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    GENERAL’S HANDBOOK 2020


    Designers’ Commentary, January 2021

    The following commentary is intended to complement A: This is to allow the Auxiliary Objectives to be used as
    the General’s Handbook 2020. It is presented as a series more effective tiebreakers, rather than relying on ‘kill
    of questions and answers; the questions are based on points’ to separate tied players at organised events.
    ones that have been asked by players, and the answers
    are provided by the rules writing team explain and how Q: Do the bonus points described in the Pitched Battle, Meeting
    the rules are intended to be used. The commentaries Engagement and Coalition of Death tournament packs apply to
    help provide a default setting for your games, but players victory points scored for a battle or only to my tournament score?
    should always feel free to discuss the rules before a A: They only apply to your tournament score and
    game, and change things as they see fit if they both want have no effect on the victory points of the battleplan
    to do so (changes like this are usually referred to as being used.
    ‘house rules’).
    Q: Can you explain in more detail how to determine the
    Our commentaries are updated regularly; when changes number of victory points I score in the Places of Arcane
    are made any changes from the previous version will be Power battleplan?
    highlighted in magenta. Where the date has a note, e.g. A: Victory points are scored at the end of each of your
    ‘Revision 2’, this means it has had a local update, only turns only. This means that you would score 1 victory
    in that language, to clarify a translation issue or other point if you gained control of the objective in the same
    minor correction. turn, you would score 2 victory points if you controlled
    the objective at the end of your last turn and had not
    Q: There are some army-specific keywords that are not covered lost control of it since, and so on.
    in the Anvil of Apotheosis; for example, there is no way to give
    a Mortal a ‘Mark of Chaos’ keyword and there is no way to give Q: Do terrain features that are included in or added to your
    a Kharadron Overlord the Marine keyword. What should I do army during a battle count as models in your army, such as for
    in situations like this? the purpose of determining control of an objective?
    A: The Anvil of Apotheosis was designed to help players A: No.
    bring the narrative characters of their creation to
    life on the battlefields of the Mortal Realms. If there Q: Some of the Pitched Battle (2020) battleplans award
    is a keyword that should apply to your character but additional victory points if units with a specific battlefield role
    the rules do not cover it, discuss with your opponent control an objective. Does this include allied units that have the
    before the battle and come to an agreement on which Battleline battlefield role?
    additional keywords are appropriate for the character A: Yes.
    you have created.
    Q: Can a friendly unit with a ‘Battleline if’ condition in its
    Q: The scenery rules for Pitched Battles (2020) instruct you to Pitched Battle profile lose its battlefield role if that condition is
    randomly generate a scenery rule for unique terrain features, no longer met during a battle – for example, if a unit of Orruk
    even if they have a warscroll. Does this mean I use both the Ardboys that was taken as a Battleline unit in an Ironjawz
    warscroll abilities and a randomly generated scenery rule for army has less than 10 models after removing slain models
    that unique terrain feature? from play?
    A: No, use the randomly generated scenery rule for that A: No.
    unique terrain feature only.

    Q: Can you explain why the Matched Play Auxiliary Objectives


    rules instruct players to pick 2 Auxiliary Objectives, while
    the Pitched Battle, Meeting Engagement and Coalition
    of Death tournament packs instruct players to pick 3
    Auxiliary Objectives?

    Warhammer Age of Sigmar – General’s Handbook 2020, Designers’ Commentary 1


    Q: If the answer to the previous is ‘No’, how do units that have • Tome Celestial: The Sempiternals – White Dwarf August
    battlefield roles that are added to your army during a battle 2019
    work with the Pitched Battle (2020) battleplans? • Tome Celestial: The Host of Syll’Esske – White Dwarf
    A: These units are added to your army after you have October 2019
    picked your army using the Pitched Battles rules and • Tome Celestial: The Emerald Host – White Dwarf
    therefore do not count toward the maximum number December 2019
    of battlefield roles that can be taken in a Pitched Battle • Tome Celestial: Ironsunz – White Dwarf February 2020
    army. This means that any units that are added to your • Tome Celestial: Vokmortian’s Tithe Legion – White Dwarf
    army during a battle do not gain the battlefield roles April 2020
    listed on their Pitched Battle profile.
    Q: It is unclear when exactly the Recovery Step in a Skies of
    Q: When choosing an army for a Pitched Battle, what Slaughter game occurs. Please can you state when this happens?
    publications can I use without my opponent’s permission? A: At the end of each Impulse.
    A: You can use the warscrolls for units with a Pitched
    Battle profile listed in the General’s Handbook 2020
    (excluding those listed in the Legends Pitched Battle
    Profiles section) and the warscrolls for units with a
    Pitched Battle profile in a publication that has a release
    date of August 2020 or later.

    In addition, when choosing your army, you can use rules


    from any of the following publications and any that have
    a release date of August 2020 or later:

    • Battletome: Beasts of Chaos


    • Battletome: Blades of Khorne
    • Battletome: Cities of Sigmar
    • Battletome: Daughters of Khaine
    • Battletome: Disciples of Tzeentch
    • Battletome: Flesh-eater Courts
    • Battletome: Fyreslayers
    • Battletome: Gloomspite Gitz
    • Battletome: Hedonites of Slaanesh
    • Battletome: Idoneth Deepkin
    • Battletome: Kharadron Overlords
    • Battletome: Legions of Nagash
    • Battletome: Lumineth Realm-lords
    • Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle
    • Battletome: Nighthaunt
    • Battletome: Ogor Mawtribes
    • Battletome: Orruk Warclans
    • Battletome: Ossiarch Bonereapers
    • Battletome: Seraphon
    • Battletome: Skaven
    • Battletome: Slaves to Darkness
    • Battletome: Stormcast Eternals
    • Battletome: Sylvaneth
    • Warhammer Age of Sigmar Core Book
    • Soul Wars: Forbidden Power
    • Wrath of the Everchosen
    • General’s Handbook 2020
    • Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Malign Sorcery (endless spell
    warscrolls only)
    • Compendium: Monstrous Arcanum (excluding Legends
    Pitched Battle profiles)
    • Compendium: Legion of Azgorh
    • Tome Celestial: The Hammerhands – White Dwarf
    February 2019
    • Tome Celestial: Steel Souls – White Dwarf April 2019
    • Tome Celestial: The Vostarg Lodge – White Dwarf June
    2019

    Warhammer Age of Sigmar – General’s Handbook 2020, Designers’ Commentary 2

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