Stone Throwers in 8th Edition | Daily Tips – OnTableTop

Stone Throwers in 8th Edition | Daily Tips

October 13, 2010 by dignity

Darrell brings up the heavy artillery telling us that Stone Throwers and all the rest of the artillery in Warhammer Fantasy is now a little bit cheesy.

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ddanblack

on page 109 of the BFB it says you take line of sight from “the chosen firing point (i.e its muzzle or crossbar, in the same way as for its range) this means my screaming skull catapult can easy just sit behind a unit of guys a shoot normaly over the top on them but i get hard cover if it is shot back xD

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gogolplex

I think you got it wrong Darell… The guy on the doom diver IS the stone.

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jackal

While you mentioned some of the benefits that stone throwers received you forgot to mention the fact that the Strength of the hits has changed. Only one model directly under the center hole takes the Str. 9 wound while all others under the template take Str.3 wound. This makes surviving a stone thrower hit much easier that in previous editions.

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ascari

played my first game with skaven i bought from IoB with a friend and tried out of the stuff in there, first fire i did with the poisoned mortar team got me a misfire and destroyed myself, luckily no other units were close then…good times.
Gotta love skaven 🙂

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goozzz

Hello BoW. I start playing fantasy not so long ago and I have couple of questions. Please answer. I excuse before I ever start – english isn’t native for me, so if my language goes insane and not understandable just wrote me and I paraphrase my questions. First. Chaos Daemons and buildings. In close combat attacker can drive out garrison unit only if defender unit failed it break test and flee away. But daemons are never fails break test (because theirs special test don’t have “win” or “lose” notion at all) and never flee away. And me have only one… Read more »

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hashutsblessing

As has been said, their strength has changed and no longer ignore armour saves. Also, all templates (including stone throwers) hit any model even partially touching it, making them even more deadly (despite the lowered strength and no longer ignoring armour saves), ESPECIALLY against horde units (of which people are more inclined to take).

Stone thrower versus Skaven? Lots of squashed rats 😀 LOTS of 4+ to wound, with fairly minimal armour saves anyway and high chances of the scatter simply hitting another huge block.

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newtofdeath

Got some scrap wood to make myself a makeshift firld trebuchet! Cant wait.

Gonna blast some scaven right out of there!

I normally buy GW models, but Im not paying £25 for a metal representation of a piece of wood lol.

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tenntrollet

I think I´m doing it wrong with my Doom Diver. I use the small template to see if it hits anything and then roll D6 hits (after redirecting the whole template by D3 if necessary). I know in the old 7th edition one didn’t use the template but is it so even in 8th? No one I’ve played against has said anything different but I’m starting to think I’m doing it wrong?