Why new Reanimation Protocols is a better rule than Deathly Invocation 

It should get an FAQ and probably even an errata. If it does work so you can do both then the healing makes more sense. Your range of total healing goes from 1,2, or 6 to 4,5, or 6 (for fell bats) and from 1 or 4 to 3 or 4 (for dire wolves and black knights). This is the main reason I think it might be rules as intended. Problem is it's not really written that way. Imagine you have a rule that's like "when this unit fights, you may retreat instead". If you give that unit +1 attack it doesn't get to make one attack and then retreat. It still either fights (with +1 attack) or retreats (and makes no attacks). That's basically how this is written. You EITHER heal OR return models and you can't add returned models to a heal any more than you can add attacks to a retreat. The difference is that the rules spell out the attacks example more precisely but it's the same English so it's hard to argue that the heal AND return interpretation is RAW. Thanks for the input :D

Cheers! If you haven't played 3rd edition yet I recommend it. The current GHB is a bit odd though but it's set to rotate out in about a month.

Glad it's not just me! 😄