Unit-specific Questions and Answers

Skirmishers are not separate units so add nothing to break point. Skirmishers are stands that increase the size of an existing unit.

A Chaos Spawn is a separate unit so does add to the break point. A Spawn is a unit that may be brigaded with other units.

→ Armies book: Empire – Special rule for Skirmishers (and others), Chaos – Special rule for Spawn (and others).

→ Armies book: Chaos Dwarfs – Special rule for Lammasu.

Yes.

→ Armies book: Daemons – Army rules.

The Ogre special rule forcing them to charge humans affects the following:

Note that the actual models used to represent the unit type are irrelevant, it is the unit type that counts, so for example Samurai Ratmen miniatures are still human Samurai.

→ Armies book: Albion – Special rules for Ogres, Chaos – Special rules for Ogres, Dogs of War – Special rules for Ogres, Ogre Kingdoms – Special rules for Bull Ogres, Orcs – Special rules for Ogres.

At the beginning of the move, if you have your War Wagon in a column formation and you desire to form a laager move any one stand up to 5 cm distance. Then pivot the stand on the spot into desired position and then place the remaining stand into the formation alongside it. There is no distance limit for the second stand. If a War Wagon starts its move in laager formation it can either move up to 5 cm and remain in laager by simply measuring the distance without changing formation, or the Wagon can move up to 20 cm ending its move in column formation. In that case simply measure the part of the stand that moves the most to find out the maximum distance.

→ Armies book: Kislev – Special rules for War Wagon.

The unit special rules for fanatic style units will state that “They can’t be driven back by shooting and do not roll for drive backs.” As you don’t roll for drive backs you cannot confuse them on a drive back roll of 6. Other sources of confusion affect them as normal.

→ Armies book: Empire – Special rule for Flagellants, several others.

The unit recovers one outstanding hit that round, after casualties are removed. Remember hits are recorded against units as a whole, rather than individual stands. For example, a unit of Trolls in combat suffers 5 unsaved hits. This is sufficient to remove one stand of Trolls, and 2 hits are carried over on the unit. At the end of the combat round, 1 outstanding hit is regenerated and removed from the unit. This leaves just 1 hit carried over into the next round.

→ Armies book: Chaos – Special rule for Trolls, Goblins – Special rule for Trolls, Orcs – Special rule for Trolls.

Yes, provided the supporting Infantry stands can fit all of the side edge of their base adjacent to the Pikemen stands side.

→ Armies book: Dogs of War – Special rule for Pikemen.

No.

→ Armies book: Skaven – Special rule for Doom Wheel.

Can a Cavalry unit with base 6+ save and the Banner of Shielding (thereby conferring 5+ save) use the optional “evade in any direction” rule? Or does having the banner mean they lose that option?

Banners that provide bonuses to the unit’s statistic profile do not affect other rules. So a cavalry unit with a base 6+ save and the Banner of Shielding can still evade in any direction.

Likewise, a Cavalry unit with no save does not gain the optional evade in any direction rule by taking the Banner of Shielding.

→ Rulebook: Movement – The evade, Magic – The Banner of Shielding.

Refer to the spell description for the spell. It will state whether the caster requires line of sight or not.

Yes.

→ Armies book: Empire – Ball of Flame.

No. The spell only affects a single D6 rolled by the Norse player.

→ Armies book: Norse – Eye of the Raven.

Yes. You are not permitted to place the Fenbeast side-on to contact more stands.

→ Armies book: Albion – Summon Fenbeast.

Roll one D6 and multiply the roll by 5 cm, giving a result of either 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 cm. This move is made directly towards the target’s own board edge. Note that rolling a 6 for the Gerroff!!! distance does not cause confusion, but if the target is forced to contact other units or terrain, then it may be confused as per the standard confusion rules.

→ Armies book: Goblins – Gerroff!!!, Orcs – Gerroff!!!.

Yes.

→ Armies book: Lizardmen – Special rules for Slann Mage.
→ Rulebook: Magic – Wand of Power.

Yes.

→ Armies book: Chaos Dwarfs – Special rules for Lammasu, Nippon – Special rules for Shugenja.
→ Rulebook: Magic – Scroll of Dispelling.

It has no effect, as a Dark Elf character has to roll a double 6 to be affected by the rule, and Spite of Low’Key only triggers when the character rolls a double other than a 6.

→ Armies book: Norse – Spite of Low’Key, Dark Elves – Special rules for Generals.

It has the same range shooting attack as the unit it has joined. If the unit has no shooting attack, use 30 cm.

→ Armies book: Araby – Special rules for Djinn.

No. The Tzarina’s sled prevents her from also riding a Bear.

→ Armies book: Kislev – Special rules for Tzarina.

Yes. Take this starting combat, where you want to raise a unit of Skeletons. The arrows indicate in which direction the red and orange units are fighting and supporting.

You are not allowed to raise the unit as shown in Figure 1, as the red and orange units are now fighting two separate combats.

Instead, you can Raise Dead as per Figure 2 or Figure 3.

In Figure 2, the rightmost orange unit still supports the red unit, keeping the combat as a single combat.

In Figure 3, the flanking stand of Raised Dead touches both red and orange units, linking them into one combat.

By placing the Raised Dead in this manner you are avoiding splitting the combat while still blocking the retreat of the enemy units. Since each unit must retreat away from the most enemy stands in contact, this will mean the red and orange units will retreat in different directions. The retreating units will block each other’s escapes, as the rear unit will retreat “down” and the front unit will retreat “up”. But both units will find their retreat blocked by a friendly unit that is in combat and the unit that moves first will be destroyed as there is no room to retreat!

With the first unit destroyed, the second unit will then have a 2cm space to retreat into… but if they need to move further, they will likely contact enemy units and also be destroyed.

→ Armies book: Tomb Kings – Raise Dead, Vampire Counts – Raise Dead.