Horus Heresy FAQ from members?

[corai]

Hail fraters, after finally getting the first draft of my campaign pack done for a HH campaign details (details in my sig - emperors teeth I thought I'd be writing the missing Legiones astartes rules for the rest of my life!) I'd like to gather as many rules related questions as I can so I can submit them to FW in one go to get rulings and errata to put in the pack ahead of the event.

 

In that vain, do you have any contentious issues or grey areas that come up often in your games? We could almost use this thread as a central resource for emails to be out to FW to keep all their responses in a single place and form a community living FAQ

 

Thanks

Dan

[Nusquam]

Blind and Corax's Panoply of the Raven Lord. I when into a lot of detail in a blog post but I'll sparknote it here:

 

6th Ed Blind forced a check everytime a weapon with it hit. Corax could have upwards of 10 attacks, each hit forcing a blind test. This was to represent his ability to stagger his opponent through his advanced hand-to-hand techniques(hence why he has the Fighting Style rule) before they even hit back from his high initiative.

 

7th Ed blind forces one check at the end of the current phase. So his opponent, if he survives, gets to hit back at full WS then tests once after if he was staggered from Corax regardless of how many times Corax hit him.

 

Originally my group agreed to to switch out "Blind" on Corax's Panoply of the Raven Lord for "Stagger" which is essentially old Blind.

 

Then we realized how little it makes sense for shooting as well when I shot my Eclipse missiles. WHich are two shots. If you can blow up a transport, make units inside take a pinning test and then save any wounds and then put in a crater in one phase; how does it make sense that Blind only happens once at the end when compared to other events that take much longer and are instant? Vehicles don't explode at the end, Why should effects from Blind happen at the end? When you should have to avert your eye(s) instantly for every time it happened? So now we just use old Blind.

 

Strikedown on Knights for AdMech. It does nothing anymore for melee in 7th so we just old strikedown.