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Eldar arsepygamas.

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Eldar arsepygamas.

Postby ruffian4 » Thu May 01, 2014 2:13 pm

Havent played 40k in 6 months + so am pretty out of touch.

But, after stumbling over my (unused) eldar codex, I decided to write an army list for the sake of it.

During this, I decided to add a warlock with spear to my windrider (windrider sounds like flatulence to me, shitty names like "skyfire" wtf???) unit no1.
1. I buy warlock.
2. I buy spear.
3. I buy jetbike.

Army list done, what do I have? A warlock on a jetbike, as yet to be allocated.

4. Look at warlock council entry. There I find that after determining warlord traits, my warlock jetbiker becomes an infantry character because he joined a jetbike squad, according to RAW. :x

Assuming this isn't RAI, that's shit writing.
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Re: Eldar arsepygamas.

Postby BDA » Thu May 01, 2014 11:06 pm

warlocks all where characters but this led to lots of abuse due to some loophole in the rules so they made a amendment in the FAQ and fixed it in the new codex so now they only count as characters if leading a squad. the same is true of ork nobs and paladins i think it is or else only one can be allocated to being a character out of the unit.

important to note that they roll for powers after they have been assigned to a unit.
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Re: Eldar arsepygamas.

Postby ruffian4 » Fri May 02, 2014 1:22 pm

BDA wrote: they made a amendment in the FAQ and fixed it in the new codex so now they only count as characters if leading a squad.

This is from the new (hardback) dex and the faq has only one entry, about shadow weavers iirc.
Check p95.

According to raw, assigned warlocks can only ever be infantry and this is in a para that clearly gives them permission to join jetbikes.

Don't get me wrong, anyone that would try to enforce this would get a kick in the maugan ra's.
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