mortetvie said:
@Silverfaith, the fact that the AB>BRB paragraph is in the "Basic vs. Advanced" rules section is kind of a dead give-away... That is like taking a paragraph out of any other section of the rule and isolating it and reading it without the context of the whole of the rule. The AB>BRB paragraph is just one part of the whole "Basic versus Advanced" rule and to understand that rule, you must understand the rest of the page.
Hmm, still, I don't feel it is as clear cut as you put it, but that's probably just because "conflict" to me means anything that goes against it. So if Smiting (I have no idea what that is, nor the wording, so keep that in mind) allows the models to make another attack that isn't just the equivalent of +1 on the profile, then it would indeed be a conflict, and allowed. Whether I would want to face it or not is irrelevant.
But honestly, I think the whole discuussion would have been easier to follow if GW had provided an example of said conflicts or contradictions. Contradiction is when something says the opposite, - which, when you think about it, happens whenever a model has +1 attack and makes a supporting attack - but it stands to reason that it requires some form of override of a basic rule. So frenzy or additional attack, granting +1 attacks, would in a way be contradicting Supporting Attacks, but it doesn't matter, because it tells us to ignore it.
Conflict, however, is a more lenient word, which implies a more lenient use of it as well - so there are fewer restrictions here than on the basic vs advanced rules.
Though honestly, I have a feeling that AB > BRB is meant to apply to anything but rules, but it just never got clarified. So for example, Dwarves being unable to take magic items overrules the BRB that says you can take from the magic item lists, and an AB allowing multiple of the same magic item supercedes the restriction that each magic item can only be picked once, etc.
If we go by that assumption instead, the discussion boils down to BR vs AR, which immediately ends the discussion, which means no pf on supporting attacks.
mortetvie said:
Finally, I think you misunderstand how logic works and functions...Logic is the law of reason just like gravity is a law of nature...You can build a space shuttle without gravity in mind but that doesn't mean that space shuttle won't be affected by gravity.
That may be true in real life, but this is just a written book. In text, you can indeed build a space shuttle that isn't affected by gravity. Whether or not GW have done so is another question entirely.
NexS1 said:
it's just more time consuming to separate dice for the attacks.
Use different dice, buddy. You are purchasing expensive models, getting 20 or so extra dice in another colour shouldn't be too bad. I did, before my local group decided to just allow it in all ranks.
