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I MISSED grav guns in the latest editions. Not sure what the fuss was about... But that Graviton Gun for Tech priests and squat engineers was my go to weapon to take down vehicles and super chaos characters.

I think characters hit with it could still shoot or at least fight in hth but without movement....even with a warp jump generator you essentially took out their big piece.

I miss the Ancestor Lord. As tough as any lord in hth, slow as hell, and some of the best psychic powers in the game.

And he made the strategy rating of your army better by d3!!
I guess he had good and bad days lol

I know they could use psychic powers... Not sure about shooting. Maybe his tyrant was only tooled out for close combat. Either way, he was livid... =)

These sort of things do occasionally still happen - just watched a game the other day where a Knight threw a sentinel into a Shadowsword for it's final three wounds. And of course, it exploded. Pretty amusing, but still not as spectacular as some 2nd ed events

Techmarines could take three wargear cards. They were our preferred vortex grenade and graviton gun delivery systems either with a warp jump generator or on an Imperial jetbike

tsk tsk....Graviton gun is for Tech priests and squat engineers only....I guess Mars did not want to share all the goodies with the Tech Marines.

but yeah....take a warp jump and bionic arm and you can throw that vortex grenade just about anywhere.

Just becareful of super heavy tanks or titans. They all came equipped with Vortex Detonators or would wargear up!

It was fun to see some vortex go off and piss off your opponent. Then they had that look of shame for bringing it to the game!

I just been reading up on Rad grenades....they seem very deadly for imperial agents to take if used correctly.

Rad grenades could be horrible. Blight grenades too. T3 dudes really hated you for those.


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We didn't know anybody with a super heavy or a titan, except my Tempest but I don't think we had more Info than the basic data card for using it.
That was an Eldar tank adapted from Epic scale as most of the supers were. Iirc it had twin pulse lasers, twin shuriken cannon, and six shuriken catapults.

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We didn't know anybody with a super heavy or a titan, except my Tempest but I don't think we had more Info than the basic data card for using it.
That was an Eldar tank adapted from Epic scale as most of the supers were. Iirc it had twin pulse lasers, twin shuriken cannon, and six shuriken catapults.

I had a full squadron of 3 of them. I bought all my Lords of War in the same formations they operated in epic. So 2 Revenants and 3 tempests formed my battleformations.

If you used Crystalline Web on the Tempest it could be one of the most powerful tanks in 2nd. I once had 3 Tempests with almost no Wargear and my pal had a Single Tempest maxed out with Wargear cards and ended up costing more than 2 of mine.

In the End it was mutal destruction but he took out all 3 of mine and I had only crippled his.

My first use of my Revenant met the same fate vs his super buffed up Tempest in a game as well.

I miss the Tempest as a Main battle line tank in 40k.

The Falcon is at best a light tank like the Razorback. The Fire Prism is our only mid grade tank for Eldar and really only has 1 loadout. The Scorpion and Cobra are extra large super heavies. The Tempest would be a great fit in current 40k as it was weaker than a ShadowSword but stronger than a Land Raider.....so a pure Main Line Battle Tank. It was perfect for 2nd ed and it would be awesome for 8th. Only the Lynx is close to it in stats...but the stupid lumbering flyer rule makes it less than preferred.