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Interesting one is when the bubble is measured for Furious Charge. Seems they rule it at the moment it counts, so when resolving the attacks. So not when the assault starts.

 

This screws over some tactics of keeping the Sang Priest safer while a squad Furious Charges in, but it does help in situations where a backup squad comes to the aid of a group with a Sang Priest that is already in assault.

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Interesting one is when the bubble is measured for Furious Charge. Seems they rule it at the moment it counts, so when resolving the attacks. So not when the assault starts.

 

This screws over some tactics of keeping the Sang Priest safer while a squad Furious Charges in, but it does help in situations where a backup squad comes to the aid of a group with a Sang Priest that is already in assault.

Yeah, that one will kind of suck and require a change to my normal strategy. Time to break out the third sanguinary priest.

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Interesting one is when the bubble is measured for Furious Charge. Seems they rule it at the moment it counts, so when resolving the attacks. So not when the assault starts.

 

This screws over some tactics of keeping the Sang Priest safer while a squad Furious Charges in, but it does help in situations where a backup squad comes to the aid of a group with a Sang Priest that is already in assault.

Yeah, that one will kind of suck and require a change to my normal strategy. Time to break out the third sanguinary priest.

 

I'm actually quite happy with this ruling. I almost always use a Combat Squaded Tactical Squad with a Sang Priest as a tough 'base defender' squad. Where the heavy and special weapon in 1 group will grab attention and the sergeant + 4 will use a counter-assault tactic whenever assaulted. Will be great that I don't have to worry about being within 6 inch of the Sang Priest model when starting the assault anymore. You'll be surprised how often one can be in assault range but not close enough to the priest ;-)

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The "No" to EA, Magna Grapples and Heavy Flamers on Furioso Librarians is beyond silly. To me it basically says they underestimated the popularity/effectiveness of the FL and decided this was an easy nerf. In high PV games it might, might, make me less likely to bring a Librarian Dreadnought. But in normal games I can't imagine not taking advantage of the Psychic Hood w/Dreadnought discount even with the chance of being Stunned. Hell, all it really does is give me 15 points to spend someplace else. That and make psychic shooting attacks a little less appealing as a second psy power choice.

 

And the Magna Grapple causes non-tank Tank Shock? Tank Shock caused by a Vyper? Naaaw, that won't open a family sized can of worms. :down:

 

What about the Blood Lance and cover saves?

 

 

Some rather odd rulings in the Tyranid FAQ as well, but that's not my problem. :tu:

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Blood Lance and cover saves is pretty easy. Its a shooting attack, so follow the shooting rules. Which means most units hit by a blood lance will have cover.

 

the realization that Blood Lance did not ignore cover was a big part of the reason I don't use Librarians anymore.

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I like it. Still doesn't clear up all of the questions people ask but a good chunk of them were answered. Will be nice not having to see someone argue that whole demolisher thing anymore. I also wish they would have addressed the honor guard gear question but perhaps they thought it too silly and that it should be RAW? /Shrug

 

I still think they should have reiterated the point that tycho is indeed on his own and not in the DC. The question as written was not how I would have asked the question. Besides, big duh that Mephy and Sanguinor are their own units...it was DC tycho that was in question.

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I see Psycho-Tycho is a non-IC. That makes me sad from a fluff perspective but I can understand from the game balance. Maybe he shouldn't be so hard and we could have had him in the DC!! Also dead mans hand is not an additional ccw :)

 

To be fair, most things seem common sence.

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Blood Lance and cover saves is pretty easy. Its a shooting attack, so follow the shooting rules. Which means most units hit by a blood lance will have cover.

 

the realization that Blood Lance did not ignore cover was a big part of the reason I don't use Librarians anymore.

RAW wise I basically agree. But it's a shooting attack that doesn't require a roll to hit and is described as "darting over" intervening objects. It just seems logical that it would disallow cover saves. Neither here nor there as we have an answer, I'm just not happy with that answer. :)

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apart of the frustration about not being able anymore to get EA for the Furioso Librarian, I must admit that I'm pretty happy with the FAQ, not so many points to address (as oposed to our puppy friends) and none of them are really critical to the game as a whole!
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Furioso Librarians losing access to Heavy Flamers and Extra Armor is a big one to me. Hard to justify the points on a Dread with no extra armor.

 

Don't Heavy Flamers fall into the Weapon category, rather than into the Equipment category?

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I see Psycho-Tycho is a non-IC. That makes me sad from a fluff perspective but I can understand from the game balance. Maybe he shouldn't be so hard and we could have had him in the DC!! Also dead mans hand is not an additional ccw :)

 

To be fair, most things seem common sence.

 

My biggest dilemma now is how to get him across the board safely so that he can join in the reindeer games. Seems kind of ***sad*** that he has to walk behind an armour wall. He'll probably have to "Rhino-Jack" a Tactical Squad, or maybe he'll have to beat my DC Dread at "rock, paper, scissors" to get his Drop Pod, or better yet I'll just have him use his DMH to rodeo-ride a Baal Pred buckin' around the flank. :huh:

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My biggest dilemma now is how to get him across the board safely so that he can join in the reindeer games. Seems kind of ***sad*** that he has to walk behind an armour wall. He'll probably have to "Rhino-Jack" a Tactical Squad, or maybe he'll have to beat my DC Dread at "rock, paper, scissors" to get his Drop Pod, or better yet I'll just have him use his DMH to rodeo-ride a Baal Pred buckin' around the flank. ;)

lol! I do know what you mean though, I wouldn't have minded even paying more points for the DC version if it meant that he could join the DC. Ho-hum :)

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