I've been catching up on my favorite podcasts this week, and it has been fun to hear all the NOVA stories.
Interestingly, everyone now seems to be madly awaiting the Games Workshop FAQ, and most somehow want to see two things "fixed" in the FAQ - some issue with knights, but more importantly the CP Farm (using Astra Militarum Relics to create a pathway to recover lots of CPs during the game, to boost your "real" units).
Nobody wants to say it so I will.
The FAQ just needs to state that for MATCHED PLAY, all relics that you take (if any at all) are only from your warlord's faction. Period.
The result - you can still get CP's from your Astra Militarum allies, but one of the HQ units of the Astra Militarum becomes your warlord. Not a Knight. Not a Slam-Captain. Maybe just your cheap company commander. No Angels Wing. No relic Knight whatever part.
To me that seems to be the way relics were written into the original codexes. To me that seems to go with the way that the stratagem was worded. The FAQ just has to state the obvious.
Now haters are gonna hate, but to me it is simple. FAQ worthy. A clarification.
The Podcasters all want to actually "change" the actual wording so that a variety of other changes occur. All sorts of other ideas like, you can only recover one CP per phase, or CPs can only be used by the faction that generated them.
I say, just fix it.
As an aside, some of my favorite Podcasters are in the Carolinas. Good luck to you all in the impending weather, keep your battlefoam close. You can use it as an emergency flotation device if needed. 6 Pack 720s can be lashed together for a personal raft.
All for now. As always, what do you think?
MING
That definitely seems like a viable option. There are some results that would disappoint me, like not being able to take Relics for both the Emperor's Children and Chaos Daemons parts of my Slaanesh force, but it's probably a worthwhile tradeoff.
ReplyDeleteThe other suggestion I saw that felt like it had merit was that you could only trigger one of those effects off of your own Stratagems if the Stratagem was the same Faction as the Relic/Warlord trait. Using a Guard CP Farm to power a Guard Army? Go for it. Using a Guard CP Farm entirely to get CP for Knight/Blood Angels/Custodes/whoever Stratagems? I'm sorry, your crops have failed ;)
Fix should have been limiting the renewal effects to warlord trait only. Then every army only has 1....
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