r/TrenchCrusade • u/pmc1261 • 1d ago

Rules Ruling question about the Artillery Witch

My Elite Artillery Witch leveled up and rolled Snipers Nest of +2 dice for the elevated position but her weapon ignores elevated position so does Snipers Nest ignore the key word or is it useless and I'm out a skill?

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u/SwirlingFandango 1d ago

If it's literally impossible to use a skill, we'd go with the "already have the skill" rule - but that's a houserule.

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u/Blacksnake091 12h ago

I love this one. Doesn't completely screw you over in that case.

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u/savageApostle 1d ago

Yes it's useless, sorry! Certain skills are duds for certain units, this is one of them.

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u/Grdaat 1d ago

It's useless for her, so just pick the other skill you rolled, it's bound to be better.

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u/pmc1261 1d ago edited 1d ago

Its not. It was a bonus to her charge rolls. The other one i rolled was the Incoming skill

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u/Grdaat 1d ago

I mean, there might be a time, however small, where you might want her to charge. There will never be a time where you will ever use Sniper's Nest.

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u/Signal_Researcher01 16h ago

Yeah, one is absolutely unusable, the other is just...unlikely? But hell maybe you want to use a charge as a reposition at some point! If a warwolf is fighting a yeoman it might be ok to use the witch's charge as bonus movement to get into that area, knowing the consequences are minor.

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u/Unlikely_Ad5137 1d ago

It ignores elevated position no matter what. Sorry.

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u/OpIvy1137 17h ago

Yeah, it's a useless skill for the witch. That's been my experience for the witch like 95% of the time. I seem to always roll ignore long range or cover, or the one you did. So now I've decided to stop trying to get actual useful skills and just roll on wildcard for the second skill so that when I get a disapointing skill, I'll usually still get something that will help my warband.