WHFB 8

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Yeah it's a paint to flick through when you forget rules, especially simple ones, like how many spells do you get...

[joroas]

Errata online now, 3 pages of errors.  You'd think for £50 that they'd check it thoroughly.  How p*ssed would you be if you had bought the expensive one? 

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1330084a_FAQ_WarhammerRulebook_2010_v1.pdf

[joroas]

On the plus side, there is an article on Islands of Blood:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=11500028a&utm_term=warhammer&utm_medium=email&utm_content=text-link-body&utm_source=e1400001-en_GB&utm_campaign=FAQ-Update-News-en_GB

[wolfgangbrooks]

To be fair, most of them aren't errors. They are cleaning up the wording or adding in common sense things like the Two Hand Weapons requires two hands thing to keep the rules lawyers at from doing stupid things.

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Yup, which is goooood!

Still have the same atmosphere in some GWs. People playing the rules rather than the game. 

[Muskie]

I still haven't played the game, but I've read most of the rules, they seem pretty straight forward.  It is the special rules in the army books that usually cause the problems...

Anyway I've been working on getting the Nurgle Daemons ready for Sunday and that means re-basing old Beasts of Nurgle and making a custom movement  tray for the Plaguebearers.  It also means blog post.   

http://musksminiatures.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/precision-engineering/

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Once you know all your army special rules, it is quite straightforward. I often make a quick reference 'datasheet' for that.

[mweaver]

I think in any game where there are competitive tournaments some people are going to "play the rules" rather than the game.  Is is a characteristic of tournament play more than it is of WH players, Magic the Gathering players, etc. 

[joroas]

You're right, it is largely for rule lawyers, obviously a two-handed weapon needs two hands........... 

[Tomsche]

That`s why I collect (and very, very sometimes play) forgotten or non official armies like Albion and the Chaos Dwarves.  Ruleslawyers don`t want to play `em due to nog being the real deal, and saves me a lot of discussions and sighs during games 

[Muskie]

I finished off and photographed my three old (mid period) Beasts of Nurgle and my army is packed for its 8th Edition debut, hopefully it performs better than last time I was talked into playing GW's square base game.

[joroas]

I finished off and photographed my three old (mid period) Beasts of Nurgle and my army is packed for its 8th Edition debut, hopefully it performs better than last time I was talked into playing GW's square base game.

I saw those girls in a night club recently............

[Muskie]

Hmm...  I need more sleep, but I figured out a way to solve some of my ranking issues and plan on doing some re-basing or improving of the bases of a couple of my Plaguebearers.  I also think I'm going to make my banner even more over the top...

[Alfrik]

Hmm Beasts, I have the originals somewhere...

[Argonor]

You're right, it is largely for rule lawyers, obviously a two-handed weapon needs two hands........... 

I know a guy who stopped playing 40K because at a tournament an opponent claimed that his terminators had no terminator armour, as the army list entry did not expressively say so.....

GW KNOW that this is the way a lot of players use their rules - hence I see NO excuse not to do those clarifications/faq/errata BEFORE printing and publishing a new edition of their rules, already making the rulebook somewhat less valuanble in itself. Just another statement to show how little they care about their lifeblood: YOU, the players of their games.....