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Daemonhosts are hilariously random, but are do they have any earthly or unearthly use? For 10 points apiece, I suppose you can afford to gamble. I just get confused by a low-end close-combat unit that 2/3 of the time gets a random but rather lovely boost to melee and 1/3 of the time gains a shooting attack.

Also I have difficulty imagining how the Inquisitor justifies his pet Daemonhosts to his Adepta Sororitas battle brothers (sisters):

SISTER: So those guys are all psykers?
INQUISITOR: The good kind! Totally sanctioned and everything!
SISTER: That one's, uh, foaming at the mouth.
INQUISITOR: Overflowing with love for the God-Emperor!
SISTER: And levitating.
INQUISITOR: It's a miracle!
SISTER: And spewing obscenities about how our corpse-god cannot save our pitiful human souls from the all-consuming hunger of the Warp.
INQUISITOR: Ah, yes. Um.
SISTER: [checks pilot light of heavy flamer is on]
INQUISITOR: It's opposites day! It's opposites day on his planet so he's really talking about how the immortal Emperor Protects! Ha! Ha!
SISTER: You're not one of those radical Inquisitors, are you?
INQUISITOR: Oh my look at the time I have to go ktxbai.

Having played Skaven and Night Goblins once upon a time, I can appreciate the fun of wildly unreliable units....


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 evildrcheese wrote:
That dialogue made me chuckle, have an exalt.

Thanks. Imagining that scenario was really the main reason I couldn't get Daemonhosts out of my head.....

"in the grim snarkiness of the far future, there is only GALLOWS HUMOUR."


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Kavik_Whitescar wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
That dialogue made me chuckle, have an exalt.

On topic, I can't see a use for them in the builds for AS that I've been running. Space monkeys and psymeras on the other hand...

D

I am so excited to troll around with my space chimp :3 Best random gift ever!

The Jokaero kind of break the grimdark for me, though. Even the name screams "joke!" I'm honestly surprised they survived when everything else silly has been brutally purged since the old days of Rogue Trader when the game's tongue was firmly in its cheek.....

P.S.: Sorry for the auto-appended posts; my kids got me up too early and I'm too tired for figure out how to quote multiple people in one post....

 ductvader wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
They're S5, T3. So no good for toughness majority shinanigans.

D

Ah...my bad.

Odd statline.

Huh? My Codex:Inquisition says S4 T4. Is there an update I missed or something?

D'oh.

I want arco-flagellants to be Beasts, darn it. The thought of these horribly mutilated cyborgs getting down on all fours and scuttling over rocks and rubble like nightmarish animals just appeals to me.... Maybe I can homebrew some wargear that gives them a "beast mode" combat drug or something.

There was but I think it was just extra attacks. It was also needlessly complex like a lot of old rules... Say what you like about 6th, but it's (by GW standards) streamlined.

 evildrcheese wrote:
That dialogue made me chuckle, have an exalt.....

If you want more along the same lines, plus an actual plot, I just wrote a whole Sororitas/Inquisition story: Able Baker. (No Daemonhosts in it, though; just a psyker, acolyte, death cult assassin, and sage, plus Alan Tudyk as an Ordo Hereticus inquisitor). Comments much appreciated.

WARNING: Ratio of serious:silly (grimdark:grimsnark) rises dramatically towards the end.