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 Tamwulf wrote:
What's so bad about charging into close combat, unholstering the heavy bolter pistol, shooting it, then reholstering it and then fisting bad guys? Makes me think the pilot of an Invictus War Suit is bad- !

That part is not the issue.

The issue is the invictor pilot doing all that while any other dread cannot just point their fist at an enemy in the shooting phase then punch them as basically 3-4 motions(raise fist and fire, pull fist back, punch). While the invictor, when already engaged, has to: unholster, raise and fire, reholster, pull back, punch.

Bertbert: sort of? You would have to trim the pivot posts off the upper plate and glue it on place. Frankly,plasticard over the bars would be much easier.

not everyone spams the max number of units you can.

BrianDavion wrote:
and besides, mechs holding guns in their hand is a loong serving tradtion in the mecha genre.

Spoiler:

just for example.

Hey, you said guns! That first one is called an Axe man.

I feel like I have waited all my life for that one.

You know, I avoided this thread here for a bit but now that I've seen it.

You have a point, it is pretty dumb that the dread can't use the under slung guns to shoot in CC like a pistol considering it literally is under the arm that he'd be squishing smashing people with.

I think its just they don't want dreads to be too cool and the mushy mush head designers haven't thought on it, or couldn't be bothered to give cool new rules to old models. As honestly it makes no sense, unless you're saying with this old dreads would become " OP " at which point, I would mock you for heresy.

 oni wrote:
While I like the model overall, it really has grown on me, the heavy bolter pistol is levels of stupid my brain just cannot comprehend so..

The heavy bolter pistol is so ridiculous, it's easily my favorite thing from 40K in literally years.

Count of 3 we draw, pardner

 Insurgency Walker wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
and besides, mechs holding guns in their hand is a loong serving tradtion in the mecha genre.

Spoiler:

just for example.

Hey, you said guns! That first one is called an Axe man.

I feel like I have waited all my life for that one.

I'm sorry is this image better?

 Stevefamine wrote:
The model is terribly cartoonish and has cartoonish rules. 40k is a grimdark comedy

Chainswords are hilarious

Chainswords are real - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gj8pAN7Y7E

Breton wrote:

 Stevefamine wrote:
The model is terribly cartoonish and has cartoonish rules. 40k is a grimdark comedy

Chainswords are hilarious

Chainswords are real - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gj8pAN7Y7E

sure they dressed up a chainsaw with some teeth, no one's saying thats impossiable, when someone says a chainsword is rediculas and over the top what they mean is the idea of weilding one would be.