FAQ's April 2013

The new FAQ's are up so it's time to see what's changed for my armies.

Imperial Guard

Page 56 / 101 –
Valkyrie Assault Carrier – Scout Valkyrie Assault Carrier – Scout
Remove Scout from the Special Rules section of both the
Bestiary and Army List entries for the Valkyrie Assault Carrier
and Vendetta Gunship.

A minor update. The Scout rule didn't do anything anyway.

Page 71 – Other Equipment, Camo Cloak
Replace the second paragraph with “A model wearing a camo
cloak adds +1 to its cover save”.
Nothing new here.

Q: What Mastery Level is a Psyker Battle Squad? (p47)

A: Mastery Level 1.

Finally GW have decided to give PBS's a Mastery level. Unfortunately there is nothing about being able to take powers from the rule book. Thankfully they already have excellent powers anyway. It's a shame that each psyker doesn't count as Mastery Level 1 because then they might find a way into my lists more often. Imagine a Level 9 PBS!

Q: If an Imperial Guard army includes both Captain Al’Rahem and

Commander Chenkov, and a unit of Conscripts that is part of

Al’Rahem’s Infantry Platoon has purchased Commander Chenkov’s

‘Send in the Next Wave’ upgrade, does it re-enter play using Outflank

as per Captain Al’Rahem’s ‘Stalk the Enemy’ or move on from the

player’s board edge, as per Commander Chenkov’s ‘Send in the Next

Wave’? (p64/65).

A: In this instance, neither rule takes precedence – therefore

simply roll a dice for which rule applies as per ‘The Most

Important Rule’ on page 4 of the Warhammer 40,000

Rulebook.

Finally an answer to this question. I was going to write a blog post about it but looks like GW beat me to the punch. Why it's taken so many years for an answer is beyond me. The IG codex came out in May 2009!

Blood Angels

No update.

Dark Angels

Page 28 –

Warlord Traits, Courage of the Lion

Change rule to “The Warlord, and all friendly units chosen

from Codex: Dark Angels within 12” of him, roll an additional

dice when taking Leadership tests (except Psychic tests),

discarding the highest”.

Only Dark Angels can benefit from this now and Psykers no longer benefit at all. 

 

Page 61 –

Stasis Anomaly

Change to read “Every model in a unit hit by one or more

weapons with this special rule suffers a -1 penalty to their

Weapon Skill and Initiative, to a minimum of 1, until the end

of the turn.”

Added 'to a minimum of one', so no change really.

Page 61 –

Vast Stasis Anomaly

Change to read “Every model in a unit hit by one or more

weapons with this special rule suffers a -3 penalty to its Weapon

Skill and Initiative, to a minimum of 1, until the end of the

turn. This replaces any penalty inflicted on a target by a Stasis

Anomaly (see left).”

Also added 'to a minimum of one'.

Page 64 –

Power Field Generator

Add “If the bearer is embarked upon a Transport vehicle, the

power field’s effects only apply to models embarked upon that

vehicle”.

I'm glad I didn't buy a Land Raider and Techmarine to abuse this rule as it will no longer work. A massive debuff to anyone who was building their army around it.

Page 55 / 92–

Asmodai, WargearAdd “Bolt Pistol” to Asmodai’s wargear.

More lazy proofreading from GW.

Page 95 –

Deathwing Command Squad, Options

Change the fifth bullet point to:

“• Any Deathwing Terminator can replace his storm bolter and

power fist with:

- a pair of lightning claws ……………………………….free

- a thunder hammer and storm shield ………….5 pts

Changed 'all of his weapons' to 'his storm bolter and

power fist'.

Page 96

– Ravenwing Command Squad, options.

Add:

“• The Ravenwing Command Squad may purchase up to two

additional Ravenwing Black

Knights……………………………………………..40 pts / model”

Change the first bullet point to:

“• One Ravenwing Black Knight may take a banner from the

following list:

- Ravenwing Company Banner*...........................................

