Direwolf Skaven FAQ v7.02 Format Q = Question A = Answer S = Source Note: References below to the "Official Skaven FAQ" refer to the Skaven FAQ available in .pdf format from the GW "Shrine of Knowledge" webpage. ***** Q. When a unit sustains 25% or more casualties from friendly fire (e.g. from Skaven Life is Cheap fire, scattering template weapons, etc.) does the unit have to take a Panic check at the end of the phase? A. Yes. In Warhammer 7th edition a unit suffering 25%+ casualties from these sources must take a panic test. S. Rulebook page 49 ***** Q. Can a unit of Jezzails cause a Panic test on themselves? A. Yes. In Warhammer 7th edition a unit suffering 25%+ casualties as a result of a misfire(s) must take a panic test. S. Rulebook page 49 ***** Q. When a war machine unit, Skaven Weapons Team, wizard, etc. destroys itself via a misfire, malfunction, miscast, etc. do friendly units within 6" have to take a Panic check at the end of the phase? A. No test required. The panic test for friends destroyed applies only if the unit is US 5+. Of course, if a unit of 3+ Jezzails (unit strength 5+) manages to wipe itself out by misfiring, that will cause panic. S. Rulebook page 49 ***** Q. Life is Cheap rule: On a result of 1-3 the hit is resolved against one randomly determined unit among those in close combat with the target, and on a result of 4-6 the hit is resolved against the intended target. Does the random roll after the 1-3 result also include the originally intended target and giving the a 75% chance to hit it? A. No. The target unit is not `among those in combat with the target', it IS the target! Each hit is allocated randomly among all units fighting in close combat against the target on a result of 1-3. S. Official Skaven FAQ / Alessio Cavatore - Warhammer Design Team ***** Q. Do Rat Swarms have a Unit Strength of 3 per base or 5? A. Unit Strength 3. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. The Skaven army book states that if a slave unit causes a panic test it is auto-passed in non-slave units. The same wording is applied if Rat swarms cause a panic test. Does this mean, I have passed the test and do not have to take anymore the rest of the phase? Or do I still have to make a test if another panic situation arises? A. No! The other unit must test. The clear intent of the rule is that slaves don't cause panic, not that slaves protect you from other panic. S. Direwolf FAQ Council Interpretation / Skaven Army book page 11 ***** CHARACTERS Q. Are you really allowed to have the same model as your General and your Battle Standard Bearer? A. No, the usual paragraph preventing this was omitted by mistake. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Where can I find the rules for the character, Queek Head- Taker, Skaven Warlord? A. In Warhammer Chronicles 2003 S. Warhammer Chronicles 2003 page 118 ***** Q. Where can I find the rules for the character, Deathmaster Snikch, Chief Assassin of Clan Eshin? A. In White Dwarf Magazine S. US White Dwarf #295 page 44 / UK White Dwarf #296 page 26 ***** EQUIPMENT Q. Can Packmasters in rear ranks use their whips to attack enemy models to their flank? Or only to their front? A. They cannot use their whips to their flank as the description of the whips states "...used in a similar way to a spear, allowing the bearer to make one Attack (regardless of the model's number of Attacks) through a unit..." As models in rear ranks of a unit armed with spears may only attack models to their front, whips are treated the same way. S. Skaven Army Book page 32 / Rulebook page 89 / Direwolf FAQ Council Interpretation ***** Q. Do Poison Wind Globes count as Poisoned Attacks? A. No. The hand-to-hand attacks are not poisoned, and the globes are shooting weapons with their own rules. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Does a Skaven Warplock Pistol that rolls a '1' to hit, regardless of whether it is used in the Shooting phase, while performing a Stand and Shoot charge reaction, or being used in Close Combat, suffer from a misfire result? A. Not always. If you roll a `1' to hit while in close combat, you are not actually firing the weapon, but now using it as a hand weapon. S. Skaven Army Book pages 27,32 / Rulebook page 56 ***** WEAPONS TEAMS Q. If a weapon team is destroyed by shooting or magic while within 6" of a unit, does it cause a Panic test on the unit(s) within 6" of it? A. No test required. The panic test for friends destroyed applies only if the unit is US 5+. S. Rulebook page 49 ***** Q. Can Skaven weapon teams stand and fire at regiments that charge their parent units? A. No. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. If a weapon team's parent unit flees, does the weapon team flee as well? A. No (unless it panics, of course). S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Does the "Attached" special rule mean that weapons teams cannot be targeted by shooting even when within 3" of a friendly unit with 5 models? A. No, there are no targeting restrictions in 7th edition for shooting at weapons teams other than range and Line of Sight. S. Rulebook page 26 ***** Q. It states in the book that some Skaven units are treated exactly like cavalry. Does that mean that the Screaming Bell can affect them as it does cavalry? Does it mean that spells which affect cavalry units affect these Skaven units in the same way? A. No. They are not affected by spells that affect cavalry because these spells generally