Topic: creating scarabs

[snakeman111]

When the tomb spyder is creating scarab swarms and it rolls a one does it get to take an armor save? This is what it says in the codex;
"Roll D6 for each swarm produced. On a 1, the spyder takes a wound as it is drained by the energy expenditure."
It doest however say take a wound with no armor save so i think that you would get a save. Just wana see whatcha all think.

[Tobab816]

Nope...probally just a print error...but no armor save. Recieving an armor save in this case is just not logical in any way.

[high-avatar]

I agree with Tobab how will some metal (even living metal) protect you from losing power?

[Lecron]

Ok I figured the sam, no armour saves. But I was curious, how many swarms a turn can it make?

[Master Archon]

1 i think but then again I do not play Necrons and do not have the codex.  But I am pretty sure they can only make 1 a turn.

[Lecron]

See I wasn't sure it says they can make a swarm, and that you roll a dice for each swarm created, which made to belive that they could make more then one a turn. Its just so confusing they way they word it.  

[the_mighty_brain]

it's only 1, otherwise you could sit there and have loucky rolls and fill the table with your babies!

[Lecron]

That would be fun though, just tons of scarabs running around.

[warp_spider]

So, if it takes a wound does it do so creating the swarm or instead of creating it?

[Callidus]

In the Codex it says:
"...Rol D6 fro each swar produced. On a 1, the Spyder takes a wound as it is drained by the energy expenditure."
This makes it seem that the swarm is still produced on a roll of a 1, and that you can make how ever many swarms you want in one turn. I dunno. It would seem a little unfair to the other player, becasue then you would have lots of scarab swarms for free. There are a lot of unclear sentences in this codex, along with many other codexes (codi?). Ask someone at a GW store, they seem to know the rules pretty well.

[Tycho]

the tombspider does not get any armour save if he roles a one

[SMiF]

I'm just thinking playing wise if you can create as many scarabs as you wish you'd have to buy a lot of warriors!  Since 1 box only have 4 scarab bases.

So if I were to make like 40...that's a lot of boxes I'll have to buy!

But when you are creating scarabs from tomb spyders, do you have to add points to the game (ie. point restriction)?

[snakeman111]

You can only make one per tomb spyder and they dont count towards your points restrictions.

[Anubis]

I thought it read somewhere in the rulings of the Tombspider that it's "A" (= 1) "base" per turn, just before the assault phase.

Just my 2 cents. And a lot of people on the GW messageboard.

Cheers!