8th Ed. Ancient Stegadon EOTG

[glacial]

Hello, here are some noob questions:

Can i Deploy an ancient stegadon with engine of the Gods with regular skinks crew? (5 skinks, no priest, no chief)
Can i ure the spell Burning alignment if my ancient stegadon is actually in base contact with one or more enemy units?
Can i use the spell Burning alignment if all of my skinks are dead?

thank you all

 

[dms505]

From your questions it seems like you might have the old book?

1. Yes you can deploy him without a priest
2. Yes. Direct damage spells can be cast while in combat and since technically you aren't targeting the unit you're in combat with it WILL hit them as well.
3. You never lose skinks. There are 5 wounds that the whole model shares. Until you lose all 5 of those wounds you have all 3-4 attacks from the Stegadon and all 5 attacks from the skinks.

 

[n810]

#1) Yes !
#2) Debateable (waiting for FAQ)
#3) Not sure probaly ???

 

[Sandrockkai]

#3) Don't we just count the Ancient Stegadon for the purposes of wounds? I thought you couldn't actually attack the crew anymore in the new book.

I don't have the book with me to confirm, but I thought that's why people stopped putting Skink characters on the Stegadons these days because until an FAQ is released (ha ha ha) the character is treated as riding a monster (separately targettable in CC, random allocation vs shooting and spells).

 

[goomba]

1. Yes you can deploy an ancient steg with eotg and no hero
2. Yes you can use the bound spell if you are in combat, however we are waiting for a FAQ to tell us if the unit you are in combat with is affected. This doesn't stop you from hitting units outside of combat though
3. There is no way to kill the skink riders, so you are either using old rules or have been misinformed

 

[hdctambien]

Can i use the spell Burning alignment if all of my skinks are dead?

#3) Don't we just count the Ancient Stegadon for the purposes of wounds? I thought you couldn't actually attack the crew anymore in the new book.

Stegadon Crew can't die or be attacked. As long as the Stegadon is alive, all 5 skinks are alive!

 

[n810]

Ahhh good catch, I forgot they changed that.

 

[glacial]

So you can only count the 6 Ancient stegadon wounds? and the crew is there just to (eventually) shoot with their javelins?

 

[n810]

Well they get hand weapon attacks in close combat as well...
and characteristic test will use wichever has the better stat.