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Problem is, people will start to bubblewrap characters. What limits the movement.And what some armys just aren´t able to do.
And there will be stuff, that targets characters like sniperrifles. Stuff not every army has.
And here we go again.....

are we talking "at launch" or "a ferw mon ths away from 9th edition" ?

 Marmatag wrote:
Why does every poll have to have a silly option?

My 2 cents (or why i would put in a silly option):

There's always going to be a group of people who vote on a poll without knowing or caring what's going on. Having a silly option gives them the ability to participate (which they will anyways) without mucking up the results of the 'serious' answers. Also, you can gauge a few things about how your thread and poll are perceived based upon the relative percentage of silly answer votes.

I think 2d6, would make sense for destroyer weapons to do "5 wound + 2d6" imo

tneva82 wrote:

 Yarium wrote:
I think the biggest thing will be 4D6. I think that biggest thing will be a C'tan close combat ability. I think almost nothing else will reach that level of insanity outside Forgeworld (who will put it on every third model, and will have a 5D6 option for 5 more points). Most of the big stuff will be D6 (Meltas will probably be 1 or D3 at long range, and D6 at close range). Really big stuff, like most Reaper Chainswords and D weapons will probably be 2D6.

3D6 will probably be Vortex stuff; things that are just ungodly powerful, where trip-6's instant-kills almost anything.

Sorry. You reversed GW and FW. GW is the one putting out silly broken stuff all the time.

2d6 for what is now D would be my guess. Maybe some flat modifiers for really big ones.

Lot depends on wound count for titans. Would be silly if one requires lots of destroyer weapon level hits to take down.

Tau'nar says what?

ERJAK wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Yarium wrote:
I think the biggest thing will be 4D6. I think that biggest thing will be a C'tan close combat ability. I think almost nothing else will reach that level of insanity outside Forgeworld (who will put it on every third model, and will have a 5D6 option for 5 more points). Most of the big stuff will be D6 (Meltas will probably be 1 or D3 at long range, and D6 at close range). Really big stuff, like most Reaper Chainswords and D weapons will probably be 2D6.

3D6 will probably be Vortex stuff; things that are just ungodly powerful, where trip-6's instant-kills almost anything.

Sorry. You reversed GW and FW. GW is the one putting out silly broken stuff all the time.

2d6 for what is now D would be my guess. Maybe some flat modifiers for really big ones.

Lot depends on wound count for titans. Would be silly if one requires lots of destroyer weapon level hits to take down.

Tau'nar says what?

Sure you can pick individual examples. I'm talking about general trend. It's GW that gave us deathstars that require hard counters, wraithknights in multiples etc etc etc.

Then we have FW with HH that beats the crap out of 40k in terms of being balanced. Generally FW units are if anything on the side of being weak rather than broken.

Looking at the battle cannon preview , that thing is going to be chucking d6d3 damage each shot! Damn!

Melta confirmed at 2d6






... but only take the highest

So a multimelta thats twinlinked in half range would be ....

4D6 take the two highest?

Pancakey wrote:
So a multimelta thats twinlinked in half range would be ....

4D6 take the two highest?

No, it would be

13-24"

2 shots
Roll to hit
Roll to wound
2D6 damage


Under 13", assuming both shots get to the wounding stage, you would roll 2D6, take the highest, then another 2D6, take the highest. Here's the reason for this. Let's take an extreme example and assuming the 4 dice roll a 1, 3, 5 and 6 respectively.

Now, if you roll 4D6 take two highest, the result wound be a total of 11, taking the 5 and 6.
If rolled 2x 2D6, getting 1 and 5 on one die, and 3 and 6 on the other, same result.
However, if the first 2D6 rolled 1 and 3, and the second rolled 5 and 6, the highest two dice would be 3 and 6, for a total of 9. This is only a 2 wound difference but could be difference between life and death for a tank or monster.

An even more extreme example, let's say the rolls were 1, 1, 5 and 6. Now, on 4D6, this is 11. But if the first combination resulted in 1 and 1, and the second 5 and 6, this only equates to 7 wounds. A huge difference.

Pancakey wrote:
So a multimelta thats twinlinked in half range would be ....

4D6 take the two highest?

Assuming that you are differentiating the 2D6 rolled for each shot (for the instance where you roll 6 & 6 on one pair and 1 & 1 on the other)? Seems like it, yes.

DCannon4Life wrote:

Pancakey wrote:
So a multimelta thats twinlinked in half range would be ....

4D6 take the two highest?

Assuming that you are differentiating the 2D6 rolled for each shot (for the instance where you roll 6 & 6 on one pair and 1 & 1 on the other)? Seems like it, yes.

Yeah I meant 4D6 total. Sorry for the mix up!