Could someone please explain the special abilities of House Liao according to the new rules. I have been in an arguement with someone during two games. I am afraid it will stop us from playing games together. Thanks in advance.

Awe- half your build total has to be elite units of liao. You can roll 1 D6 a turn and if you get a 6 your opponet has one less action the next turn.

Ruthlessness- When a liao peice targets a green unit they get +1 damage to it and half to kill it before they move on to a different target.

Fanatasicm-if a liao unit dies within 12 inches of another liao unit that liao unit gets a click of health (not the dead liao peice) this does not go through repair markers

A couple of clarifications:
AWE-You roll the 1d6 at the beginning of your opponent's turn. On a roll of 6, your opponent loses 1 order that turn.

Ruthlessness-The Liao unit that attacked the green unit must target that green unit until it can no longer be targeted. This means if the green unit becomes a passenger, destroyed, or the Liao unit is based by another enemy unit. All attacks are damage +1 to green units.

Fanaticism-Any Liao unit within an 8" radius of the destroyed Liao unit, that is not at it's starting click or a repair marker, can repair one click. If multiple Liao units are destroyed by the same attack, i.e. by artillery or anti-personnel, only one click of healing is applied, not one for each unit.

Only Awe is tied to the elite units. The other two are used by any Liao unit.

Hope that helps!

And dont forget that Liao Abilites are NOT optional- You must use any that you can.

Awe is based on the BUILD total- Even after you kill the elites and they have just a few ATVs you still roll for it.

Missed the part about the nonstackability of Fanaticsm- should tone our Liao player down abit

How does it work if a faction pure Liao player is fighting against another faction pure Liao player? Does AWE still work? I find it kind of funny to think that you'd be thrown into confusion by the sight of your own units...

Awe still works in Liao vs Liao.

For Ruthlessness, the attacking Liao unit must be Elite. All subsequent attacks must be against that unit for the rest of the game by that Liao unit if your attack succeeds. The attack does +1 Damage (Still reduced to 1 for Energy attacks against Infantry). If the unit you shot...
A) Goes into a transport,
B) Dies,
C) Is not in base contact with you and you have a different opposing unit in base contact with you,
you no longer have to attack it.

For the Awe ability, half of your entire build total must be Liao (so, 450 pt game = 225, 600 = 300, etc.). You get one roll for every 'at least half of 450 pts' of Elite Liao units (450 pt game, 225 pts of Elite Liao = 1 Awe, 600 pt game, 300 pts of Elite Liao = 1 Awe, 900 pt game, 450 pts of Elite Liao = 2 Awe)

Fanatacism is when ANY Liao unit dies, all Liao units within 8" of its center dot receive 1 click of Repair. It still stops at repair markers if that applies. Also, if multiple Liao units die in one attack (Artillery, AnP, etc.) only 1 click of Repair is given.

Ruthlessness does not require an Elite unit.

Yeah, only Awe mentions elite units.