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Warhammer Fantasy Battle: Vampire Counts |
Questions and Answers |
| 1. Can a Banshee screem into close combat
she isn't participating in? She can target any one unit in range; no exceptions are listed 2. Do Ethereal units suffer from attacking over a defended obstacle? They only ignore movement penalties, that's all. This includes marching in difficult terrain. 3. If you have more than one Vampire that can summon Wolfs/Ghouls can they be put into one unit? No. Each summoned unit is a separate unit. 4. How does the spell Hand of Dust work? The text mentions a hit roll first, but speaks about a wound later, so is a wound roll needed or just a roll to hit? Only a roll to hit is needed. 5. Necrarch and Lahmian Vampires can't wear mundane armour. They shouldn't be allowed to wear magical ones eather. But some it specifically states that Necrarch and Lahmian Vampires can't wear them. What about the other magical armours? Oops, A Lahmian or Necrarch can't choose any armour mundane or magical. 6. Are undead imune to poison, since it does not say this anywhere? No. Only unliving targets are immune to poison (Chronicles 2003 and Annual 2002 Q&A) and since the VC book clearly states that vampire counts are armies of the living dead obviously it would be wrong to call them unliving. The references to unliving targets in the poison description means chariots, war engines, buildings and such like. The only model in the army immune to poison is the Black Coach, as it is a chariot. 7. Can Von Carstein with wolf form join a unit of Dire wolfs? This would seem to really fit in with the background and the army. However, the rules for fast cavalry prevent such units from being joined by a character on foot. Does Wolf Form allow a Vampire to join a unit of Dire Wolfs? Yes. Check the Errata for fast cavalry. 8. Do wristbands of Black Gold work for the wearer and his mount, like the Chaos magic item the Golden eye of Tzeentch, since both items cost the same ammount of points, I imagine they should but I can't see this anywhere in the Vampire Count's book No, Items like this only work for the mount as well if specifically stated. 9. If a model suffers more wounds than it has on it's profile, how many rolls to regenerate does it have to make? A regenerating model only ever rolls as many dice as it has wounds left on its profile. So if a cannonball hits a previously unhurt Strigoi Count with Curse of the Revenent and causes 4 wounds after the Ward Save is failed then the Strigoi gets 3 rolls, one for each wound actually lost. (UK WD 281, page 17) 10. Does a unit take its break test with a -1 Ld modifier when in contact with one or more Lahmian Vampires? There hasn't been a clarification on this. The modifier only affects models and not the whole unit so if the unit all has the same Ld then no modifier is applied. If a Character is leading the unit and he is in base contact with the Vampire, then if the unit wishes to use his Ld then it will be subject to the modifier. 11. Can Blood Dragon Lords and Counts wear Magic Armour? The ruling on page 153 of the Rulebook is that a suit of normal armour cannot be worn in combination with Magic Armour. As the Blood Dragon automatically comes with Full Plate Armour, scrictly speaking, they cannot choose any Magic Armour. Despite this, there is a common acceptance amongst many players that there is nothing wrong with allowing BD Lord Choices to wear Magic Armour. This is an unsettled question. 12. Lahmians and Necrarchs cannot choose any mundane weapons yet the Asp Bow is Lahmian only. Can these Bloodlines choose a Magic Weapon? Yes they can. They come automatically equipped with a hand weapon (which isn't a choice) and so are subject to the same rescrictions as anyone else. 13. Can the Black Periapt be used to steal dice from your opponents magic pool? Any die that is not used can be stored with the Periapt, that's yours or your opponent's. (UK White Dwarf 282) 14. In the Staff of Damnation description it state that all undead units within 12 inches are affected by Hellish Vigour. If the enemy is Undead, does it affect them? No. The staff only affects your own units. 15. When summoning a new unit of undead do you have to nominate the location where you will be placing them before rolling to cast/opponent tries to dispell? No. It specifically states in the spell "once the spell is cast, choose any point within 18" and place one model on it". 16, Do "wounds caused by the black coach" include wounds caused by the wraith and nightmares, or is it only impact hits that restore wounds? Any wounds caused by the Black Coach model (including wraith and nightmares) count towards this total. 17. Can the Gem of Blood save against a Killing Blow? If so, is the Killing
Blow rebounded back onto the attacker? |
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