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 Dysartes wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:IHO a september FAQ isn't likely to happen, they're still, effectively, releasing Marines, I'd expect a FAQ to come out in mid to late October and mostly be some adjustments to any outstanding issues and errata for the marine supplements

Good job it got renamed to being the Autumn FAQ last year, really

Sure. But I think they would've announced that.

They announced they'd move FAQs from "whenever" to March and September each year in December 2017.
They announced they'd move the March FAQ to April to take in Adepticon about 8 weeks after that.
Since then, they've always been true to that April/September schedule, if often late in the month, despite people still giving them a hard time for having the "march" thing on their Warhammer Community site, despite "march" being the date for shorter than "april" being the date even before the first spring FAQ ever hit.

Also, the rules team was at the NOVA open. That's the "meta" they studied at the last big event (as well as general 40K before that). I don't think Marines will be in the equation. The FAQ almost certainly is long finished from a content perspective. They should be at the stage where they are translating it into various other languages, proof-reading it to accurately reflect the rules changes in all languages, generally proof-reading it, etc.., etc.., etc...

Also, GW will put up a new 40K Rulebook on pre-order this weekend.


If (if!) there are no more sweeping core-rules changes and if (if!) GW plays this reasonably smart, I’d hope this new rulebook will be up-to-date with the changes to the core rules and to the matched-play-specific rules that went through various FAQ Betas and CA implementations in the past two years.

And even than, there will be 100+ pages of “we slightly clarified the wording on this obscure Harlequins Strat because people mailed us questions” or whatever.


Also, I could see them changing all double-fight strats and abilities to match the new wording of Honour the Chapter, though they might also leave it until individual Codexes are re-done and/or 9th Ed. drops.

FAQs out today. Nothing groundbreaking coming as expected.

Pain4Pleasure wrote:

Sunny Side Up wrote:
Plaguebearers point increase and/or lower cap to unit size and/or change to cloud of flies to give cover instead of -1

Shield Drone points increase and/or change to saviour protocols (3+ maybe)

Death Hex, Warptime, Null Zone, etc.. to only benefit units from the same faction (e.g. adjusting all psychics to match Farseers).

Nerf shield drones when Tau, while a competitive army, don’t really top events compared to other armies... and the main reason they can compete is shield drones? Someone doesn’t like Tau. I hope if anything if they DO touch shield drones they buff EVERYTHING else significantly to make up for it.

Unfun and unfair mechanic in a game that is mostly about target selection. Should just require the drones be in LOS to block a shot...makes sense and fixes drones entirely.

Page 114 – Saviour Protocols
Change this ability to read:
‘When resolving an attack made against a <Sept>
Infantry or <Sept> Battlesuit unit whilst that unit is
within 3" of a friendly <Sept> Drones unit, if the wound
roll is successful, you can roll one D6; on a 2+ that Drones
unit suffers 1 mortal wound and the attack sequence ends.’

Guard Demolisher Cannons are now always Heavy D6. Big but expected.

Kellermorph can no longer give himself reroll 1s.

Where are you reading this? I go on the FAQ page and i don't see anything new.

Spoletta wrote:
Where are you reading this? I go on the FAQ page and i don't see anything new.

Second that, hard refresh on the faq page. Still nothing.

Update:Change the sorting on the faq page to A>Z and then change it back to recently updated.

Acquisition at Any Cost is now only once per turn.

Dark Angels apparently found some rare STC so their Demolisher Cannons are now Assault 3.

GK Land Raider flamers are now fixed, and no longer the only ones with shorter range. special ammo also works on hvy bolters and combi bolters now.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Dark Angels apparently found some rare STC so their Demolisher Cannons are now Assault 3.

I wonder how long it'll be before GW catches that. LOL. I mean this is obviously a typo on GW's part and we all know what the intended change was but... GW'll need to fix that because you know some rules lawyering TFG will try to argue it at a tourny.

BrianDavion wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Dark Angels apparently found some rare STC so their Demolisher Cannons are now Assault 3.

I wonder how long it'll be before GW catches that. LOL. I mean this is obviously a typo on GW's part and we all know what the intended change was but... GW'll need to fix that because you know some rules lawyering TFG will try to argue it at a tourny.

Countries were sold based on documents had obviouse "typos", or other way around valid contracts were discarded by the winners on the base of them being "writen wrong to begin with". I don't care about the DA units and if they get better, but GW has more then 6 months to write those FAQs. People write their masters in shorter time, and can't have errors in those.