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HughB

Rules Hugh. Read the rules. Thanks Rob.

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In the situation where a unit is ambushed by a terrifying unit, which rule takes precedent - is a unit obliged to perform an involuntary hold or are they obliged to flee from a terrifying unit if they fail a valour check?

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Yeah you're right Icchan. Was fairly certain that was how it was but just wanted to nail it down in my head. Thanks for confirming Rob.

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The ability refers to foresters being able to treat woods as open terrain for the purposes of movement. So foresters can charge through woods. Presumably this doesn't alter the fact that they can't see something thats got more than 6" of woods between the forester and itself? What I'm getting a...

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So the wording for the deathbringer's dead lantern is as follows: Light of the Darkness: while the Drēaguth Deathbringer bears the Deadlantern, the current SKILL and MIGHT of any Undead unit within the Drēaguth Deathbringer's command range is increased by +10. This increase is not cumulative with ot...

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They gazed lovingly into its souless eyes and found nothing in return was given. I almost wept at the poetry Attempting to steer myself back on to topic, gazing is a stone cold reason to get some line of sight blocking terrain on the table. I had it in my head that gazing was short ranged but I thi...

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As an Englishman who grew up in Dumfries & Galloway, one of the funniest moments in my life was seeing a Glaswegian describe some of my Scottish mates as southerners. Almost died laughing. They were slightly less amused. Also can you my name down to attend for your fine event please Mr Chester. ...

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So Noble commanders are allowed to be under move orders as well as whatever other order they are given. Could this mean that if you attach a noble commander to a unit of bowmen they could move one turn and volley shot the next turn without needing to change their orders in between times? So they cou...

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Cheers Rob. I wanted a truly ysian take on unicorns and centaurs. Its my first attempt at proper sculpting and it shows but it was fun and I'm fairly happy with the paint job. Happy to be getting back into the way of painting again too.

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Next year? Yeah maybe

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/STivvM71pzvWVhBK7

So if (big if) I’ve not derped this should link to the start and end of my mule brutes project. 12 points down and I’m still in January. Oh my word.

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We're already a whole week into January now John and you're not even past the 50 model mark?!? Seriously mate, what're you playing at? ;-)

PS - loving the blue.

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You absolute tease. Any elaboration likely to be forthcoming on either of those lines of enquiry in that case? (source of immortality and other members of the immortality club)

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Immortality granted by daemons? Is he the only one to be granted such?

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Probably hang from wires rigged above the pile(s) of shame.

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True. I sense that only a dove from above/hrafn unit in the post can rectify the situation. ;-)

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I'm good for a unit of hrafn with a mighty score of 22 right Rob? RIght? >.<

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Well we've talked about it in our most recent podcast that will be out to listen to fairly soon (I've derped more than I usually do and so Paul has some careful editing to do) but as the curtain is opening on the 2019 challenge, I thought I'd take this opportunity to thank everyone who has taken the...

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Hi Bryan Looking through the muster list, you would appear to have the right of it yes. The jotunn can't be mustered under a human commander as it would double his authority. The konungr doesn't have quite enough authority to take a unit of trolls and a jotunn so it has to be a unit of leipttrolls a...

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Put me in the 1500 gold camp. It gives you a game with a reasonable amount of working parts/tactical depth while also giving you a game that you can get through in a decent time frame. Unless you wanted to change the format slightly and do the event over two days perhaps and have x number of 1500 g...

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Put me in the 1500 gold camp. It gives you a game with a reasonable amount of working parts/tactical depth while also giving you a game that you can get through in a decent time frame. Unless you wanted to change the format slightly and do the event over two days perhaps and have x number of 1500 go...

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So frenzied units like it when you run towards them and get close enough so that they can counter charge your units piece meal and maximise their counter charge/always alert ability. What they don't like is being dragged around the board by fast moving units that make them run away from the soft squ...

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Loving those abhorrents. Inspiring me to get mine built and painted. Good work.

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Its a fair point. The brute corruptors could be in the fleshdrunes command but would have to bind to a brute unit or a drune brute unit at which point their ubiquity doesn't matter. So - superfluous rule?

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What goes on on botchergate stays on botchergate (hopefully). O.o

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So the houndmaster option equips a battle drune with an axe and a whip. It also downgrades hound drunes attached to the houndmaster from feral to wild and increases their unit size. The question is should the hound masters whip have the goad special rule. I think it probably should but then thats be...

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Hadn't really thought of the brythoniaid as being all that christian but you're right, as romano-british they very much were christians. And of a very different flavour of christianity to the Irish christianity too. I take it dragons don't really go in for christiainity. They do have their own magic...

