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For all those who don't know, in North America there's going to be a remade captain (like the 30th anniversary one) to celebrate the 100th store. Assuming the trend is going to continue with a unique profile like the RT marine before the 28th I'd like to have speculation about what his rules are.

100 points

Special rules:
Chapter tactics
Atsknf
Independent character

Wargear:
Artificer armour
Iron halo
Bolt pistol
Relic: mastercrafted powerfist that doesn't have the specialist weapon usr
Relic: aussalt 4 boltgun mastercrafted

Ws 6 bs 5 s 4 t 4 w 3 I 5 a 4 ld 10 Sv. 2+

You're probably thinking "what's up with all the free wargear?" But I'm trying to put myself in gw's mindset. How do you sell a captain? Free stuff! (Plus it's what they did with the RT anniversary marine, so I expect them to repeat themselves)

The relics and extra attacks are there just to pretty much improve upon the captain so he's not so vanilla. I feel like he's a little op with 5 attacks and free artificer armour but without it I'd feel he's not a proper captain, and I can't budge from the 100 points 100th store "coincidence" . I feel he's lacking in special rules that make him unique so if anyone can add those, thay would be much appreciated. Comments, criticism and changes welcome, and wanted.

That's very cheap, not to mention better than your standard Chapter Master unit (without the Orbital Strike). It's under-costed and not likely to be a generic Captain (or a 30th Anniversary Captain).

It's more likely that the new Captain will be the middle ground between the current Captain and Chapter Master models (not that there's much middle ground there anyway) with only one cool relic as opposed to two.

Cool idea, though.

 IllumiNini wrote:
That's very cheap, not to mention better than your standard Chapter Master unit (without the Orbital Strike). It's under-costed and not likely to be a generic Captain (or a 30th Anniversary Captain).

It's more likely that the new Captain will be the middle ground between the current Captain and Chapter Master models (not that there's much middle ground there anyway) with only one cool relic as opposed to two.

Cool idea, though.

Thanks for the feedback.

The model has already been shown, it's just a marine with a fist and bolter with a cape and loin cloth in (I think) mk 6 armour. Perhaps drop the iron halo and keep the other stats? (It doesn't look like the actual model has it anyways) would that balance it so he's a lot less survivable? Or is that too much of a nerf or too little?

No worries.

I would make it a regular Captain, but give him one unique relic. only available to this particular model and maybe a unique special rule for them that isn't particularly powerful (but still useful).

Otherwise it gets too difficult to find the middle ground between Captain and Chapter Master while making them unique at the same time.

#1ShieldBrother3++ wrote:Perhaps drop the iron halo

Iron halo is standard captain wargear.