The ITC just swooped in and fixed some of the escalating terrain abuses by FLY keyworded vehicles in Warhammer 40k. Check out the latest.
Games Workshop has been giving the FLY keyword treatment to a lot of their new releases in terms of vehicles. Plus a ton of Xenos races aside from Orks have mostly flying vehicles already. Now Primaris and Custodes are in the same boat. as well. So as players were beginning to stretch the rules as far as possible, the ITC rules have been preemptively changed.
Flying Vehicles & Terrain
This pic was taken from a recent 40k game and has since been making its rounds (hilariously) on the internet. You can see that there are three Repulsors sitting on some terrain piece that was never intended to have three hover tanks sharing it. The bases run off of the edges and even overlap each other at some points. Obviously assaulting them will be “difficult”.
As hilarious as this looks, the ITC rules have since been changed because in part of occurrences like this.
Coming from Reece Robbins at Frontline Gaming:
The new changes are spelled out:
- If it sits, it fits: FLY keyworded vehicles can only be placed if the base entirely fits.
- For models where you measure from the hull, the entire vehicle must fit and not spill off over the edge of the terrain piece.
This might not affect some of the smaller Aeldari transports like Starweavers perhaps. However, Caladiuses, Raiders, Ravagers, and Repulsors will definitely be reigned back a bit.
In another picture making the rounds, you can see that the Venom’s base is spilling over (now not legal). The Raider’s base is spilling over and also has half of its model jutting out of the back (not legal). And finally, there’s a Ravager whose base looks to be fitting. However, there are parts of the model that spill over the side an make it not legal now as well.
What do you think about these changes to ITC play? Should models be able to move anywhere as long as they balance without needing to be held? Did your army just become a lot less mobile?
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