8th Ed. Errata: Good or Bad

[Wathapend2urfase]

Has anyone seen anything they really like or dislike about the new FAQs and Erratas? Personally I dislike how the Wood Elf characters riding Elven Steeds no longer count as Fast Cavalry and in turn any unit they join no longer count as Fast Cav. Granted thought the whole army can move through any tpe of wood without much penalty though. Goods and Bads. Unfortunately mostly bad...

[Herald of Nurgle]

Good in that they've actually released them early instead of 3 months after the edition came out.

Bad in that sooo many of the FAQs say 'depends on the player taking the turn' (like the Dwarves 'is this combination of runes str 9 or 10' ruling and sooo many others)

[addamsfamily36]

Has anyone seen anything they really like or dislike about the new FAQs and Erratas? Personally I dislike how the Wood Elf characters riding Elven Steeds no longer count as Fast Cavalry and in turn any unit they join no longer count as Fast Cav. Granted thought the whole army can move through any tpe of wood without much penalty though. Goods and Bads. Unfortunately mostly bad...

I would check the fast-cavalry rules in the main rulebook. Im not sure about fast cavalry, but for skirmishers any character joining them gains their "skirmish" special rule, not sure on exact wording of the book. So there might be a similar rule for characters joining fast units. just a thought.

Also yeh being able to move through woods without much penalty equals WIN!

[Wathapend2urfase]

Word for Word

"If a Fast Cavalry unit is joined by character without the Fast Cavalry rule, the unit loses the rule until the character leaves."

In the Errata it states

"Page 80 – Reference, Steeds, Elven Steeds’ Special Rules. Ignore “Fast Cavalry”."

they purposely took it away from the steeds. It makes no sense. I peronally don't care because my gaming group has decided that this rule makes absolutely no sense. But for tournament purposes this makes Wood Elves the worst army.

[addamsfamily36]

"Page 80 – Reference, Steeds, Elven Steeds’ Special Rules. Ignore “Fast Cavalry”."

hmm is page 80 a summary of all the units in the army?

Because if it is, then it only applies to steeds etc brought as mounts.

Glade riders for instance may still have fast cavalry under their rules (im not sure as i don;t own a wood elf army book)

but yes it would seem characters can't gain fast cavalry, unless via an item or other means.

[UltramarineFan]

Skaven. The errata and faq just goes on and on and on...

[quinn]

The fact that they didn't classify the Magic Spells for the lores that aren't listed in the BRB (like The WoC lores) is absolutely baffling to me. Although you can probably come to your own conclusions on whether a spell is a 'Hex', 'Augment' etc., I can see some arguments popping up that could have been easily fixed by listing them in the FAQs. This is a monumental fail for me.

[Bard of Twilight]

As far as my Vampires and High Elves are concerned ,I am pretty satisfied. No big changes ,however...

[robertsjf]

As far as my Vampires

I would argue that our skellies are overpriced....

[carrotcolossus]

I think it is weird that some FAQs make major changes (DE seems to have gotten a bunch of fixes) but something like VCs didn't have much change at all. I would hate to be a WoC player, who lost the ability to take Chaos Dragons. I think the FAQs show the variability of game design by GW.