so there was an interesting point asserted by my gaming group that things like the night shroud, the zombie dragon swarm of flies, and mark and daemon of nurgle abilities, where the effect is that things in base-to-base (B2B) suffer some sort of ill effect, such as -1 to hit, or in the night shroud's case, ASL and no strength bonus from weapons will only affect the front rank and that the second, and third ranks in a horde situation, will not be affected as as they are not technically in B2B.
The only thing i could find on the subject was on the first page of the close combat section where it says "only models in base to base can make attacks, the most common exception to this is when models make supporting attacks" (paraphrasing here) which sounds to me like models making supporting attacks are indeed not considered to be in B2B. i do not like this at all, if that is the case, i cannot see the point of taking the Night Shroud and the zombie dragon seems to be much less effective although daemon princes of nurgle would be less scary to hordes of great weapon infantry.
is my group correct? i hope not, but if not, can someone please help me with rules citations to make this not true lol?
The only thing i could find on the subject was on the first page of the close combat section where it says "only models in base to base can make attacks, the most common exception to this is when models make supporting attacks" (paraphrasing here) which sounds to me like models making supporting attacks are indeed not considered to be in B2B. i do not like this at all, if that is the case, i cannot see the point of taking the Night Shroud and the zombie dragon seems to be much less effective although daemon princes of nurgle would be less scary to hordes of great weapon infantry.
is my group correct? i hope not, but if not, can someone please help me with rules citations to make this not true lol?
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