Dwarf Longbeards Question

[Trains_Get_Robbed]

Currently building a doubles list for a friend and I when I stumbled across the rules for Longbeards in his book.

They are sweet with the stats boost and all, problem lies under their conditions however: you cannot have more units of Dwarf Warriors than Longbeards -unless you have a King .

This being said, later in the book you are allowed to upgrade a unit to being Rangers for again, additional points. My questions is this:

If I take a unit of Longbeards and upgrade them to Rangers are they still considered Longbeards?

Are Rangers they're own separate entity, thus essentially allowing one to "bypass" the Dwarf Warrior unit restrictions that are normally placed on Longbeards? Or instead do the Rangers (or in this case Longbeard-Rangers/Warrior-Rangers) keep their classification of Longbeards, while being Rangers? If so, then isn't this semi-contradictory to the classification of Warriors? Longbeards essentially aren't REALLY Longbeards, but like Rangers with a surname attached to them ie; Longbeard Warriors.

Otherwise this would be a unit entry mess.

[Kalandros]

Q. If a unit of Warriors or Longbeards is upgraded to Rangers, does
the unit continue to count as part of the ratio which restricts players to
not having more units of Longbeards than they have Warriors?
(p33)
A. No.

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_...warfs_V1_3.pdf

[Trains_Get_Robbed]

^^^ Sir you did what I failed to do late last night (3a.m is no excuse on my part) thank you. You are three kinds of awesome.

[Harwammer]

So with a Lord, Jo Bug and the 0-1 Rangers you could technically have three units of longbeards in your army and no basic warriors?

Amusing!

[The bearded one]

You can indeed.

A while back I used an army with 2x50 longbeard rangers and some miners. Amusing after opponents keep complaining dwarfs bunker in the corner of the table and do nothing but shoot