15 pts”

- Revered Standard................................................................

25 pts”

- Alternatively, the may take a banner from the

Sacred Standardssection of the wargear list.”

The command squad can now take additional bikers for increased survivability and the 'Relic banners' typo is replaced with 'Sacred Standards'.

Page 99 –

Deathwing Terminator Squad, Options

Change the second bullet point to:

“• Any model can replace his storm bolter and power fist

with:

- a pair of lightning claws ……………………………….free

- a thunder hammer and storm shield ………….5 pts

Changed 'all of his weapons' to 'his storm bolter and

power fist'.

Q: Do units deploying via the Deathwing Assault special rule count

toward the limit of units you are allowed to keep in Reserves at the

start of a battle? (p44)

A: Yes.

A debuff for the deathwing that makes it even harder to do a pure Deathwing army.

Q: The Standard of Devastation states that ‘all friendly Codex:

Dark Angels units within 6” of the standard treat their boltguns as

Salvo 2/4 weapons’. Which boltguns does this apply to? (p66)

A: This applies to the standard boltgun (24” range, S4, AP5,

Rapid Fire), twin-linked boltguns on bikes, the bolter

component of combi-weapons, and hurricane bolters.
Confirmation that this works with hurricane bolters which is awesome. Unfortunately though, it looks like storm bolters don't get the bonus.
 

Chaos Space Marines

Page 42 –

Obliterators, Obliterator Weapons

Change the final sentence to “An Obliterator unit cannot

choose to fire the same weapon in two consecutive shooting

attacks”.

I guess this is because of the Puppet Master psychic power which makes you shoot at your own units.

Page 57 –

Abaddon the Despoiler, Mark of Chaos Ascendent

Add the following sentence “If Abaddon rolls Spawnhood or

Dark Apotheosis on the Chaos Boon Table, re-roll this result

(and any further results of the same). The Despoiler is not

meant for Daemonhood just yet!”

I like this because it makes sense fluff wise and if you've spent all those points on Abaddon there could be nothing worse than to see him turn into a Chaos Spawn.

Q: If a model rolls Spawnhood or Dark Apotheosis on the Chaos Boon

Table, does it retain the effects of any Chaos Boon Table rolls that have

been applied to it so far during the game? (p29)

A: No.

This is a bit annoying but probably won't affect a game too much.

Q: If a Helbrute that is already Immobilised rolls Fire Frenzy, does

it lose an additional Hull Point? (p56)

A: No.

Phew! This helps out Helbrute's a bit. Hopefully we will see more of them on tabletops soon but I won't hold my breath. They are competing with  dirt cheap Terminators and cult troops in the elites slot.

Q: Is a model equipped with the Scrolls of Magnus that does not

begin the game as a Psyker, considered to have become a Psyker once

they acquire one or more additional psychic powers from the scrolls?

For example a Dark Apostle with the Mark of Tzeentch. (p69)

A: Yes, the model has the Psyker rule from that point

onward, and is considered to have Mastery Level 1.

The psyker now has Mastery Level 1 whereas in the previous FAQ they were just a psyker.

Dark Eldar

Page 49 – Lelith Hesperax –

The Penetrating Blade

Change the second sentence to “Her close combat attacks

ignore Armour Saves”.

Added 'close combat'.

Q: When allocating Wounds caused by a unit of Reaver Jetbikes

making a bladevanes, cluster caltrops and / or grav-talon attack, from

which direction is the attack considered to have originated? (p29)

A: Use the final position of the Reaver Jetbikes for Wound

allocation.

This makes it much easier than doing random allocations. As a guard player I can say that when you have massive squads that you have to randomly allocate wounds to it can get very annoying and slows the game down.

Final Note

Unsurprisingly the new Tau codex has been FAQ'd already. Sort it out GW! Learn to proofread and play test properly!

FAQ information taken from Games Workshop FAQ's