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Love the model so much. I really would like to buy him and use him.

This crazy badass got : WS: 5 BS: 4 S: 6 T: 4 W: 3 I: 3 A: 3 Ld: 9 Sv: 3+. Has a shotgun and plasma pistol with a 5++ invuln save with a close combat weapon for an extra attack?? (Not sure of this tho)

Warlord Trait:
• Implacable Determination : Anybody in his unit can fire heavy, ordenance and rapid fire weapons as if you didn't move and can also charge. Damn, that thing is dope.

Special Rules:
• Cold Steel and Courage : Gives furious charge and counterattack in a 6'' bubble.
• Fearless : Cause #YOLO
• Gung-ho : must always issue and accept a challenge whenever possible. Sounds manly AF to me.
• Monster Hunter : Re-roll to wound those annoying big creatures.
• Senior Officer : Issue 2 orders. Cause 2 better then 1.
• Smash : Makes his reg attacks Ap2 or you can choose to double his strenght (max of 10) but halves the attack amount. Chuck norris anyone??
• Voice of Command : Issue them orders.

Well then. What's not to like? The only real issue I can see on this 130points monster of a man is his average initiative of 3 that I guess can be worked around with furious charge.

What's your take on him Dakka? Never used him or seen him used but I can't get past his awesome looking model

Put him in a mob of Bullgryn. Kill everything.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
Put him in a mob of Bullgryn. Kill everything.

Don't play IG, do you? He replaces a company commander in a CCS, and he's not an IC. 130 points is a bit of a bitter pill to swallow on top of the cost of purchasing the CCS. He needs his price cut in half to really even be a consideration. He can be a fun choice for larger games, but that's about it.

He can make choppy blobs even more frightening. But he's super fragile cause he's not IC and is forced to hang out with a bunch of t3 4+ at best dudes. If he was an IC i'd take him all day long to supplement the blob. He'd do it way better than Yarrick.

Yeah, as a non-IC he gets gimped pretty hard. Thematically he's cool but for his points its very hard to choose him over more cheaper and effective options since short of taking expensive CC complementary characters like Nork Deddog (who isn't that great in CC anyways) the CCS lacks synergy and equipment to make the most of Straken's CC ability besides assault weapons like meltas or flamers. You also have to realize that while he's pretty tough for a guardsman, he's still a damn small fish in the increasingly large ocean that is 40K, with MC and now super-heavies out the wazoo being able to stomp or blast him and his unit to death before he can do anything.

If basic guardsmen could swap out their lasguns for laspistols and CCW I could see more potential but otherwise he's pretty lacklustre. He doesn't really fill a niche that IG has left open and doesn't do the commanding job any better than other normal company commanders.

Also, Smash dosent halve your attacks to double strength in 7'th edition, It lowers you to 1 attack at doube strength.

put him in a Chimera with a Master of Ordnance?

**edit** then laugh maniacally as you never hit your intended target, but the ones around it. . .**edit**