RAW vs RAI

[N0rdicNinja]

I find RAI to be a far more entertaining way to play, not necessarily "better, and no we don't try to make certain units "better", we just don't allow things like Dreads moon walking into close combat in order to prevent someone from shooting it's ***. RAW can be taken advantage of just as easily as RAI can, we (my friends and I) just like to discuss what would make sense in a real life situation as it pulls us into the game. I have a very fluffy play group. I'm sure if we were tournie players we would like RAW more, but we prefer a route that helps "suck us into the game" so to speak.

[Melissia]

Again, that might be what you do, but the people in this thread are speaking of abusing RAW. RAI is even worse when it comes to abuse as it's far, far easier to abuse.

What did GW intend? Obviously, whatever makes your army more powerful.

[N0rdicNinja]

Again, that might be what you do, but the people in this thread are speaking of abusing RAW. RAI is even worse when it comes to abuse as it's far, far easier to abuse.

What did GW intend? Obviously, whatever makes your army more powerful.

You're %100 correct, it all depends on the people you play with, a lot of people do try to give themselves the advantage. Your point is even further substantiated by the fact that most of the time these situations are discovered during an actual game where the decision is going to obviously give one person the advantage in that specific situation.

But these decisions rarely give a specific army the advantage all the time, it's usually just in that specific situation, and if everyone is aware of how we're going to play those situations from here on out no one army is gaining an advantage because of it.

If you don't play with people you trust then sure, this can go south quickly, but if you like to throw down with honest folk it works just fine.

[Commissar Lewis]

Haha, nearly coated my monitor with Coke after reading the moonwalking Dreadnaught bit! That gave me a hilarious image in my mind!

[warpcrafter]

40K is too haphazardly written for a strictly RAW approach to work. You need some common sense to work through the contradictions and omissions that are everywhere.

[Melissia]

The vast majority of RAW is fairly clear cut. RAI is NEVER clear cut unless you assume RAW is RAI. :P