AoS Skirmish help!

[Dead_Ghost]

Couple of questions regarding AoS Skirmish, particular focus on the new rules from white dwarf. 

WD says: warbands must include 3 models, one of which must be a hero (in bold for keyword) 

But in the bat rep they just run champions. Is it supposed to say one must be a champion? As they now gain the 'champion' key word to single them out. 

 

And standard bearers. Are they free? Many units says 'any models' may carry a banner, so potentially the whole unit (if being beardy) so doesn't fall into the 'limited number upgrades' cost 5 pts. 

 

Any help much appreciated!

[EMMachine]

5 hours ago, Dead_Ghost said:

But in the bat rep they just run champions. Is it supposed to say one must be a champion? As they now gain the 'champion' key word to single them out.  

Yeah its quite a strange situation, that the Campaign rules did not make a rulechange here. In the end you and your group can houserule the campaign like in the batrep, not using Heroes.

5 hours ago, Dead_Ghost said:

And standard bearers. Are they free? Many units says 'any models' may carry a banner, so potentially the whole unit (if being beardy) so doesn't fall into the 'limited number upgrades' cost 5 pts. 

Funnily enough only restricted stuff costs extra, so in this case (in case of books that are older than 2.0) it would be for free. But it would actually make sense to say that for those it would cost as well because all new books have the number of them restricted.

[Dead_Ghost]

Brilliant, thanks for the answer