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New special rule for Inquisitors

Exterminatus

You may force your opponent to take the first turn. He must deploy his army within his deployment zone, setting up reserves and all other pre-battle arrangements.

You must then declare Exterminatus. Your opponent must remove all of his models from the board. You immediately count as having won the game.

 Mr.Omega wrote:
New special rule for Inquisitors

Exterminatus

You may force your opponent to take the first turn. He must deploy his army within his deployment zone, setting up reserves and all other pre-battle arrangements.

You must then declare Exterminatus. Your opponent must remove all of his models from the board. You immediately count as having won the game.

Too overpowered. More like:

Exterminatus
Remove all inquisition HQ units from the board and place them into reserve. Then, all units on the board suffer 10 Strength 10 AP 1 Melta Armorbane Fleshbane Instant-Death hits for each model in that unit with no cover saves or armor saves allowed. There are no kill points for Exterminatus, all objectives are removed, and the game is ended.

Fluffy? Yes. Usable? Maybe.

 The Internet is for Khorn wrote:

 Mr.Omega wrote:
New special rule for Inquisitors

Exterminatus

You may force your opponent to take the first turn. He must deploy his army within his deployment zone, setting up reserves and all other pre-battle arrangements.

You must then declare Exterminatus. Your opponent must remove all of his models from the board. You immediately count as having won the game.

Too overpowered. More like:

Exterminatus
Remove all inquisition HQ units from the board and place them into reserve. Then, all units on the board suffer 10 Strength 10 AP 1 Melta Armorbane Fleshbane Instant-Death hits for each model in that unit with no cover saves or armor saves allowed. There are no kill points for Exterminatus, all objectives are removed, and the game is ended.

Fluffy? Yes. Usable? Maybe.

Exterminatus

You may force your opponent to take the first turn. He must deploy his army within his deployment zone, setting up reserves and all other pre-battle arrangements.

You must then declare Exterminatus. Pour gasoline all over the board, light the board on fire, then chant "Purge the heretic!"

To combat New Model Syndrome (the first time you field a painted model, it dies horribly), all newly painted models get a 'Look Out, Sir!" roll of 1+ if there is an older model in their army on the board, but only against their first wound suffered in their first fielded game.

This rule is called Thanks, Old-timer!

All Catachan infantry units have a 2+ Manly Save

Let's take the current 40k rules design philosophy to it's logical extreme.

"feth that rule":

Before the movement phase on your first turn nominate one USR from either a Codex or the Rulebook. You may now ignore it. Yes, that includes this one.

"To game or to lore" rule

You and your opponent must decide before game start whether to play the tabletop game according to the rules written or play it according to the lore and books written of your armies."

Warning: Filthy xenos players will not be fans of this rule.

 BladeTX wrote:
"To game or to lore" rule

You and your opponent must decide before game start whether to play the tabletop game according to the rules written or play it according to the lore and books written of your armies."

Warning: Filthy xenos players will not be fans of this rule.

All marines get 1+ plot save and 1+ FNP

 BladeTX wrote:
"To game or to lore" rule

You and your opponent must decide before game start whether to play the tabletop game according to the rules written or play it according to the lore and books written of your armies."

Warning: Filthy xenos players will not be fans of this rule.

Good thing the rule isn't mandatory and must be agreed upon!

Edit: On second thought, I'd be happy with this rule. According to Ork lore, gak happens because they believe it strong enough. Sooo...at the beginning of the game, I insta win merely because I thought it so hard.

Melevolence wrote:

 BladeTX wrote:
"To game or to lore" rule

You and your opponent must decide before game start whether to play the tabletop game according to the rules written or play it according to the lore and books written of your armies."

Warning: Filthy xenos players will not be fans of this rule.

Good thing the rule isn't mandatory and must be agreed upon!

Edit: On second thought, I'd be happy with this rule. According to Ork lore, gak happens because they believe it strong enough. Sooo...at the beginning of the game, I insta win merely because I thought it so hard.

