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I've been watching plenty of movies recently, and whenever the "bad" guys kill a "good" guy, it happens while there is sad music playing. Heroes from the "good" side always seem to be invulnerable as long a there is no blurry slow-motion picture with a sentimental background-sound.
To represent this in 40k I came up with a nice fun-rule:

The "Sad music rule":

If you are playing one of the following "bad" fractions, then you can declare sad violin-muic:
Orks, Necrons, Tyranids, CSM, Chaosdeamons and Dark Eldar
Sad Music may only be declared against a "good" fraction, wich has to be either Tau, Eldar, or any Imperial Army.
It is declared in the shooting phase of the bad player and allows him or her to pick out one of his/her models, wich will attempt to kill a good hero. This model is then allowed to reroll (to hit and to wound) all its attacs directed against a good IC either in the shooting phase or in cc. Additionally, the IC mut reroll all sucessive saves it takes. If used in the shooting phase, the IC may be treated as an independent unit for the purposes of shooting at it with the choosen model. The attacs directed against the hero may not be instant-killing, and if they are they do not gain any rerolls. This represents the fact that good heroes never get blown apart, but rather die from a hit in the stomach while saying wise things to their companions. If the sad muisc attac suceeds in killing the IC, then the rest of the good army will gain the USR "preferred enemy" for one turn, and any unit joined to the IC will keep this rule until the end of the game. In this case, sad muisic will tart playing . If the Sad music attac fails in removing the IC, the chosen evil model will be removed as a casuality because he miraculously gets killed by a lucky hit right before the attempt. If it would only manage to cause a wound on the IC, the wound will not removed, for sad music only olays when a hero gets killed. The chosen evil model is also removed in this case.

I'd like to hear what you think of this fun-rule, and how you would improve it.

With all its regulations and sub-points, it is a rather extensive rule, but maybe that's what makes it solid...I like the idea, I really do. Certainly adds a little epicness to even the smallest battle.


I was just thinking that the commanding officer of an IG force is not an IC, which is kind of a shame. Those guys are probably some of the most common sad-music-victims in war movies. Maybe your rule should allow targeting of the senior officer of any CCS?

this is great, espeacially if you allow a "look out sir" rule though if theres another model within base contact

Make it a special ability only for Slanneshi Noise Marines

Hilarious! I think this would work pretty well with a few tweaks. Like Fairfeldia said, it would be cool if a model in base contact could try to take the hit instead, maybe only if it was a seargeant-style model trying to save an IC. Also, this should only be possible if the players can actually provide sad music to play while it happens.

Assuming "good" have the firepower, is it possible to put a large blast template over the orc-kestra do deny the sad music rule?

MandalorynOranj wrote:Hilarious! I think this would work pretty well with a few tweaks. Like Fairfeldia said, it would be cool if a model in base contact could try to take the hit instead, maybe only if it was a seargeant-style model trying to save an IC. Also, this should only be possible if the players can actually provide sad music to play while it happens.

Yes, I think this is a great idea, but why only for cc? I think a model should be able to save its hero from enemy fire a well. So why not add this:

If the sad music attac is a ranged attac, a friendly model within 1" of the IC may throw itself in front of the hero to chatch the slug with its stomach. After the self-sacrifying model has been chosen, it must pass a morale check. If that suceeds, the model may throw itself into the shot after hits have been worked out. On a roll of 4 or 5+ (im not sure yet) the brave and loyal warrior is removed instead of the IC being hit. If the shots can't possibly wound the chosen one, he only suffers a single wound wich can be saved with armour. This represents that those throwing themselfes into bullets for their commander ALWAYS get killed or at least woundet.

I dont know exactly how "look out sir" works, I dont play IG. can someone explain it to me?


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make that morale check an initiative test, s&p counting as I1. so eldar make for very good bodyguard indeed

look out sir is from WHFB, it allows you to remove unit leaders from pie plates

Fairfeldia wrote:look out sir is from WHFB, it allows you to remove unit leaders from pie plates

To clarify, it gives any characters under a template in a unit numbering 5 or more models excluding characters and any unit champion, a 2+ "save" against the weapon. On a 2+ one of the regular Rank and File troops takes the hit instead, on a 1 the character is still hit.

needs an 'ensign Ricky' clause. If the target of the sad music attack has an entourage countaining a troop-type model with basic equipment (preferably wearing a red shirt), that model may be removed in place of the target. Cpt. Kirk was immune to sad music. Why? The ensign Ricky clause.