jollyork

Remember there are no "Codex" affiliations in 7E. According to the icon in the center of the header, he is part of the Imperial Knights Faction.

Just what evil_bryan needs...

The army selection chapter is very specific that a CAD must be comprised of units with the same Faction (or no Faction). I don't see any rule about other CADs needing to be the same Faction. So the only purpose the Allied Detachment serves is to reduce the requirement of 2 Troops down to 1. Correct?

Ah, okay, that makes sense about Allies. You can get away with an Allied Detachment that has Troops with ObjSec, while your main army does not. That's cool. Looks like you could take 3 CADs with minimal HQs & Troops in order to get 3 LOWs, like Ghaz and 2 Stompas. Sounds a lot like an Unbound list.

It also looks like you can take an Allied Detachment and make a Character in it your Warlord. I guess that makes sense for things like the Inquisition, but kinda weird for something like SMs and Tyranids.

I have a bag of Orks, a box of Blood Angels, and a mini-size printout of the rulebook I can sell you for $180. Deal?

So I need a CAD with at least 1 HQ and 2 Troops, and then I can add on any Formations I want. But Troops in those Formations will not get Objective Secured, but may get specific Formation rules. Okay, pretty sure I get it.

The Ghaz supplement has a lot of formations (listed below from rumors), but I'm still curious how they work in list building. Can you mix and match any formations in Bound? Do you just pick one to be your primary detachment and pick the warlord? Or are detachments and formations totally separate things that don't mix?

Seems like the detachment with 9 troops, plus a weirdboy with Malefic, and a few boxes of daemon figs would be a lovely assault army. Not your grandfather's orks.

Holy crap, MikhailLenin is Jon Snow!!

Bummer about Deff Rollas. They always were too good to be true, but it's sad to see them drop so hard.

I'd like to move these guys out to make way for the moar orkses. I'll get photos soon, but if you already know what Necrons look like you're pretty much set. The stuff that is painted white is good tabletop quality. 1 Overlord (Finecast, painted white) 1 Lord (metal, painted white) 1 Lord (plastic) 1 Imohtek (Finecast, NIB) 17 Warriors (painted white) 16 Warriors (painted steel, plus legs for 1 more) 14 Warriors in bitz (plus lots of other bitz) 2 Night Scythes (primed black, missing teleporter dish on bottom) 6 Wraiths (primed black) 1 box (5) of Immortals/Deathmarks 10 Immortals/Deathmarks (only bodies assembled, bitz included) 10 Immortals w/TCs (bare plastic) 5 Triarch Praetorians (partially assembled) 3 Scarabs (bare plastic) 8 Scarabs (painted white) 8 Destroyers (painted white, some gun conversions) 1 Annihilation Barge (primed black, twin-linked TCs are unglued so it can be a command barge) 1 Monolith (painted white) Bag of Bitz

Very characterful. Sounds like a lot of fun on the tabletop.

Armour will melt, soft oomie skin will boil And I'll be doing whatever Burnas do In summer

And if the rumors of the new 7e Starter Set pan out, could be Orks (and Bitz) aplenty! (and some weedy oomans in der poncy tin suits)

Yeah, 9 Troop slots with HQ options to make things Troops would be niiice (in a WAAAGH! way).

Faction-specific Tactical Objectives could be interesting. Orks lootin' stuff during the game and getting VPs for it?

Ha, notice the typo on the page? Unit Composition: 1 Gorkanaut.

47 point Deff rollas! So much WIN.

Also this: Seems to describe a whole new layout for 7E codexes. No more scattering of rules in sections all over the book and constantly cross-referencing. Instead, you have everything in the Army List section. That would be niiiiice.

It seems that in the new rulebook Super-heavy Walkers (move 12") still follow the normal rules for difficult terrain (move highest of D6 inches). I didn't see anything in the Vehicles section changing this, but did I miss it elsewhere?

I was daydreaming about the implications of the Bubble Chukka coming back... more Orky force field teknowotz... more Invul save bubbles spread around? And perhaps more tellyporta tek? I really like the idea of da boyz not wearing all that poncy armour the soft oomies wear and instead trusting in da oddboyz to keep them alive long enough to WAAAGH! across the board and get in a proppa fight.

Too true - that's a funny intro. Maybe White Dwarf wasn't just rebooted, but retconned by JJ Abrams. Anyone notice more lens flares in it lately? KHAAAAAANNNNN!