Nah that'll never happen. Orks dont want an insta-win. Would be a waste of all our shiny choppas.

Niiru wrote:

Melevolence wrote:

 BladeTX wrote:
"To game or to lore" rule

You and your opponent must decide before game start whether to play the tabletop game according to the rules written or play it according to the lore and books written of your armies."

Warning: Filthy xenos players will not be fans of this rule.

Good thing the rule isn't mandatory and must be agreed upon!

Edit: On second thought, I'd be happy with this rule. According to Ork lore, gak happens because they believe it strong enough. Sooo...at the beginning of the game, I insta win merely because I thought it so hard.

Nah that'll never happen. Orks dont want an insta-win. Would be a waste of all our shiny choppas.

Well, in that case, all you have to do is believe they can't win. Doesn't have to be a win before deployment :p Just no matter what they do, they can't get good rolls and we krump and loot!

Also, I'd like to know who ever has shiny choppas...mine are all bloody and rusty from proppa use!

Melevolence wrote:

 BladeTX wrote:
"To game or to lore" rule

You and your opponent must decide before game start whether to play the tabletop game according to the rules written or play it according to the lore and books written of your armies."

Warning: Filthy xenos players will not be fans of this rule.

Good thing the rule isn't mandatory and must be agreed upon!

Edit: On second thought, I'd be happy with this rule. According to Ork lore, gak happens because they believe it strong enough. Sooo...at the beginning of the game, I insta win merely because I thought it so hard.

That only works if you are mobbed up. Must have 4+ Ork Players on your side of the table.

The other week at our store, I pointed out my name is Walker. Thus, I can fire all of my weapons at full ballistic skill, can only be hit on front armor in close combat, and ignore the Unwieldy rule every time I play.

Grab some of the Crusade of Fire rules for Flyers. Ork planes that could make ram attacks.

Also the Heavy Shokk Attack Gun, mount it on a Battlewaggon and if you get 11 or 12 for the Strength the vehicle tank shocks or rams what you shot at.

Jump troops able to attack flyers but are unable to move next turn and immediately are unengaged from combat after 1 round.

 PastelAvenger wrote:
Jump troops able to attack flyers but are unable to move next turn and immediately are unengaged from combat after 1 round.

It's funny you mention that, as it was a rumored rule for Stormboyz before the dex dropped :p We also figured that we'd lose some Boyz for doing it (A la getting sucked into engines while trying to chop up the flier XD )

Havoc Bikers. You can thank "diary of a chaos space marine" for that idea.

Fenris Frost wrote:The other week at our store, I pointed out my name is Walker. Thus, I can fire all of my weapons at full ballistic skill, can only be hit on front armor in close combat, and ignore the Unwieldy rule every time I play.

Ha, nicely done

AnomanderRake wrote:Grab some of the Crusade of Fire rules for Flyers. Ork planes that could make ram attacks.

Also the Heavy Shokk Attack Gun, mount it on a Battlewaggon and if you get 11 or 12 for the Strength the vehicle tank shocks or rams what you shot at.

This is already a rule :p take a look at the mekboy junka. For 165pts you get a tank with a shokk.


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One id like to see:


Orky Overload - Any ork unit can choose to let a mek overload their weapons. Their weapons will then gain +1 strength and/or -1 AP. However, any 1s rolled to hit will mean the weapon backfires and the ork unit takes the hit instead.


Funny thing is, i actually think this sounds pretty good, and balanced. This would be a great ork rule.

niv-mizzet wrote:

If a die falls off the table when rolled, it's an auto fail.

Believe it or not, that is a rule I think.
It's said in the 7th ed rulebook, near the start.

 Talon of Anathrax wrote:

Believe it or not, that is a rule I think.
It's said in the 7th ed rulebook, near the start.

I think it's suggested as a possibility, not as a 'proper' rule.

Doesn't it say something like "Some players may consider any dice that rolls off the table an automatic failure. After all, if you can't hit a table with a dice, what chance do your troops stand of hitting their mark?"

