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  1. Lego wagon wheels are my go-to choice, they are cheap and look decent. The Empire and Dwarf ranges have good wheels.

     

    http://hoardobits.com/ has some wagon wheels although some are sold out. Just do a search for "wheel."

     

    If you have more time than money, I'm sure you could cobble some together if you really wanted to. You could use a thick rubber band, cut to size and formed into a circle shape, maybe around a cork or something for consistent diameter. Use brush on krazy glue to make the rim stiff. Then, use coffee stir sticks or toothpicks for spokes.

  2. Since Priests, etc. don't take up a slot, they don't give a KP, right?

     

    If an Adeptus Mechanicus dude takes servitors, can he leave them with their mechadendrites up their robot fecal processing units since he is an IC? They also don't count as KPs, right?

     

    Can the AM target a friendly unit with a power (it says instead of shooting a weapon) while the rest of the squad shoots an enemy?

     

    Do I have to buy a digital ebook thingamagig type of deal to use an Inquisitor allied in? Can he cohabitate with Daemon allies?

  3. GW needs to simplify their checklist of what people have to agree to. They should put together a list for 7th edition and say, these are the default settings. If you want to house rule anything or include crazy stuff like superheavies and AV 15 buildings then you need mutual agreement. I know this can be done at a local level but that's a scattershot approach. Shoot you could even have multiple default lists, Newb, Basic (best for tournaments), Narrative, etc. Maybe we should put together such checklists as a community when 7th drops in a month.

    Right now at the end of 6th the setup is taking longer and longer, which I don't think is good for the game. It makes tournaments and PUGs more cumbersome. Granularity is fine and dandy but too much and you run into really slow and tedious mechanics. I'm a believer in option but the core of the game should be as simple and elegant as possible so you can have a fast paced encounter. I don't mean dumbed down and oversimplified, like the 4th ed CSM book for example, I mean a streamlined and well planned set of systems.

     

    PS, BBF = The notorious Black Blow Fly.

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  4. Some vehicles have protrusions that extend beyond their hull, such as spikes, dozer blades, and weapons. Do you guys only care about the hull being fully within the deployment zone, or do you have all weapons and upgrades fully within the zone? Does it matter if there is a turret that can be moved so the gun could or could not be within deployment? I'd prefer to play it as only counting the hull, but I'd like to hear the community's viewpoint.

  5. On wording:

    You're right, there is no Precision SHot special rule as such, and so this issue clearly needs an FAQ since strict RAW ends up in a null set.

     

    For RAI I try to follow wording intention with common sense as a guide. We should want to follow what the rules-smith originally meant, not an interpretation of fairness. It's not an exact science so people disagree.

     

    At the same time I desperately want an unambiguous and balanced ruleset. Since there is ambiguity I can see taking balance into consideration. However the meta has shifted, and short of drastic measures like comp you can't put the genie back in the bottle regarding certain OP ally based combos and deathstars. So maybe we should let the basic guardsmen kick some ass if you don't remove their support units. It would make heavy weapon teams worth their price as an overcosted glass cannon unit suddenly has utility that could justify it's high price and fragility.

     

     

    On power level:

     

    Let's look at some stuff that's legal but broken. I faced a unit of Wraithguard, Toughness 6, with an attached T3 Baron with a 2++ shadowfield, and with Fortune that is a re-reollable save. So, now you not only need 6's to wound a T3 model stuck out in front but each wound has only a 1/36 chance of going through. Ok, so you charge the unit, but Baron has Hit and Run so the lumbering Wraithguard do a few flips and a triple lutz and end up like 8 inches away in a direction of their choice. Precision shot en masse would be one way to counter this trick and you could chip at least chip away at the Wraithguard unit. On the other hand, in casual play losing 90% of your melta guns and half your sergeants Turn 2 would suck.

     

    Competitive 6th edition has drifted into the shenanigans era of 40k, approaching 2nd edition for Hero-hammer, but only with a handful of units. I don't want to end up running what I see as broken combos and netlists, while still trying to take a list that has a chance to win Best General.

     

    Locally I'm faced with a 2+++ Fateweaver Flying Circus that laughed in the face of my Chaos Marines and an IG / Ork combo that I thought had sufficient anti-air. It didn't.

  6. I'm not a fiend for RAW, however there are many current examples of OP abilities that are perfectly legal.

     

    If the consensus is that it's only for every 6, I am happy to abide by that. Conscripts with Prescience or even Preferred Enemy will get enough 6's to add up.

     

    Incidentally all snapfire shots hitting on 6's from characters and the ordered guard will also be precision shots, just in case you run into a rare flyer squadron.

  7. Anyone want to weigh in on the Precision Shots controversy? My reading is that ALL shots from the ordered unit are precision shot. Some people say only on hit rolls of a 6 count as if they were characters, which is not RAW.

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  8. Yeah a lot of the AV in the game seems idiosyncratic. Rear AV can be a bit more abstract as it represents flaws that can be exploited in assault.

     

    Other than the new model related stuff I don't see any good rumors about rules changes.

     

    GW are fools if they don't offer more plastics of specific homeworlds, but we might be getting Steel Legion which is great. I would definitely pick up a set since I love gas mask bits. Also Catachans need a new sculpt with more detailed arms.

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