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Blish: Nice report, keep the battle reports coming please.
Thanks! I intend to do so regularly every now and again and hopefully will most friendly games if we have time and my opponents don't mind. Playtests are the lifeblood of good list development and we should all be encouraged to do so more. Plus they’re cool to read and inspire people
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Morgan Vening: I thought non-transport fliers couldn't be BTS?
I knew Spacecraft couldn’t be, I wasn’t really sure but thought Flyers may be able to. Are they definitely excluded from counting as BTS then? The quoted text there doesn’t mention flyers specifically, does something that may have spent all turn on the board then gone at the end count as off-table? I have a feeling I once read a thread on the boards asking about this but I can’t recall what the conclusion was.
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Apocolocyntosis: Thats a lot of city terrain you've got there
Indeed
I have added more buildings and roads from Otterman since too and  I plan to get some of Semajnollissor’s buildings too. Be nice to able to play an 8’ by 4’ city fight if I choose. I do need to sort out hills, more woods, rivers, etc too, did have a lot of these back in the day but had do get rid of a lot after a tragic change of family circumstances and a consequent clear out and move.
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Honda: Wow, with all those Lightnings and Marauder Destroyers, you should try Elysians some time.
Yeah sure. Won’t be any time soon though as there are lots of other lists I want to play and get into properly first but I’ll give them a go eventually (perhaps the upcoming FW book will inspire me to). I actually have around a dozen or so imperial aircraft.
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Jeridan: The Tyranid list does indeed pack a fair few War Engines and AV, these are also usually the lynchpins of the army too- so more Titan Killer, AT, MW helps.
Yeah true true, I’d just chosen a generic a little bit of everything to try it out Tau list without knowing what I’d be facing (Ryan had mentioned possibly bringing Orks and they were my opponents in our second game).
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Kealios: I have a question about troops going to the tops of roofs like that.  How do you treat that?  Just "move" up the distance to get there?
The troops on the roof are actually spread out in the building itself, shooting through windows and such like, but since you can’t place models inside a whole building most players place them on top as an abstraction.
The only time this isn’t going to work is if the building model has sloped or detailed rooves, such as the tall resin Censorium buildings with towers on top. With these you could either make it clear to your opponents they are moving into it and take the models off board till they leave. Or the other option is to stick the models next to building, touching it, and tell you opponent they are in there – however you prefer to represent it really.
The epic building rules are a little basic and simple but you can always come up with your own conventions for your games so long as your opponent is happy with then – how to treat scenery is something that is meant to be discussed in the 5 minute warm up – and I intend to a little in city fight friendly games. If you wanted your troops to move troops to high storeys or the roof I’m sure that’s fine, you’d just measure up as high as they want them to go, using movement to go up instead of across, and remembering or making a note of high up the building they are. Most of the time just being in the building is all you want for saves and that rather than being bothered about height to see over things, though this making me wonder about deploying shooty units on a rooftop to make enemy close-combat troops have to climb all the way up and maybe not be able to make it.
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Frogbear: If I am not mistaken, MoK took a Synapse Node. I would very much be interested in MoK's thoughts on how this unit went (it's purpose) in relation to what appeared to be a fast moving force.
Correct, it has a pair of Dactylis as part of it’s unit too and he always uses one of these as a Blitz guard. He’s talked enthusiastically about wanting to play a bigger game sometime so he can try out a list with one of these Synapse Node plus Dactylis units on each of his three objectives.
