Signal: The Warhound thing has always been an FAQ rather than in their rules.

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A portrait only layout would more or less require two page spreads instead of the one page landscapes, possibly bringing the document to 250-275 pages. It's simply not possible to format the statlines (through organization or font size) in a legible manner. It also follows suite with GW publications and Raiders, but not Siege. Seige appears to have it's reference sheets in 6pt font or less, which is too small for easy reading.

Zombo - that's incorrect. See p46 of the current online rulebook (section 5), or p103 of the original GW hardcopy. With an apparently soon to be updated FAQ, though, it's a moot point.

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Echoing the others, well done for getting it into print; a real Xmas present.

If standardised short forms were used for Armour, (Base Contact), Small Arms and Assault Weapons, you can squeeze a ref sheet onto a portrait page in a decent font size, for example:



However, it's a lot of work and not worth it as it'll delay the final version by quite a while. A job for next year I think.

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Hey Guys,

Looking at the Space Wolves, the 0-1 Wolf Lord, does not appear as an upgrade for the Great Company.

Alpha Legion page 115, no number of bikes in the bike company.

Cheers
Aaron

Great work; thanks, Dobbsy!

Shouldn't the document have a copyright statement somewhere? Preferably a Creative Commons style license so we can all copy & distribute it...

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These are not errors, as Firestorms and Night Spinners have been shown to have Falcon-level transport ability in subsequent GW texts; no army currently makes use of said transport ability yet.

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Per IP guidelines from GW, anything fan made needs to be public domain. We can't copyright something that is derivative IP anyway.

It should contain the standard disclaimer showing no copyright infringement intended that you can find in Raiders and Siege, however. You can tack that on at the beginning or end. E&C and I put it in both.

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Will review when i get the time, however just wanted to say thanks to Dobbsy. Great work.

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The 2010 draft had everything in portrait. They work very well on my Kindle, at least. Next year, maybe.

But more importantly: Great job, dobbsy!

hurrah for dobbsy

just looked though my bloody hand list, following errors have been noticed:


in the lists:

the upgrade costs for the arch heretic (warlord/master thaumaturge, and STeG4s) and mechanised warband (STeG4s) formations are absent (should be 50pts, 75pts, and 25pts respectively)
you've also added 25 points to both the harbinger bomber and hell-talons, which should be 400 and 225 respectively

in the stats:
the master thaumaturge's weapon should be called Greater Arcane Powers (to differentiate it from the regular kind, who only get 1 extra attack)
i'd also prefer if the warlords statline was moved upwards to be under the master thaumaturge (keeps the three supcom options next to each other)
n20s can ditch the ability to transport the warlord (since there isnt that option available to them) or increase it to also include magisters, death brigades, and master thaumaturges)
n20s should also have their weapon split into two profiles (its an ap4+IC shot at 15cms, and a small arms IC shot)

also, can we pleeease change the name "Albork Orkstein" back to Orkamedies. Albork Orkstein is a terrible name (even aside from the double orking)

and again, thanks for all the hard work dobbsy

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