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Ogre Maneater Ninja; can they be used under cover of darknes?
Topic Started: 10th August 2005 - 07:08 AM (714 Views)
RandommaN
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I have a 500 point clan eshin army and was going to expand it to 1000 points. if I included a single maneater (the ninja :ph43r: ) would I still be able to use the under cover of darknes rule?
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by the letter of the rules hes not skirmishing, but then again hes a single model... so its really hard to tell... depends on how you argue it... myself since you dont have any rank and file models its still is ok to use ucod.

of course im not offically allowed to quote or give feedback on rules as ive been wrong too many times LOL
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I think that he is classified as an single model ;)
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yep single model so i think its ok rule wise (pretty strange otherwise to have a stealthy ogre :D)

if your using a single character models in your army he also get the under cover rule, even if his rules dont say he skirmishes
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Where is the under cover of darknes rule written? If it's in the skaven book what page? thanks

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P.S. All characters that are alone count as skirmishers for with rule exceptions that are stated in the rulebook.
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Mallekha the Overwhelmer
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its in the SoC book, for the Eshin list, not in the Skaven book
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I don't think that an ogre can get the Cover of Darkness rule isn't it only for skaven?
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Ajax = warpstone juice

ive seen ucod house ruled... for multiplayer games as long as the one side was skirmishing it didnt matter... so it stacked well with a beast of chaos list... ;)
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That seems a bit unbalanced to me. The reason the eshin list even has that is because they don't get rank bonuses when skirmishing. The beasts of chaos get all the benefits of skirmishing and a rank bonus that is only 1 less than the full max rank bonus of full units of non-skirmishers.
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Tilara
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I don't want to dig out my rulebook at the moment, but doesn't the "single character counts as skirmishing" rule apply only to characters (ie. heros/lords) on 20-25mm bases? Or am I thinking of characters allowed to join skirmish units? I'm fairly sure you can't have a mounted character join a skirmish unit of foot troops.
I may check my book later to look that up, but I do recall something being written on a subject dealing with it.
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I would say no as it is treated as a monster (has to wheel , 90deg vision) however Im sure if you write a good enough fluff your opponent will let u take it uncod

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acolite
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lol! My opponent would let me use house rules even if I wrote a trilogy of Best Selling Novels which sold in 400 different countries!

mind you, it's probable worth a try...

Nice idea though, seeing an army of black coated rats then this massive Ogre in the middle!
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If going by the rules, you wouldn't be able to use UCoD as Maneaters are not individual characters and they are not skirmishers; they are bought as a unit with a unit size of 1+. Thus, they don't fit the requirement for all your units to be either skirmishers or characters.
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I say no, as one its unfluffy
two he is a unit of one not a character
and three hes on a large base and his rules dont state him as skirmish (thinking swarm here)
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I would also say no because he not skirmishing or a character. But it would be cool if I was proven wrong (gotta love the idea of a silent ogre ninja).
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