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Rules update 1.6

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Rules update 1.6

Warcrow Rules version 1.6 is finally here! Besides debuting a new mobile-friendly format for the document, today's update is massive, covering both rules and troop profiles. Let's take a look at ev-ery-thing that’s changing!

Rules update 1.6

In this version of the Warcrow rules, information scattered in different in the following documents has been gathered:

  • Rulebook
  • Rules updates
  • Tournament rules

 

Additionally to the unification of the rules, the update includes the following changes:

    • Thorough revision of wording and writing throughout the whole rulebook, in order to clarify its meaning and facilitate its comprehension and game application.
    • Restructuring of some rulebook sections:
      • Game summary
      • Basic concepts
        • Miniatures: Troops and Units
        • Distances and Measurements
        • Line of Sight (LoS)
          • Engaged units only have LoS towards the units engaged with them.
        • Dice and Symbols
        • Dice Rolls
          • Revision of the roll steps (both simple and face to face).
        • Types of Dice Rolls
          • Unification of concepts: WP roll and WP test. Henceforth, always WP roll.
      • Preparing the Game
      • Playing the Game
      • Activate a unit
        • Updated names of actions to preserve coherence with the new skill names.
        • Specified the application order for effects at the end of an activation.
        • Revised positioning maneuvers.
        • Revised conditions to perform opportunity attacks (you may perform them while engaged with other units).
        • Revised the steps of an attack, opportunity attack and ranged attack.
        • Revised the limitations in units engaged in combat.
        • Revised “Hold and shoot” requirements.
        • Revised the “Rest” action.
      • Skills
        • New section “Skills” detailing how they work.
        • Defined the concepts of Skills: combat skills (formerly just “skills”), command skills, passive skills, tinge skills and magical skills (formerly “spells”).
      • Magic
        • Revised the steps of casting a spell.
      • Stress and Morale
        • Revised wording in Flee.
      • States
        • Updated the slowed state and clarified its application during the move action. 
      • Damage
  • Characters
      • Revised the behaviour of Characters within a unit (Supports do count as a troop now).
      • Revised the token management when a Character joins or leaves a unit. 
    • Terminology and Keywords
      • Added Enhancement section.
      • Revised the wording in shove, attract, place and displace. Shove and attract distances cannot be reduced; they must always be applied entirely. 
      • Specified when applying Elite. Now it can affect the disarmed and vulnerable.
      • Limited to 1 the number of times you can reroll (repeat) a die. 
      • Keywords revised: Scout, Ambusher, Large, Spellcaster, Bloodlust, Preferred Terrain, Manned.
      • Added how it works to gain keywords. 
    • Terrain
      • New keyword: Unstable.
      • Removed the rules for traps. 
    • Adventures

 

  • Added example annex with the revised longer examples. 

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Troops update

Northern Tribes

Alborc

  • Cost updated to 40 points. 
  • Conquest value increased to 1.
  • The Warg and the Crow. Updated wording and effect.
  • Sword of the Sun. Updated wording.
  • Unit conquest bonus updated (+1).
  • version: 2.0

Wrathmane

  • Conquest value increased to 1.
  • Wrath roar. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Evoker

  • Updated WP.
  • Spirit of the thermapleurus. Updated effect.
  • Summon the rock. Updated wording and effect.
  • Delegate of the ancestors. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Wisemane

  • Modified DEF value. 
  • Removed switches in unit.
  • Removed unit conquest bonus.
  • The voice of the experience. Updated wording.
  • Charisma and wisdom. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Njord

  • Merciless. Updated wording.
  • Totem of the Cavern Lion. Now it is Dauntless. Updated wording and effect.
  • Hersir from Brynjalmar. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Hersir

  • Tattoo of Storkrige. Updated wording.
  • Not one step back. Updated wording.
  • To die killing.  Updated wording.
  • version: 1.1

Skin Changers

  • DEF rolls updated.
  • Conquest value increased to 1 in their complete profile.
  • Totem. Updated wording.
  • Predator's vigor. New skill.
  • version: 2.0

Tundra Marauders

  • Updated WP.
  • Updated ATK and DEF rolls.
  • Added ATK switches.
  • Conquest value reduced to 0 in their reduced profile.
  • Snow leopard tattoo. Updated wording and effect.
  • Caltrops. Updated effect.
  • version: 2.0

Lotta

  • Chasquear el látigo. Updated wording and effect.
  • "Move your asses!". Updated wording.
  • Cat o'nine tails. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Contender

  • Defiant leader. Updated wording and effect.
  • Orc commander. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Darkmaster

  • Sharp perception. Updated wording and effect.
  • Coated in shadows. Updated wording and effect.
  • One with darkness. New skill.
  • Accomplished infiltrator. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Prime Warrior

  • Removed unit conquest bonus.
  • Experience and rage. Updated wording and effect.
  • Fearsome combatant. Updated wording and effect.
  • Orc warrior's honor. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Battle-Scarred

