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Dear Matt Ward,

Thank you for talking the British into letting us win the war. Without you, we never would have gained our independance.

Good day,

George Washington

Dear Jedi Master Ward,

Thank you, we do, for the force. A powerful ally it is.

Codexes: SM, BA, GK, also....how you get so good, writing books of this kind?

May the Force Be with you,

Yoda

seejay wrote:so what's this thing about grey knights killing SoB's?

page 15 codex grey knights.
Thank you mr Ward for the hours of entertainment I have gotten reading all the Wardrage.

Ugh,

Me thank. Wheel good.

Grok

Dear Matt Ward,

Thank you for creating the universe, it was a big help.

Sincerely,
God

Thank you Matt Ward for... something... I just need to find it first...

Brother SRM wrote:

Maelstrom808 wrote:I'm not a fan of his fluff, but at least he writes better rules than Cruddace.

Explain? Codex: IG is great. Codex: Tyranids is a bit of a mess, but the Guard codex is a book that can be fluffy and powerful at the same time.

He did decent on the IG book and I give him credit for that. There are areas that are still pretty bad, like most of the elite section, rough riders and Mogul, deathstrike, etc, but overall it's a fairly nice dex...like you said, top tier powerlevels, flexible, and still generally fluffy. Nids were such a train wreck though that he's gonna have to work pretty hard to redeem himself in my eyes (not that my opinion means anything). Ward on the other hand, has consistantly produced fairly solid rules on every dex he's done...even if the fluff has been trash. He's had some rough units as well, but not nearly as bad as Cruddace has done.

Dear Mr. Ward,

Thank you for giving me an exosuit I can wear while I'm in my exosuit so I can be in an exosuit while I'm in my exosuit.

~ Dreadknight Pilot

NO GOD NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Dear Brother Ward,

Thank you for inventing The Immortal God Emperor Of Mankind.

Without you, humans would not be alive.

Space marine.

Maelstrom808 wrote:He did decent on the IG book and I give him credit for that. There are areas that are still pretty bad, like most of the elite section, rough riders and Mogul, deathstrike, etc, but overall it's a fairly nice dex...like you said, top tier powerlevels, flexible, and still generally fluffy. Nids were such a train wreck though that he's gonna have to work pretty hard to redeem himself in my eyes (not that my opinion means anything). Ward on the other hand, has consistantly produced fairly solid rules on every dex he's done...even if the fluff has been trash. He's had some rough units as well, but not nearly as bad as Cruddace has done.

What's so bad about the Deathstrike? To me it seems like a fun, if somewhat inefficient toy. Rough Riders and Mogul I'll agree with you on.

Dear Matt Ward,

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Sincerely,

Dolphins

Thank you Matt Ward for giving me two codices worth of toilet paper to wipe with.

Pyrovores can be a fun toy too. It doesn't mean that they are something I'd take in any game I was serious about winning. 160pts for something that while very nasty, is a one shot weapon that you don't really have any control of when you get to use it and can be shut down pretty easily just does not fit my idea of a competative unit.


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Dear Matt Ward,

So long and thanks for all the dolphins.

Sincerely,

The Japanese

Brother SRM wrote:

Maelstrom808 wrote:I'm not a fan of his fluff, but at least he writes better rules than Cruddace.

Explain? Codex: IG is great. Codex: Tyranids is a bit of a mess, but the Guard codex is a book that can be fluffy and powerful at the same time.

It has many of the same problems that Tyranids do actually, primarily some "wtf" (stormtroopers, Ogryns, penal legion) and pointless units (deathstrike for example, if not an ICBM, then at least an intermediate ballistic missile, having no place in a company scale tabletop wargame, in addition to being hugely useless) and awful internal balance, but it's also got enough good stuff to more than make up for it. I'll be interested to see what he does with his next book.

What's "WTF" about Ogryns and Stormtroopers? Stormtroopers are overpriced but that's about it.

