Battle College warning

[Dyrnwyn]

As noted, Battle College is a wiki. I've made some contributions myself, improving some of the pages, but I don't play every faction or ever unit in my factions. The wiki needs people who do use those units need to join up and write what is good about them for any change to come about. If you've had different experiences or unique combos to mention, go put them up.

As others have noted, it's not the place to go to find out the wording of rules, but it gives a general idea of capabilities, and lists what rules the models do have.

[Greggle]

Huh, I knew it was a wiki, but it still doesn't allow me to make changes. Many of the entries are very opinionated, so I thought that it was a small team of writers. Well, hopefully it gets better with age.

[Dyrnwyn]

It's a Wikispaces wiki, so you need to have a wikispaces account and join the wiki so it can track your changes. Sign up if you'd like to alter some articles.

[ersatzgnomes]

Hey everyone, I've been looking around, and I see a lot of you are recommending Battle College but I want to remind you that they are often wrong about the Trollbloods and they haven't responded to my change requests from months ago. Please take their advice with a grain of salt.

it's on the internet, and it can be edited by about anyone, it can't possibly be wrong

[ElectricPaladin]

I gotta say, I think we've been posting in a troll thread. Mysterious OP posts mysteriously... never returns to back up his claims... I dunno. I kind of want us to let this die.

[Pudgeinabowl]

Battle college is a very opinionated wiki, it's good for getting a general idea of what a model/unit does, but not much more than that. Most forums aren't much better.

Success with a model/unit depends largely on your meta and your own abilities.

Also noone should believe anything they read on the internet over what first hand experience tells them (wargaming wise).

[RoninXiC]

the college had been great for me during the first weeks of the hobby. It doesn't really matter if some of the advice are wrong or semi-wrong. You'll learn all about the true power and abilities of things only by playing the game over and over again.

[Korwen]

I find that Battle College is useful, but they could be a bit more, critical, in their review of models.

Lets just say they see the glass half-full on a lot of models I disagree with. If I were a new player I wouldn't buy based on their recommendations, instead I'd just do what most people suggest and that's play a ton of battlebox games.

[cody]

It's not a troll thread.

WM is a game where the difference between basic things like "within" vs "completely within", or "model" vs "model/unit" is really important, and battlecollege gets those kinds of basics wrong really often. The eVlad page for instance confuses damage versus damage from an enemy attack.

I've heard of people's corrections getting reverted, and I've really got no interest in "contributing" to that kind of a situation.

You're much better off reading the actual rules, carefully, and drawing your own conclusions. Use the official rules forum if something is unclear.