Black guard are not an anvil. Anvils are either big (steadfast, not caring about casualties) or tough (good save, high toughness), black guard can do neither. What they can do however is kill lots and lots of enemies. 8th edition faded the line between hammers and anvils a bit though. There are stil...

The plague priests are a skaven unit. Although I just realised I was thinking of plague monks (the unit) when I wrote that, not plague priests (the character). I guess it's time for a new try on the older unsolved ones then Like the gentle caress of sunlight, frees the caged spirit, lifts the dark s...

Devil's Dance, Black Ballet, Last Chance, In Life's Play. Wardancers God's mount, ancient titan, even scarred veterans, this beast will frighten. Ancient stegadon Northman's friend, fights, tooth and claw, loyal to the end, loose the dogs of war! (chaos) warhound Neither wholly plant, nor entirely b...

New riddles, yay Condemned beast, exiled to the labyrinth below, slaughterer's friend, ravenous foe. Gorger Some search for what they can never find, others find what they were not searching for, those most noble and pure of heart, will be changed forever more. Grail knights? Beguiling beauty, throu...

I don't think jezzails are weapon teams actually, they're just normal shooters. Weapon teams are thing like rattling guns and warpfire throwers, and they are all single models.

2D6+2-Ld is not a leadership test, just like charging (M + 2D6) is not a movement test. Characterisitc test are clearly defined on page 10 of the BRB. Also, turning your back to something does not mean that you can't see it anymore. The old LoS rules (where stuff needed to be in your front arc to be...

Hadn't seen there were more unsolved ones.

Wingless it flies,
conqueror's pride,
hero's black veil,
colours of sail.

A banner?

Spirit leach also works very well on catapults, the crew manning them has ld 3. So that's another reason to take death.

see without light, hear without sound, taste without smell, nothing lost, yet something found. Senses? one of two correct answers to this riddle is the opposite of absolute, especially in measurement of things such as time Einstein's theory of relativity Seriously though, I think it's point of view ...

mostly because I overlooked it Still, after thinking about it, I don't think it really changes anything. I'm not arguing that PoS works on the handlers, I'm arguing that you can't use the beastmasters' initiative for pit of shades. People in this thread have argued that you can based on the sentence...

C-freman:

BRB, page 73 wrote:[...]a handler model is removed instead

I could give more reasons but this should be enough

Well, the sentence is "We ignore the handlers for most gaming purposes, treating the monster as the extent of the unit" in other words, you treat the monster as the extent of the unit when and only when you ignore the handlers. "Most gaming purposes" is still unclear, but in the ...

Comment: Because all the three units have S3 and the same AS in close combat, it is not neccesary to mathhammer against different opponents. Only the 6+ ward on the RxBs would make them look relatively (but marginally) better against high strength opponents. This is quite wrong, as they have differ...

So, does anyone actually do this on a regular basis? Thing is, everything written above is only valid if your opponent puts his fragile characters in the center of the unit, which would be a stupid thing for them to do. If they put them on the edge and your unit is only three models wide, you'll onl...

The prob is that the Knights don't reach the enemie very fast because the DL/Master needs time to pin down the Empire Knights. If I move ahead to fast with them the STank or Knights will charge me. In the game you put in your album, you could just join your BSB to the knights and move them up anywa...

Considering the ItP is mentioned before the stupidity test, it would be weird to assume that they are only stupid if they fail the test.

There's also the thing with the chaos trolls.

I see no reason why not.

There is also the penalty for shooting at skirmishers, so a cannon shooting at shades at long range gets a -2 penalty.

Another thing to look at is the speed at which they start losing their attacks. A unit of 18 spearmen in 6X3 will get the same amount of attacks, sure, but they'll lose those attacks quicker. Well, yes, but 18 warriors are about the same price as 12 corsairs, 12 corsairs lose attacks as fast as 18 ...

Warriors will get creamed against certain types of troops and there's no real cure. Corsairs will perform decently against all enemy

I wonder, what troops would cream warriors but not corsairs?

Red: Volley fire does not help a unit's shooting, it helps their CC. To use volley fire you need to be in more than 2 ranks, which gives you less shots than you would get if you deployed in 2 ranks. Therefore, it does not benefit shooting at all. Deploying your unit in more than 2 ranks does help th...

Warriors can carry the warbanner. When a magic item exists in both the AB and the BRB you use the points in the AB.
It's in the FAQ

Kreoss: The text mentions "a magic item" though, and not "a common magic item". This means that it really doesn't matter where they put that paragraph, it affects all magic items. Regarding the Pos, we get to the big problem of when exactly two magic items are the same. I would s...

IN the WoC book, in the background story of Festus the leechlord (a special character), Nurgle speaks through some dead people. Short version of the story, Festus was a doctor trying to cure some plague. He had some victims from the plague in his laboratory and tried to save them, but they all died....

I think gorgers are a 2-per-rare unit, but I'm not really sure about that. I'm a bit surprised your witch elves did so little though, they're any ogre's nightmare. Assuming he put his ogres 4 wide you could put your witches 10 wide, meaning that you'll get 45 attacks on him before he gets to strike....

Cannons allow armour saves (although S10 means that normally nothing would get an armour save) so this master would get a re-rollable 3+ armour save against cannonballs. Strength 10 equates to a an armor-strength modifier of -7, and the best armor save possible is 1+. Bottom line is that there is n...