I'm unfamiliar with these 10 other methods. All I know is that If you can interbreed and have fertile offspring you're close enough to be considered the same species. There are exceptions of course for genetically similar populations separated irredeemably by geography , (like caribou and reindeer)...

Weird miniatures? They are all from games workshop! I don't like the hydra but guess it makes it's place on the battlefield (though beware, the base is not correct size). It's not the same as the base the new one comes on, but there's no actual rule (that I know of) that requires a chariot base. Mo...

Milney, back right down. You want to start getting nasty with people, you come through me. What did I say that was nasty? No it doesn't. A simple statement, explicitly stating an (percieved or not) incorrect statement. You can't just say "It says hand weapon therefore it is a hand weapon"...

Why does an Assassin have to be black? I HATE that common misconception. Dark Elf Assassins are not members of, say, the Discworld Assassins guild - punished for straying from the "uniform". They are meant to adapt and blend in to the armies they are fighting for and against. If an army is...

The FAQ was done just over 2 years ago and now they started re-introducing Magic Weapons with the very clear rule "Hand Weapon" this is definitely a change in how they do things and thus should be considered when going with the FAQ's ruling. Since it has "Hand Weapon" in its rul...

And ever since the Daemon book, we have Magic Weapons that are also Hand Weapons, thus they gain the Parry Bonus when on foot and using a shield and an extra attack when used with a second hand weapon. Whip of Agony is a Beastmaster's Scourge which is also a Hand Weapon. So Whip of Agony + Enchante...

Thomus Darkblade wrote:Fact of the matter is that elves and humans can interbreed and have fertile offspring. That makes them, the same species!

Only according to the Biological Species Concept (BSC). According to the 10+ other methods of determining species, they're not.

Amazing. I'm not normally a fan of NMM (or SENMM for that matter) but your work always makes me think twice. The only thing I would comment on is the skin tone, which although nicely pale and "otherworldly" (as a 300 year old child of Slaanesh should look) does have the ffect of having his...

Cool report. How annoying to be harassed about your Dark Riders though, they had three colours minimum and were based, so why the hassle? Because although they had 3 colours, the riders didn't have flesh on them. Apparently (according to the Ref who kept hassling me) this broke "the rules"...

I love the fact that someone jumps in and says "It's the most overpowered item in the whole game" and then without even pausing for breath utters the immortal words "I didn't use it yet". By that very admission you make your opinion no more than what it is - unsubstantiated opini...

More than 6 levels of magic combined with harpies/dark riders/shades only is the only one I can think of. For the rest, if people complain about it I genuinely think they have severe issues with objective thinking. I've never understood the arbitrary cut-off point of "6 levels of Magic" t...

was your mate playing a vampire counts army with about 6 PD? if so i played him game five. Nah, he was playing a Wood Elf force. Ended up with a 3-3 score aswell, but completely the opposite. Where all my games ended in massive bloodshed, I don't think any of his games went above 400VPs for either ...

Pendant High Sorceresses are great! People who can't see the uses are doing a massive disservice to themselves. Not only does it offer equal-to-or-better protection against all the miscasts you can protects against that a 5+ ward would, but against mage hunters it gives a far better use. Then you ha...

I didn't introduce myself to anyone (didn't really want to jump onto people I only "know" online), so we didn't actually chat but we did bump into each other whilst table hopping a couple of times. I was probably the only guy wearing a pink shirt (proper shirt, not T-shirt) on the first da...

I can hear the cries of "Oh no, not another one!" already. But yes, another one it is All in all I had a great weekend, bar a couple of minor incidents, and I had some wierd and wonderful games over it's course. My list after alot of last minute changes due to various things, such as faili...

Ah you were the guy on the crutches The Ref was right about the single test. It's in the Errata/FAQ document about the BRB, stating that when a "Model" has to take a characteristic test, it simply takes one test with the characteristic which gives the best chance of success being used. Whi...

dont bite my head off sheesh, i simply meant that its interesting that a greater daemon won esspecially as a lot of people seemed to be put off them with the scenarios. and that its even more interesting when you consider that vs some armies kairos is little more than a glass cannon. i never said a...

I've just come from the 1st Heat. Will post more when I'm back home (at my mates house who I crashed with for the tournament). Good fun, as for your comment about the Horror armies stopping my Magic. Well, you were wrong. I took a revised list with toned down Magic (only two magic users, and 9PD bef...

Currently killing myself to get the 3 colours/based minimum on my army. It's going to look fairly poor, but at least it'll have all the slog work done so I can take my time and finish them off after the tourney xD

I better get them all done on time for Saturday >.< See you guys there

Lyhne wrote:You forgot the Marines, which I would go for...

Marines are the combat arm of the Navy -.-

Funny cos Gav Thorpe was doing a signing at GW Brighton yesterday, had a nice long chat with him, without going into it, there's going to be a FAQ coming out VERY soon to clarify quite a few problems in the book. What the GW manager said was mostly right, there's been a line left from the ROH rules...

and with aid of the Cauldron of Blood I don`t mean to be a biatch, but the CoB only bestows Blessings on Khainite units/characters. I myself reckon that COK`s SHOULD be Khainite according to fluff I`ve read in previous AB`s, but their not. Unless you meant that the CoB could help support the COK`s ...

An interesting point to help re-invigorate this thread, is the 'unit of the year' for this GT, for example at the finals it was teclis quite easily, at the heats it was the steam tank, the year before that it was thorek etc etc. This year the unit everyone has to worry about how to kill is the leve...

Dwarf engineer is part of crew as well he's a unit upgrade. Empire engineer on the other hand can't drag any cannons on his own. I was referring to the point of Army Book overriding the BRB. BRB says characters don't crew warmachines which is why people thought it was 50% movement gone for each Hag...

I still try and avoid using them, as stupidity has always hindered my plans. However after seeing that my GT list was so similar to other Druchii GT lists this year I've decided to use a unit of 6, with a Hydra BSB and a Cold One Sorceress (Yes, you heard me!) just to see if I can get these to actua...