a window of doubt there, especially given that the FAQ question asks about 'rolls' and not specifically reserve units actually arriving on the table.

I agree with Yakface, and thanks Rigeld for moving it here .

I think the FAQ is in reference to scriers gaze, the divination power.

The way I did it bother was, roll for reserves, cast psyhic powers, move reserves onto board (whether outflanking or deepstriking) then do normal movement. Now I can cast the psyhic power then roll for reserves (scriers gaze lets you roll 3d6 and pick what you want) then do reserve moves

Reserve rolls were deemed beginning of turn in the BRB.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Q: Some units have rules that mean their selection permits other
units from that detachment to be selected as if they belonged to
different parts of their Codex army list (Heavy Support choices
chosen as Troops for example). If such a permissive unit is killed, do
these rules immediately cease to apply (e.g. units chosen as Troops
that were not Troops originally cease to count as such and so cannot
be Scoring units, or worse become illedgal units due to excess choices
from one or more sections of the army list)? (p109)
A: No.

I cannot believe that required an FAQ. Who actually used the argument "Ha, Khârn is dead, and I see you already took 3 units of chaos terminators, well, since those berzerkers aren't troops anymore, you now have more than 3 elites, which is illegal, therefore I win!!!111" in a game?

I'm pretty sure they had to put this in due to the BRB faq about warlord trait's being lost as soon as the warlord dies. In other words they were trying to make sure some of us don't claim that the HQ's "normal" special rules are lost causing the game to implode. So it's not that anyone has used the argument, it's that someone inevitably would make that argument without it.

As an IG player, I can see someone making the argument that killing Chenkov means you lose SINTW, and killing Creed makes you lose Scout on that one unit. But of course, the FAQ doesn't cover those.

Page 31 – Howling Banshees, Banshee Mask.
Replace this entry with the following:
Banshee Mask: In the first round of an assault, a model wearing
a Banshee mask has Initiative 10, even if it charged through
difficult terrain. Furthermore, defensive grenades cannot be
used against a charging model with a Banshee Mask

Is this new or did I miss this before?

PredaKhaine wrote:
Page 31 – Howling Banshees, Banshee Mask.
Replace this entry with the following:
Banshee Mask: In the first round of an assault, a model wearing
a Banshee mask has Initiative 10, even if it charged through
difficult terrain. Furthermore, defensive grenades cannot be
used against a charging model with a Banshee Mask

Is this new or did I miss this before?

If the text is "pink" it is new, it if it not pink then it was added in previous FAQ's

rigeld2 wrote:

MarkyMark wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
On another note - Blessings can be used the turn you arrive from Reserves.
Iron Arm Doom just got significantly deadlier.

Really? how?

It says outflank and reserve rolls, so thats when rolling for a 3 plus to see if they come on, not the scatter dice or movement from reserve.

Moved it over here since more general than range wound allocation. (Where the comments were)

Iron Arm has nothing to do with outflank or reserve.

Q: Blessings are manifested ‘at the start of the Psyker’s Movement phase’ – does this mean they happen simultaneously with Reserves rolls, Outflanking rolls etc and if so which is resolved first? (p68) A: They do occur simultaneously – as such, the player whose turn it is decides in what order these things occur as per page 9 of the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook.

Before, he'd have to cast Iron Arm off the board and couldn't, so your opponent gets a turn to try and ID him. Now he arrives from Reserves (since that's part of rolling for Reserves) and can cast the Blessing then. Eternal Warrior the turn he lands will be nice.

Don't think that is true, even post FAQ. Blessing have to happen before movement and coming in from Reserve counts as movement. I think this ruling was more to effect how you can cast on other units.