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I did forget some stuff,
The Space marine whirlwind detachment not only got unlimited range but also could reroll the scatter die.
There were two flavors of the bassie datacheet, a squad and company, one was three the other was 10. The 10 bassie formation could use the apocolypse four leaf clover template i believe and in that case it does not deviate, so you would just pummel your target with essentially 10 pieplates in avery condensed area, and they all hit at once! So each guy could theoretically be hit by 10 earth shaker rounds.
The dark eldar got a second formation that consisted of a lot of raider squads and warriors. I believe they got the strategic redployment stratagem.
Chaos did have another datasheet, the deamon summoning one. It let you put a warp gate down in your deployment zone and then all your deamons come through it including greater deamons. I forgot about that one.
There was also a tyranid data sheet that combined a bunch of zoeys but i do not recall what they did.
The deep stirking caries are rad, and it makes using melle carnies totally feasible, i think that one will be really popular.
The gargantuan creatures i believe are protected from force weapons because their rule is worded as they are protected from any psychic weapon that does not directly cause damage, i think you have to have a strength value. It is a moot point anyway though, as most of them are too tough to be wounded by anything but maybe a greyknight grand master.
And that is correct, the linebreaker squad was three vindies, the three land raider formation was the armored spear tip. Thanks for clarifying that.
To answer some questions:
Sure, you could take all heavy support, or all abbadons or all falcons, or clowns or whatever. that is the point. You can play the game however you like. it is not meant to be a cut throat competetion as much as a way to spend the day with your pals and have some fun. If you decide to bring 50 obliterators, then go right ahead, probably wont be a fun game though. You dont exactly walk into a game store and play a pick up 5K game though, you know? You call your buddies and set it up. I think as long as you play with like minded people, everyone will have a blast.
no, there is nothing in there about time limit per turn, but im sure you could make a house rule for that.
no, not all flyers could become skimmers, only things that were VTOL capable like the Vulture, Valkyrie, etc. Things like the fighta bomba, thunderbolt, marauder (which is brutal!) etc. can not.
The revenant does not get the skimmer rule anymore i dont think, at least it didnt in our games (but we were still getting used to the rules). I have seen it in action tiwce, both times it got blown up with a pen. The thing hits SO hard though, its pulsars are just awesome and it is faster in HtHthan the other big guys (In2!)
The stompa was the coolest thing in there, IMHO. the guns were just so fun. The bigmek stompa's lifta droppa was rad, and the other stompa with the ability to go ape with the super gattling cannon and then still fire his super cannon was too fun. Although you had to fire the big cannon after the gattling gun, so it goes dakka dakka dakka dakka, boom! i felt that it captured the orky feel very well.
I wish i could remember the warlord's weapons, but they were just insane. The Warhound scout titan (we had one of these in both games I played in) got its choice of two titan weapons and the Warlord got 4 plus some minor weapons too. The thing seriously looked like it would be unstopable, as it should be!
In the second game we played 10K of chaos vs 10K of Eldar and friends (including 15 penitant engines, each as a seperate unit!), one guy brought Angroth (forgeworld bloodthirster), that dude is a beast. He took orbital bombardments to the face and just laughed it off before going toe to toe with a titan. Very very fun. ALso, you can use whatever rules for deamons you choose with the rules worded the way they are, so screw those stupid generic deamons in the new dex.
Quote you can use VDRbut the rules aren't in the book.
I did not see anything about the lost and the damned.
But there was a data sheet for the plague reaper (cahos baneblade) and the brass scorpion. The plague reaper fires the giant flame template and when it is destroyed, it does something really nurglish but i cant remeber exactly what.
Titans and gargantuan creatures can tank shock anything apart from other superheavies, and they get a stomp special attack too.
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