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 PrinceRaven wrote:
At least taking Feel No Pain makes sense than cover saves, how does a tree being in the way possibly save you from having your soul eaten? Does it get caught in the branches or something?

Hippies, thats how.

 PrinceRaven wrote:
At least taking Feel No Pain makes sense than cover saves, how does a tree being in the way possibly save you from having your soul eaten? Does it get caught in the branches or something?

Well The rules are an abstraction.

They need to have a certain amount of abstractness to make the game playable.

The rules were not written to be "Modern day real world" logical.

The rules are an abstract system used to simulate a battle in the year 40,000.

What would happen in the modern day real world has nothing to do with the RAW, or the simulation of a battle fought 38,000 years from now.

Rigeld - a) is a litlte too subjective, surely?

A *lot* changed in 6th,and one is that LOS is CRITICAL to hurting units. and models within it

Prince - Mind War. Has allowed cover saves for 3 editions now.

 PrinceRaven wrote:
At least taking Feel No Pain makes sense than cover saves, how does a tree being in the way possibly save you from having your soul eaten? Does it get caught in the branches or something?

I find its best not to think about it....

HA! Take that Doom! All this rubble on the floor is stopping you from leeching my soul ! Ready to fire the Melta gun guys? Guys...? Oh Gak...

Bloodhorror wrote:

 PrinceRaven wrote:
At least taking Feel No Pain makes sense than cover saves, how does a tree being in the way possibly save you from having your soul eaten? Does it get caught in the branches or something?

I find its best not to think about it....

HA! Take that Doom! All this rubble on the floor is stopping you from leeching my soul ! Ready to fire the Melta gun guys? Guys...? Oh Gak...

The rules are an abstraction, that is how "a tree being in the way [can] possibly save you from having your soul eaten"

Just like moving through difficult terrain, sometimes you move and it does not hinder you at all, sometimes you barely shift position.

On Top of that it could be tendrils so that cover would actually block the anime tentacles.

It could even be more powerful if the Doom can see you to focus his ability.

Those would make sense with cover saves.

 Mythra wrote:
On Top of that it could be tendrils so that cover would actually block the anime tentacles.

It could even be more powerful if the Doom can see you to focus his ability.

Those would make sense with cover saves.

Except, if you're reaching for fluff to explain, you have to remember that Zoanthropes have no eyes.

 Janthkin wrote:

 Mythra wrote:
On Top of that it could be tendrils so that cover would actually block the anime tentacles.

It could even be more powerful if the Doom can see you to focus his ability.

Those would make sense with cover saves.

Except, if you're reaching for fluff to explain, you have to remember that Zoanthropes have no eyes.

No eyes that a human can conceive as being eyes.

Eldercaveman wrote:

 Janthkin wrote:

 Mythra wrote:
On Top of that it could be tendrils so that cover would actually block the anime tentacles.

It could even be more powerful if the Doom can see you to focus his ability.

Those would make sense with cover saves.

Except, if you're reaching for fluff to explain, you have to remember that Zoanthropes have no eyes.

No eyes that a human can conceive as being eyes.

And, as humans, since we can not understand what or where their ocular cavities are, we have no way of drawing line of sight from their eyes as they do not have eyes " that a human can conceive as being eyes."...

 DeathReaper wrote:

Eldercaveman wrote:

 Janthkin wrote:

 Mythra wrote:
On Top of that it could be tendrils so that cover would actually block the anime tentacles.

It could even be more powerful if the Doom can see you to focus his ability.

Those would make sense with cover saves.

Except, if you're reaching for fluff to explain, you have to remember that Zoanthropes have no eyes.

No eyes that a human can conceive as being eyes.

And, as humans, since we can not understand what or where their ocular cavities are, we have no way of drawing line of sight from their eyes as they do not have eyes " that a human can conceive as being eyes."...

Well played sir, well played.

Although which contridiction do we go for...

Page 8 Line of Sight
For one model to have line of sight to another, you must
be able to trace a straight, unblocked line from its eyes to
any part of the target's body (the head, torso, arms or legs).


Page 10 TURNING AND FACING
As you move the models in a unit, they can be turned on the
spot to face in any direction, without affecting the distance they
are able to cover, whilst the direction a model's facing won't
impact its ability to shoot or charge into combat later in the
turn, it's always better to have it facing towards the enemy, just
as it would on a real battlefield.

I have painted the eyes a glowey green on Zoanthropes. Why do they put eyes on the models if they don't have any?


Edit:

Even if they don't have eyes it doesn't mean what ever sense they use isn't interrupted by something intervening.

There are no eyes on the Zoanthrope model.