speak of targeting the mounts (ie, scaring horses). S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Are Skaven Weapon teams (ie. Warp Fire Throwers, Ratling guns and Jezzail teams) mounted on cavalry bases considered infantry for purposes of entering a building? A. Yes, Skaven weapon teams are infantry. But they do have a US of 2 for considering the number which may fire from a building. (ie. Only 2 jezzails could fire from each floor of a building.) S. Skaven Army book page 26 / Rulebook page 7 / Alessio Cavatore - Warhammer Design Team ***** WARP-LIGHTNING CANNON Q. Can you declare a charge on a Warp-lightning Cannon from anywhere and force it to flee? A. No. The rules say you can't declare charge if you're not relatively confident to reach the target. S. Warhammer 7th Edition Rulebook Errata/FAQ ***** Q. How do you resolve a hit from the Warp-lightning Cannon vs. a model with multiple parts? A. In the description of the Warp-lightning Cannon it states "Determine which MODELS are hit in the same way as you would do for the bounce of a cannon ball, except that all MODELS (friends and foe) lying along the entire line's length are hit. There is not need to randomize hits if the line goes through MODELS engaged with close combat with the enemy, all MODELS lying under the line are hit, as simple as that (note that this is an exception to the normal rules for shooting in close combat)" The cannon rules state: "If a cannonball hits a MODEL that has several parts ... resolve which part of the MODEL is hit just as shooting with bows, etc." This means that if the Warp-lightning Cannon hits a character riding a monster it must randomize as normal (1-4 monster, 5-6 character) and if it hits a chariot it must randomize as normal (1-5 chariot, 6 character). S. Skaven Army Book page 29 / Rulebook pages 60,64,87 ***** Q. Is the Skaven crew of a Warp-lightning Cannon assumed to always have LOS to the Casket of Souls (since they can see anywhere on the battlefield) or can the Skaven player pick and choose when the crew is looking through the cannon sight? In the same vein, does it mean enemy scouts cannot use their Scouting rule? A. No, and no. The cannon is assumed to be able to see through terrain during the shooting phase only. At all other times, it counts as conforming to normal line of sight rules. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Is the Skaven Warp-lightning Cannon a missile attack, and so can be stopped by an anti-missile magic item (i.e. Banner of Doom or special ward saves) A. Yes. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Does the Warp-lightning Cannon count as a war machine or chariot for things like deployment and Unit Strength. A. A war machine with three crew. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. What happens if the Warp-lightning Cannon is forced to become engaged in combat, such as if the Slaanesh spell Delicious Excruciation was cast on them (making them Unbreakable, and as such unable to flee from a charge)? A. If for any reason the Warp-lightning Cannon is engaged in combat, it is immediately destroyed (and the enemy unit can overrun as normal). S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Does the Warp-lightning Cannon affects 1 model per rank (or row) only, like a regular cannon, or all models the line touches ? A. As a cannon. S. Anthony Reynolds - Warhammer Design Team ***** TUNNELING TEAMS Q. What happens if a Tunneling Team emerges directly below a Fear or Terror causing enemy unit and fails its Fear / Terror test? A. It doesn't need to take a Fear or Terror test, as it will "automatically engage it in close combat on the side closest to the marker(the team counts as charging)". As it "automatically engages", it does not need to take a fear or Terror test. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Does a Tunneling Team need to test for Terror if it emerges close to a Terror causing creature? (Both testing for Terror and emerging from tunnels happen at the start of the turn, so which one occurs first?) A. Yes, an emerging Tunneling Team must take Terror tests on the turn they arrive. You could imagine it would be rather unnerving to emerge from a hole and find yourself at a Dragon's feet... S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Can a unit of Gutter Runners which purchased the Tunneling ability elect to not use the ability and deploy as Scouts? A. Yes they may deploy as Scouts. In the Tunneling description it states they "can" use their Tunneling ability, it doesn't say they "must". As all Gutter Runners are classified as Scouts, Tunneling Teams retain the ability to Scout. S. Skaven Army Book page 19 ***** MAGIC OF THE HORNED RAT Q. Can a Grey Seer cast non-LOS spells when leading from the back? A. Yes, you can cast spells that do not require seeing the target. S. Alessio Cavatore - Warhammer Design Team ***** Q. If Warp-Lightning is cast, but then found to be out of range, can the caster still accidentally wound himself? A. Yes. In this case, the roll to see how many hits are caused should still be made any roll of 1 will hit the caster, any other roll is ignored. S. Anthony Reynolds - Warhammer Design Team ***** Q. What happens if Death Frenzy is cast upon a fleeing unit? A. The unit will continue to flee. However, if the unit rallies, it will then count as being frenzied. S. Anthony Reynolds - Warhammer Design Team ***** Q. If you die from using a Warpstone Token but successfully cast the spell, would the effects of the spell still go off? A. Best thing to do would be to roll a dice for it. Sometimes a spell is cast, sometimes not... S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Does Skitterleap count as movement for the purposes of shooting? A. Being sensible, yes. