Our wonderful and friendly discord has a channel designed to take your questions! Sometimes GW’s FAQs are slow to be updated, and rules are either unclear or simply not phrased well for non-English speakers. To that end, we have an excellent team of lawyers on hand to interpret the rules and answer questions you might have.

Below are the questions that were asked over the last 7 days from our discord server and the answers provided by our legal department*:

Q: Can Krethusa revive Morathi?
A: Yes, but not the Shadow Queen. Morathi would essentially take damage like a normal unit, but it’s a way of getting a good caster back in the late game.

Q: Can you get multiple instances of +1 to Hit?
A: You can, but you cannot benefit from more than one. You could have 5 different sources of +1 to Hit, but you’re still only going to benefit from a single instance. Multiple sources of +1 are only good for countering you opponent’s -1 to Hit, should that exist. (e.g. if you had +2 to Hit and your opponent gave you -1, you would have +1 to hit. If you had +2 to hit but no penalties, you would have +1 to Hit.)

Q: If a unit has Strike-First, what happens if an opponent’s ability gives them Strike-Last?
A: The two abilities will cancel out. This is shown in the Core Rules, section 19.0.

Q: If a Beast of Nurgle is killed and then replaced, can Horticulous replace that Beast when it dies?
A: No. Replacement units cannot be replaced.

Q: How does the weapon ability [SHOOT IN COMBAT] work?
A: The unit can still use that ranged weapon to make attacks in the shooting phase if it is in combat with a unit (which normally would not be allowed). The attacking unit can only target the unit it is in combat with.

*Please note that the “legal department” is a joke. None of these people are lawyers, cannot provide real legal advice, and are not representing themselves as lawyers. This shouldn’t have to be said, but US law is dumb so there’s the disclaimer. Don’t come after us.

Our wonderful and friendly discord has a channel designed to take your questions! Sometimes GW’s FAQs are slow to be updated, and rules are either unclear or simply not phrased well for non-English speakers. To that end, we have an excellent team of lawyers on hand to interpret the rules and answer questions you might have.

Below are the questions that were asked over the last 7 days from our discord server and the answers provided by our legal department*:

Q: Can Ponitfex Zenestra use her Word of the God-King ability to banish a manifestations the turn it is summoned?
A: Yes.

Q: Is Gift of Apoplexy triggered when a unit uses passive abilities?

A: This is another case of GW’s language being a bit inconsistent. In order to determine what would trigger Gift of Apoplexy’s mortal damage you need to understand two things:
Is an ability being used?
Who is using the ability?

To answer the first question, we need to understand what is meant when the prayer says an ability is used. For the purposes of this prayer, an ability is used when it goes through the Declare-Reaction-Effect steps. Passive abilities don’t do that, so will not trigger Gift of Apoplexy.

The second question is answered by reviewing the ability that is being used. Let’s take the “There is No Escape” ability provided by the Death Stalkers Nighthaunt battle formation. The ability allows the player to choose a friendly Nighthaunt unit to be the target. In cases such as this, the player is using the ability targeting a model, not a model using the ability targeting itself. In this case, Gift of Apoplexy would not be triggered.

For more detail on using abilities, read section 5.2 of the Age of Sigmar Core Rules.

Q: If a Varghulf Courtier kills an entire unit, can it use Victory Feast at the end of the turn?

A: It can use the ability, but it won’t benefit from all of the effects. The healing will always trigger, since it has no conditions other than killing an enemy model. The second half can only trigger if the Varghulf is still in combat, however. The Retreat ability requires that the unit using the ability is in combat. If the Varghulf did a good enough job of killing enemy models then it will have nothing to retreat from and will not be able to move.

*Please note that the “legal department” is a joke. None of these people are lawyers, cannot provide real legal advice, and are not representing themselves as lawyers. This shouldn’t have to be said, but US law is dumb so there’s the disclaimer. Don’t come after us.

Our wonderful and friendly discord has a channel designed to take your questions! Sometimes GW’s FAQs are slow to be updated, and rules are either unclear or simply not phrased well for non-English speakers. To that end, we have an excellent team of lawyers on hand to interpret the rules and answer questions you might have.

