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Can someone please explain to me the Blitz Brigade formation special rules? I understand Scout. But it also has Biggest an' da Best, which requires a Warlord from this detachment to always make challenges in close combat, and Da Boss is Watchin', which gives a +2 on the mob rule table for models from this formation. How can either of those have any impact on 5 Battlewagons? I don't get why they have those 2 rules.

The two rules have no impact on the formation. They are included because all units from Waagh! Ghazghkull have them.

Indeed, not the first or last time we will see redundant Special Rules added to a Model for flavor.

I have a question regarding this formation also. When a unit makes a scout redeployment it can not charge the first turn. What about this formation? The transports make a scout redeployment not the transported units so can they charge still? Tried finding a rule preventing it and couldn't. Talking to my group was not much help since they mostly stated opinions and nothing backed by any rules.

the formation has a special rule called: know yer limits, which states that embarked infantry units cant assault if the battlewagon made use of its scout USR.

This is the reason why people are getting annoyed by players using formations without owning the rules that describe them.

Britneyfan12 wrote:
the formation has a special rule called: know yer limits, which states that embarked infantry units cant assault if the battlewagon made use of its scout USR.

So a unit could assault if the transport used scout then, in another case.

Yes, as nothing in the Scout rule states that an embarked unit uses the Scout rule when their transport does.

People will claim otherwise, but the actual rules never come close to supporting such a position.

For example, an inquisiter with the Libram Heresius in a land-raider loaded up with crusaders and arco-flaggelants.

The inquisitor uses the libram to grant the land raider scout. It moves forward and the unit inside gets the chance to charge first turn. Not the most impressive charging unit, but a land-raider in your face on turn 1 is pretty rough.