For those days when Skyclaws need a little extra “oomph”
Seriously, what’s not to like about 5 S5 attacks on the charge, ignoring armour, with a 3++ save. Ouch.
Plus that quiet, evil heretical voice says I could maybe get away with using him as a Sanguinor proxy *coughcoughSpaceBloodAngelWolvescoughtcough*
Bored of these guys yet? :)
Yeah I built a few more. having picked up a box of assault marines, combined with some scavengable parts I’ve managed to make enough that I can choose to field either a whole big mob of ten, or two mobs of five.
I’ve always loved jump pack marines, and just how dynamic you can make them with the current kit is awesome. these four were made with that kit and some SW pack box parts, with a little GS fur here and there.
These last three were bitzbox scavenged, as such they are more static, but I feel that as a mob they compliment each other quite well.
Of course my brain is still shouting at me that if I buy a pair of stormravens and convert up another Aobr Dread i’ve got a 1500 pt blood angels list… or rather SpaceBloodAngelWolves.
How can you bear to read my Heresies?
Often i find myself in three-ways. I’m sure a lot of us do.
Okay, my partner is looking at me funny now.. I’m talking of course about those 40k games where there's three of you round a table.
Now it’s me experience that in a three-way the guy in the middle gets it, literally, from both sides.
Okay, schoolboy innuendo aside it is difficult, and often unfair given the deployments that we have in the brb. last time I found myself in this situation i tried something different and I wrote a scenario to try and redress some of the issues.
“His Name Is Mudd.”
Imperial requisitions officer Harry Mudd has been a very naughty boy.
He’s been selling secrets and imperial goods and codes to both the Tau and Eldar. Then hes been selling Tau movements to Eldar, and Eldar to Tau.
Tsk tsk.
Suffice to say he’s a wanted man, and each side wants him alive.. in order to find out just how much he’s divulged.
Harry is currently on Rourke 11, refuelling and about to run into the fringe worlds. He’ll be gone in 5-7 turns.
Each side in the running has to detain Harry and call for extraction. Coincidentally that will take 5 turns…
Table kinda looked like this – everyone was equidistant from Harry at the start of the game
MISSION PARAMETERS
1200 pts per side.
Harry starts by his ship, equal distances from each force.
Harry can be detained my making base contact during a turn. On the next turn Harry will move with the squad or vehicle he has joined (Harry can join any vehicle or unit that is not mindless or subject to stupidity, regardless of transport capacity. Harry is assumed to be unceremoniously grabbed, stowed or otherwise inconvenienced)
Harry cannot be directly targeted (wounds cannot be allocated to him) but he can still be injured by blast (if everyone is hit, so it harry) or template weapons (if he falls directly under the template)
If the unit holding harry is killed, Harry will make a run for his ship. Harry moves 12” per turn at the end of the turn, beginning with the turn he escapes. (if at any time harry is not being detained he moves back to the middle of the board)
Victory conditions
If a unit hold harry for five turns, they successfully extract him and win.
If no one holds him for long enough, whoever has him at the end of the game wins
If no-one holds him at the end of the game, the force that held him longest wins.
If harry is killed, no one wins and the game is a draw
Now don’t get me wrong this wasn't perfect and we made a few tweaks as we went along, but all in all it made a nice change from a normal game, and it had the distinct advantage of making it so the person being “ganged up on” was the guy in possession of Harry, rather than just the guy in the middle.
I also tried it with an oddly shaped table, kinda like a “T”, which worked quite well too.
So yeah.. moral of the story.. it’s your game, write stuff, experiment with stuff. dont be a slave to the brb.
I’d love to hear ways you guys change the game to fit your circumstances. as a guy who teaches game design, it actually does interest me.
