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**kenshin620**

Well I got a bit of time on my hands and one thing I always wanted to do was to create a fandex. Perhaps there are other more suited writers than me but I want to take a crack at making an entire army. I have decided to take on the mysterious Hrud since with their fluff they seem like both a nuisance in short term conflict and a threat when they bring out their numbers. Once I got a mostly complete list then I'll attempt to compile them into a PDF or something. Anyways I wanted to lay out the ground work with the basic gear and rule for them. I'm taking a lot of cues from Lexicanum, mostly because while it is a wiki, it is probably the best compiled source of Hrud out there.

The Army "archetype" I guess is suppose to be a sneaky army. Relying much more on cover and not rushing into the battle recklessly, kind of like eldar but with a more ramshackle feel like orks. They also have a unique mix of Plasma/Melta

Obviously there are a lot of holes that I am filling in.....a lot mind you. Feel free to criticize, I dont mind

Hrud Special Rules

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Hrud Armory

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The basic Hrud unit

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**Buttons**

According to Lexicanum the Hrud aren't exactly good at hand to hand combat (look up The Plague of Delphic). Perhaps lower their I to 3 and their WS to 2.

**Tazz Azrael**

You missed the S value on your Hrud unit

**kenshin620**

Buttons wrote:According to Lexicanum the Hrud aren't exactly good at hand to hand combat (look up The Plague of Delphic). Perhaps lower their I to 3 and their WS to 2.

Hmm I suppose so. I just gave them better I to show their "bendiness". WS2 and I3 it is

Tazz Azrael wrote:You missed the S value on your Hrud unit

Hmm yes I should fix that

**Buttons**

Perhaps give them a special bonus, like a 6+ invulnerable in close combat save to represent their bendiness.

**SDFarsight**

First of all, it's nice to see some new attempts on the Hrud.

I don't see why can't have I4, considering their cunning vermin instinct, which is represented in other fandexes I've seen. Even if you're not going along with the original 'Skaven in space' concept, they are supposed to be masters of ambushing IIRC. I think that the WS2, A1 and S3 already represents their Mediocrity in CC.

I really like the Armoury and the Infestation rule though.

**Vampirate of Sartosa**

One of my ideas for them had a steampunk scrap spider-walker thing called the "Scavenger".

**Buttons**

You could always give them a plethora of poison weapons to get the "sneaky" feel, perhaps give them booby traps or something as well. Overall however, they are a pretty durable and versatile army with stealth for their most basic units and the potential for 4+ invul and 3+ armour saves.

**kenshin620**

Taking things into consideration. Very interesting responses

Anyways some more units and a few characters. Still figuring out where each slot should be filled with

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**Runna**

First of all, I think it's really a cool list you've got worked up, I ove the scavenged stuff.
Um, Sniper rifle though, wounds on a 4+...poison also on a 4+...not really neccesary to say it's poisoned, I get it's fluff, but, it's just, you know...it already wounded on a 4+ without the posion.

**Grunt13**

I like what you have. My concern is the D3 +1 strength on the standard weapons. It seems like having a random strength standard weapon could bog the game down with a needless amount of rolling and randomness.

How about giving the unit lasguns/laspistols and allowing the whole unit to upgrade their weapons to shotguns or bolters. Mob weapons used by the old witch hunter frantics represented an assortment of weaponry that just counted as the whole unit being equipped with laspistols and closecombat weapons.

I also think that they should have a bit more access to the equipment of other races. IIRC the one in xenology had a human bionic arm and a dark eldar agonizer.

**Buttons**

Runna wrote:First of all, I think it's really a cool list you've got worked up, I ove the scavenged stuff.
Um, Sniper rifle though, wounds on a 4+...poison also on a 4+...not really neccesary to say it's poisoned, I get it's fluff, but, it's just, you know...it already wounded on a 4+ without the posion.

IIRC Marbo has a poison weapon that wounds on a 2+, so there might be precedent, and sniper weapons have additional rules besides wounding on a 4+.

As for weapons and armour, rolling for them seems a tad complicated and makes modeling them difficult. My suggestion is to simply allow tons of upgrades, for example a basic troop choice can take the following types of armour.
Hrud Armour: 6+ save, free
Looted Flak or Mesh Armour: 5+ save, 2 ppm
Looted Carapace Armour: 4+ save, 5 ppm
Looted Power Armour: 3+ save, 10 ppm

Same thing with weapons, start with looted lasguns, work up to looted pulse rifles, and offer meltas, plasma guns, and Hrud Fusils as special weapons.

**chrisrawr**

Having a poisoned weapon and having a poisoned sniper are two different things - the Sniper is essentially Poisoned 4+, Rending, Pinning - it's just easier to say "Sniper."

**Runna**

I'm a fan of the scavenged weapons because it makes the army very different from other armadas. However, they point out a good annoyance.

1. Rolling all the time for strength and what have you.

2. The army could randomly end up being wickedly over-powered or horribly underpowered.

3. Luck is a huge part of the game, but even when I am unlucky I can scavenge a win, that seems unlikely with your army now that I've realized this.

Solutions.
I'm not really in possession of any without getting rid of scavanged weapons. I'll throw a couple of ideas, let people on dakka pick them apart and you do what you will with them.

1. Most sqauds seem to have a leader, have that leader effect the rolls of scavenged weapons. A.K.A. as long as so and so is alive, the scavenged weapons are assault 2, if he dies they become assault 1. etc. (just an idea)

2. Don't roll for strength but purchase it, same with armor.
Just 3 pnts scavenged armor is 5+ 5 points 6+ 8 points 4+ 12pnts 3+ (something along those lines.) Same with the strength of the weapons.

3.You can simplify that by putting a purchase upgrade chart under the scavenged weapons for strength. Then stating upgrades in the unit/model area in the terms of, may purchase up to LV. 2 Upgrades for their scavanged so and so. (I kind of like this idea but I'm not sure if it keeps what you were going for.) This could allow for poison upgrade and power weapon upgrades and force weapon upgrades and etc. etc. but limit them to specific units and give you a very unique weapon system for your fandex that remains with the idea of scavenged weapons.

4. I'm out of ideas right now. I'm only trying to help your creative juices and hope I have stirred some ideas as once again, I like where this is going.