Astral Hawk, I think we're talking about slightly different things. I highly advocate having your written list on-hand and on top of the table - I just object to having to hand it over to your opponent beforehand and revealing all your 'secrets'.
Like most of you, I use the cool special character models as my regular HQs and such and find it helpful / sportsmanlike to do the following:
- During deployment, call out if your model is representing anything else and anything not WYSIWYG for the game/tournament (e.g. "This is a Farseer, not Eldrad Uthuan, and he has a Singing Spear, not a Witchblade. It's pretty much the same thing, except he can throw it for 12"...).
- When deploying vehicles, I always call out "This is Wave Serpent #1...." This coincides, of course, to how its written on my list and prevents the "shell game" of units suddenly appearing from a vehicle where its most conveniant. My serpents are armed with different weapons too, so it makes them easy to identify should there be suspicion and its keeps everyone honest. I've stopped, in this edition, telling people what unit is inside the Serpent however, as them's the rules.
- If an opponent asks about a special rule while I'm deploying/playing, I'm happy to explain it to them as well as show them the codex. Eldar's full of funky rules.
Anyway, hope this is helpful to someone |