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AoS Ripperdactyl follow up

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Follow up to last ?

Swooping dive - does this mean the unit must use it's movement to end in contact with the enemy? No charge or pile in? Otherwise what's the point of 'declaring it' beforehand?

Seems like with Swooping Dive combined with the Toad, a few Ripperdactyls will kill anything.

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It is a perfectly normal move, you just declare Swooping Dive while making it. With base-to-base measurement there is literally no downside to declaring it so you may as well always do it.

The charge and pile in work exactly as normal.

Having previously declared the swooping dive you get all the re-rolls. Effectively you should always be re-rolling with Ripperdactyls in the fight phase on your turn.
 
Yeah, with the change of the core rules to base2base measurement the swooping dive doesn't make a lot of sense anymore. The reroll basically always applies in your combat phase (not in your opponent's though).
 
It does make a small difference, if you land you are no longer flying for that charge phase, so you can't charge over enemy (or your own) units or through scenery
 
Flo said:
It does make a small difference, if you land you are no longer flying for that charge phase, so you can't charge over enemy (or your own) units or through scenery
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It doesn't state you're not flying though so I don't think that holds. Though at least that would be some drawback to the rule, Always wondered why they don't just have the rerolls by default seeing as the rule never seemed to have any real drawbacks or uses unless you did nonsense like putting them on 40" poles so noone can reach em if they don't dive down.
 
With the new rules flying only applies during Measuring and moving if you Count as in the ground you can't move across other miniatures or terrain

Last sentence on the scooping dive ability ;)
 
Where does it say that you stop flying when swooping down? It doesn't say you land (at least not in the english rules)
 
Last sentence in the Swooping Dive Ability

"Until your next Hero Phase, measure Range and visibility for models in this Unit as tough they where in ground."
 
Flo said:
Last sentence in the Swooping Dive Ability

"Until your next Hero Phase, measure Range and visibility for models in this Unit as tough they where in ground."
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You also measure it that way for a skink priest with feather cloak and he can still fly.

I'd just read that sentence as "they fly really low" or "they flutter around like chickens do, in that semi-flying way. Still capable of clearing obstacles and short bursts of flight but mostly bound to the ground".
 
Where did you read that from the Skink priest? The warscroll just say he can fly

With AoS flying only applies during any movement, may it normal, run, charge or pile in flying lets you move across Terrain and other miniatures, nothing more
 
Flo said:
Where did you read that from the Skink priest? The warscroll just say he can fly

With AoS flying only applies during any movement, may it normal, run, charge or pile in flying lets you move across Terrain and other miniatures, nothing more
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the point is that you just measure from the ground, like you do with a skink priest. Cuz he's on the ground. He can still fly. Similarly I don't see any reason the rippers suddenly stop flying in those rules. It doesn't say "they land and only take off again during your next hero phase". It just says they swoop down and so should be flying just above the ground.
 
I Think we are talking about different things

I'll try to explain what i mean with screens from the rules :)

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All that flying does it lets you ignore (during any Kind of movement) other Models and Terrain

For example if a normal Unit want to walk across a wall which is 2 inches high and 1 inch wide you need to take 2 inches up, one inch across the wall and 2 inches down vor a total of 5 inches

A flying Unit would only take 1 inch as it ignores the up and down Part

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The last sentence here says that you measure Range and visibility as if you were on ground so a swooped down ripper Unit would now need 5 inches too

Is it clearer that way?
 
Right like that.

The measuring from the ground is simply a left-over from the old rules were you would measure from the model and not from the base. Since in the old rules you'd measure from the model and our rippers are on those see through sticks they get a bunch of artificial distance that isn't there for other models that can fly but don't have the lil stick (e.g. skink priests, or a demon prince). All that sentence refered too was "pretend the model is stuck to the base and measure like that from the model instead of measuring like it's on a 3" stick".

So it's just an old bit that's no longer relevant and can be ignored.

They really need to update warscrolls… F.A.Q.s really don't cut it like this.
 
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