Will a Valkyrie/Vendetta with a Veteran Squad still count as a scoring unit while the squad is embarked? The question comes up due to if a vehicle with a Troop choice inside can capture objectives.
Will a Valkyrie/Vendetta with a Veteran Squad still count as a scoring unit while the squad is embarked? The question comes up due to if a vehicle with a Troop choice inside can capture objectives.
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Also, do you measure from the base or the hull? Because I'm sure a Valkyrie/Vendetta is more than 3" up...
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I'm completely aware of that, which is why I asked. It's a broken model in that it doesn't interact with it's own rules in a regular common-sense way. It's like GW doesn't care at all about competitive, regularized play environments (read as 'tournaments') and just wants to sell flavor of the month models to children...oh, wait, that's exactly what it IS, not just what it's like.
I think your store's approach is the most reasonable.
I think it's more like GW insists on the people who play its game behaving like gentlemen and gentlewomen who don't need an erratum every time the game shifts on them, and whose personal interest lies more in asymmetry. Asymmetry (of terrain, of objectives, of quality and quantity of troops, vehicles, and other war materiel) is a staple of wargaming because it's a staple of combat, and tournaments strive to make most of the game as symmetrical as possible.
Maybe that's not how you play, or for that matter how most of the internet plays, and maybe it's misguided of them to insist that people work it out for themselves like adults. But I do think if you look at the games the Studio plays and writes up, it's evident that they're playing a fundamentally different game than the one that gets represented on the 'tubes.
Last edited by Nabterayl; 08-13-2009 at 11:47 AM.
GW doesn't. Not one bit.
Welcome to 1986.
Warhammer 40k is NOT a tournament, rigid competitive game like Magic the Gathering and Chess. It is a laid back hobby concerning with painting, modeling and relaxing with friend over beers for a few hours.
You are aware that GW's FAQs are house rules right? Only Erratas are to be used by players without permission since they replace wording in a rules book.
Warhammer 40k is NOT a tournament based game in any stretch of the imagination.
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So, a 5-man IST squad is like a 50-pt upgrade to make Valks/Vendettas scoring, right?
I'm not wrong that an IST could be in a Valk, am I?
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