FAQ: Fate cards

Two questions come up regularly in relation to Fate cards. The first is: Why do you get an extra Fate card for having 1 point less than your opponent? We did this because we wanted to encourage people to use their Detachment cards to choose an army rather than rechoosing their entire army each game, and we liked the idea of rewarding people for choosing an army under the agreed points total rather than trying to get it exactly or going over it all the time.

The second question is: Why do you get so many Fate cards? Well, the main function of Fate cards is to give you some re-rolls for firefights and close combats to help counteract any severe bad luck in these critical moments. Secondly, they give psykers their ability to blast opponents at a distance. Hence we decided to give both players a fair number of Fate cards to avoid them being stuck with just novelty ones like Barrage and Forced March (useful as these are).