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i just had the idea for a Flyer to be able to stay off the board fopr 2 turns as opposed to one, and have it return to play with one of its weapons repaired.

Anyone else think this is a good idea?

rules wise, flyers have enough going for them. Fluff wise, a game turn is around 4 seconds of a battle, takes a little more than that to land and replace a weapon~

~xalfej

but it dosent take more than that to circumvent the entire battlefield?

rules =/= fluff

I don't think this is really needed. Besides it being another advantage for a flyer over standard vehicles, the only faction that would really benefit at this point would be Dark Eldar. Everyone else with a mechanical flyer at this point also have some sort of mechanic unit* that should be able to conduct repairs unless there is a rule somewhere I am not aware of.

* List of said mechanic units:
Space Marines = Tech Marine/Master of the Forge
Blood Angels = Tech Marine
Grey Knights = Tech Marine
Orks = Mek Boy or Big Mek
Necrons = Tomb Spyder
Imperial Guard = Tech Priest
Chaos Space Marines = Warp Smith


That said, the idea might be interesting for a particular terrain piece or perhaps a senario game where-in one is attacking/defending an entrentched enemy (excusing the quick rearming as being due to the craft having a friendly airfield nearby).

What? No... It's unreasonable fluff-wise, gives another advantage to Flyers and really, is difficult to play ( you come in 2nd turn, you leave in 3rd, you come back in fifth? that's pretty much the only chance to use such a rule)

Sorry Ihatenids but I think this is a bad idea.

 Strat_N8 wrote:

* List of said mechanic units:
Space Marines = Tech Marine/Master of the Forge
Blood Angels = Tech Marine
Grey Knights = Tech Marine
Orks = Mek Boy or Big Mek
Necrons = Tomb Spyder
Imperial Guard = Tech Priest
Chaos Space Marines = Warp Smith


That said, the idea might be interesting for a particular terrain piece or perhaps a senario game where-in one is attacking/defending an entrentched enemy (excusing the quick rearming as being due to the craft having a friendly airfield nearby).

The only problem with that is the fact itll take almost 2 turns to line up a Flyer and the Mechanic for B2B, so It makes more sense to just dissappear. To me at least anyway...

i can see it being used in an ongoing campaing using one of the plantery tile boards.

Make one tile a star/airport. If you control that tile then your flyer can leave the game for an extar turn to repair a single weapon destroyed/locked velocity result.

limit it to one flyer per turn to avoid people repairing etire airforces in one go.