Monday 16 January 2012

Hooray! UPDATE: Combat Squads finally f*king work!

New FAQs up on the GW site, seemingly for everybody.  Have begun at the bottom, with the Nids, and this alone prompted me to post - SItW now (finally!) affects things inside Transports.

Good job, Gee-Dub!

EDIT: Not everyone, not Tau., for instance.  Also - Combat Squads, FIXED!!!!!!! Yay!

16 comments:

Death Korps of War said...

Just read the Guard FAQ.
Some questions defy all reasoning.
"Do Penal Custodians benefit from the Desperados rules?"
Of course they fuckin' do!

If those were really asked, I dont know what to think anymore about the 40k community.

But now they have made Priests and Techpriest be the mandatory HQ.
Well, I never knew that, and that may be a new avenue for some people. It'll save points anyway.

Death Korps of War said...

One thing I am happy about though, is that my Mechanised Platoon can now be deployed in DoW games.....Muh ha ha ha.

(Or thats at least how I have interpretated it)

ItsPug said...

Yeah, that made me happy alright. deploying 7 tanks and 6 squads in DoW, oh yeah!

Hey TKE you gonna log back on to heresy and resurrect the dreadnought LOS thread?

Death Korps of War said...

I found it amazing that GW would give the Guard some massive buff like this....lol

We didnt really need it...lol

TheKing Elessar said...

Just to say "I Told You So" ?? Hah.

;)

I'd never even thought of it...

As for the Platoons thing...ugh. Guard really didn't need it, no. But, fixing Combat Squads is huge, so perhaps they think it's a counterpoint.

ItsPug said...

"I'd never even thought of it..."

but now that you have? ;)

@DeathKorp

I dunno whether TKE got round to asking you but I have a ticket for the next Arkham but can't go. Before I return it and someone else gets it do you want it?

Death Korps of War said...

Nope. But now that they can, I hve nothing to hate in DoW missions anymore...lol.

@Pug
He asked. But unfortunately I dont think I could make it either.

Widthofacircle said...

The Eldar FAQ made me laugh...

Who still runs Striking Scorpions?

Especially with chainsabres....

TheKing Elessar said...

Heh, who runs Eldar at all?!? :(

Death Korps of War said...

The hopefuls?
The Die Hards?
The Rednecks?

The foolish? (so all of the above...lol)

DK said...

I Take Exception to that! There are plenty of really good Eldar lists out there.

Duce said...

Loved the guard updates, some worrying as mentioned tha tpeople needed it clarified, some awesome like the platoons and the new HQ choices...

Will def make guard in chimeras at midfield much more fun. the meltagun holders are prob frothing now at how close they can get right off the bat.

Where as my Blobs are now giggling at the amount of turn's they'll save walking across the table.

TheKing Elessar said...

@DK - show me some, that aren't from my blog. Lol.

@Duce - indeed, although this whole can they/can't they with Chimeras is something I'd like to hear your opinion of?

Duce said...

@TKE, i've seen the same, the way i read it is the transports are part of the platoon since their dedicated transports for the squads (And considering i'm not using them but pure infantry that hopefully shows less bias... I'd have no problem playing someone using that way).

DK said...

@kING...

I posted a S6 spam army here a few months ago. Dual Ataurk, so always gets the first shots. Lots Of spiders, Walkers (some with Scater, some with Missile), Vipers, Fire dragons, and Some Jet Bikes to score (and trow out some more S6 shots!)

It is Brutal, and can take out 2 Armor 14 Platforms Pretty Reliably.

Anonymous said...

I ran an Eldar army at Caledoninan Uprising last weekend and came 50th! Not bad considering it's the first major tournament I've played in for at least 4 years. I still believe Eldar have what it takes to come top10 when played right, but I don't think they're capable of winning something that big.

You can read the reports here: http://embolden40k.blogspot.com/2012/01/caledonian-uprising-day1.html

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