Christopher Rowe

Sad, but probably true.

Yeah, I often use different color schemes within the same unit, especially when there's a lot variety in the builds do options like heads, helmets, arm positioning, etc. I love the way my Saurus Guards look and they're a real hodgepodge of colors. I've never heard a complaint from an opponent or other player. I doubt I'll ever win best paint job at a tournament or an Armies on Parade contest, but that's of little concern to me.

If this is too much topic drift, please ignore or delete. But...electricity, computers, batteries and computer networks rely heavily on nonrenewable resources like oil and precious metals. Trees are a renewable resource, and there are other renewable resources (like hemp) that could be used to make quality paper (if the huge paper lobby in the USA and the shortsighted Chinese economic planners would support building new mills or retooling current mills for other renewables). There is a finite amount of oil in the world. In most of the temperate zones in the world, if you pick a spot and do nothing, eventually a tree will grow there.

I went to the local Warhammer shop and purchased: the Core Book, the General's Handbook '21, a Lord Kroak model, and two pots of Contrast Paint. I also used the in-store ordering to order a Skink Priest w/Feathered Cloak and a Realmshaper Engine.

The language in Geminids doesn't say anything about command points. It says units it affects "cannot issue or receive commands." So, doe the Geminids affect the Ossiarch Bonereaper relentless discipline points? Or, I guess what I'm asking is are the "directions" given and received by Ossiarch Bonereaper units "commands" or not?

Is there anything besides his base size that prevents my old finecast Lord Kroak from being fielded? I have the new model but won't have time to build and paint it before my first 3.0 game day. So I was wondering if I could just mount my existing Lord Kroak on the same size base as the new Lord Kroak and make him table legal.

But doesn't the wording in the Sisters' ability specifically say that the unit has received the command? And Rule 6.0 says "a unit cannot receive more than 1 command in the same phase." Did someone already make this argument and have it countered upthread? Reading this has thoroughly bamboozled me.

I don't follow any "official" paint schemes at all, but then I play Seraphon so those are a bit loosey-goosey anyway (my Skinks are orange and purple, my Saurus Guard have purple skin, etc). Which reminds me of something I was going to ask about. This is almost certainly a non-starter because the assignment of matched play points is already so complicated (and contentious), but! It seems to some of us Seraphon players, who have two major sub-factions, that units should be pointed out depending on which sub-faction they're being run in. For example, Saurus Knights are worth a lot more in a Coalesced Seraphon army than they are in a Starborne Seraphon army. One really problem, of course, would be that some armies have lots and lots of sub-factions. I'm told, however, that the Seraphon sub-faction differences are a lot more profound than, say, which Chamber a Stormcast Eternal is from.

Wow. That's gonna need correcting!

I think that was pretty clearly just a mistake in the nomenclature and that the rest of the stuff in that article applies to the Skink Priest (not the Starpriest).

Skink Priests already had the PRIEST keyword, but otherwise agreed.

I posted about this on the book of faces and appear to have done nothing but generate an unfortunate contretemps. I also wrote the rules team and received an auto-reply (we'll take a look, meantime use the rules as written, watch for updated errata, etc). The new errata for Seraphon add this: Page 95 – Engine of the Gods, Description Change the Description to: ‘SKINK PRIEST: An Engine of the Gods is commanded by a Skink Priest. CREW: This model has a skink crew that attack with Meteoric Javelins. For rules purposes, the crew are treated in the same manner as a mount. And that's it for Engine of the Gods. It seems pretty clear to me that the Skink commanding the Engine is a Priest and can therefore do Priestly stuff, which right now boils down chanting the generic prayers for this unit. However, Rule 20.0 of the Core Rules (not modified by the errata) reads thusly: A unit with the PRIEST keyword on its warscroll is a PRIEST. Which seems to me to mean that a unit without the keyword is not a PRIEST. This is probably just a rules-as-written vs. rules-as-intended issue, and why they would put that language in the errata at all if the unit wasn't intended to be a PRIEST is a mystery to me. But, since I'm not a GW rules designer, neither can I claim any special knowledge of their intentions. ETA: The negligible points bump the unit received seems to argue against the notion that it received a significant new ability.

I'm still cogitating about the changes myself, but would love to hear y'all's thoughts.

Fantastic! Thanks!

Can anyone point me to a resource that would allow me to search and sort all AoS units by keyword? For example, say I wanted to find the names of every unit in the game that have the keyword ORACLE.

I finally made the top three in something Warhammer related! Woohoo!

I heard that it's not a giant alligator but instead simply a quite large crocodile. Or perhaps a truly enormous caiman.

It would be cool if it did work that way, kinda. I wonder if we're going to start seeing any tactical disruptions of coherency and thus self-sacrificing models in weird corner cases. From the other side, are there many/any units or spells or abilities ("enhancements") that allow your opponent to choose which models are removed when one must be removed?

Yeah, that's what your argument really hinges on. I agree that it's clear the models wouldn't be removed until the end of the turn (well, I should say "a" turn), but the question is whether or not piling in is "movement." Since the rules for piling in (12.2) specifically say that you "make a pile-in move" I think you've got an interesting idea that the rules, unfortunately, don't support.

Hello! I'll be playing my first games of AoS 3.0 in about six weeks and plan to build my list or lists around the big guys (I haven't played since before Malign Portents, and then I was just running lists based on what I had painted and I painted and built what I thought easiest to start with--Skinks--then what I thought looked cool--Saurus Guard). Right now, here's what I've got ready to go. I have a Saurus Oldblood on Carnosaur and a Skink Oracle on Troglodon fully built and painted. I have a Bastiladon with Solar Engine and a Stegadon with Star Streak Bow built and primed but not painted. In their boxes still, I have what I plan to build as a Saurus Scar-Veteran on Carnosaur (from a Start Collecting box) and two Stegadons/Engines of the Gods. There's no requirement to field fully painted armies at the game day I'm playing in (mainly because I'm hosting and providing the space, hah!), though I vastly prefer to field painted models. So I'm leaning towards painting my two built models first, then building and painting (or trying to get painted) the other three. Does that make the most sense or is some configuration of the three in the box so superior in a Coalesced list that I should do that first? Finally, should I build those two Stegs/Engines and one each, two Stegs, or two Engines? Oh! A possible added complication. I'm considering buying a Skink Start Collecting (so I can hit sixty Boltspitters & Star-bucklers, so I can get a second Skink Starpriest, and for a second Bastiladon--all for like $90 less than paying for all those models individually!) which throws another big guy into the mix. Thanks in advance for any friendly advice!

I have clearly missed a memo. Or at least an updated warscroll somewhere. How exactly do geminids counter this ability?

Well, that's not how it works according to the rules, and I for one don't agree a universal spell with a casting value of 5 should work that way. "If successfully cast at the start of any 1 phase before your next hero phase..."

Is it just me or dos the Kharadon Overlords preview up today seem a little "beefier" than those we've seen previously?

I'm changing my pre-3.0 plans to hoping that everyone gets or stays healthy.

Welcome! I'm in the same boat with black undercoat (even using a powerful lit magnifier or an adjustable arm), switched to white or yellow, and now white with contrast has saved my painting!