Strength 6 Defensive Weapons - GW Overruled

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**Dakkaladd**

Nurglitch wrote:So, something that I've seen recently is a rumour that GW may not be making defensive weapons S4-, but S5-.

Defensive weapons are most certainly S4 in 5th edition. I only gave it about a 50/50 until I actually read the book.

**Frazzled**

If you'll note the Soulgrinder is designed with it in mind. The Harvester is only S 4 but has 6 attacks (IIRC) it can fire while hurling love from the mawcannon.

**neofright**

Hellfury wrote:
malfred wrote:Do people actually override rules that aren't open
to interpretation? This isn't about a gaming group arguing
a wording so much as a gaming group deciding that they
don't like a rule.

Are there examples of such heresy existing on such a scale?

In third, rarely anyone used Night fight because they either forhot, or just thought it was dumb, or both.

in 4th ed nobody used Escalation because it was universally deemed stupid.

If Kill Points make it into the new rules, I see them likewise universally reviled.

I am not so sure about the defensive weapons being lowered though.

They tried to do this when they made the transition from third to fourth (1st version of trial vehicle rules, anyone?) and it didnt make it due to overwhelming consensus that it was indeed dumb.

But who knows? We dont know enough about 5th ed to really judge if it will work or not, unlike the populace knowing about the trial vehicle and assault rules that were pretty much thrown out in the trash and not used in 4th.

You can be sure though, if enough of the people feel it is dumb, it wont be used. Sure it will exist as a rule, but the people will just soundly ignore it.

In 3rd my group and I used night fight.

In 4th my group and I used Escalation.

I imagine in 5th we will use kill points or S4 defensive weapons. We have this thing were we like to play by the rules so everyone knows what game they are playing when they show up.

Also, when we play poker, 3 of a kind beats 2 pair, even though it is silly. And in chess, we limit the way a bishop moves to just diagonals.