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Drawing from his forefathers greatest skills, Ichor rose through the Space marine ranks at a speed most great. during his Tactical infantry career, he took over command of fourteen different squads, and is today the only Tactical sergeant to have ever gained the rank of champion sergeant before his first century of duty. - a rank, special to the SOTE infantry.

As such, Ichor took on the role, and with great in marksmenship. skills bestowed upon him, defended his infantry to his last ounce of strength.

When the Tuetoburg campaign took effect, Ichor was lead by his Captain, Publius Varus. Varus was a brash man, and despite warnings to stay out of the forests, he felt they were not safe.

while they patroled the deep forests, they were ambushed. but not a small party of infantry. nearly 400 ork gretchin, feeble as they may have been rushed forward guns ablasing. while mostly, the space marines were tough enough to just repel strong attacks, Eventually, the overwhelming numbers started to wear them down.
by nightfall, there were but a mere eighth of the original attachment. that the squad as it were, managed to hold out was of an amazing stroke. they rushed on. moving fast and keeping low, towards an Evac sight. it sempt all was better for the remainder. however, just as they reached the LZ, They were air-assauted by a large group of stormboyz, who managed to take out 4 more brothers, and eventually even Captain Varus. Ichor rushed to him, and managed to get his destroyed body onto the transport thunderhawk, and safely remove the remnants of the third company. though he was gravely wounded, he fought on, hoping to defend so that the thunderhawk could take flight. While they all were removed safely, Ichor was on the brink of death. it sempt he wouldn't last as an infantrymen, and became The third companies most honoured dreadnought.

So, thats his back story.

so, who is this Ichor character you ask!

here he is!
Ichor the damned 170 points
Walker
WS5 BS5 S6 Av. 13 12 10
Wargear
assault cannon
DCCW w/ Heavy flamerflamer
Holy relic

holy relic: This all important item has been an heirloom of the chapter since it's inception in the early years of M33. It is important to the soldiers of the army, and as such, all friendly units within 6+D6" (rolled at the start of assault phase.) of the unit gains 1+ to attacks (even if they charge out of range of the rule. this rule does not stack up with simmilar rules from chapter banners.)

Rules
Venerable
Blessed soul

Blessed soul: allows all troops within 12" to re-roll failed leadership tests.

upgrade assault cannon to
plasma cannon... 5 pt
twin linked lascannon ... 15 pt


Any other ideas?

I'd like him to be spickyspecky! he's gonna be really important for my 3,500 pt army list.


Edit: 14/7/10 Rules revised
Edit: 15/7/10 Rules rerevised. weapons reevaluated. choices broadened, priced down.
Edit: 16/7/10 BS nerfed [for valk. This message was edited 5 times. Last update was at 16/07/2010 20:58:08]
Edit: 16/7/10 Holy relic rules revised.

I like the Blessed Soul role. I think it befits his status.

What's the basis for the holy relic acting as a psychic hood? He wasn't a psyker. This doesn't seem to fit. An idea that I think would be good is to make his holy relic into a 5++ Invuln save instead or treat it like the Tau's disruption pod.

His BS of 6 is too high. It's higher than all of space marine characters (except Telion). It needs to be reduced to BS 5. It's not as if Ichor was a super sniper.

Give him extra armor, a heavy flamer and an option for a TL-lascannon at +30pts.

Give him Av13, and the ability to take a bigger variety of weapons, and you may have something good there, although his backstory dosen't fit in with why he suddenly has psychic abilities. I would say that the Holy Relic should count as something like the BA Chapter Banner, giving +1A to all units within 6". Also, I would reduce his points to about 160, as I could easily take a Furiso Librarian, which is another psychic Dread, which has far better psychic capabilities, for 25 points fewer than this guy.

Okay. sounds good.

Holy relic the idea around that was that it could be a relic which distorts the warp (sorry, left it out of my backstory.)

I like the 5+ invo idea.

also, Valk, that chapter banner rule applies to every banner in the vanillas too.

Drop the BS to 5 and give him the weapon options to have all of his ranged weapons twin linked.

Why?

he's a normal venerable with special rules. not ALL of his weapons are TL.

Captain Solon wrote:Why?

he's a normal venerable with special rules. not ALL of his weapons are TL.

I think the idea of BS6 is just pure BS (and I don't mean Ballistic Skill). Your justification is just lame:-

"He taught his men to take care when aiming" - Every sergeant does that.

"He is an excellent marksman" - Every marine is a good marksman.

Simply overpowered.

Valk. too late! It's already removed. Lol.

Captain Solon wrote:Valk. too late! It's already removed. Lol.

If it was too late then I wouldn't have mentioned it. You simply edited it then tried (hopelessly) to throw my criticism back in my face.


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Also you need to redefine the Holy Relic rule. When do you roll the distance? Every turn? Start of the game, or something else? The justification could use some work: "it is important to the soldiers of the army", well guns are equally as important, as is armour, yet they don't grant any brilliant additional effect besides what they already do.

Valk, er... Wow. thats pretty.. assumative.

had no intention of trying to insult you. I was saying that I'd already removed it. nothing more. christ.

Done.

anyway, my edit was three minutes before yours... so no, you're wrong. xD