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Simple change to alter current meta problems:

Standard multi melta: Assault 1, range 24", melta stats.

Any unit where the multi-melta replaces ONE other optional gun (e.g one lascannon, one heavy boltgun,one heavy flamer, etc) receives this gun statline.

Retributors, Devastators, Leman Russ sponsons, attack bikes, land speeders

Heavy Multi Melta: Heavy 2, range 24", Melta stats.

Any unit where the mm replaces TWO guns (twin lascannon) or where the mm is taken as a straight upgrade receives this gun.

Land Raider, Dreadnought, Eradicators, etc.

Imo: the Gladiator Valiant would be better off with standard rather than heavy multi meltas. It is currently too offensively powerful for its defensive capabilities and a proper points cost make its offense unbalanceable. It overkills things too hard to be useful unless vastly undercosted.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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I would just keep the "2D6 pick highest" rule they had before.
   
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If it has 2 barrels, it should be heavy 2.
   
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dammit wrote:
If it has 2 barrels, it should be heavy 2.


I think that doesnt work in practice in certain unit configurations.

It's been one shot for ages and gw has balanced it against single lascannons, single plasma cannons, single heavy bolters on many units.

That's created the weird meta were in now with crazy attack bikes/devs/retributors.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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Also you want to allow attack bikes to advance and fire their multi-melta without penalty?

Their d6+2 threat range is 32 inches.

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dammit wrote:
Also you want to allow attack bikes to advance and fire their multi-melta without penalty?

Their d6+2 threat range is 32 inches.


If its one shot, sure.

....do attack bikes advance and shoot assault weapons without penalty?


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Attack bikes should be "fast anti tank"

They shouldn't be "pound for pound the best antitank by a mile"

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"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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turns out its only heavy that only affects infantry. How bout that.

Still, you're giving the attack bikes 6 inches extra range on their 3 multi-meltas (they advance flat 6).
   
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dammit wrote:
If it has 2 barrels, it should be heavy 2.


So Boltguns, Lasguns, Battlecannons, Heavy Bolters and Baneblade Cannons should also just be 1 shot, since they have 1 barrel?

   
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dammit wrote:
turns out its only heavy that only affects infantry. How bout that.

Still, you're giving the attack bikes 6 inches extra range on their 3 multi-meltas (they advance flat 6).


Dividing their damage in half from their current state would seem, in my opinion, to be more than a fair trade-off.

I am also allowing retributors, devs, etc to move and shoot with them without penalty.

Because particularly with devs- that would seem to be the way to make Melta Vs Lascannon finally make sense.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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 Valkyrie wrote:
dammit wrote:
If it has 2 barrels, it should be heavy 2.


So Boltguns, Lasguns, Battlecannons, Heavy Bolters and Baneblade Cannons should also just be 1 shot, since they have 1 barrel?



The first 2 are, the 3/5th are replacements for blast templates, and sure, the fourth one should be.


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Any unit where the mm replaces TWO guns (twin lascannon) or where the mm is taken as a straight upgrade receives this gun.


What other guns change their type by becoming 'twin'?. Both assault or both heavy surely?

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Seems reasonable to me.

Might need points adjustments in places, might not.

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 JNAProductions wrote:
Seems reasonable to me.

Might need points adjustments in places, might not.


Mostly I just think it's a fools errand to try and appropriately cost around the tripling of firepower of multimeltas on all legacy platforms.

Retributors in current state are just, seventh edition fire dragons level silly in how much they can delete any vehicle ever from the board. To balance current mms they have to be like 40pts.

It's great on, for example, dreads, just like how the change to "heavy plasma cannons" was great, because youre comparing them to two autocannons, two lascannons, two heavy bolters.


