Question about the focus familiar.
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Question about the focus familiar.
It says that this is only used for determing range and line of sight but also to determine whether she counts as in combat or not. But that last part confuses me a bit, does that mean they can charge the focus familiar and the hits get then redirected to the sorceress?
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You can't attack power familiar or the other familiars in cc. They are magic items that provide certain abilities or bonuses. The only thing that can "attack" them will be items or spells that nullify magic items. They will be a prime target for Vaul's Unmaking for example.
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ok, was just thinking how powerfull she could get if she could cast doombolt and chillwind into combats she was in with the familiar guess its not the case. Shes powerful enough with it anyway though.
If a unit charges her unit and hopes to break it, and a US5+ unit is sitting behind so you flee through it and are destroyed, she can use the familiar to blow that unit to bits thus saving her unit and herself.
If a unit charges her unit and hopes to break it, and a US5+ unit is sitting behind so you flee through it and are destroyed, she can use the familiar to blow that unit to bits thus saving her unit and herself.
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Heartrender wrote:If the sorceress is charged, can you place the focus familiar next to her out of combat, and fire into the combat meaning she gets magic missiles etc to support her. Or do the normal rules apply for not being able to cast into friendly combat (even though its herself!)
That's pretty much exacty what it says in the description so yes
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Tethlis wrote:The rules for the focus familiar specificallty say she can cast magic missiles into combat? I haven't seen the specific wording yet, but I doubt it overrides the rules for magic missiles. I think it still lets her cast magic missiles at viable targets, even though she herself is in combat.
This is my understanding as well you still can't cast a spell into combat unless the spell says that it may be cast into combat. This will be true even if you model your focus familiar as a giant rat.
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So I’m wondering if we are looking at this all wrong. The FF can be used to determine range and LOS, I get that simple but it also says and again the grammar use is interesting whether she counts as in combat or not.
So the premise is the sorceress can project herself out of combat or when a FF is used she is not part of combat?! Does that also mean that I can put a sorceress in the last rank of a unit to hide and no longer need to have her on the front rank?
So the premise is the sorceress can project herself out of combat or when a FF is used she is not part of combat?! Does that also mean that I can put a sorceress in the last rank of a unit to hide and no longer need to have her on the front rank?
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I think the wording is something like "... can use this point to determine range, LOS, and whether or not she counts as in combat when casting spells until the end of the turn."
i.e. no
i.e. no
Woot! If it's only ever said once, I couldn't ask for a better person to say it.Linda Lobsta Defenda wrote:dggrj is correct
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tmr wrote:So the premise is the sorceress can project herself out of combat or when a FF is used she is not part of combat?! Does that also mean that I can put a sorceress in the last rank of a unit to hide and no longer need to have her on the front rank?
Off the top of my head, the reason that a Wizard can't cast spells while not in the front rank is a Basic Rule Book stipulation. i.e. the text doesn't say anything about Line of Sight. It just says, "You can't cast if you're not in the front rank."
So no, the Familiar will not allow you to cast from the back rank.
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The language of the focus familiar determining whether the sorceress is in combat or not is simply establishing that the point of origin of the spell is considered to be the familiar therefore, even if the sorceress is in combat she will be able to cast things like magic missiles that require line of sight. Her line of sight will be determined from the familiar not from her postition. Unless there is no good location to place the familiar, the sorceress will be able to fire away with the magic missiles, etc... while in combat.
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I love this item. I was testing out some items (dagger.familiar) in friendly games versus my friends new army of demons. Though he proxied a lot, it was fun having my sorceress run around a forest with khorne hounds trying to catch her. She still casted magic though at that point of the game it was useless as there was a lot of magic resistance.
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Furthermore you can't choose to put characters in the back rank. They can only end up there if they are A) Skaven or B) refusing a challenge. And characters (other than Skaven) can't do jack from the back row.Melinia wrote:tmr wrote:So the premise is the sorceress can project herself out of combat or when a FF is used she is not part of combat?! Does that also mean that I can put a sorceress in the last rank of a unit to hide and no longer need to have her on the front rank?
Off the top of my head, the reason that a Wizard can't cast spells while not in the front rank is a Basic Rule Book stipulation. i.e. the text doesn't say anything about Line of Sight. It just says, "You can't cast if you're not in the front rank."
So no, the Familiar will not allow you to cast from the back rank.
Woot! If it's only ever said once, I couldn't ask for a better person to say it.Linda Lobsta Defenda wrote:dggrj is correct
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