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good points all - thank you both gentleman

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So broadly the Ysians feel that the brythoniaid abandoned them as the angelcynn pushed west. How did/do the brythoniaid feel about the Ysians immediately post separation and since the Ysians fall - abandonment of the brythoniaid way of life. Do the dragons etc have any particular antipathy for the y...

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Is there much infighting between the wocor, the draigs and the wyvern?

Also, is there any particular story/reason behind the flightless tawrdraig? Why are they flightless bull dragons and is there a particular reason why they are frenzied?

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Posters of concept art?

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Hen Ogledd - do you have any further categories of dragon/wyvern etc for the more northerly Brythoniaid kingdoms? Were there any that have since been hunted to extinction? What were the etten again? I think you have mentioned this before in that the ettehnwiht is a dead version of the etten. How do ...

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Nah mate - invinsible (and preferably invisible) till the end. I can totally make druc the meathulk my general right? And never go first ever again.

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Yeah diving units are very not invinsible (definitely a legitimate phrase o.O). I was convinced of this early when I saw a byzantii lion trample into a unit of gabrax. Everything was going swimmingly till the reflex attacks. The gabrax took a beating but they ate the lion. Reflex attacks with a +1D1...

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Brightblade - basically yes (I think anyway from reading these particular rules quite avidly over the last month or two for this very reason). If a flying unit is not classed as gigantic is can soar/circle first turn then dive/slash or dive/grab and soar again as an embedded action for the rest of t...

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Page 103 3.7.4.5.1 Circling height circling height is calculated each time required by rolling 2D10 and adding 20. Almost right Jon. In short you could get your mages to target flying units with focus spells but they'd take a large chunk out of their health extending the range of the spells sufficie...

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Bloody spitting feathers. I read that sodding sequence box at least three times and missed the easy strike sentence each bloody time. Below average skim reading on my part. Le sigh. Cheers Rob.

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So he needs to have moved over his pace value before contacting anything to count as a swift trampler? Sweet. Just thought I'd clear that up in my head. We had a situation recently where a unit of 30mm stuff decided to flee from a 100mm monstrous cav trampler in an attempt to get away from them. In ...

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I was certain that impact strikes count as easy strikes and have played them as such for some time. However hunting through the rulebook I now can't find any specific mention that this is indeed the case. Have I just made this up? Are impact strikes not in fact easy strikes at all and I'm just cheat...

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Since we're asking questions about trample again i thought it would be rude not to jump on the band (trample) wagon. If a trampler first contacts a unit at a point that is within his pace value but then continues to move through the unit such that he moves over his pace value while still moving thro...

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Hey up Arthur

We (three of us) play in Carlisle if you ever fancy a trip up to the lake district/hadrians wall for a game?

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Thats an interesting use of allies to get a legal force on the table of more than one kindred. The only advice I'd give you, having played a few games with ysians and using lots of feral units, is that if you put your feral tawrdraig behind your rhyfelwr, your opponent might move his units around so...

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Lets have a look at what 30mm stuff can do that bigger stuff can't do then shall we? Cheap activations. 30mm models are, by and large, cheaper than bigger stuff and so can be used to out activate your opponent. Handy for outflanking/out outmaneuvering etc etc. Cheap missile units. 30mm models aren't...

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Well when it says up to it actually means less than (so 80mm bases can't lift 80mm bases but then can lift 60mm bases). Looking at the muster sheets though - a gunnhrafn (80mm birdman) costs about 15 points more than a sronax tain (60mm character model). If he were able to soar and grab any model th...

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So what is shocked first of all: page 233 6.30.8.2.1 Shocked target - if the units shot score (the number of shooting dice that successfully hit the unit being shot at) is greater than the current unit strength of the unit then the unit is a shocked target. Second column of page 233 - 6.30.9.1.1 set...

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Top of page 46 (second column) mate. Unseeing: 2.4.4.1.19 - warriors that are unseeing are blind sighted as well as night sighted.

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Thanks for the clarification Rob. So just checking and not trying to be a pain in the face (honest) but you're saying that units can't swoop and grab unless its units that are half their strength (which is consistent with the standard grab rule). Does the rule for diving and grabbing still stand tho...

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Now that is an interesting point and, just so you know, I'm using all of my available will power right now to resist the urge to reference the cards against humanity card that relates to pac man. To be fair though, comparing the blood maw to pac man is doing everyone's favourite Vore rather a disser...

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So each devour attack can grab? You sure? Rules ref? Sweeot. 4D10 is good but a dead 60mm dude is better.

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Thats weird. I replied to your post and the post looks to have disappeared into the ether. A sure fire sign that it was a truly substandard post I guess. Oops. So basically I wasn't making myself clear. The grab attack itself is a very useful way of ruining the day of 60mm infantry and gaining some ...

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