"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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Soooo.....would the Land Raider Achilles have two Twin "Heavy" Multi-Meltas, or the downsized version? It just wouldn't be as fun if I couldn't melt primaris tanks into slag with my "Old School" Astartes tank.
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Soooo.....would the Land Raider Achilles have two Twin "Heavy" Multi-Meltas, or the downsized version? It just wouldn't be as fun if I couldn't melt primaris tanks into slag with my "Old School" Astartes tank.


im assuming that these multi-meltas are taking the place of the twin lascannons on the side of the land raider, so, yep. Those would become Heavy Multi-Meltas.

obviously if implemented you'd have to look at the intent behind each unit that mounts a multi-melta and determine what other weapons that unit has access to and what setup makes sense. The main point for me here is I think we're running into a situation like with Plasma Cannons. Certain units that mount Plasma Cannons are mounting one in place of 1 other competing weapon, in which case they were typically fine. Others, most notably dreads, were mounting one in place of 2 other weapons in which case the PC was never really a worthwhile choice, so they changed it to a "heavy plasma cannon" and bumped it to base 2 damage where it's more of a thing you'd consider.

The Gladiator's multi-meltas are replacing:

-a fething storm bolter
-a twin AP-1 storm bolter

Not even the latter is anywhere near the same weapon 'class' as a multi-melta. A pair of "Tempest bolters" remove 30pts of guardsmen, just over 1/2 of a squad, when in rapid fire range. A pair of multi-meltas by their current rules destroy any T7 3+ target with 10 or fewer wounds. That's the capability to very nearly oneshot tanks that are often 130-160pts.

If you put those on the same platform, you'll have to charge an INSANE amount of points for the multimelta upgrade to be balanced, which means you'll be turning that platform into a super crazy glass cannon assuming it's properly costed.

but when you compare the output of a multi-melta by current rules to TWO lascannons, then you start to say "ok, it should probably cost a hair more, but we're in the same ballpark, what we're looking at is the lower range, "high risk high reward" weapon between the two.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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dammit wrote:
If it has 2 barrels, it should be heavy 2.


Barrels != shots. Boltguns have one barrel and two shots, scatter lasers have six and four shots, Cyclone launchers have twelve missile tubes and yet somehow come away with only two shots.

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Need to give MM the ability to be used as a flamer again.
   
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 AnomanderRake wrote:
dammit wrote:
If it has 2 barrels, it should be heavy 2.


Barrels != shots. Boltguns have one barrel and two shots, scatter lasers have six and four shots, Cyclone launchers have twelve missile tubes and yet somehow come away with only two shots.


bolters are rapid fire 1. that 1 is important.

fix the other ones.
   
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dammit wrote:
 AnomanderRake wrote:
dammit wrote:
If it has 2 barrels, it should be heavy 2.


Barrels != shots. Boltguns have one barrel and two shots, scatter lasers have six and four shots, Cyclone launchers have twelve missile tubes and yet somehow come away with only two shots.


bolters are rapid fire 1. that 1 is important.

fix the other ones.


You want a Cyclone launcher to fire twelve krak missiles?

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Then reduce the missiles on the model.
   
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dammit wrote:
 AnomanderRake wrote:
dammit wrote:
If it has 2 barrels, it should be heavy 2.


Barrels != shots. Boltguns have one barrel and two shots, scatter lasers have six and four shots, Cyclone launchers have twelve missile tubes and yet somehow come away with only two shots.


bolters are rapid fire 1. that 1 is important.

fix the other ones.


....this seems dumb, lol.

Every gun fires at the same rate in The Beard Dimension? A cannon = the fire rate of a machine gun?

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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I'm wondering what you do about the Assault Cannon. Does it fire six shots because it has six barrels, or one shot because it has one chamber and one muzzle?

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cyclone launcher USED to fire ALL KRAK missiles in one massive volley. 2nd edition was awesome.
   
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What do you do when weapons are modelled differently?
Sometimes a shotgun is modelled as one barrel.
Sometimes the same shotgun is modelled as twin barrel, because GW doesn't know what a magazine tube is.
Sometimes shotguns are modelled as double barrelled weapons.

I think it's entirely reasonable that rules are an abstraction of models. Especially when it's something as arbitrary as barrel count, thus completely ignoring rate of fire!

As for the subject at hand, I really like the suggestion.

Although the Land Raider Achilles replaces the twin-lascannon with a twin-multimelta, so that should probably be a twin-'light' multi-melta.

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I'm also in the "2 barrels 2 shots" crowd. I'd change meltas and multi meltas only in points actually, making them 15 and 35 ppm.

And the multi melta should definitely be a heavy weapon, since all squads that can have it choose from heavy weapons from their kits, see devastators or retributors. They all fire heavy weapons and a multi melta definitely looks like one.

 
   
 
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