Dominator title - use shields from multiple hull zones?

[Dominator title - use shields from multiple hull zones?]

 

The question is, does "any hull zone" mean you can take shields from "any hull zone" to enhance your attacks, or simply that "any hull zone" is capable of borrowing its own shields to enhance your own attacks?

I think it is the former, but I can see an argument being made for the latter.

 

Pretty sure the former is correct.

 

Otherwise they'd have written it as "...you may spend up to two shields from the attacking hull zone..."

 

 

That seems substantially different, as it would constrain you to using one zone and having that zone be the attacking zone.

 

Right now I see two interpretations that seem equally valid based on implicit content:

 

1) ...you may spend up to 2 shields from any combination of your hull zones...

 

and

 

2) ...you may spend up to 2 shields from any one of your hull zones...

[Dominator title - use shields from multiple hull zones?]

The Dominator title states "While attacking at close-medium range, you may spend up to 2 shields from any of your hull zones to add the same number of blue dice to your attack pool." Are you permitted to spend shields from multiple hull zones to add dice with this ability?

[Winter Tournament in Berkeley, CA: Sunday 2/15/2015]

Games of Berkeley will be hosting a 40k Conquest tournament on Sunday the 15th at noon, featuring prizes from the winter tournament kit. Their address is 2151 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704.

 

I'll be hosting this one, and I hope to see some of you there!

[Winter Tournament in Berkeley, CA January 24th]

Games of Berkeley will be hosting a 40k Conquest tournament on Saturday the 24th at 1:00 PM featuring prizes from the winter tournament kit. Their address is 2151 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704-- hope to see some of you there!

[Using Lanchester's Square Law to predict ships' jousting values and fair point values (work in progress)]

In practice the defending ship often also modifies its rolls, is engaged at range 3 first, etc.

Do one-shots happen? Certainly.

Are they a huge factor in balance? Not at this time.

[Using Lanchester's Square Law to predict ships' jousting values and fair point values (work in progress)]

The ease of one-shotting a ship seems less than relevant-- in practice TIEs get one-shot so infrequently under normal circumstances that this seems unlikely to be a serious concern.

[Using Lanchester's Square Law to predict ships' jousting values and fair point values (work in progress)]

Wave 4 will be an interesting test of these calculations relative to standard theory.

 

I think most standard theory indicates that the Bandit Squadron Z-95 is clearly inferior to the Academy Pilot, for instance-- equivalent firepower with an inferior dial and roughly comparable resilience, in a faction that has less support for the playstyle.

 

Similarly, people are predicting that the Defender will be very interesting at least, potentially a game-changer, and certainly worth testing, where this analysis indicates that it is totally uncompetitive.

 

I suspect the standard theory is better than the equations here-- but we'll see.

[Using Lanchester's Square Law to predict ships' jousting values and fair point values (work in progress)]

Interestingly, I've heard from pretty reliable sources that the Academy Pilot is actually overpriced-- that the FFG design formulas put it at 11 points, but the designers decided to bump it up 1 point to prevent 9 ship lists from being valid at 100 points.

[Melee Weapons & Armour]

The old Primitive weapon system essentially meant that any non-Mono weapon was useless against anyone in even basic armor. If you look at a Cadian Guardsman-- the textbook definition of what "guard flak" is-- do they look like they would be completely invulnerable to being attacked by a knife? Not even close. Removing that is IMO one of the best changes new Dark Heresy has to offer, and I would hate to see it go back in.