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Can you Skitterleap a character out of a fleeing unit? A. No. S. Anthony Reynolds - Warhammer Design Team ***** Q. Can you Skitterleap a character into a friendly unit? A. Yes. S. Anthony Reynolds - Warhammer Design Team ***** Q. Can you Skitterleap a character into a friendly unit engaged in hand-to-hand combat at all? A. No. S. Anthony Reynolds - Warhammer Design Team ***** TOOLS OF SUPREMACY Q. Can a Skaven character take multiple Warpstorm Scrolls or Warp Scrolls? Can a Skaven army include multiple Warpstorm Scrolls or Warp Scrolls? A. A single character may only take one of these scrolls as their description classifies them as "Bound Spells" and a character cannot have more than one Bound Spell item. Note however that as they are also classified as Scrolls, you can take both a Warpstone or Warp Scroll and another Arcane Item. Also, as opposed to ordinary magic items, every Grey Seer or Warlock in the army can bring a Warpstone Scroll or Warp Scroll to the battle, as Scrolls are not considered to be unique. S. Anthony Reynolds - Warhammer Design Team / Skaven Army Book page 38 / Rulebook page 121 ***** Q. Can you buy a Warpstone Token for a Plague Priest with the Liber Bubonicus? A. Yes - with the Liber Bubonicus, he becomes a wizard (and so can use items from the Arcane Items list.) S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Can a hidden Assassin try to activate the Bands of Power? A. No. He cannot do anything until he is revealed. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Can the Tenebrous Cloak protect against rolling a 1 with the Warp Lightning spell? A. Yes. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Would the Umbranner's Ward save kick in against a Bolt Thrower after it has successfully gone through two ranks (down to Strength 4)? A. Yes. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Do you roll for the Storm Banner to burn out every player turn (I trigger it at the beginning of my turn, then roll for it burning out at the beginning of your next turn, then my next, etc), or just on each of my turns? I note that in the Skaven battle report on the site, it appears as if it is the latter option. A. It is rolled every player's turn. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. What is the correct description of the Storm Banner? A. One use only. This ancient and tattered banner has the power to wrack the sky with storms, tearing the heavens apart with its fury. The banner can be activated at the beginning of any player's turn. No flying movement is allowed and all missile fire is at -2 to hit. All war machines and other ranged attacks that do not use BS may only fire if the player first rolls a 4+ on a D6 (roll for each model). Magic missiles and other ranged spells are not affected. Roll a D6 at the beginning of each player's subsequent turns - on a roll of 1 or 2, the power of the banner is exhausted and it no longer has any effect for the remainder of the battle. S. Warhammer Chronicles 2004 page 126 ***** Q. Does the Storm Banner affect the Dwarf Anvil or the Skaven Screaming Bell? A. No. These are not "shooting", at least not in terms that apply to the Storm Banner. S. Direwolf FAQ Council Interpretation ***** Q. Do the corrected Storm Banner rules mean that Ratling guns, Warpfire throwers and Warp-lightning cannons only work on a 4+? A. Yes, since the text doesnt mention enemy only, and they are warmachines that dont use BS. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** SCREAMING BELL Q. On a Skaven Screaming Bell result of 8 or 13 do you treat the Tomb Kings army as if the Hierophant, and not the General, has been destroyed? A. Yes. S. Anthony Reynolds - Warhammer Design Team ***** Q. Does an Undead General (Hierophant) have to test under a result of 13 on the Screaming Bell chart? A. No, as the General (Hierophant) is a character, and Undead characters never suffer wounds because of a dead General (Hierophant). S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. If the Screaming Bell rolls 16, are units not yet on the table (tunnelers, pursuing out of the table units) affected? A. No, as they are not on the battlefield when the effect takes place. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. If your Grey Seer riding the Screaming Bell is killed, is there any reason why the striker can't continue to ring the bell? A. No, the striker can continue to hit the bell. S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. Can a Grey Seer on a Screaming Bell use a Warpstone Charm to re- roll the roll for ringing the Screaming Bell? A. No. It is not directly affecting the Grey Seer - he is not the one ringing the bell! S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** Q. If a Bolt Thrower killed a Grey Seer on a Screaming Bell, or destroyed the Screaming Bell, would the bolt continue through the ranks of Clanrats? A. No, as the shooter could choose to aim at the unit OR the large target (the Screaming Bell and the Grey Seer). The Screaming Bell and the Clanrats are two separate targets (though a Cannon could hit both). S. Official Skaven FAQ ***** END *****