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Can’t hit ‘em if they’re out of range. Definitely can’t him ‘em if they’re off the table. Aircraft excel at getting out of range and Eldar aircraft are better at it than most. Keep them in Strategic Reserves until your ground elements can neutralize the enemy’s long range anti-vehicle shooters, then dance around the range bands of the remainder.

It’s not a +1 Save anymore, thanks to the erratum, it’s a +1 to the saving roll. This is a minor distinction in most situations, but due to the way modifiers to rolls and modifications to characteristics interact, when it makes a difference that difference is huge.

225 Points is significantly less than the 300 Points for a Land Raider...

And on Terminators, with their base 2+ Save, the Salamanders chapter tactics’ benefit would be even better than on power armored Marines’ 3+ Save. But, at present, no Terminators have the new storm shield... It’s not nearly as broken as the 1+ Save shenanigans, but it’s still nice.

Don’t blame me, man. I just work here.

Fixed it for you.

Factions that rely on Hordes saw their mooks go to 5 ppm, mostly as part of an across the board effort to get point values to be multiples of 5. Factions that don’t thematically rely on Hordes (i.e., Chaos Space Marines) saw their mooks go to 5 ppm and then get tweaked upwards a hair, to disincentivize players from spamming them.

“Forged in Battle” says that when resolving an attack made with a weapon that has an Armor Penetration characteristic of -1 against a unit with the Salamanders’ chapter tactic, the weapon is treated as having an Armour Penetration characteristic of 0. The erratum for the storm shield adds 1 to the result of a saving throw. Salamanders are still going to be helped by this! 3+ Armor Save versus AP -1 (treated as AP 0) weapon... • Roll a 1; An unmodified roll of 1 always fails; • Roll a 2, modified to a 3; Pass; • Roll a 3, modified to a 4; Pass; • Roll a 4, modified to a 5; Pass; • Roll a 5, modified to a 6; Pass; • Roll a 6, modified to a 7; Pass. 3+ Armor Save versus AP -2 weapon... • Roll a 1; An unmodified roll of 1 always fails; • Roll a 2, modified to a 1; Fail; • Roll a 3, modified to a 2; Fail; • Roll a 4, modified to a 3; Pass; • Roll a 5, modified to a 4; Pass; • Roll a 6, modified to a 5; Pass. Against AP -3 or better, maths make it equivalent (AP-3) or better (AP-4 or greater) to switch to the 4+ Invulnerable Save

Well, at least they fixed that 1+ problem...

The current Codex: Orks was a November 2018 release, making it the sixth most recent... But the models released with it were mostly support units that replaced other support units that had been around since Second Edition (e.g., Squigbuggies are the new Warbuggies). The core parts of the army didn’t get changed much, if at all...

Rumor has it (so apply many grains of salt) that they’re going to be among the early codices this time around... Orktober II: Squig Boogaloo?

Pick out one or two of the diamonds on the speeders and paint over them in purple and add some troupe runes in white... That should help tie them to the other models without totally making them uniform.

Time to up the dosage on my coulrophobia meds.

So, yeah, I bought this set at Guardian yesterday as an impulse buy. I chopped off the head you were looking for... Be happy to give it to you if you’re still looking for it.

Sergey Karjakin was officially awarded the status of chess grandmaster at age twelve... and he wasn’t even a member of Ordo!

I briefly considered getting just the Chapter Approved books once I learned they included the rules... But I realized I haven’t bought a full-size core rulebook since Third Edition. It’d be nice to have a big fluff bible again.

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition, There's a hunger still unsatisfied. Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon, Though down this road we've been so many times. –Pink Floyd, High Hopes Shield-Captain with guardian spear, misericordia, and two thin cloaks.

I would like the book. Just the book.

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us, To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side. Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again. Dragged by the force of some inner tide At a higher altitude with flag unfurled, We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world. –Pink Floyd, High Hopes Vexilla Prætor with storm shield, work in progress.

Meh, GW gets “dragged” on social media by a large number of their fans for everything they do.

@Burk pretty much any weekday afternoon or evening should work.

In all fairness, GW has been remarkably up-front about the Indomitus box being only available in limited quantities. Not just open by GW historic standards, but open by any measure.