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GW: Special Characters in games...

  • 22-10-2001 3:34pm
    #1
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just following up on something Digi_Tilmitt had posted:
    a lot of my army is made up of Special people.
    Now, I'm not a fan of Speshul Karacters :) in games (the points can be better spend I think).

    How many of you find themselves using them in armies? Do you find they have much of an impact?

    The way I see it is this:
    You're not allowed them in tournaments and competitons, so why practice with them full time? They're fun to add into an army for a one-off or a scenario you've created yourself, but if given the choice between 2 squads of Guardians and a regular farseer or 1 squad and Eldrad Ulthran, I know where I'm gonna be spending the points!

    A special character is precisly that! They have no business being a regular part of an army less than 5000 points - think about it. They're not going to be off fighting in small little 1500 point skirmishes when there's a planetary war on! They're gonna be at the front lines where the fighting's thickest (unless they're a skirmish/small scale specialist like the Rambo type in Codex Catachan). They also attract so much attention and on a small scale, you can't really afford to loose such a points investment to a stray heavy weapons shot - I have no problem letting rip with bright lances or rail guns at a force commander/whatever - I want him dead and I want those victory points!

    Thoughts/opinions?


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  • #2
    Kairo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Kairo


    I dunno...back in the old days of 40k. I used have use one team of veteran assualt troopers and the rest special characthers (Blood Angels) + a few extras. Dante and Mephisto whomped all around them. :D


  • #3
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Never use Special Characters normally, although the models are excellent!


    I find them at their best when both sides are limited to 1 as a general, for a 3000+ game. That way they can give some more character, but generally cancel each other out if you put a points restriction on the character, 500 pts or somesuch.


    Also, I absolutely hate these personal custom-made special characters that just happen to exactly fill the gaps in a player's army!


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