Melevolence wrote:

 PastelAvenger wrote:
Jump troops able to attack flyers but are unable to move next turn and immediately are unengaged from combat after 1 round.

It's funny you mention that, as it was a rumored rule for Stormboyz before the dex dropped :p We also figured that we'd lose some Boyz for doing it (A la getting sucked into engines while trying to chop up the flier XD )

Was an actual power of the Swooping Hawk apolcalypse formation in Apoc1e.

I would like to see balanced, concise, clearly written rules that don't have any contradictions and are somewhat affordable. They shouldn't make shooting far better than assault in every circumstance, they shouldn't make psykers unstoppable without using psykers of your own, they shouldn't make fliers untouchable without your own flier and they should favor in game tactics over list building. This is only absurd because it's GW we're talking about.

 Toofast wrote:
I would like to see balanced, concise, clearly written rules that don't have any contradictions and are somewhat affordable. They shouldn't make shooting far better than assault in every circumstance, they shouldn't make psykers unstoppable without using psykers of your own, they shouldn't make fliers untouchable without your own flier and they should favor in game tactics over list building. This is only absurd because it's GW we're talking about.

.. psykers being unstoppable without having any other psychic shenanigans to stop them is kinda the whole point of psykers in the setting.

They're space-wizards, if you can't shoot the space-wizards, then the space-wizards feth you up real bad.

The moral of the story? Always shoot the space-wizards.

 PastelAvenger wrote:
Jump troops able to attack flyers but are unable to move next turn and immediately are unengaged from combat after 1 round.

That would be cool. I've thought about having a rule where some deep striking units got a chance to have skyfire and assault aircraft the turn they came in from reserves since they "hit them on the way down".

Also, a universal special rule that lets you assault the turn you come in from reserves really should be a thing. I can understand not letting everybody do it for game balance, but for some units (genestealers are the one I am most familiar with, although I am sure there are many others such as Warp talons or Assault Marines), that is literally their whole point, and not being able to do it makes them useless.

Every single ork model should have Split Fire.

A mob of 30 boyz aiming at a single target (or aiming at all) is just silly.

 JohnU wrote:
Every single ork model should have Split Fire.

A mob of 30 boyz aiming at a single target (or aiming at all) is just silly.

All ork models have forced split fire. If you aren't shooting at least 2 targets, half of your bullets are wasted firing in the air.


Also, I really want to see a boost to death or glory. Your tin foil ork "vehicle" if it can be called that is trying to run over my squad of terminators? Why would a single terminator try to take it on, when 5 of them could easily win a game of red rover against it?

2+ Invul on all Chaos models?

 jreilly89 wrote:

 BladeTX wrote:
"To game or to lore" rule

You and your opponent must decide before game start whether to play the tabletop game according to the rules written or play it according to the lore and books written of your armies."

Warning: Filthy xenos players will not be fans of this rule.

All marines get 1+ plot save and 1+ FNP

So one tacsqaud, vs 100 orks, has a few chips in the paint of my marines armour.

Tyranid Rule: Infestation

Units within 12" of a toxicrene or venomthrope at the end of each turn roll a D6. On a roll of a 1, roll a further D6. This is how many hits are suffered by the unit at STR 4 AP5.

For each unsaved wound, replace the model killed with a Ripper Swarm.



Chaos Rule: The Endless Horde

Any units killed by a Nurgle model roll 2D6. If the total is more than half the leadership characteristic of the model, leave the model in play.

The model is now controlled by the Chaos player, retains the same stats with the exception of +1 Toughness and gains Slow and Purposeful.
(Take forever to play, would actually be a pain to remember BUT I just love the idea of the fallen models being tempted by Nurgle to receive his blessings of reincarnation)






Universal Special Rule: The Fickle Hand of Fate

Any players who spill beer instantly roll a D6.

On any result other than a 6, the player must buy a new round of beers for all players. Beer for the beer God.