Friday, September 7, 2012

Updated FAQ First Thoughts!

Hello once again Ladies and Germs!

Did you hear the news today? The updated FAQs were released and they amended some big debates! Here are just a couple that I skimmed through and thought were pretty key.

1) Flying Monstrous Creatures are couted as gliding when they fail their grounding test. No surprise here, just a clarification that makes them a little easier to take out. Although it was fun to cause multiple grounding checks and cause more wounds, because they were bouncing all over the place!

2) If your transport vehicle counts as shaken or stunned, the troops inside count the same even if they disembark!  Not to terrible, makes mech a little weaker which means we may see even less vehicles on the table.

3) Incubi's weapons are AP 2 in hand to hand now, not really taken back on this one. Incubi are and have been badasses of assault, give them AP 2 and welcome back to list Incubi. Personally I don't think Dark Eldar really needed it, we already place out enough shots to make those Termis roll plenty of ones!

4) Flying Monstrous Creatures can now skyfire, this made me say "They couldn't already?" Tyranids just received a little bit better anti-air touch.

5) Re-writes on a lot of "Characters" Nobs and Paladins were changed to make the allocation abuse not as friendly for them.  Not a big change, but from what little we saw of these two, we should see even less.

That's all that really stuck out to me, as I read more and get more games in I will post more thoughts.  Look forward to a Dark Eldar in 6th article coming out soon, that is if I survive Tough Mudder!

~Deryk

This Just In:New FAQs

This just in

     Well new FAQs came out today and there’s a lot to consume.  All in all it looks like a lot of work went into these FAQs and I am happy they came out right after The NOVA open vice right before.


Highlight for Tyranids

      Flying Monstrous Creatures, upon failing a grounding test you are no longer swooping you are gliding, its official and probably should have been anticipated.   So you lost hard to hit but at least you won’t keep taking a STR 9 no armor save wound on failed grounding tests. You can Swoop in your next movement phase.

     Flying Monstrous Creatures now have the same Skyfire option Flyers do, no downside to this.  Just make sure at the beginning of your shooting phase you are clear if you plan on using Skyfire since that’s when its supposed to be declared.
 
     Nothing that Auto hits can Auto hit a Swooping FMC.

     Boneswords, no AP value just ignores armor, it's official and expected.

     The next part is kinda funny, the following units are now characters, Trygon Prime, Doom of Malan’Tai, Deathleaper and Old One Eye. Have fun with that.
 
 
 

Hammer Strikes!