| Warplock pistol and brass orb?; Can an engineer use both? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 30th July 2005 - 05:05 AM (436 Views) | |
| fibonacci | 30th July 2005 - 05:05 AM Post #1 |
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Can an engineer fire his pistol and throw the orb on the same turn? |
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| Sebrent | 30th July 2005 - 12:49 PM Post #2 |
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I know this doesn't help but ... I have no clue. If he can though, I'm skitterleaping his tail behind enemy lines as I've thought about this too
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| Grey seer White Paw | 30th July 2005 - 05:16 PM Post #3 |
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Surley he can skitter leap then throw the orb anyways? i mean u can normally skitter leap an assassin behind lines and throw stars, why not orbs? |
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| Ratphink | 30th July 2005 - 05:56 PM Post #4 |
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Of course he can throw the Brass Orb after being skitterleaped. Skitterleap is in the magic phase which is then followed by the shooting phase. Brass Orb is a thrown weapon, so can clearly be thrown. The question though is whether or not he can use both his Warplock Pistol and Brass Orb at the same time. I'm gonna have to say no. You're not gonna be shooting if your lobbing a particulairly sensitve and destructive weapon of destructive like the Brass Orb. |
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| meowser | 31st July 2005 - 07:26 AM Post #5 |
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common sense and decency to your oppononent dictate no clearly and technically it is no also, since you can only fire 1 weapon in the shooting phase, and the brass orb is a magical weapon. the story's different with the warpscroll, however :ph43r: :ph43r: :ph43r: |
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| fibonacci | 1st August 2005 - 01:43 AM Post #6 |
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That makes sense. Another skaven player had told me that he could, because the brass orb was a one use only magic item, it did not count as having "shot" a missle weapon". |
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| Jammers_ | 17th August 2005 - 09:23 AM Post #7 |
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Well, I never take the pistol in the first place! But looking at the rules, I would say that you can't use both, you can only use one ranged weapon in each shooting phase. ![]() Also, use the brass orb against lizardmen, this guy at my club has them and ive killed his Slann mage priest no fewer than 3 times! finally my magic was working again! of course, then my engineer who had it got vapourised in his next turn by his own warp lightning... bah... |
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| Argan | 17th August 2005 - 04:36 PM Post #8 |
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I dont know, I dont think theres anywhere in the rule book saying that you can't. For sportsmanship I'd not do it unless you can prove that theres nothing saying that you can't do it. |
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| Skitterleeper | 8th September 2005 - 04:58 PM Post #9 |
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Under shooting in the BRB (page 58 to be percise) it states that "Unless otherwise mentioned, each model can only make one shooting attack in each Shooting phase" and in the entry in the Skaven book it says that the Brass Orb follows the rules for Death Globes, under Death Globes it says that "The character can throw one Globe per shooting phase." (pages 37 and 39) Thusly Death Globes count as a shooting attacks and as Brass Orbs follow the rules for Death Globes they also count as shooting attacks and therefore you cannot use the Brass Orb and a Warplock Pistol in the same Shooting phase. Further more the arguement that it can be used because it is a magic item would mean that any magic item can be used during the magic phase as that follows you would be able to make extra HtH attacks with magic swords during the magic phase and there is no way that is legal. Anyway I hope that is helpful. p.s. I agree that a lot of the time it is not the best use of points to give Engies pistols. |
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| Warlock Master Shikkish | 11th September 2005 - 12:11 PM Post #10 |
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Agreed on that one - no Death Globes or Brass Orb for pistol-wielding warlocks. That's why I don't bother with the pistol...too many points for too little effect. |
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