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we've been playing a couple of 15p battles to learn the gameplay of hordes , but we stumble upon stuff we can't figure out...
1: how does crit's work , and do you get them in melee / spells or ranged attacks
2: can you use a animus each round ( example : just to create fury ?)
3: can you boost spells or ranged attacks ( to hit or damage )

that's all for now , will have more questions the more we play

greetz

1. Crits occur for all of those.
2. You can... you can even rile beasts if the Animus isn't enough to top off.
3. You can, if you force a beast or use a fury point.

IIRC.

Leone wrote:we've been playing a couple of 15p battles to learn the gameplay of hordes , but we stumble upon stuff we can't figure out...
1: how does crit's work , and do you get them in melee / spells or ranged attacks

Critical hits happen everytime you roll a double (even if you roll 3 dice, you'll have a crit on a double).

They don't actually do anything normally though, unless the weapon that you are rolling for has a critical attribute.

2: can you use a animus each round ( example : just to create fury ?)

You can use an animus as many times as you wan't during a turn (depending on how much fury you have available, of course).

You don't actually NEED to use an animus to create fury though, since warbeasts have the rille hability that allows them to create fury for free during their activation. Warlocks can also just dump as many fury as you wan't them to during their own activation.

3: can you boost spells or ranged attacks ( to hit or damage )

Yes, you can boost spell or ranged hits and damage at the cost of 1 fury for each boost.

PhantomViper wrote:Critical hits happen everytime you roll a double (even if you roll 3 dice, you'll have a crit on a double).

Just to be 100% precise: when you roll a double and the roll is high enough to hit the target.

PhantomViper wrote:You can use an animus as many times as you wan't during a turn (depending on how much fury you have available, of course).

Actually, a warlock can cast several animi on the same turn (even several of the same one). But a warbeast can only cast its own animus ONCE per activation.

PrimalMk2 wrote:A warbeast can be forced to use its animus only once per activation.

SuperioR wrote:

PhantomViper wrote:You can use an animus as many times as you wan't during a turn (depending on how much fury you have available, of course).

Actually, a warlock can cast several animi on the same turn (even several of the same one). But a warbeast can only cast its own animus ONCE per activation.

PrimalMk2 wrote:A warbeast can be forced to use its animus only once per activation.

I stand corrected.

thx for the replies peeps , as for the crits , if the weapon has no special ability a crit does nothing , correct...
and what is the rille ability ?

Leone wrote:
thx for the replies peeps , as for the crits , if the weapon has no special ability a crit does nothing , correct...

Correct, a weapon without a crit effect does nothing on a critical hit.

Leone wrote:
and what is the rille ability ?

A Warlock can rile their own to give it fury. No need to cast an animus if you're just trying to refill your fury pool.

Leone wrote:and what is the rille ability ?

During a warbeast activation, you can just force a rille to put as many fury points as you wan't on it (up to its FUR stat).

the "rile" thing , is that fury from the warcaster that you put on the warbeast , cause i still don't get it... i find that the rulebook is sometimes written in strange complicated sentences...

See page 74, 4th paragraph. Doesn't get much simpler than that.

You smack the beast on the nose with a rolled up news paper to make it mad.

Does it also lower its Threshold?