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Shouldn't Ulrican priests now channel, like their Sigmar counterparts do in latest 8th edition book? As of now they get extra dispel dice.

Old FAQ:

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Q: If a Detachment has lost a combat, can it claim the Steadfast special rule for its Regimental Unit’s ranks even if that unit is either not in the same combat or is involved in another combat? (p30)

A: Yes.
Always use the Regimental Unit’s ranks to determine whether or not its Detachments are Steadfast.
However, if a Regimental Unit is involved in a separate combat in which it is not Steadfast due to the number of enemy ranks, then its Detachments are not Steadfast either, even if the Regimental unit has more ranks than the enemy unit actually attacking its Detachment.

New FAQ:

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Q: If a Detachment has lost a combat, can it claim the Steadfast special rule for its Regimental Unit’s ranks even if that unit is either not in the same combat or is involved in another combat? (p30)

A: Yes.
Always use the Regimental Unit’s ranks to determine whether or not its Detachments are Steadfast.
However, if a Regimental Unit is involved in a separate combat in which it is not Steadfast due to the number of enemy ranks, then its Detachments are not Steadfast either, even if the Regimental unit has more ranks than the enemy unit actually attacking its Detachment.

FYI, you actually copied and pasted the New FAQ twice by mistake. So no one else sits for 5 minutes trying to find a difference.

Sigmar, one of the few non-chaos humans to ever walk the earth with a strength and toughness greater than 4.

Quote from: The Peacemaker on July 28, 2012, 04:09:00 PM

the next turn I'm putting down a drop pod and 10 space marines on square bases.

I can remember when the Realm of Chaos books would basically allow you to do just that.

Rumor has it for the next Empire book you may take one unit from any current Imperial Guard or Space Marine codex as a Rare choice.

My warrior priest is decked out with a Great Weapon and Armor of Meteoric Iron, he hasn't changed out of that outfit since 6th edition...

Blast, my line isn't as good as Orcslayer's.

Keeping him minimally equipped at the back and out of harm's way is a good tactic though.

I am fielding a minimum sized unit of 10 with a champion carrying a repeater handgun. Overcosted but I keep them as it they are a classic Empire unit, which means they get at least a token presence. Like halbediers in 6th and 7th edition.

You have to give us more details on his list and yours. What is he taking and what are you taking.

He uses the Hellheart? You have to keep your wizards back from that but yeah if he rolls high that is going to hurt. I played ogres recently and he was cautious against my steam tank, you have one in your list? Or maybe two plus 4 cannons at 3000 pts. You need to give him more targets than he can shoot in one turn so you can take out his cannons.

The year was 1996 and a  new roomate moved into the house where I was living. Soon after he purchased Warhammer Fantasy Battle and started working on a dwarf army. Seeing all these cool figures lying around the kitchen table in half painted batches started to pique my interest. I read through the 5th edition rulebook and eventually decided to try out this wargaming hobby. I fell in love with all the options of the Empire army book and proceeded to build a hodge podge of units that I thought all looked cool and interesting.

On the tabletop I discovered that my cavalry was slower than everyone else's cavalry, my men were slower and did not fight as well as the forces in other armies, and that my Battle Magic was hopelessly outgunned by the vast powers wielded by Necromancers, Vampires, Dark and High Elf mages, Chaos sorcerers, Slann and Skaven grey seers. Still I persevered on.

My early tactics eventually settled on
 1) cowering in the back of my deployment zone trying to forestall the whooping I would soon be receiving,
 2) attempting to damage my opponent as much as possible with my artillery
 3) have the Steam Tank run over something important
 4) and praying for the Drain Magic card

My attempts to convince my friends and local tournament organizers that Empire should at least get a chance to try out the color magics in the back of the Warhammer Magic box set was met with the reply, "That would be unbalanced." Still I thought I detected a trace of sympathy in the eyes of one or two individuals.

