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I was reading a thread about "what unit would you take from another codex", and I instantly thought:
"Man, wouldn't ravagers be neat?"

On of my biggest gripes with CSM is that in a codex that just feels slowwwwwwww, there's really no pause from the norm. There's nothing that just feels like it zooms around the board and pew pews things, and I thought that would be a good concept to work with, rather than just another unit that slogs around in a tracked vehicle, or lumbers around on mechanical limbs. It's a shame bikers are basically unusable at their current price, because I've always thought they were a nice touch of speed.

So I've been struck with a touch of inspiration, and have decided to make a unit for such a contraption. Here's what I have so far for the rules:

- It ISN'T inherently anti-tank, like the ravager
- It can handle a variety of scenarios
- It has some sort of daemonic protection
- It is a skimmer, and has the same short comings as them, naturally.
- It can possibly freak out and move random directions or shoot at random targets

Of course, ravagers aren't very chaotic, so it would have to have the looks of something more along the lines of a land speeder, albeit with moar skulls and spikes. I don't have any intention of creating such a thing, but if I did, it would be about the same size as a venom.

So, here's a draft:

Floating Killy thing- 125 points
Skimmer, Tank, fast
AV: 11 10 10
BS: 3
Armed with two reaper autocannons and a twin linked melta gun, plus a searchlight (no smoke launchers, deliberately)

Special Rules-
Avionic Rage (lol)- The floating killy thing(working title) works similar to a defiler, in that the spirit of a Daemon has been bound to a metal construct designed to amplify and focus the daemon's power.

Due to this, the FKT must roll a D6 at the beginning of the movement phase every turn. On a roll of 3+, the FKT moves as usual, and no penalties are incurred. If the roll is a one or two, the player must roll a scatter die and two D6s. The FKT moves in the indicated distance and MUST move the maximum distance shown on the dice. In addition, when a one or two is rolled, the FKT may fire it's weapons upon different targets for the following shooting phase.
(I'd like to make it disadvantaged, but not as bad as say, a dreadnought)

Warp shield thing- The propulsion the daemon uses to keep itself in the air also shrouds the construct enough to throw off potential fire. The FKT may ignore one glancing hit per turn.

Options-
May replace each reaper autocannon with:
Lascannon or Plasma Cannon -10 Points
Twin linked autocannon- free

May replace twin linked melta gun with:
Heavy Bolter- 5 points
Reaper Autocannon- 10 Points
Twin Linked Plasma Gun- Free

Yup! Feedback would be nice. Feel free to add anything at all.

Keep the name but make it all caps:

FLOATING KILLY THING!!!!!!

Much more frightning

I might knock the front armour down to 11 or 10 to repersent a light skimmer, and I wouldn't make it a tank, so it doesn't gain the tank shock ability

Your weapon options are all out of wack. Lascannon and Plasma cannon should be +10, max, and there is no difference between a reaper autocannons and a twin linked autocannon. For the meltagun, make the TLPG free, and the Reaper +10 points.

Sounds great. Definitely keep the name. Or just the acronym:

"The FKT"

I'd agree that making it a tank is slightly out of character.

Unusually for a proposed vehicle, it might be over-priced.

I like it. The name is pure

A BIT similar to the blight drone but still very good!

MasterSlowPoke wrote:Your weapon options are all out of wack. Lascannon and Plasma cannon should be +10, max, and there is no difference between a reaper autocannons and a twin linked autocannon. For the meltagun, make the TLPG free, and the Reaper +10 points.

Yeah, I was thinking that they should be about the same price. IMO, LCs and PCs do about the same damage in their respective niches. I'll edit that.

Also, the TLAC was a joke, haha.


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TheRobotLol wrote:I like it. The name is pure

A BIT similar to the blight drone but still very good!

I've never read the rules for the blight drone, but I've heard they're quite good. I'll see if my GW has a copy of the book... Is it IA3?

Edited to reflect posts! I'm awful with names, and I thought it would be easier to just name it something silly. Honestly, I think there would be a variety of ways to portray this as a model, and a name might limit the creativity... maybe.

Always thought the same about Chaos Daemons. If you never looked at a picture of the models, and just read their general descriptions, you could convert some really unique things.

Samus_aran115 wrote: Always thought the same about Chaos Daemons. If you never looked at a picture of the models, and just read their general descriptions, you could convert some really unique things.

Very true