Below are the questions that were asked over the last 7 days from our discord server and the answers provided by our legal department*:

Q: Is “at the start of the battle” explicitly defined?
A: There is no hard rule anywhere in the core rules or season rules that states when the “start of the battle” is. The generally accepted practice is that the start of the battle happens after deployment, but before the first start of turn phase.

This is why, as an example, a unit that moves outside of its deployment zone in the deployment phase doesn’t count as a Scout unit for the purposes of Scouting Force. Also, if you null deploy, your opponent automatically scores all of the Intercept and Recover targets, although this is such a niche case that it should be clarified with your TO.

GW very proudly talked about how they had split all of the abilities in the game into actions so they could have a standard language. This is a case where they abandoned that standard language in favor of allowing their players to argue about something. See also some vagaries on when a unit is using an ability vs. when the player is using an ability, but that is generally clearer cut.

Q: Can I declare the retreat ability and then not move?
A: The generally accepted RAW would be that no, you do not need to move after declaring the Retreat action. This will likely be clarified in an FAQ or Errata by GW, because it makes a huge difference in the Attuned to Ghyran strike tactic. Declaring a retreat with two units while not moving them out of combat would allow you to score that tactic while still allowing the units that Retreated to fight and/or contest any objectives they might have been sitting on.

The wording of Retreat states that a unit can move after it suffers the mortal damage. If you had to move it would say that the unit must move. This will likely cause some arguments with your opponents, since the last sentence implies that the unit cannot end that move out of combat, but if you aren’t required to move then that last bit can be ignored.

Again, this is a case where you should ask your TO before doing it. Some TOs will use RAW, and some will use RAI, where the intent would seem to be that the retreating unit must end the action not in combat. You don’t want to grind your game to a halt because of some odd wording of a rule.

And that’s all we had for the week! We hope you found this helpful. If you have questions of your own, feel free to join our discord and ask away!

*Please note that the “legal department” is a joke. None of these people are lawyers, cannot provide real legal advice, and are not representing themselves as lawyers. This shouldn’t have to be said, but US law is dumb so there’s the disclaimer. Don’t come after us.

Our wonderful and friendly discord has a channel designed to take your questions! Sometimes GW’s FAQs are slow to be updated, and rules are either unclear or simply not phrased well for non-English speakers. To that end, we have an excellent team of lawyers on hand to interpret the rules and answer questions you might have.

Below are the questions that were asked over the last 7 days from our discord server and the answers provided by our legal department*:

Q: Can you use Whirling Destruction after having charged with the unit of Moonclan Stabbas?
A: You can charge with the Stabbas then use this charge ability. Abilties in any phase are declared in any order you want, and are not all declared simultaneously.

Q: How do chanting rolls work?
A: Roll a die, and on a 2+ you can either bank the points or chant the chosen prayer. If you roll an unmodified 1 you lose D3 chanting points and cannot chant the chosen prayer.

Q: If I have a reinforced unit of clan rats, how many do I bring back each round for Seething Swarm?
A: Reinforcing a unit does not allow the unit to use the same ability twice in a phase. You would only be able to use Seething Swarm once per turn, so you would only be able to return D3 slain models.

Q: If my troll is positioned on a piece of terrain that has a section jutting out, is it within 3” based on the lowest point of the terrain, or based on the widest portion of the terrain?
A: I’ll be honest, this one got a touch complicated.

You need to measure a straight line from the farthest point of the model’s base to the nearest point on the terrain piece:

Note that the reason for this is that not everything is measured with horizontal lines. The only measurements that are “horizontal only” are combat range and contesting objectives/terrain. All other measurements have to account for the difference in height.

Q: Can SoG Iridan be used in the Ruination Brotherhood Army of Renown?
A: Yes. From the Battlescroll Summary:

So SoG Iridan could be included in the Army of Renown, but any Regiments of Renown use the specific warscroll included in the Regiment’s rules and cannot be replaced with a SoG warscroll.

*Please note that the “legal department” is a joke. None of these people are lawyers, cannot provide real legal advice, and are not representing themselves as lawyers. This shouldn’t have to be said, but US law is dumb so there’s the disclaimer. Don’t come after us.