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I wonder why they didn't do this in the first place.

 DaveC wrote:
Radukar’s court get individual points but why have min/max when that’s gone in AoS 3

So you can use them today before 3rd edition drops tomorrow

Pink horrors will be obnoxious unless you can wipe all at once. Unit of 20 has lost all pinks and blues and has thus 60 models slain. Rally. Average 10 pinks back. Fun fun fun.

Was expecting this　to be faqed.

Lumineth twin stones got nerfed to death on typical gw overcompensation. Need nerf, nerf to death.

Lumineth faq refers to unique on　loremaster which　lost that so...ghb or faq in error?

Bah, so I’m learning the new General’s Handbook has removed/no longer includes the Balewind Vortex. I’m bummed because I loved that spell and have a sweet custom model made for it.

Best Edition ever gets an FAQ before it officially hits the stores, says it all.

It is 4 pages of clarifications, and a half-page of erratae.
More than we're want though. It had better be reflected in the new app.

Tomorrow's schedule for the Preview. It seems that the first hour is now a Hang Out and Hobby show?...

Cronch wrote:
Best Edition ever gets an FAQ before it officially hits the stores, says it all.

That's only because it was Too Good for us common rabble to understand it and grasp the intricacies of it's Greatness and had to be dumbed down for the unwashed masses to enjoy. You should be thankful that our Glorious Wardens for seeing how truly wretched we are and graciously provided this fix as a freebie. They are tirelessly working to find a way to create a medium to translate their wisdom into our pathetic attempt at reason, but it continues to fall short of it's wonder in the mediums of sock puppets and crayons.

Sorry....rough morning here

I will admit, I love how the FAQs have made the Engine of the Gods ridiculously vague.

Specifically mention a Skink Priest.
Specifically state the crew function like a Mount and the Stegadon is a Mount.
Don't give us any statlines for attacks from the priest, any command abilities or other abilities.

Considering it has like, nothing, why would it care about being a Mount or not as its only attacks are mount attacks?

Wouldn't be surprised to see a patch FAQ that clarifies to 'use the skink priest warscroll in addition to the Engine Warscroll for the priests attacks, command abilities etc and add the keywords...'

So can Kragnos now use Allegiance abilities or am I reading this wrong?

WARMASTER: This unit can be included in an Orruk Warclans, Gloomspite Gitz, Ogor Mawtribes or Sons of Behemat army. If it is, it is treated as a general even if it is not the model picked to be the army’s general, and you can still use the army’s allegiance abilities even if this unit is not from the army’s faction.

 mokoshkana wrote:
So can Kragnos now use Allegiance abilities or am I reading this wrong?

WARMASTER: This unit can be included in an Orruk Warclans, Gloomspite Gitz, Ogor Mawtribes or Sons of Behemat army. If it is, it is treated as a general even if it is not the model picked to be the army’s general, and you can still use the army’s allegiance abilities even if this unit is not from the army’s faction.

No. From the Core Rules:

27.0 ALLEGIANCE ABILITIES
If all of the units in your army are from a single faction, then you can use that faction’s allegiance abilities

Having Kragnos in your army doesn't prevent the army from using that faction's allegiance abilities even though he's not from the same faction.

 mokoshkana wrote:
So can Kragnos now use Allegiance abilities or am I reading this wrong?

WARMASTER: This unit can be included in an Orruk Warclans, Gloomspite Gitz, Ogor Mawtribes or Sons of Behemat army. If it is, it is treated as a general even if it is not the model picked to be the army’s general, and you can still use the army’s allegiance abilities even if this unit is not from the army’s faction.

No, it just means having Kragnos as your General doesn't prevent everyone else from using their allegiance abilities.

Thanks, I knew it didn't seem right. He would be unstoppable in a Big Waagh army.

Another Kruleboyz silhouette. Looks like a howdah on the back of something with a grot crew perhaps?. War of Sigmar had a small note on yesterdays teaser that the Sludgeraker looks like a Crocorhino.

 Ghaz wrote:
Tomorrow's schedule for the Preview. It seems that the first hour is now a Hang Out and Hobby show?...

Spoiler:

Not that it changes anything about the scheduling or content, but it looks more like an additional show right before the preview, the latter of which starts at the same time as any other recent preview.

Seems to me if you're after the new stuff, you tune in at the normal time. If you want to see more of the Dominion models in anticipation of the new stuff, you tune in an hour earlier.

Cronch wrote:
Best Edition ever gets an FAQ before it officially hits the stores, says it all.

I know it's super cool to be an edge-lord on Dakka, but:

These faqs are to bring battletomes up to date with the new core rules.

The core rules FAQ is there to clarify things--you know, Frequently Asked Questions (plus a very small number of errata at the very end). Admittedly, they need improvement with the technical writing (does no one take technical writing in school or university/college anymore?). When I was in school, the people taking technical writing were typically engineers--not the sort of people who end up working at Games Workshop--so maybe that's part of the problem. I seriously doubt GW would be willing to pay someone with those skills to write rules.

The core rules were supposed to be the clearest, best ever rules. And we get a FAQ before the edition officially released. I'm sure you can see how it's rather funny?

Just need Yndrasta and the shield fellas, I doubt I will check the stream or whatever they do.
My interest is deflating a bit more each day regarding dominion things, dont know why. Maybe it will come back.

