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Date: 7-7-17
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- Warhammer 40k ITC Rampager #3, Grognard Games & Hobbies, Roselle, IL, July 8th, 2017
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- Warhammer 40k 8th Edition Kick-Off, Top Tier Board Games, Hattiesburg, MS, July 8th, 2017
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- Salt Lake Gaming Con Warhammer 40K Tournament, Salt Lake City, UT, July 8-9th, 2017
- Mugu Games’ July 8th, 1850 ITC Event “‘Merica”, Everett WA, July 8th, 2017
- Buckeye Battles 2017, Delaware, OH, July 8-9th, 2017
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- Battle at Brookhusrt 4 – The Long War, The Brookhurst Club, Garden Grove, CA, July 9th, 2017
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I, personally, find power level not working well with Daemons because Daemons by nature tend to have zero wargear. Ends up leaning higher power level with lower points compared to other units.
That being said, I’m all for FW big stuff. Let the models become a problem before we treat them like one.
Also the audio is super out of sync on YouTube, was actually really funny to watch.
Yeah, power level isn’t perfect of course but it is easy and largely accurate as it is based off of the model’s cost + gear x 20 in most cases.
We will look into the audio issue.
As a fellow daemon player I’ll still take power level over traditional kill points.
I’m quite fond of daemon lists with lots of units. In a traditional kill points world I’m basically screwed. A lot of armies like Space Marines are naturally going to have less units than I do because they have expensive guys and your basic daemon is pretty cheap. Of course things like Imperial Knights make this even more lopsided.
Power level is generally really close across a lot of lists. Maybe in edge cases it’s along the lines of 10% off or so. But that’s still very small compared to the fact that in terms of units I could have 3 or 4 times as many kill points as my opponent.
I’d change it to “forgeworld models over 30 PL are not allowed” since those are the problematic ones I think. The GW things should be way more balanced.
True, but again we tried to keep this as simple and fair as possible. This is just to get us rolling in the here and now.
I’m not attending, but I would suggest that for limiting Units by Power Level, you specify that it’s the base Power Level that’s used for that determination. I don’t know if there are any Units that run afoul of it at PL30, but any lower than that and you start running into issues with more expensive Units like Wolf Guard Terminators not being usable in anything but minimum-size Squads, because adding the extra Models pushes their Power Level over the line.
I…. don’t think you can push a unit of Terminators over PL30, even with upgrades.
There are at least a few. Paladins are PL32 at 6+ Models. DeathWatch and Wolf Guard Terminators both hit PL30 at 6+ Models. Dev Cents can go up to 34. However, Reece’s clarification below does resolve the issue.
It’s models, not units.
Rules question here, and I think it is legimitate and worth an faq. When vehicles explode does each individual unit take its own D6 mortal woulda, o4 do you roll once and each unit takes that many mortal wounds.
I feel like the rules are unclear in either way, and one is more powerful than the other, because one does more damage with command points.
I don’t understand what you are asking. Are you talking about when a vehicle explodes do you roll for the damage on each unit in the blast? Or roll once and apply that number to all units in range? If so, you roll per unit in range.
I believe that was his question, yes, and it’s one I’ve had as well since the rule itself is completely ambiguous.
Sorry was typing on my phone.
Anyway i ask from a… i needs FAQ level clarification because new players won’t play this rule that way. If i get two people who have never table top war gamed before and all the current documents of the game they could legitimately interpret the rule in either direction.
It’s something in the rules that should be in the “modying characteristics” Side bar on page 175. Which shows random characteristic should be done a per model basis, but says nothing about units.
I know it should be that each unit rolls it’s own separate D3 damage, but if i’m TO’ing there is nothing in the rules i can point to a player that that’s the case. You know what i mean Reece.
I may as well smash my Imperial Knights with a hammer.
Wait. I’m an asshole. 31, not 21.
=)
Lol, people around Phoenix have started calling me Don “the mastodon” Hooson, now.
Lol, amazing!