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Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Frostea — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:27:09 -0000

Some of the units here seems to be overpriced, imo. I.e. Tactical squads. These guys only have 1 base attack 'cept for the sarg. Even with rending, its kinda doubtful they can get back their pointage unless furious charge or/and FNP is given.

In that case, I would figure that they would be quickly slaughtered 'coz AP3 weapons seems to be the new fad with GW (Think hellguns, TS bolters, etc). Furthermore, the ability to use Combat Squads is removed, removing the tactical element with space marines (Read: The ability to run far away from that LR Redeemer)

This is all fine and dandy, 'coz it fits fluff. But gameplay-wise, I'd rather take an already overpriced GK marine than these AoD guys, simply coz they would be overall more effective. Some more tweaking is needed, imo.

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Guta — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:54:29 -0000

hey i heard about this on 40k radio, so i came to get it.

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MechSpacewulf — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:46:44 -0000

Awesome.... thanks. Heard about this on 40K Radio!

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locky — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:36:08 -0000

i dont think you could fit 60 BA's into a list even if you took only tac squads.

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Sathos — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:12:10 -0000

aaah, didnt see that post before I wrote mine, hehe

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Sathos — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:11:18 -0000

aye I agree here that it should be tied to the Chaplain's squad only, even in the fluff...enraged or not space marines are bred as pureblood soldiers therefore they wont be concentrating on the chaplain from another squad a few hundred yards away, they will be focussed on their current objective and their own squad leader so no matter how shiny and wonderful the chaplain is, they wouldnt notice :)

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Sathos — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:07:51 -0000

60 or so marines? in what an apoclypse list lol
please dont take that as a direct insult to your comment I'm just remarking upon the fact that these are relatively high points cost, low number marines, given that I often field around 40 or so marines in a 1500 pointer 60 seems high :)

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

volrath8754 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:47:51 -0000

My only issue with that would be that it wouldn't be a mini Dex it would be a completely new codex unlike this masterpiece which draws heavily upon a parent codex

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Azzy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:44:39 -0000

Y'know, I just wanna field this army so I can yell "black rage" every time I play.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

locky — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:46:07 -0000

fair enough mate and i could understand completely if someone tried to play a fandex in a pick up game i doubt id agree either though if he asked if i wanted to play it and gave me a week notice to familurise myself with it id give it a shot epecially if it was meant to be the crowning glory of a campaign like this is

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Bigred — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:32:39 -0000

The Chaplains ability to minimize the effects of Rage are only for his unit. The 12" bubble is only for Brother-Captains.

Also all the officers don't allow Army of Death units to ignore rage, they still have to move directly towards enemies, just not the closest.

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Eric E — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:43:25 -0000

He's not being uptight, he just doesn't like the list. Its a fearless rending army that can throw down 60 or so marines that'll eat through just about any gunline army out there. What's not to love?
I get that you love your death company. Not many people are that crazy about it. There's a reason there isn't a DC list legal in 5th edition....

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Eric E — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:31:17 -0000

To be honest there's one huge problem with the book.
Rage is somewhat crippling It can be, however you give it a bypass with the Chaplain. Which brings us back to the "overpriced" Assault squads. However, they're not that overpriced and you can spam a lot of troop Assault Squads easily. Imagine running against this list at 1850
2x Chaplain +jump-pack
6x10 Assault Squads
(7x Plasma pistols)

Sixty two jump pack assault marines, rending, fearless. I dont really care whats on the other side of the table. Its going to hit it and go right through it on turn two. The heavy weapon bit doesn't bother me. Bypassing Rage does. If the bypass only worked on the Chaplains squad that'd be a bit more fair. but the 12" bubble is silly.

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

SinSynn — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:11:53 -0000

That is so true...and so sad.....GW should spend more time balancing the codexes, even if they had to release a 'supplement' codex for an update every year or so, anything would help. Seriously.
I agree that some armies do unbalance the game. The aforementioned infamous "nob Biker' list, Nidzilla, Flying Circus [Eldar Harlequinn list], 'Double Lash of Submission/Demon Prince' Chaos list, and even Raven Wing can be really, really rough for even a mech Tau player such as myself, or anyone, really. There's a reason a couple of those list dominate the top 50 finishers at every GT, and it's because those lists are unbalanced. I hate facing those lists. I don't want to face another, hence my objection to THIS fandex. I love some of the many, many Tau fandex-es, or whatever, available out there. The Tau fansites are filled with 'em, and some of them are well thought out, and presented proffesionally, as this one is. I would never expect my opponent to let me run a list from those 'Dex-es, 'cuz the fan-based bias always sneaks in somewhere. It's inevitable. Maybe this fandex isn't insanely unbalanced, but it's so specialized it's crazy. Which is fine for a 'scenario', but would be annoying to play as a pickup game. Like-"Oh jeez, it's the guy with the stabby jumpack list again. I'd rather play the Nidzilla list..."
Great effort, and enjoyable reading, but again, not for me, thanx.

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Andr1231 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:17:17 -0000

Just awesome. The black rage psychopath assault idea is what drew me into Blood Angels recently, and now I get to field an entire army of them! I can see these 'dex tying into the final Apocalypse game of a campaign, the former Blood Angels (now an Army of the Death) holding a gap against huge odds. Its such an epic idea! I never knew Games Workshop had any sort of list like this in the past, either. My kudos to you for a fluffy and fun list!

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

LordNurgle — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:29:37 -0000

i could totally see a crazed blood angel librarian climb onto the back of a hirophant and just cut it to pieces. heck, even jump into the things mouth and fight it's way out for the pure "joy" of it

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Patzer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:31:51 -0000

Anonannoyed 3 hours ago "Of course, it would terrible if all the oh-so-serious grown-up people playing with their widdle toy soldiers had to be reminded that the game IS silly fun."

Best comment, ever. And rather true, that.

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Patzer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:29:08 -0000

That's really funny. Because I am hooked up to the great electrical BOLS machine! Douche.

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Patzer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:28:24 -0000

Whatever, man. Please don't come back. No one will miss you.

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WhatThe — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:54:36 -0000

u r teh suxxxor!

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Anonannoyed — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:11:05 -0000

The point is that GW is already looking at that sort of thing. Why do what's going to be done (if they can ever bother to stop pumping out Imperial armies), when you could help out a lot of old farts with lead poisoning?

Of course, it would terrible if all the oh-so-serious grown-up people playing with their widdle toy soldiers had to be reminded that the game IS silly fun.

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

GuyLeD0uche — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:28:30 -0000

It's a shame that you are hooked up to that machine that shoots large amounts of electrical current into your body if you do not visit this site. Oh wait, you arent. If you dislike their work, don't bother coming around.

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Hudson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:05:48 -0000

Nice re-take. Love to see what you could do with the OX or the LaTD... might be best to wait until after May, however.

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

Patzer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:05:23 -0000

If you don't like it don't troll this site. Your posts bore me already. Move along and let the adults play.

Re: 40K PLAY-AID: Army of Death

WhatThe — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:24:05 -0000

Bingo. BOLS is now a cheesefest. From Goatboy on down, or up.

Back in the day, BOLS made a name for itself with the Horus Heresy campaign, since then, they just seem to going down, and down. Goatboy's articles are the worst of the worst.

Thank god I will never meet these meatballs on the field of battle. "0" for sportsmanship.