Independent National Warhammer 40,000 Tournament FAQ
A group of players from DakkaDakka joined forces to tackle the problem of poor FAQ/errata updating from Games workshop, and came up with a totally unofficial FAQ that addresses various known unresolved rules issues currently prevalent.
They resolve these issues by either following and clarifying RAW; or by making judgments where RAW is confusing, 'unfun' or just plain wrong; or by reversals of official GW FAQs. All these methods are noted next to each rule issue so you can see how the ruling decision has been reached.
The FAQ is divided into sections covering the main Rulebook, individual Codex queries, subdivided in the Space Marine's case into smaller Chapter sections, the Forge World Imperial Armour series, and the two 40,000 Expansions. There is quite a lot of ground covered and although some might argue the conclusions of one or two rulings given, no one can take away the fact that at last, an up to date FAQ has been methodically produced that tackles these things head on in their entirety.
"This FAQ is a completely 100% independent (unofficial) Q&A list for the game of Warhammer 40,000 4th edition. It isn't meant to replace the Games Workshop official FAQs (which can be downloaded from:
http://us.games-workshop.com/errata/errata.htm in any way, and in fact the issues addressed by the GW FAQs aren’t included in this document.The purpose of this FAQ is to give players advance knowledge of how tournament judges will be ruling the myriad of tricky situations that arise in games of 40k at the event they are planning to attend."
The FAQ was written and edited by Jon “yakface” Regul from the DakkaDakka forum, with the a ruling council comprised of Jon “yakface” Regul, Bill “Centurian 99” Kim, Jeff Chua, Hank “Muwhe” Edley and Joe Adams.
Produced originally for the US non-GW tournament circuit (used for instance at Adepticon 2008) – this FAQ has become accepted as being the most comprehensive produced and is being adopted by many gaming groups and competition organisers where no better rules authority exists.
I think it is a great initiative and wholeheartedly support it. So spread the word and use the pdf.
