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Hey all had this idea for Strategic Assets that you could do up an an Army to Army basis for fun. So say ya run a Death Guard army you could take:

Army Specific:
Plague of Flies - As the Plague Fleet descends from orbit the accumulated dietris of hundreds of generations of flies are dropped into the atmosphere. The sky is blotted out and vehicles and flyers engines have trouble getting air.

When Revealed:After deployment

Effect: Rules Changed to Night Fight and every vehicle makes a roll, On a 4+ it stalls and counts as Immobalised for the owners first turn as they purge enough flies from the engine.. If a Skimmer is counted as in the air at the time the pilot has time to land but still counts as immobalised.

I mean its nice and fluffy but probably borked but I imagine a Death Guard army could have fun with it.

Perhaps limit the home made ones to after or during deployment so you aren't half way through a game and suddenly someone plays "Hand of the Emperor" and suddenly you have half your army on the floor as your opponent sweeps them off with the "Hand of the Emperor"

I have had a few ideas so I'll just post them here and see what ya all think of them. Ill try to balance them as much as possible.

General
"String 'em up boyz! Let them see how Orky we is!" - As your army inflicts major casulties on your opponent your army feels the need to let your enemy just how dangerous they truly are.

When Reveals: Continous

Effect: For every opposing squad knocked below 50% in CC and broken or Squad utterly destroyed place a marker on the terrain. This represents an opposing model splayed on a pole for all the world to see. Every friendly squad within 12" gains fearless and any enemy squad attempting to move within 12" must make a morale check.

Probably better for the Orks,Chaos or Dark Eldar in terms of fluffyness.

Army specific
Hand of the Emperor - A giant hand obliterates your opp..... NO!

Hand of the Emperor II - The hand of the Emperor guides and protects. Some call it a fluke,Others say it merely a confluence of coincidence and to the devout,The very will of the Emperor. Whatever you may call it it still means that for one champion of the Emperor he may shrug off the most debilitating wound to continue the fight for his Emperor.

When Revealed: Once on the apparent death of an Independent Character

Effect: When an Independent Character is reduced to 0 wounds or suffers Instant Death this asset allows the IC to remain instead with 1 wound. This ends the current close combat that the IC is involved in (Both sides are in awe of the golden halo which envelops him). If the IC died in shooting he may not be targetted again in that shooting phase but may be assaulted as normal.

Ok broken utterly but had to be done. Plus it might save you a Vortex grenade.

EDIT: General tidiness and realisation I created ones which defy my own constraint for post deployment only assets

Hey Voodoo. Great ideas! I was hoping the Ladz would have a thread based on 'Datafaxes'.


Great idea about the assets.

Ohh getting my hands on some Dakka datafaxes would be pretty cool

There was no need to give 2 Hand's of the emperor the first 1 was the best I try it tonight...

(Several hours later) Well it's not looking good I in court right now for murder and my only defence is a game told me to do it... Well I could always plead insanity?
and that is how wargames were officially banned

Well I thought it was funny...

I wash my hands of any responsibility for Aristotle's actions. Time to play the "Extraction to non-extradition country" Strategic asset

Also anyone wanna throw some ideas for a "Chapel of the Gods" Asset/Datafax? Was thinking of an immobile vehicle (AV13 all around) that is basically a dark chapel to the chaos gods(Or the Emperor for that matter). And that if you take the chapel and 5 priests(Basically models dedicated to one god) you gain bonuses for your army but I can't think of anything interesting beyond the obvious Icon effects + something.

Any Ideas?

I like the Hand of the Emperor one. It's very cool. I could see a great Marine Captain going down in combat, only to be revived by that.

But for a whole Strategic Asset, I'd make it more interesting. Full Wounds restored, or maybe D3 wounds restored. Just to avoid him being mulched a turn later, ruining the effect of his heroic return to life.

BYE

Hmm makes sense man, Nice idea, Say 1+D3 Wounds (Or full wounds whichever is smaller)