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We, CSM players, would all like to see something similar to chapter tactics. My question to you is if you did get them, what would you like them to be? Here's a couple I thought up that would be fun. These would obviously need more official wording but I think you get the idea.

World Eaters
*All vehicles are considered assault vehicles

*Khorne Berzerkers are troop choices

*All models with MoK have fleet

Night Lords
*Raptors are troop choices

*All jump infantry have Hit and Run

*All infantry have fear(a fluffy idea)

Iron Warriors
*All vehicles get +1 AV on front and sides

*Havoc squads get +1 to vehicle damage chart and building damage chart.

*Troop choices may take a heavy weapon instead of a special weapon.

Hmmm, I haven't played anybody with the new marine book yet so I don't know much about how they work/balance, but I'll give it a go:

Death Guard:

*Havocs have relentless and interceptor

*Chaos Space Marines with MoN can upgrade their CCW to poisoned 4+ (are upgrades that cost points seen in chapter tactics?)

*Deep striking units scatter 1D3 instead of D6

How about scrapping the current rulebook and starting over first?

Barfolomew wrote:
How about scrapping the current rulebook and starting over first?

I agree, but #1 They could make it worse than it already is, and #2 I think we're stuck with this book/supplements/data slates for quite a while.

Word Bearers
*Marks also give Daemon rules.

*Dark Apostles can take the wargear of Chaos Lords.

*Possessed are troops.

Any good? Or overpowered?

*Possessed are troops.

They would still be useless ...


I've posted my "wishlist" for Word Bearers before but a few things I would like to see (note that this is just a big list - we wouldn't necessarily need to get all of it):

A revamp to the Apostle so that the Word Bearer's version is more like the actual DAs in the books (basically a cross between a Chaplain, CSM Lord and Sorcerer)

An ability that would allow you to take certain units from the Demons codex as though they part of your normal Force Org

A spell to allow you to possess (basically just replace) one squad of cultists with a squad of Demons of the same mark (or a random squad of demons if the cultists are unmarked)

An ability that would allow you to take certain units from the IG codex as though they part of your normal Force Org (pretty sure this would have to be mutually exclusive with the demons version. You would have to pick one or the other but not both)

Gal Vorbak:
Basically they would replace Chosen and have better profiles and weapon options to represent the Demonic possesion

These are just a few of my favorites. My group and I were actually drafting rules for these at one point but my fellow CSM players have kind of given up for this edition.