AdeptiCon INAT FAQ v4.0

INATNote: GW has recently released official Tyranids and Blood Angels FAQs. As always, these documents take precedence over anything in the INAT. The INAT will be amended shortly to reflect these rulings.

The INAT FAQ v4.0 has just been completed and is ready for download! As the INAT enters its 4th year (v4.0), we are pleased to welcome two new members to the INAT council, Jon ‘JWolf’ Wolf (Austin, TX) and Jay ‘Jay_DaBoyz’ Woodcock (Rochester, NY). JWolf is a contributing member to the Bell of Lost Souls website and organizer of WAR Games Con. Jay is a co-organizer of the ‘Daboyz GT’. Their vast experience and unique geographic perspectives will help ensure that the rulings in the INAT FAQ appropriately represent many different wargaming viewpoints.

In this new update, besides covering the new Blood Angels codex as well as adding a smattering of other questions across the document, we’ve also tried to take a really hard look at our rulings that seem to have caused some of the largest consternation amongst players. We always strive to make our rulings fit with how most people naturally choose to play the game and we also want rulings that are consistent and easy to understand across the entire document.

With each update we always try to double-check our existing rulings to see if we still feel that we made the right choice. With hindsight, if we think a ruling really needs to be changed then we absolutely do. Some of the ‘big issues’ that have been reversed in this update are:

  • We’ve gone with a more relaxed interpretation of when models in reserve can affect the game. If an ability specifies that it works while the model is ‘alive’, then this rule will function even when the model is in Reserve.
  • We’ve gone with the more liberal interpretation of what level of specificity is needed for a special rule to apply to an Independent Character joining a unit. If the special rule actually says in its rules text that it applies to a unit, then these special rules will apply to Independent Characters joining the unit.

Of course, there are some other smaller changes, but as always, any questions/rulings that have been altered from the previous version of the FAQ have been denoted as such with a ‘plus sign’ ( + ) before the question # and have their ‘answer text’ colored red to make it easy for you to spot what has been changed.

Further feedback for future iterations of the FAQ is always welcome and can be done so in this thread or by sending an email to: adepticon@gmail.com. As always, thanks again to everyone who helped out this process by giving us quality feedback and constructive criticism. We certainly appreciate it!


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