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Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

Heavy Servitors

Basically giant cyborgs (ogryns or vat-grown artifical life) with weapons wired to them. 

Heavy support choice for IG, Inq or Lost and Damned.  I might require a tech priest in IG forces to take them but probably not since the other armies have nothing similar.

 

WS4, BS3, S5, T4, W3, I3, A2, Ld10, Sv 4+

Base 35 points/model

Squad of 3-5 Heavy Servitors.  Must be armed with either powerfist and heavy weapon or 2 heavy weapons.  Costs as listed, second number is twin-linked.

May move and fire heavy weapons.

Power Fist                    3

Assault Cannon            40 (60)

Heavy Bolter                15 (23)

Lascannon                    30 (45)

Missile Launcher         25 (38)

Multimelta                   25 (28)

Plasma Cannon            30 (45)

Thoughts?  Comments?


 
   
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Alexandria, VA

Must be armed with either powerfist and heavy weapon or 2 heavy weapons

I'd put a comma after "power fist and heavy weapon, ", so it'd read:

Must be armed with either powerfist and heavy weapon, or 2 heavy weapons

That way, it can't be misread as possibly a power fist and 2 heavy weapons.
   
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Sagitarius with a Big F'in Gun





Forget Heavy Servitors, bring back Robots!

 

I was able to resurect the old Robot rules and modify them for 3th ed.  It would be possible to do the same for 4th.  Of course I have to FIND the rules.  They were posted on old-old Dakka and three computers ago for me.

   
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Hyderabad, India

Robots, pah.

This is the Imperium, Imperial design says why bother having someone pick up a shovel when you can lop his arm off and graft on a cyber shovel! You think these people are going to build robots when people are so darn cheap?

 
   
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There's plenty of very old Robot fluff.

When I was doing stuff for the Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus, which became lost in the void, there was a Servitor construction option, similar to the way Gaunts work in Tyranid.  A Servitor could be configured up to 3+SV, two small guns up to storm bolters, one large gun, or two close combat weapons, with the two powerfist option having a rule similar to the two DCCW dreadnaughts.

Of course, fully tooled for combat, they got very expensive, also like Gaunts.  The difference being that they could fill almost any combt role.  To stop them doing stupid things, they needed a Tech Priest Enginseer.

 

 

   
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Greenville

I think you might need to add something like Feel No Pain, or Immune to Instant Death. Otherwise, a PF sarge with ablative wounds will beat the crap out of them with Str8 (MEQ) instakill, or, in a worse situation, they'll get hammered with loads of HB fire (only need six hits to kill a Heavy Serv.) or ML and Lascannon.

Otherwise, they're pretty bestial. I like.

CK

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person, who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill

Black Templars (8000), Imperial Guard (3000), Sanguinary Host (2000), Tau Empire (1850), Bloodaxes (3000) 
   
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Sagitarius with a Big F'in Gun





If they are Servitors then a bionic invulnerable 5+ save would work, at a price.
   
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Posted By Corpsman_of_Krieg on 10/14/2006 2:01 PM
I think you might need to add something like Feel No Pain, or Immune to Instant Death. Otherwise, a PF sarge with ablative wounds will beat the crap out of them with Str8 (MEQ) instakill, or, in a worse situation, they'll get hammered with loads of HB fire (only need six hits to kill a Heavy Serv.) or ML and Lascannon.

Otherwise, they're pretty bestial. I like.

CK



Is that really necessary though?  Making 3 wound creatures who are also immune to instant death seems to be going a bit too far into cheese country.  The fact that infantry can be killed by anti-tank weapons seems fine to me. 

Changing the 4+ save to 5+ invulnerable (and a slightly higher price) would be OK with me but I'd like to hear more opinions about whether or not it's needed.   I've never played nids or even used Ogryns much so I admit I don't know how much of a drawback T4 really is.


 
   
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You could try a different tack and give them one wound, a 5+ invulnerable save AND the 'shooting off bits 'rule used for the Penitent Engine.  Instead of taking wounds, they lose weapons and/or attacks, but can still be Instant Death-ed.

 

When I responded the first time, I missed the 3 wounds bit.

   
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Greenville

Maybe if they were immune to Instant Death, and had a 5+ Inv.

Or maybe not. I just feel as though an opponent with a PF Sarge could lay waste to a squad of these guys (He and his squad would die, but it just would suck to lose 100+ points of models to some punk with a PF and ablative wounds).

CK

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person, who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill

Black Templars (8000), Imperial Guard (3000), Sanguinary Host (2000), Tau Empire (1850), Bloodaxes (3000) 
   
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May be the answer is as simple as 'don't fight him'.
   
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About the weaponry... I'd suggest leaving out the asscans. Even at 40 points a pop, a unit with 4 twin-linked asscans would be hideous. They'd either hide behind terrain or a vehicle turn one, then out they come turn two and.. oy. Admittedly, it's 380pts for the unit but still... oy....
   
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Hyderabad, India

On invulnerable save, how about adding the option of a 1-handed storm sheild for 10 points? Other hand can be a powerfist or heavy weapon.

As for the asscan, Max I think you answer your own question, 380 points, 50% more than a landraider. And vulnerable to S8 instant kills. And only a 24" range. So I see enough of a downside.

Besides, I'm building one now so I have a vested interest

 
   
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The Great State of Texas

-I'd add the option of reaper (twin linked) autocannon. That seems appropriate for a large gun servitor.

Does this unit have transport options? Mayhaps akin to ogryn (takes up two spots in a chimera or rhino).

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
 
   
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

How about giving them a Choppa as an option? That would be a bit more reasonable than a powerfist, which makes them lousy terminator knockoffs.

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Otiose in a Niche






Hyderabad, India

I actually planned to make them non-transportable, I would imagine all the wires and ammo feeds and such make them unsuitable for an APC. Besides as a balance issue I think a transport would make them too powerful since you can drive them up, have them pop out and move and fire heavy weapons into a target.

Of course it might not be too bad, we've already covered the downsides of this unit and a transport is a risk these days.

I think adding autocannons and heavy flamers to the list would be fine.

 
   
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The Great State of Texas

You might have an issue with mobility. Mayhaps:
servitors may:
*move and fire 6in
*move 12in (aka a small vehicle).

They might have an additional cost for a mobility option.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
 
   
Made in in
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Hyderabad, India

I converted one up.  He'll probably be the main gun of my upcoming land raider/imperial temple project but if I ever test these rules here's subject one.

http://www.pbase.com/kidkyoto/inquisition&page=4


 
   
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Hyderabad, India

*double post*


 
   
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Canada

Looks good! The (lack of) head is especially creepy.

I also like the red and yellow 'storm shields' on the shoulders :p

-S

2000 2000 1200
600 190 in progress

 
   
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The Great State of Texas

I am Robby the Robo...erm Crom the Buttkicker. Resistance is futile...

Looks very good. I too like the spotlight head.

-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
 
   
 
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