Rant of the Day

Let me start by saying Warhammer is my hobby. I love it. I will continue painting, building armies and playing for many years to come.

But Games Workshop makes me so mad I can't see straight some time.

This latest rendition of the rules has some very good points to it. I love some of the new stuff. The pursuit into fresh enemy and get to fight another round, the 5 wide for a rank, the maximize both sides on charging, nastier miscast chart, better leveling of spell lores, heck I even like insane courage.

What is killing me is a few of these insane little tidbits that seem to fall through the cracks. And instead of standing up with a quick racial FAQ, all we get is: "Read AS Written" or RAW as it has been come to call.
Well it is rubbing me RAW in so many places.

Shall we start with the characters still benefiting a unit after refusing a challenge. Eternal guard stay stubborn if the only noble refuses a challenge?? A unit is still immune to fear if the hero on daemonic steed refuses a challenge?? A Daemonic Legion can still re-roll its instability if the Icon Bearer refuses a challenge??

The only things you lose if you refuse a challenge is:
1. Cannot use your Leadership
2. No magic or Magic items can be used.
3. Cannot count or use your BSB if he refuses a challenge.

Any other thing is fair game.

Here is another pet peeve of mine. Herds only ranking up 4 wide. How rediculous is this? They realized in playtesting that herds needed to be ranked up and get rank bonuses to make them worth while. So what do they do. When the BoC book comes out they have a special rule to allow them to alway rank up at least 4 wide to get ranks.

So 7th ed comes out and ups it to 5 wide to get a rank. All they have to do is say, oh yea, beasts can now rank up 5 wide as a minumum. But instead, NOOOOO, they come back with, yea you know it, "RAW."

And finally, this latest rule of wounds done to yourself help you. So here is my absurd situation of the day.

6 Plague Censor Bearers (PCBs) charge a beast herd. The herd gets to match width and gets 6 models in base to base. They have 18 guys, so they get 2 ranks, have US and a banner. So +4 combat res to the PCB's +0.
In combat the PCB's roll horrible for fog of death and kill 0 (ZERO) Gors but roll 5 - 6's and kill off all but 1 PCB. Ugghhh, how horrible.
In combat the only ones who can fight are the 1 PCB and the 2 Gors facing him. Possibly an ungor or 2 with spears in the 2nd rank.
As it turns out the dice go cold and everyone whiffs.

Now its time to add up combat res. You have +4. I have +5. I WIN!!! You need a (7-1=6) 6 and roll a 7 for your break test. You flee and my lone PCB runs them down, capturing the standard and wiping out the 150 point unit. WhoooHoooo!!!

This is as about as rediculous as it can possibly get. I can just see the Gors now. "Aggghhh!!!, they are all killing themselves, run for your lives..."

Give me a break.

Gav or Allesio or GW studio, get off your butts and fix these atrosities to our rules. I know your working on an FAQ, but you've got to learn to post things a bit faster. RAW sucks and you know it.

Ok, I feel better now.