 Overread wrote:
There's 3 hands and none of them know what the other hand is doing

I prefer the old take on "Ask an Eldar a question" saying:

"Ask a GW rulesboy a question and he will give you three answers - each one different and wrong."

Cronch wrote:
The core rules were supposed to be the clearest, best ever rules. And we get a FAQ before the edition officially released. I'm sure you can see how it's rather funny?

Honestly?

No.

I mean, if it was a surprise or unexpected, I guess maybe I'd think it's funny? Maybe it's funny they actually released it now instead of having the questions go unanswered for 2 months?

 AduroT wrote:
Bah, so I’m learning the new General’s Handbook has removed/no longer includes the Balewind Vortex. I’m bummed because I loved that spell and have a sweet custom model made for it.

Now that's a real shame, as I just discovered this yesterday... I.Want.One.

It's no whalewind vortex, but it'll do

Cronch wrote:
Best Edition ever gets an FAQ before it officially hits the stores, says it all.

Eeh...only way to avoid would be to make no rule change that doesn't contradict old battletomes...which means you can't make any changes.

Sometimes people have silly ideas here. Make changes to core rules without causing issues with books written for old edition?

Guess common sense is too much to ask these days...


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 DarkStarSabre wrote:
I will admit, I love how the FAQs have made the Engine of the Gods ridiculously vague.

Specifically mention a Skink Priest.
Specifically state the crew function like a Mount and the Stegadon is a Mount.
Don't give us any statlines for attacks from the priest, any command abilities or other abilities.

Considering it has like, nothing, why would it care about being a Mount or not as its only attacks are mount attacks?

Wouldn't be surprised to see a patch FAQ that clarifies to 'use the skink priest warscroll in addition to the Engine Warscroll for the priests attacks, command abilities etc and add the keywords...'

Umm...how about abilities that affect specifically mount but not rider?

You prefer those don't affect engine of god's stegadon but affect skink chieftain's stegadon's because...reasons?

tneva82 wrote:
Guess common sense is too much to ask these days...

Some people just want to watch the world burn...

SquealMcSqueal wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Bah, so I’m learning the new General’s Handbook has removed/no longer includes the Balewind Vortex. I’m bummed because I loved that spell and have a sweet custom model made for it.

Now that's a real shame, as I just discovered this yesterday... I.Want.One.

Spoiler:

Ooohhh thats fun - linkage?

Cronch wrote:
The core rules were supposed to be the clearest, best ever rules. And we get a FAQ before the edition officially released. I'm sure you can see how it's rather funny?

No. Because i was expecting core rules to be changed and only way to avoid conflicts with books written for last edition is to not make any changes.

I would find it funny so to speak to be given old rulebook reprinted as new edition. Guess you want to shell out money for that?

Gw whale is often enough used but you put that to new height!

Alternatively guess you prefer banning all factions without 3rd ed battletome. So atm no army could be played. In month or so sce and orks and expand there. Yes THAT is so much better.

 Mr Morden wrote:

SquealMcSqueal wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Bah, so I’m learning the new General’s Handbook has removed/no longer includes the Balewind Vortex. I’m bummed because I loved that spell and have a sweet custom model made for it.

Now that's a real shame, as I just discovered this yesterday... I.Want.One.

Spoiler:

Ooohhh thats fun - linkage?

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-balewind-vortex-sharklone-144802

He has TONS of stuff like this. Check out his elementals...

 Sacredroach wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

SquealMcSqueal wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Bah, so I’m learning the new General’s Handbook has removed/no longer includes the Balewind Vortex. I’m bummed because I loved that spell and have a sweet custom model made for it.

Now that's a real shame, as I just discovered this yesterday... I.Want.One.

Spoiler:

Ooohhh thats fun - linkage?

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-balewind-vortex-sharklone-144802

He has TONS of stuff like this. Check out his elementals...

Thanks will have look

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Sacredroach wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

SquealMcSqueal wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Bah, so I’m learning the new General’s Handbook has removed/no longer includes the Balewind Vortex. I’m bummed because I loved that spell and have a sweet custom model made for it.

Now that's a real shame, as I just discovered this yesterday... I.Want.One.

Spoiler:

Ooohhh thats fun - linkage?

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-balewind-vortex-sharklone-144802

He has TONS of stuff like this. Check out his elementals...

Thanks will have look

Lee's stuff is great!
He's also got a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/minimonstermayhem

This month is serpents, last month was Dinosaurs. Well worth backing if you've got a 3D printer!

Also if you hunt through his MMF on the objects as opposed to the store tab, he's got 2 free models. One is a bust of a Mass Effect character and the other is a full dragon inspired by a MTG dragon design.

tneva82 wrote:

Cronch wrote:
The core rules were supposed to be the clearest, best ever rules. And we get a FAQ before the edition officially released. I'm sure you can see how it's rather funny?

No. Because i was expecting core rules to be changed and only way to avoid conflicts with books written for last edition is to not make any changes.

I would find it funny so to speak to be given old rulebook reprinted as new edition. Guess you want to shell out money for that?

Gw whale is often enough used but you put that to new height!

Alternatively guess you prefer banning all factions without 3rd ed battletome. So atm no army could be played. In month or so sce and orks and expand there. Yes THAT is so much better.

You...you realize I am talking about the CORE RULES errata, not the battletome erratas,right? You seem confused...