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Named characters always felt weird to me, so I personally don't use them. It just doesn't fit. But most can just be turned into wargear options or alternate sculpts for already existing models. There's no need to make all these special characters who somehow have this unique weapon of which there is only one in a whole galaxy or the like.

But then again, I'm also in favour of more simplified wargear in general, so no tiny differentiations of different versions of the same weapon that have one point more or less of something.

Karol wrote:

 Dolnikan wrote:
Named characters always felt weird to me, so I personally don't use them. It just doesn't fit. But most can just be turned into wargear options or alternate sculpts for already existing models. There's no need to make all these special characters who somehow have this unique weapon of which there is only one in a whole galaxy or the like.

But then again, I'm also in favour of more simplified wargear in general, so no tiny differentiations of different versions of the same weapon that have one point more or less of something.

But there is only one Titan Sword, storm shield or the Blade of Antwer in the entire setting. They also happen to be carried by characters which or vastly superior to the non special characters version of HQ, for minimal pts cost.

Which makes no sense to me because there is no reason why there wouldn't be equivalent weapons laying around elsewhere. Sure, it would make 40k revolve less around central characters but to me, that seems more like a good thing. And besides, many special weapons are just normal weapons +1. They don't fundamentally change anything.