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Looks like we got some apoc data sheets and this one cracked me up

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1230511a_NEW!_Imperial_Guard_Datasheet_-_Deathstrike_Vortex_Missile

"Don't even think about making any form of a save, your eternal warrior, and any other special rules either. Just remove them!"

That's the normal Vortex rules. And it's what the Deathstrike should have always been since the beginning - an Apoc-only unit firing Titan-scale missiles.

I'll take 10 of them!

And it should have a mandatory tech priest not a commissar but that's quibling.

*single manly tear*

It's... beautiful...

another IG big stick coming up! yes sir! Heheheheh

its total points is only 600 and it could kill several baneblades at once...

Words cannot describe the awesome.

It did make me go ZOMGWTFBBQ. Seems like they're really trying to push the new sales of the model. I gotta say though, next apoc game I play is going to make me actually break out my old scratchbuild.

I think the platoon is just to have a backdrop of personnel running everywhere as the thing is about to launch. Just for that extra coolness.

The pie plate blast then reducing to the wandering vortex of doom is a logical and evil spin on it.

Looks good, now if only the thread of making the model capable of either configuration could build steam, I am still trying to figure something out.

Thanks all for this joy...

The rules were on BOLS ages before GW. It annoys me how you have to have the tank on the table. Deathstrike missiles are meant to be ICBMs right?

vodo40k wrote:The rules were on BOLS ages before GW. It annoys me how you have to have the tank on the table. Deathstrike missiles are meant to be ICBMs right?

Yep. But let's be fair, even with these awesome rules, it's not even close to the power of an IRL ICBM. Sure, it'll probably do more damage than a RL counterpart against single, well-protected foes with void shields, but imagine the boom if they made it a thermonuclear missile <3.


Speaking 'bout that, is there any rules for nuclear weapons or weapons utilizing nuclear fission/fusion to create big booms?

These weapons are the closest I think to nukes in a regular game, barring the titan weapons and missiles.

there was a nuke blast template they made five or six years ago for GD Chicago.... the thing was massive

Wow. And its the gft that keeps on giving: continuing to tear holes in reality until you roll a double!

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:there was a nuke blast template they made five or six years ago for GD Chicago.... the thing was massive

thats just absurd, literally the most stressful diceroll of your life would be over who gets the first turn. because there'll be no more turns afterwards.

Haha wow that makes me laugh.

There IS the OH SH** THE TITAN'S REACTOR WENT NUCLEAR!!!! result, everyone within 8 D6" takes a str D hit. Then you add in the 24" or so base of the thing and you have at a maximum, a mind meltingly huge 120" blast template. At strength D! Ten inch blast, meet ten feet!

What the new Grey Knight codex resurrect the Vortex psychic power from Dark Millenium. That would be awesome.


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sniperjolly wrote:There IS the OH SH** THE TITAN'S REACTOR WENT NUCLEAR!!!! result, everyone within 8 D6" takes a str D hit. Then you add in the 24" or so base of the thing and you have at a maximum, a mind meltingly huge 120" blast template. At strength D! Ten inch blast, meet ten feet!

So really, the rules should read: redeploy all your models and start a new game, because this one is done.

Terminus wrote:What the new Grey Knight codex resurrect the Vortex psychic power from Dark Millenium. That would be awesome.


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sniperjolly wrote:There IS the OH SH** THE TITAN'S REACTOR WENT NUCLEAR!!!! result, everyone within 8 D6" takes a str D hit. Then you add in the 24" or so base of the thing and you have at a maximum, a mind meltingly huge 120" blast template. At strength D! Ten inch blast, meet ten feet!

So really, the rules should read: redeploy all your models and start a new game, because this one is done.

Only if you don't make your invuln saves.

Awesome...I already assembled my Manticore, though.

Cambak wrote:Only if you don't make your invuln saves.

No saves can be taken. At all. Don't even think about it.

Well, that's what the description says.

no, the Titaic nuke. it is strength "D" it would be interesting to play a game in a gigantic crater, where every model takes a str D hit at the begining of the game, and play it as a post nuclear impact game. you could nominate a number of units to be in a bunker before the game starts, and get a 3+cover save from the blast. The safest place to be would obviously be a transport, which may or may not protect the occupants indiana jones-refrigerator style.

sniperjolly wrote:no, the Titaic nuke. it is strength "D" it would be interesting to play a game in a gigantic crater, where every model takes a str D hit at the begining of the game, and play it as a post nuclear impact game. you could nominate a number of units to be in a bunker before the game starts, and get a 3+cover save from the blast. The safest place to be would obviously be a transport, which may or may not protect the occupants indiana jones-refrigerator style.

That is the most awesome piece of "movie magic" anywhere, surviving a nuke in a fridge. The game ideas awesome as well.

http://defamer.gawker.com/5061101/south-park-presents-indiana-jones-and-the-pinball+machine-rape-of-doom

Gavo wrote:Awesome...I already assembled my Manticore, though.

Cambak wrote:Only if you don't make your invuln saves.

No saves can be taken. At all. Don't even think about it.

Well, that's what the description says.

Tell that to my Yarrick, reroll that hit, and and I got a 3+ WBB roll.

Terminus wrote:http://defamer.gawker.com/5061101/south-park-presents-indiana-jones-and-the-pinball+machine-rape-of-doom

Im sorry, just WHAT was that?!!!

double post

That was Spielberg and Lucas raping Indiana Jones ala The Accused and Deliverance. And then they fethed a Stormtrooper.

I figured it followed naturally from talk of the 4th movie that immediately preceded my post.

It was also South Park raping my childhood...

sniperjolly wrote:It was also South Park raping my childhood...

Speaking of raping childhoods...