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Ahh lol, I'm sorry but I do find some humour out of these threads...

Anyway from what I've felt, barrage is situational. Sometimes its awesome sometimes its not, just like most things. It's just that it's worse for some and with things like the orks codex, it is more problematic than other things. For example, a manticore is yes a disheartening sight when I have orks on the table, but with marines, no more problematic than anything else.

If you really feel there should be some changes these would be my 2 proposals:
- my main issue is a sniping aspect of it, and whilst it makes sense for hits to be resolved from the centre the fact that it hits as much as any other template in LOS doesn't make sense to me.
So...
- as said before, it always scatters when out of LOS and if a hit is resolved then the BS modifier is added. When in LOS fires normally, unless its some type that has to always fire indirectly. So it would work like a variation of the orbital bombardment.
- or have it as it is, but make it that the owning player allocates the wounds to the models hit. So just like old 5th ed rules for blasts. Not as fluffy I feel, but still resolves the issue and doesn't screw them over so much since they can still hit.

Or otherwise just field a biker army and dakkajets. Can't hit fliers and bikers still get a 4+ cover and its not like they're 50pt nob bikers, just 25pt regular joes. They'd only get a turn of shooting as well + large bases = few hits.