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Yesterday i played a little apoc. with some freinds and i was wondering if it is legal to put mad doc Grotsnik in a Green Tide.
i had a warboss and over 100 boys in a unit. so i dont see any problem with attaching grotskik and giving all of the boys Cybork Bodies. this made for a relativly expesive unit that basically destroyed three times its points worth of Khorn. is this legal. my foes suggested that i should not be able to attach another special character to the tide and thus confer his special Docs tool ability to the entire unit.

There's nothing preventing you from attaching multiple special characters to the same unit, or indeed, to each other. However, there is nothing in Grotsnik's profile that allows you to give the unit he is attached to cybork bodies either. The ability to take the cybork upgrade is a property of the Nobs unit when they upgraded with a Painboy, not a property of the Painboy itself. That said, Grotsnik does confer Fearless and Feel No Pain to the unit without any additional cost, so he's not that bad a deal. The "One Scalpel Short of a Medpack" rule could absolutely kill you though- if your Orks are forced to charge a dreadnaught, you have pretty much wasted the entire unit unless the powerclaws happen to be in the right place.
Also: Green Tide is terrible. You end up with a huge, unweildy unit with too many basic bodies with not enough powerclaws.

I've done this before.

Is it effective? Not at all.

Is it fun? Very much so.

@triggerbaby. Thanks for the eads up. if you check out grotsniks entry it does say that you are allowed to take one unit in your army with cybork bodies for +5 pts.
is this fun. Yes. Effective... sometimes. worthdoing, always.

sennacherib wrote:@triggerbaby. Thanks for the eads up. if you check out grotsniks entry it does say that you are allowed to take one unit in your army with cybork bodies for +5 pts.
is this fun. Yes. Effective... sometimes. worthdoing, always.

Actually if you have the Loon you can give EVERY unit in the army cybork bodies for 5 points each. So if you want you can have 180 cybork Gretchin for 8 points each.

ohhhhhh nasty,.... I never thought of giving it to the gretchin!!!