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Albrecht Stahlkorp[80pts]

One of the few Krieg soldiers to survive long enough to attain the rank of Company Commander, Krieger has survived many battles. His body is a record of all the conflicts he has participated in. Flesh gives way to iron and blood to oil where, against his protests, Adeptus Mechanicus Medicae personnel have tended to his injuries. Despite his wish for death, his knowledge and experience are too valuable for the Imperium to waste by allowing him to die. To aid in this, a refractor field has been surgically implanted into his spine to prevent him from becoming another casualty in the long attrition wars that the Korp favor. Few have seen his face, which is hidden behind the polished white skull mask of the Death Korp. To the younger Korpsmen, fresh from the Vitae Wombs, he is not a man, but the Bringer of Death, the epitome of the grim stoicism of Death Korp.

WS5 BS4 S4 T4 W3 I3 A2 Ld10 Sv3+
Wargear:
Frag/Krak Grenades
Power Sword
Bolt Pistol
Flak Armour
Refractor Field.(4++)

Special Rules
Senior Officer
Death March: The determined march of the fanatical soldiers of the Death Korp of Krieg cannot be stopped. Marching perfectly in sync, they let loose volleys of lasfire into the enemy. Guardsmen, Veteran Guardsmen, and Veteran Sergeats gain the Relentless USR when using Lasguns.
Towards Death and Atonement!: All allied Imperial Guard units within 12" gain the Furious Charge and Stubborn USRs. In addition, units within 6" are fearless.

So I assume this is for Vanilla IG and not the DKoK list

Refractor fields give out a +5 Invl, not a +4
Relentless with Dk actually seems quite good and fluffy although I dont think this should be army wise
Hmm idk about his second ability, seems too much like Straken
Yes I'd say the last ability is a bit OP. Mainly since Manticores are awesome and IG elites arent all that good

Similar to Straken. His morale rule is a tad worse, as is his personal fighting ability, so you're under control so far. These 'death march' and 'siege master' rules are completely impossible.

The ability to fire 24" on the move, or rapid-fire than charge with lasguns (and plasma-guns) is very big indeed, applying it to all units in the army for a flat fee is not appropriate. Might be better to give him a special order that makes a unit relentless for a single turn (in which case you might as well allow it for any unit including HWTs)

Extra heavy support units has been done before on a much more limited scale (iron warriors armies in the old chaos codex) and it was considered overpowered even then. A manticore is probably the best artillery vehicle in the game, to be allowed to take 3 and fill out IG's excellent HS and FA choices as well would just be obscene. Artillery batteries would also be abusable (there are only 3 HS slots in a codex for a reason, you know) and while deathstrikes aren't that good, it's still not very good practice to allow so many heavy templates in an army.

In short, I advise you to stick closer to the template of established characters (work from straken's cost/stats and make a special order intstead of passive abilities). As a rule of thumb, if your homebrew character makes your army massively stronger, there is a problem. Hope that helps, the basic idea is very cool btw.

I haven't played IG alot so I don't know everything about their strengths and how they can be abused.

I know that refractor fields are 5+ so I specifically stated his is 4++ like Yarrick's.

I completely forgot about Relentess being combined with Plasma. I originally intended it to be combined with FRFSRF on lasguns.

Death March Can be changed to an order that allows a unit to fire its lasguns twice as if they were relentless and under the effect of FRFSRF.

Siege Master changed to Manticores, Ordnance Batteries, and Deathstrike Missile Launchers may reroll the scatter when they fire.

Actually, yarrick doesnt have a refractor feild...not even a 5++...he doesnt ever have carapace upgrades like other commisars. I shall pause for a moment to reflect the silliness of not giving the "hero of armaggedon" a better peice of armour than the the regular troops.

Whoops its force field so I thought it was like Valeria's 4++.
Instead we get to reroll wounds. Lovely.

I like it so far, a few tweaks I would suggest:

Death March should only apply to lasguns and even then only to combined infantry squads (representing the very WWI foot slogging style of the DKoK).

I do like the relentless thing though, I don't think it's OP if you make it lasguns only.

Also, the second special rule should only apply if the Commander is on foot (again WWI all infantry theme thing).

I don't think there's much point making nearby units stubborn ALA Straken, if it's a DKoK themed army, they'll have lots of blobs with Commissars in them anyways.

I like the tweak to the Siege Master rule (you can already take 9x Artillery batteries in a standard list, if you really want to make a themed army).

Lastly, I'd like to suggest a tweak to the commander's special rules that allows veteran squads to be combined into blobs so long as they are on foot (no transports allowed).

I'm going to move away from the artillery focus since it seems that the IG do that well enough. Instead I'm going to focus more on the infantry aspect.

Would it be fair to allow any model that has a Power weapon to upgrade it to Powerfist for free?

I would also like to change it so that "Towards Death and Atonement confers +2 attacks on the charge to his unit."

Finally I would like to give him a special order:
"Not Even in Death Does Duty End" The unit gains furious charge. If the unit is destroyed in that assault phase of the same turn then a wound is inflicted on every member of the unit that destroyed them.