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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/12/15/the-future-of-faqs-and-chapter-approved-dec-15gw-homepage-post-2/

Some interesting stuff here.


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I actually like the Smite changes and the change to character targeting makes a lot of sense to me.

Both make sense and generally awesome. Much speculated at on various podcasts and stuff.

Should *maybe* be an exception to the smite thing for armies that do mini-smites like Grey Knights...

Smite hurts Thousand Sons as well.

Remember they're Beta Test rules. Try them, apply them and feed back to GW! They're in a listening mood.

Yes, I think from now on I will use these in games.

Already fed back to the new FAQ email address about the Tallarn Ambush debate we've been having!!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Smite hurts Thousand Sons as well.

and chaos daemons. Hopefully they'll all get some sort of boost to help them out considerung their reliance and focus on sorcery.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Smite hurts Thousand Sons as well.

Try it and feedback to them -

I like the changes and I like that they have created a well-defined update schedule. Good job GW on this one.

 Blitza da warboy wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Smite hurts Thousand Sons as well.

and chaos daemons. Hopefully they'll all get some sort of boost to help them out considerung their reliance and focus on sorcery.

Daemons will hopefully have decent (varying) psychic powers on their own without having to resort to cheap smite spammers. Totally kills horrors in competition. As a nurgle player, no puss off my wounds...

I like all of it. Additionally I don't know if it was there before but the page link to all FAQ on the header of the community site is awesome.

 Silentz wrote:
Yes, I think from now on I will use these in games.

Already fed back to the new FAQ email address about the Tallarn Ambush debate we've been having!!

haha good man I did a sarky comment on a Facebook post that they picked up too.

 Hulksmash wrote:
I like all of it. Additionally I don't know if it was there before but the page link to all FAQ on the header of the community site is awesome.

It's been there for about a month.

Either way it's awesome

For some armies, that smite change adds more book keeping and keeping track. Which is something they were trying to get away from. This feels like a step back (even though it calms down the power a bit).

Inferno FAQ when

With this smite change Grey Knights Smite needs to go back to normal range and normal damage.

Another change to the character rule, and it still counts units locked in melee as obstructing.

New-GW the same as Old-MW. Amirite? Anyone? eh?

The Smite change tells me that Smite isn't meant to be your primary offensive ability regardless of which army you're running.

 EnTyme wrote:
The Smite change tells me that Smite isn't meant to be your primary offensive ability regardless of which army you're running.

Then do not limit other psychic powers to only one attempt per Phase, just extend the BETA Smite rule to each power (with the exception that identical powers do not stack) and magically you won't have psykers being mortal wound batteries (they can only cast Smite after all)

Or take a more balanced list that doesn't rely entirely on psychic powers for damage.

 EnTyme wrote:
Or take a more balanced list that doesn't rely entirely on psychic powers for damage.

You can't understand a gak then. I want psykers to be support characters but with this Rule of One nonsense they will NEVER be picked for anything else other than Smite

KurtAngle2 wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:
The Smite change tells me that Smite isn't meant to be your primary offensive ability regardless of which army you're running.

Then do not limit other psychic powers to only one attempt per Phase, just extend the BETA Smite rule to each power (with the exception that identical powers do not stack) and magically you won't have psykers being mortal wound batteries (they can only cast Smite after all)

I don't think any duplicate casting of other spells is a good idea. You're easily going to trip into broken combo territory even with the negatives.

Disappointed with how they're handling Forgeworld. They'll mess with the point values, but they won't actually FAQ anything. Half measures that show that they really have no cohesion between their studios, and no intention of developing any. Either adopt FW in it's entirety, or leave it be, because they're clearly of two different minds when it comes to actually writing the rules. And this decision only serves to emphasize how half-assed their handling of FW was in Chapter Approved.

Those Smite beta rules are really great.

Steps in right direction but psychics still non-scalable. Ah well. Not expecting better scaling psychic rules until 9th or 10th edition at best.

But anything reducing mortal wound spam is good thing.

 EnTyme wrote:
Or take a more balanced list that doesn't rely entirely on psychic powers for damage.

Yeah I'll just take a different thousand sons list that doesn't have all those OP spammed psyker characters

HQ: no HQs.

Troops: Tzaangors in auxiliary detachments

Elites: Helbrutes

Heavy Support: Predators

that seems much more healthy and fluffy, thanks!

Yeah. Use hyperbole. That'll make people sympathize with your argument.

I don't think any duplicate casting of other spells is a good idea. You're easily going to trip into broken combo territory even with the negatives.

Alternative take on the phase I want to pop out: All uses of a power must be declared at once, for each use beyond the first apply a -1 penalty which applies to all tests when made.

I've had my eye on a Tsons army for ages, but the rule of one kinda kicks them in the nuts for what would make them an otherwise interesting army. This seems like a more risky option that still allows for armies with a dozen sorcerers in it to actually do something, since some of them have that naturally.

Daedalus81 wrote:

KurtAngle2 wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:
The Smite change tells me that Smite isn't meant to be your primary offensive ability regardless of which army you're running.

Then do not limit other psychic powers to only one attempt per Phase, just extend the BETA Smite rule to each power (with the exception that identical powers do not stack) and magically you won't have psykers being mortal wound batteries (they can only cast Smite after all)

I don't think any duplicate casting of other spells is a good idea. You're easily going to trip into broken combo territory even with the negatives.

Not really if you can't cast the same power on the same unit