8th Ed. Can skinks march trough water? (rivers, lakes)

[MagpieManny]

Ok,

So I am kind of confused. Aquatic gave you the ability to ignore movement restrictions by water obstacles in 7th.

Now skinks have the river, lake and marshstrider special ability.
This is now 'reduced' not having to take dangerous terrain check.

Rivers now say that you cant march trough rivers. So skinks cant do that freely anymore?

Is this true or did I miss something.

Thnq

 

[n810]

As far as I know they can still march through terrain, they may have moved this to skirmisher rules or something.

 

[Juhaaha]

IIRC it's the Water strider (?) special rule

 

[MagpieManny]

I still can't find it in any of the rules.

Riverstrider removes Dangerous Terrain tests from rivers per rules in the Rulebook.

Rivers say that you cannot march in rivers.

 

[Cravenus]

all skinks/kroxigore(or anything else aquatic) have the following strider abilities, lake, marsh, river.

strider allows a creature/unit to ignore dangerous terrain tests.

as per the lizardman FAQ this date.

 

[MI_Tiger]

The Strider rule only says that the model does not have to take dangerous terrain tests. It does not say anything about ignoring other restrictions from the terrain. So skinks cannot march through rivers.

 

[MagpieManny]

Sadly that's what I figured.

That's pretty lame.

 

[jormi_boced]

Skinks are still aquatic though, which says they can ignore all movement penalties for water.

 

[Chaq Mundi]

Skinks are actually not Aquatic anymore; as per the FAQ, skinks REPLACE the Aquatic special rule with the Marsh/River/Lake Strider special rules.

 

[Daeghrefn]

Does this mean that skinks and such can no longer be placed in water terrain considered impassable to other units?

Edit:
Upon further review of the giant tome, something is definitely up with this. We are specifically give "Lakestrider". Strider rules do nothing but give us immunity to dangerous terrain checks. However, the only place I could find lakes mentioned at all was as an example of impassable terrain. So we are really good at swimming through lakes, but may not voluntarily do so?
Our current book does not seem to jive that well with 8E in a lot of ways, despite having been released relatively soon before. It's quite disappointing.

 

[BEEGfrog]

I think we still get cover in wet terrain as not all of the aquatic rule got amended/nerfed