Dear Matt Ward,
Thanks for being the best troll ever, writing a cosmically overpowered Daemons book for WHFB, then laughing as you nerf it into the ground in 8th edition, and for the year of ZOMG DEMONS OP ALSDKFJALSDKJFALSKDJFALD that we all remember.
Sincerely,
Nobody in particular

Thank you for the Beatles songs

especially:

It's Been a Hard Grey Knight
Blackbird singing in the Dread of Knight
Maxwell's Thunder Hammer
When I6 T4

Dear Admiral Ward,

Thank you for explaining to me the nature of traps. With your continued help I will avoid them less.

Sincerely,

Admiral Ackbar

But in all seriousness, Ward isn't THAT bad, he just needs to tone it down a bit. If he hadn't gone to that level of OTT, which I mean to be honest, it wouldn't be hard to tone down the fluff/rules of his books a little. But to be fair, Warhammer Armies: Daemons of Chaos makes our relationship openly hostile.

Matt Ward guides us! Matt Ward feeds us!

Brother SRM wrote:What's "WTF" about Ogryns and Stormtroopers? Stormtroopers are overpriced but that's about it.

With stormtroopers, not only are they overpriced, but overburdened with wargear and special rules that their statline just doesn't support and that doesn't synergize well.


Ogryns got a huge stat boost, which they really needed, then a 60% price increase which they really didn't, and despite nearly two decades of fluff describing Ogryns and fearless and immovable troops, they get an Ld reduction to 6/7, making them more prone to breaking than basic Guardsmen squads.

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:Dear Matt Ward,
Thanks for being the best troll ever, writing a cosmically overpowered Daemons book for WHFB, then laughing as you nerf it into the ground in 8th edition, and for the year of ZOMG DEMONS OP ALSDKFJALSDKJFALSKDJFALD that we all remember.
Sincerely,
Nobody in particular

Actually, it was a little over two years. Daemons were released in May 2008, 8E released in summer 2010.

Seriously, we've had how many threads pointing out that STs aren't bad? Just because they're not neccesarily the top choice in a leafblower or aircav list doesn't mean that they're "bad" or "overpowered".

AlmightyWalrus wrote:Seriously, we've had how many threads pointing out that STs aren't bad? Just because they're not neccesarily the top choice in a leafblower or aircav list doesn't mean that they're "bad" or "overpowered".

As a guy who ran an all stormtrooper army in 4E, whose favorite IG unit in terms of fluff is ST's, and has over 200 various ST models (Kasrkin, DKoK Grenadiers, 3E metal Stormtroopers), yes, they're bad as anything other than a minimum sized suicide melta unit. They are merely on par with MEQ's (their designed foe) in a shooting war that cost less than they do and are much better in CC and far more survivable, they get annihilated in CC by anything but Guardsmen equivalent units, and are stuck with cut-range Rapid Fire weapons that prevent them from making synergistic use of their CC wargear that actually might make them mediocre. Yeah, they're good against expensive Eldar infantry. But anything's good against Eldar infantry if you've got the opportunity to directly engage them, you don't need ST's for that. Anything ST's can engage in the backfield (aside from their suicide melta tole), an Ordnance platform can do just as well from across the board and probably be cheaper as well. But that's really not the point of this thread so I'm dropping it here.

Dear Matt Ward,
Thank you so much for the inspiration for my work. I could never achieve the level of pessimism required for my act until I read something you wrote.

George Carlin

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Thank you for the Beatles songs

especially:

It's Been a Hard Grey Knight
Blackbird singing in the Dread of Knight
Maxwell's Thunder Hammer
When I6 T4

WIN


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Dear Matt Ward,
Thank you for becoming the Kwisatz Haderach and gazing with your mind's eye that which the Bene Gesserit can not see.

Troll thread?

AvatarForm wrote:Troll thread?

Ward thread

Every Ward thread is a troll thread

Matt Ward
Thank you for being a troll

Honestly, I kind of do want to thank him. He pretty much overruled all those people who said Grey Knights couldn't be corrupted. People acted like Grey Knights were less corruptable to than Jesus. Now those same people are sticking their fingers in their ears saying "La La La! Not Listening!!!"

Chaos Grey Knights are on their way, covered in blood, and paTROLLing the Universe! Bwah ha ha ha!