I was making friends with the local hobbyists and learning, eventually building up to an average of one victory per six games. Usually it was because the hellblaster performed way above average, or my opponent badly misjudged the 2-4 inch charge advantage he had. But once in awhile it was because of some awesome tactic I devised on the spur of the moment, like the time my ogres got the drop on a huge unit of witch elves and bitch slapped the frenzy out of them, broke them, then charged them a second time and repeated the process. Or when my heroic general realized he could keep up with the Vermin Lord in a huge multi-unit combat by killing skaven slaves, thereby managing to eke out a very close draw.

I even managed to play out the full Empire-Skaven scenario set that was published in Citadel Journal and much of the Empire-Orc/Goblin scenario box set from that era.

Eventually I took a break for awhile and then rejoined. In preparation for my first tournament I purchased the new 6th edition Empire army book and rules and my eyes were opened to the great wonders of an actual competitive list. I spent that whole first tournament seeking to unlearn my old habits. My first opponent was confused when a small ordinary goblin unit(with no fanatics) he put out on the far flank hoping to divert my knight unit caused my knights to turn completely around and head back to the relative safety of their deployment zone.

Old habits die hard.

But that is a story for another day.

I do think the engineer is useful, but only for the hellblaster. Giving the HBVG BS4 and being able to reroll one misfire a turn is going to drastically improve its effectiveness. Sad none of his gear can be used...the only thing that might be situationaly useful would be to have the robohorse charge some weak flyers to protect the war machine, but I won't bother with that, just try him out on the field with some light armor.

Sad that he isn't useful for anything else, glad I ran my 3 engineer - 3 warmachine list at my last big tournament. At least I got one chance to use those models with their quirky weapons.

Something came up at a tournament last weekend which is nagging me and I want to make sure I play this right in the future.

8th edition Empire FAQ says-

Page 39 – Countercharge
Change to “In the enemy’s Movement phase a detachment that
is in close support, and that has not been charged itself, may
countercharge an enemy unit charging its parent unit. The
countercharge is made at the end of the Charge sub-phase,
after all normal charges have been carried out.

I had a parent unit of swordsmen and a detachment of free company in close support on its flank. Opponent charges my swordsmen with big skeleton unit, and charges my free company with grave guard. I react for both by holding. Both charges should have gone off without a hitch, as rolls of 5 or less were needed. But the grave guard charge roll was only 4 inches, so while the skeleton warriors hit my swordsmen while the grave guard petered forward 3 inches and stopped.

Because of this I then counter-charged with my free company detachment into the flank of the skeletons, there was just barely enough room, and we proceeded on with the game. However, now that I think about it, maybe that shouldn't be allowed? The words is, "has not been charged itself".

Does "has not been charged itself" mean

a) Has not been successfully charged?
b) Has not had a charge declaration made against it?

How do people play this? In 7th edition, this never came up because my opponents always were within charge distance when doing something like this, but in 8th there is always the chance that you roll ridiculously low and a charge that should succeed fails.

Here is where I would like to bring in the Steam Tank as an example.   The problem with the steam tank is that it should not work.   Various experiments were made in order to make a steam tractor that could drive over land without the need of tracks at the start of the 19th century and all of them were failures.

None of those experiments had the benefit of the true genius that is Leonardo of Miragliano as well as dwarven engineering technology.

   Therefore it would be unwise to bring a massive ticking steam bomb onto a battlefield.   Any malfunction of the pressure of the boilers would cause the thing to explode.   (Or maybe you should be allowed and roll 2d6 for every wound and on a 1-10 it blows up spreading searing metal 4d6 in each direction and caused 2d6 wounds to every unit it hits.   Idea for another day.)
   

That pretty much happened in a 5th edition tournament I played in back in the day. I would have to dig out my Empire army book from that era to recall exactly what result I rolled, but the thing took out a bunch of my own guys and ended up in a river.

With T&G over I am now converting to 8th edition, and my first thought about the engineer with robohorse utility is...

Has anyone tried charging nearby flyers with the engineer to protect a warmachine that will get charged next turn?

It might work against something like harpies.

This question is for 7th edition. Crew flees a warmachine, then in a later movement phase, it moves back and recrews the warmachine. Can it fire that same turn in the shooting phase? Or must they wait until their next turn?