  • Updated wording in DEF switches.
  • Relentless. Updated wording and effect.
  • Orc scars. Now it is Dauntless.
  • version: 2.0

Ice Archers

  • Updated their MOV.
  • Ranged attack updated to 12 strides.
  • Frozen rain. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Eskold

  • Scythe of the Executioner. Updated wording and effect.
  • Warg totem. Updated wording.
  • Varank leader. Now it is Dauntless. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Selika

  • Changed to Officer.
  • Cost updated to 25 points.
  • Updated her ranged attack switch.
  • Bow of Claws. Updated wording and effect.
  • Blue arrows rain. Updated wording and effect.
  • Removed Leader of the Ice Archers.
  • version: 2.0

Tattooist

  • Ranged attack updated to 12 strides.
  • Herbs and ointments. Updated wording and effect.
  • Hallucinogenic mushrooms. Updated wording and effect.
  • Breathe the Spirit of the Totem. Updated wording and effect.
  • Whale needle. New skill.
  • version: 2.0

Revenant

  • Orc scars. Now it is Dauntless.
  • version: 2.0

Warg Riders

  • Wargs. Updated wording.
  • version: 1.1

Mounted Wrathmane

  • Wrath roar. Updated wording. 
  • Leader of the pack. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Rock Troll

  • Updated the range of its switch.
  • Rubble. Updated wording and effect.
  • Slumber. Updated wording and effect.
  • Raise the rock. Updated wording.
  • Ancestral bond. Updated wording. 
  • version: 2.0

 

Hegemony of Embersig

Drago The Anvil

  • Updated his ranged attack to 7 strides. 
  • Cost updated to 35 points.
  • The Anvil. Updated wording and effect.
  • Inspiring leadership. Updated wording and effect.
  • Instructor ensign. Updated wording.
  • "Nobody falls under my command". Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 3.0

Hetman

  • Updated his ranged attack to 7 strides.
  • Discipline. Updated wording and effect.
  • Leadership on the battlefield. Updated wording and effect.
  • "Steady, soldiers". Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

War Surgeon

  • Cost updated to 15 points.
  • First aid. Updated wording and effect.
  • Science, not superstition. Updated wording and effect.
  • Medic!. Updated wording and effect.
  • Poison vials. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Frostfire Herald

  • Updated WP.
  • Fire blaze. Updated wording and effect.
  • Hand of wind. Updated wording and effect.
  • Twins Bond. Updated wording and effect.
  • Faculty of Magic Elixir. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Bucklermen

  • Updated their ATK and DEF rolls.
  • Updated their DEF switches.
  • version: 2.0

Lady Télia

  • Updated her range attack to 18 strides. 
  • Conquest value reduced to 0.
  • Headshot. Updated wording and effect.
  • Shooter's officer. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Gunnery Corporal

  • Added the Aim keyword.
  • Updated her range attack to 18 strides. 
  • Removed unit conquest bonus.
  • Coordinated fire. Updated wording and effect.
  • Shooter's officer. Updated wording.
  • Long-range accuracy. Updated wording and effect. Removed from joined profile.
  • version: 2.0

Pioneers

  • Updated their range attack to 12 strides. 
  • Updated their cost to 30 points.
  • Updated their DEF rolls.
  • Mortar. Updated wording and effect.
  • "Trench yourselves!". Updated wording and effect.
  • Shovelers. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 3.0

Bulwarks

  • Added DEF modifiers.
  • Taunt the enemy. Updated wording and effect.
  • Hold position. Updated effect.
  • version: 3.0

Aide

  • Aethereal sword. Updated wording and effect.
  • Mental communication. Updated wording and effect.
  • "I am but an image in your mind". Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 3.0

Marhael

  • Spectral sword of Marhael. Updated wording and effect.
  • Steal the essence. Updated wording and effect.
  • "I am but an image in your mind". Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 3.0

Corporal

  • Updated his ranged attack to 7 strides.
  • Exhort. Updated wording and effect.
  • "You are the Black Legion!". Updated wording and effect.
  • "Break, resist! Embersig!". Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Nadezhda Lazard

  • Cunning and charismatic. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 3.0

Aggressors

  • Mandobles. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Arquebusiers

  • Updated their range attack and DEF rolls. 
  • Point-blank. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Gale Falchion

  • Siblings. New skill.
  • Twins Bond. Updated wording and effect.
  • Bodyguard. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Ansera

  • Strange gadgets. Updated wording and effect.
  • Tune-up. Updated wording and effect.
  • Logistics and technical talent. Updated wording.
  • Repairing and maintenance. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Engineer

  • Explosives. Updated wording and effect.
  • Repairing and maintenance. Updated wording and effect.
  • Updated armament. Updated wording.
  • version: 3.0

Strategos

  • Offensive coordination. Updated wording and effect.
  • Strategy scholar. Updated wording.
  • Battlefield analysis. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Black Angels

