Oh Geedubs: an ode to a word salad

[mattblowers]

Gotta love GWs attempt to clarify things. The rules commentary is 18 pages. 18 PAGES!!! That's more than some rulesets.

So how do models that fly work? Glad you asked.

From the Rulebook (and it states that you ignore intervening models).



Now GW in their infinite wisdom found this too simple and that it needed clarification. So I give you the first diagram about height and movement. And might I add that they chose a model that has fly to illustrate their point. Now that will never cause confusion.



Oh, so you ignore the diagonal? Cool, seems easy enough.

NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND!!



Let's just say it can get complicated. (BTW they had to make the image from the other angle as well to try and clear things up.



Oh, yeah. Seems right.

I play a ton of war games. I play dozens of rulesets. I've played for 40+ years. This is madness. Used to be that models with fly ignored intervening terrain and models. Not now, and you must measure PRECISELY the imaginary area where you model isn't and where it will be and maintain unit coherency.

No way this causes confusion or slows the game down. NO. WAY.

[gauntlet]

"...fly ignored intervening terrain and models." Job done. Send it to printer.

[gauntlet]

I vaguely remember a meme where 1st year aerospace students are being taught that aircraft are held aloft by invisible support stands. In real life an aircraft's speed and efficiency decrease over land vs sea, even when cruising high up, because the support stands have extra distance to transverse as they travel down vallies and up mountain slopes. Incidently that's what causes the turbulence you feel when flying.

[bolk]

This is turning into the same rules bloat (please do not swear) that we had in 9th.