Nemesor wrote:WARNING: my new rulebook is yet to arrive! (wtf gw!!!)
Well, lets face the facts. TH/SS are one of the most over powered units in the game. The are only slightly worse than necron sword and board lychguard for at least 10 points less. Many units are better than TH/SS Shep, but none are on a point for point basis. For example a khorne termie lord with a daemon weapon can deal something insane like 15 hits a turn that are power weapon attacks and it also attacks first. But the fact of the matter is that this unit is 155 points on its own. A lord could also have mon and deal up to nine poisoned attacks wounding on a 4+ which, while not great against termies is the difference between, well, quite alot when you are fighting a wraithlord. You could also have a mon daemon weapon biker lord. Or a daemon prince with mon and warptime, or a dp with mot and bolt of change, warptime and wings to just fly around and pick your termies off from 24 inches away before finishing the battle at a later date whenever it suits the opposing player. What about the 500+ point necron royal court lord deathstar with a 5 2+/3++/4+++ at strength seven powerweapon, I2, still hitting before your precious th/ss as well as an overlord who is the same but has 3 wounds. hell together that unit would have 19 s7 attacks on the charge. I'd like to see 15 th/ss termies take that.
Or vargard obyron with ws6, s7, a3 and a bonus attack up to 6 bonus attacks for every attack the enemy unit fails to hit with. That guy could take 5 th/ss on his own. So on the off chance that the termies even wound obyron, the next turn round he can just teleport away and kill something else =O. SO with only about half of the cc bruisers in only 2 seperate codexes we have proven that th/ss aren't as invincible as they are made out to be, though they are still a choice as solid as, well, a terminator. Any questions Children?