July Errata

[Rofel]

Some small stuff here and there but the 2 big ones in my eyes were:
1. Shield Guard got fixed
2. Backswing just became stupid

To elaborate on the backswing, it's been changed from 2 simultaneous attacks to the model makes a single attack and then MUST make another attack, not a MAY.

This makes me so sad with my Great Bears. I understand what the devs were trying to do and make the backswing more efficient, but by making it a forced attack like berserk, now my elite warriors may end up smacking each other in the face.

Yes, I can space my great bears out but sometimes you really want them charging into one target like a warjack. So now there's a chance that if you roll high on the damage and clobber your initial target, you may just swing backwards with the 360 vision and smoosh your other model.

I really hope they fix it to a may because that seems like such a giant typo.

[keithb]

/cry   you also know the result of the first attack before declaring the target for the second.  Beserk isn't that hard to manage.

[Ian Mulligan]

I'll have no real problem dealing with it, but the current wording is now really, really far from the original. That bothers me a little bit. I probably liked declaring both attacks simultaneously more.

[Rofel]

Managing the rule isn't so bad, but what gets me is the fluff behind the unit. Demo corps, the great bears, and whatever else that has backswing are supposed to be the elite troops in a melee fight. Doom reavers are screaming angry psychopaths who can't tell friend from foe once they get going, and that makes complete sense.

The great bears have precision strike, allowing them to cripple jack systems almost at will. But that one time you wreck it on the first swing "Omg I can't stop" he spins around like a top and cleaves his comrade in half. On top of that they have defensive line, which means in many situations they want to stand shoulder to shoulder.

It probably won't have a major effect on any games if you space the bears correctly, but I know eventually there is going to be that one time I need that other great bear to attack something and WHOOPS I just killed it.