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 Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:09 pm
Ah yes, Special Characters. The new way to have 'non-vanilla' armies. "Want two plasma weapons in one squad? Better take [insert character]. Want Deepstrike for your whole army? Take [insert another character here]."
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:20 pm
My god...
Have you guys seen the rumors on the new Salamanders Special Character? He's going to become one of the most used characters in the game from the way I see it. Seriously, all Flamer variants and Melta variants becoming Twin Linked for free? Tshveet.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:16 pm
I'm not sure how I feel about the new rules for these characters, altering the entire army. Why not have them be seperate, that way if you don't want to pay for everything to be twin-linked, you don't have to.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:39 pm
Xenos Mortium I'm not sure how I feel about the new rules for these characters, altering the entire army. Why not have them be seperate, that way if you don't want to pay for everything to be twin-linked, you don't have to.
As far as I saw it, those weapons that I mentioned became twin linked for free.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:08 pm
Xenos Mortium I'm not sure how I feel about the new rules for these characters, altering the entire army. Why not have them be seperate, that way if you don't want to pay for everything to be twin-linked, you don't have to. Seems like the way they're blancing the Specials in the new Space Marine codex is that the baseline Force Commander grants the force a number of army-wide abilities. When you take a special character, you lose out on the base abilities in exchange for the special characters army-wide abilities.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:33 pm
Oryn Seems like the way they're blancing the Specials in the new Space Marine codex is that the baseline Force Commander grants the force a number of army-wide abilities. When you take a special character, you lose out on the base abilities in exchange for the special characters army-wide abilities. So I've heard. I just like the way things are currently done, where you buy the upgrades for the army, rather than having ICs grant them. With Space Marines for instance, what if you want to take a Librarian rather than Force Commander? If they grant seperate abilities to the army, what if I want one commander and another attribute for the army? I prefer freedom. @Caleidah- Well, it's "free". You still have to pay the point cost when you buy the Special Character.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:45 pm
Ah, such is what I meant, Xenos. Oh well, though. One thing that I'd like to see would be a whole bloody slew of characters for the Imperial Guard. They have a painfully small number supported in Codex, whereas they should have dozens.
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:15 pm
Mephiston for the win. He rocks and so bad assed. He rocks in torunments.
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:40 pm
GreenRose25 Mephiston for the win. He rocks and so bad assed. He rocks in torunments. Hm, what army is he for?
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:11 pm
DarkElf27 GreenRose25 Mephiston for the win. He rocks and so bad assed. He rocks in torunments. Hm, what army is he for?
Mephiston is Blood Angels. He's their Chief Librarian, it would seem, and he's got some fairly sweet stuff going for him. Now I'm jealous of the power Wings of Sanguinus. (It allows whatever uses it to move as its flying counterpart. Foot infantry -> Jump Infantry, Bike -> Jetbike)
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:33 pm
Inquisitor Lord Torquemada Corteaz!
kthxbai.
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:48 pm
Dragonzealot Inquisitor Lord Torquemada Corteaz!
Is a pimp?
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:20 am
FlashbackJon That's my beef right there - the background. I like them as iconic characters and all, but to me that's how they ought to stay, not in every kid's 1500 point army. Similarly, I wouldn't object if someone converted a model, made up their own backstory, and fielded it 'counting as' a special character, balanced or no. that reminded me of yugioh i dont know how many of you played yugioh but i did for a while and i remember kids saying "oh my god i have a blue eyes white dragon" "i do too!" "me too!" "i do as well..." "yah, same" "uhh... i guess there not all that great huh?" in the show there was only like, 3 of them and here they are handing out these things in every starter pack made me chuckle you have a very good point
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:25 pm
Neogoth666 FlashbackJon That's my beef right there - the background. I like them as iconic characters and all, but to me that's how they ought to stay, not in every kid's 1500 point army. Similarly, I wouldn't object if someone converted a model, made up their own backstory, and fielded it 'counting as' a special character, balanced or no. that reminded me of yugioh i dont know how many of you played yugioh but i did for a while and i remember kids saying "oh my god i have a blue eyes white dragon" "i do too!" "me too!" "i do as well..." "yah, same" "uhh... i guess there not all that great huh?" in the show there was only like, 3 of them and here they are handing out these things in every starter pack made me chuckle you have a very good point
Holy crap, a pertainant Yu-Gi-Oh reference. I tip my hat to you.
I really hope that GW releases another system to create your own special characters with traits and whatnot.
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:14 pm
Caleidah Holy crap, a pertainant Yu-Gi-Oh reference. I tip my hat to you.
I really hope that GW releases another system to create your own special characters with traits and whatnot. Well, they're a bit dated, but I'll throw them up again; The Hero Creation Rules are up on Rapidshare once more.
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