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Hi guys, I have made some fan rules for Commissar Lords and Commissars, hence the title:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27968745/Commissar-Lord-and-Commissars

My reasoning behind these changes:
1. First and most importantly, Commissars have lost a lot of their intensity. They used to be ridiculously bad ass and now, well, they're not.
I mean seriously, only LD9 and stubborn? Let's get real here, they deserve LD 10. They've been hyper indoctrinated into the Imperial cult.

2. Going off #1, I've given the Commissars better stats. Why? Because they're pretty much my favorite Imperial Guard character. Secondly, they kind of deserve it.
You'd think that these utter badasses would have a bit better than 1 wound, don't you? Well that's good, because they do. They still get killed pretty easily but not as easily as before. Str4 also puts them at a superhuman level-which I feel that they always had been.

2a. My favorite decision thus far was to give the Commissar Lord T3(4). This means that he is as 'tough' as an Imperial Space Marine, but he will still be instantly killed by STr6 weapons. So he's tougher than the normal human but against high strength weaponry he's going to be instantly killed where a Space Marine would not be.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

Skinnattittar wrote:Commissars can't buy Bolt pistols? Besides that, they should be S3. I get what you're saying, but they are still humans and not jacked monsters like Bragg, Harker, or a Space Marine. Lastly, give the Commissar Lord Eternal Warrior. For a 70pt T3 model they shouldn't be getting Insta-Killed all the time. Or make them T4(3).

What the hell is T4(3)??!!?? For purposes of Instant Death they are T4, but for purposes of wounding they are Toughness 3!

Whoops...missed the bolt pistol.

I like the T4(3). I would also really at least like to keep lords at S3(4) or something of the sort. How's that sound?

Skinnattittar wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:I would also really at least like to keep lords at S3(4) or something of the sort. How's that sound?

I just don't know how you would justify it. The only characters that I know of that are S3+ in the current IG Codex is Straken with his mechanical body and Harker with being ridiculously huge! While I'm sure Commissar Lords are strong in their own right, I don't know if they are Harker size or mechanically dependent like Straken.

Blah. Oh well. It just feels kind of lame. But I imagine that I'm kind of alone on that, haha.

-yay doubleposts!-