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I went with Creed Camo over Vallejo Desert Tan surface primer for mine. Added AP’s Light Tone as a shade to give a bit of brownish tint.

True that.

Well, I guess once the Soul Wars starter goes oop we get a start collecting box with the contents (with only 10 chainrasps though). That’s what happened with the previous starter.

LoG never was part of Nighthaunt. Just because it uses lots of Nighthaunts unit doesn’t make them automatically part of the Nighthaunt allegience.

Well, playing this luxury game at all is a big entitlement issue, but lets not go there and skip this whole entitlement discussion going forward. My personal opinion with regards to special models (I don’t own any) is that as long as tbey’re not dominating the game and thus ”required” to be competitive with that army, they should be allowed.

The entitlement thing swings both ways. Just because you have a model it doesn’t mean you always get to use it. It’s all about GW being afraid that 3rd party companies making proxies of models they don’t sell but have rules for. It’s happened in the past.

The Errant-Questor is continously available from Warhammer World, so although it’s hard to get it is still being sold. So yeah, looks like it isn’t an oversight.

Could be that they missed it, however they added other missed units in the errata (like the big FW Khorne dragon). They also don’t like to have units that they don’t sell in pitched battles. They switched to new anniversary models this weekend (https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/06/18/store-anniversary-exclusives-for-the-next-yeargw-homepage-post-2/) so it’s entirely plausible it’s not included because of that.

It’s a unique limited edition model?

Core FAQ: Q: Some warscroll battalions included in battletomes do not have a faction listed above their title. How do I determine which faction they belong to for the purposes of allegiance abilities? A: The battalion belongs to all of the factions in that battletome. For example, the warscroll battalions in Battletome: Stormcast Eternals are part of the Stormcast Eternals faction. BoC Errata: Page 85 – Marked by the Decadent Fiend Change to: ‘Units from this battalion gain the Slaanesh keyword. In addition, this warscroll battalion is part of the Slaanesh faction and the Beasts of Chaos faction.’ The BoC god battalions have errata to allow them in the god allegience armies.

Yes, and LoG isn’t Nighthaunt either, so no Nighthaunt battalions either.

The Skaven FAQ has an updated question that sounds similar to this. I don’t know what Skitterleap does, but it sounds like some sort of teleporting. Q: Does a Balewind Vortex with a Skaventide Hero atop it travel with the Hero if they use Skitterleap? A: Yes.

Just have to keep refreshing then.

Can you link directly to the PDF? Doesn’t look any different for me with that link.

Still nothing new for me...

There’s this FAQ as well, that could be applied to this since wizard + vortex counts as one model/unit. Q: If a unit leaves the battlefield for whatever reason and comes back, do they lose any bonuses they had from abilities or spells? Also, if they had a ‘once per game’ ability, does it reset? A: If a unit leaves the battlefield and then returns to the battlefield, no to both questions. If the models have been slain and are being used as part of a unit that has been added to the army, then yes to both questions.

Here’s a relevant FAQ. This together with the fact that the wizard and the Balewind Vortex counts as one model for rules purposes should be enough to make it clear that a wizard on Balewind Vortex can be teleported with LoSaT. Q: Some abilities allow you to remove a unit from the battlefield and set it up again, and say that this ‘counts as their move for the movement phase’ (or words to that effect). Do these units count as having made a move for the purposes of any other rules or abilities? A: No, it simply restricts them from making a move later on.

Gotrek is a new faction. 😎

Yes, set up and being deployed on the battlefield from any reserve (underworlds, sky etc.) are two different things. Usually when you setup reserve units you can choose to put them in a reserve place. The rules about the arrival time refers to when you put them in reserve, the second paragraph refers to when they actually are put on the battlefield.

This exact wording was used in GHB2018 as well, nothing’s changed with GHB2019.

I really agree, I'm not much into WAAC when it comes to AoS. And I would consider abusing this to be a really lousy thing to do, at least outside a tournament setting. My comment was a bit brief in that regard, and perhaps a bit unrelatad. However, I think it's GW's job to design a game/write rules that don't create situations like this. It shouldn't (at least in a tournament setting) be left to the players to decide what's appropriate or not, because where do you really draw the line? You have to really on the rules as written, and if they are badly written (which they often are in AoS) they should be rewritten. Compare this to Magic: the Gathering where WotC don't design cards that are "unfun", and if they sometimes do they have banlists that can take care of the situation.

Yeah, but how do you define fun? WAAC is fun for some.

Stellar Tempest from the new GHB.

The staff effect doesn’t combine at all with Jaws like a Steel Trap. The Jaws effect isn’t damage as such (mortal wounds aren’t damage) and if it fails the attack it doesn’t deal any damage at all (so the staff effect doesn’t kick in).

Well, if they nerf anything in the allegience abilities, they better boost something else. The summoning rules as they are currently is what makes the faction usable at all (competively that is). My guess is that they'll introduce at least spell lores to these factions, and maybe some tweaks to make them a bit more competitive while we wait for new BTs.