  • Chosen of Togrul. Updated wording.
  • version: 1.1

Mounted Hetman

  • Updated her ranged attack to 7 strides. 
  • Cost updated to 35 points.
  • Discipline. Updated wording and effect.
  • Leadership on the battlefield. Updated wording and effect.
  • Black Legion Cavalry. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 3.0

War Rig

  • Flame Spitter. Updated effect.
  • Armoured. Now it is Dauntless.
  • "This is about to blow!". Now it is Dauntless.
  • version: 2.0

 

Scions of Yaldabaoth

Master Uruk

  • Updated WP.
  • Blood vial. Updated wording and effect.
  • Sculptor of Anointed. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Progenitor Sculptor

  • Updated WP.
  • Updated unit WP bonus.
  • Head of the family. Now it is Dauntless. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Breath

  • Actualizado el alcance de su ataque a distancia.
  • Red lantern. Updated wording and effect.
  • Black rain. Updated wording and effect.
  • Crimson tornado Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 3.0

Needle

  • Updated her switches’ range.
  • Removed her conquest bonus in unit.
  • Stitch up muscles. Updated wording and effect.
  • Assemble bodies. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Intact

  • Loyal until the end. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 3.0

Irkalla

  • "Roar, Irkalla!". Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

First Anointed

  • Bone and sinew. Updated wording and effect.
  • "Bring me their head". Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Anointed

  • Bone and sinew. Updated wording and effect.
  • Guardians of the Family. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Master Maiële

  • Disposable puppets. Now it is No LoS.
  • version: 2.0

Puppeteer

  • Disposable puppets. Now it is No LoS.
  • version: 2.0

Tutor

  • Untouchable. Now it is No LoS.
  • version: 2.0

Marked

  • Loyal until the end. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

 

Sÿenann

Lioslaith

  • Encircling defense. Updated wording and effect.
  • Scabbard of Nuada. Now it is Dauntless.
  • version: 2.0

Grand Captain

  • Maneuvers in the forest. Updated wording and effect.
  • Ambushing tactics. Updated wording and effect.
  • "We are one with the Great Forest". Now it is Dauntless.
  • version: 2.0

Druid

  • Defenders of the Great Forest. Updated wording and effect.
  • Exalting the troops. Updated range.
  • version: 2.0

Aiodos

  • Music and healing herbs. Updated range and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Ynyr

  • Death from the skies. Updated wording and effect.
  • To the sky. Updated wording and effect.
  • version: 2.0

Alula

  • Vanguard observant. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Neakail

  • Wind greaves. Updated wording.
  • version: 1.1

Grove Curtailers

  • Added ATK switches.
  • Slippery. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Sÿenann Captain

  • Characteristics removed.
  • Coordinate the advance. Updated wording and range.
  • Orders from the rearguard. Updated range.
  • version: 2.0

Warden Captain

  • Characteristics removed.
  • Energy spheres. Updated wording.
  • Strengthen the Shadows. Now it is LoS. Now it is Dauntless.
  • version: 2.0

Sÿena Wardens

  • Feigned retreat. Updated wording.
  • Guided by the ancestors. Now it is Dauntless.
  • Countermarch maneuver. Updated wording.
  • version: 2.0

Sprigs

  • Seeds of the Great Forest. Now it is Dauntless.
  • version: 2.0

Shadow of the Rowan

  • Hidden traps. Now it is LoS.
  • version: 3.0

Walker of the Leaf Storm

  • Exit the portal. Now it is Permanent.
  • version: 2.0

 

Feudom

Morgane

  • Gaze of Selas. Updated range.
  • Blessed brooch. Updated wording and range.
  • Scholarly devotion. Updated range.
  • Version: 2.0

Knight of the Sacred Relic

  • "Thy silver weep". Updated wording.
  • Version: 2.0

Amaury 

  • Expedita. Updated range.
  • “Bastard”. Updated wording.
  • Version: 2.0

Syzigian

  • Throwing knives. Updated effect.
  • "Before thy crimson gaze". Updated wording.
  • Version: 2.0

Mace Escorts

  • Loyalty and sacrifice. Updated range.
  • Escort. Updated range.
  • Version: 2.0

Guardians of the Mounds

  • Broken compass. Updated wording.
  • Version: 1.1

Geneviéve

  • “For Silem!”. Now it is No LoS.
  • Version: 2.0

Magister

  • Noble lineage. Now it is Dauntless.
  • Version: 2.0

Archers

  • Thumb ring. Updated range.
  • Version: 2.0

Instructor

  • Psalm 21 of Alvinenn. Updated wording.
  • Version: 2.0

 

Mounthaven

  • Added the profiles from both the Action Pack and the Hearthguards boxes.

 

Mercenaries

Vercana

  • Updated ATK modifier.
  • Updated ATK roll.
  • Updated ATK switches.
  • Updated DEF modifier.
  • Locate weak spots: Updated the effect linked to vulnerable.
  • Master of disguise: Updated the effect (it is now a combat skill).
  • Winged vipers: Updated the effect.
  • Version: 3.0

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