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He dropped popped those doors open and literally broke my dread-knights nemesis great sword off his hand. The power of the drop pod is unmatched! I mean those doors come down with some serious velocity! Maybe we could have someone conversion style spring load them so see just how much damage they can cause when placed in between 3-4 squads without even the possibility of mishap. I bet with the proper spring loading technique you could easily win most game through attrition of models. Sorry Gk...you aren't cool enough to have pods of your own. So the only way to break enemy models will be to knock over storm ravens (accidentally.)

Wow, you have access to pods through ally shanagins. Pitty chaos! We should have them yet as we're not the poster boy we don't get them.

Anyway you were playing dredknights! Need I say more?

So is there actually a question?

This is, without a doubt, the topic of the year. Well done, good sir or madam.

I wish my Tau had that much destructive power

 total0 wrote:
Wow, you have access to pods through ally shanagins. Pitty chaos! We should have them yet as we're not the poster boy we don't get them.

Anyway you were playing dredknights! Need I say more?

Yeah but not that allies I want lol. Did my dreadknight really deserve to have his nicely airbrushed sword broken!?!? I don't think so.


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 Desubot wrote:
So is there actually a question?

I guess I could make a question out of this. What is the most models you've destroyed with a single drop pod? I don't mean removed as a casualty. I mean what is the most models you've literally broken with a drop pod. If not a drop pod what models have you literally destroyed other models with? For me...it's storm raven as I have never even used a drop pod.

 Xenomancers wrote:


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 Desubot wrote:
So is there actually a question?

I guess I could make a question out of this. What is the most models you've destroyed with a single drop pod? I don't mean removed as a casualty. I mean what is the most models you've literally broken with a drop pod. If not a drop pod what models have you literally destroyed other models with? For me...it's storm raven as I have never even used a drop pod.

Zero. because i dont have butterfingers.

The destructive power of drop pods is balanced out by the assembly/painting issues. Sure, if you field enough, you might snap off an arm or weapon, but it that worth the mind-breaking insanity of actually getting them built?

You also need to consider the damage to your own troops. When you are disembarking, those doors can be tricky to keep your footing on. Many a marine has gone tumbling off the edge onto the battlefield below.

My girlfriend dropped a metal Exorcist she was looking at on to a fantasy Skaven regiment on the next table over...

Why were Sisters fighting Skaven?

 Ratius wrote:
Why were Sisters fighting Skaven?

Because Rat Heresy

 Ratius wrote:
Why were Sisters fighting Skaven?

It was the adjacent tablet where some thing called "Fantasy" was happening. Though it just looked like 40k with smaller unit coherency!

 Desubot wrote:

 Xenomancers wrote:


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 Desubot wrote:
So is there actually a question?

I guess I could make a question out of this. What is the most models you've destroyed with a single drop pod? I don't mean removed as a casualty. I mean what is the most models you've literally broken with a drop pod. If not a drop pod what models have you literally destroyed other models with? For me...it's storm raven as I have never even used a drop pod.

Zero. because i dont have butterfingers.

Luckily somehow you have escaped the wrath of the drop pod.

 total0 wrote:
Wow, you have access to pods through ally shanagins. Pitty chaos! We should have them yet as we're not the poster boy we don't get them.

Anyway you were playing dredknights! Need I say more?

Why do you think that Chaos should have Drop Pods?

Dreadclaws, sure, but Drop Pods? Not really.

I have not damaged models with models, but my Chaos Marines have drawn a lot of blood from me over the years.

Nope. Open them slowly or just magnetize them/glue them closed. Never broke a model yet.

I have not experienced a drop pods literal destructive power, but I did drop my tape measurer on a Necron warrior once. It went flying above our heads before falling back to the ground. It failed it's resurrection protocol too (I did make the roll), but a little glue did the trick.

 Fafnir13 wrote:
I have not experienced a drop pods literal destructive power, but I did drop my tape measurer on a Necron warrior once. It went flying above our heads before falling back to the ground. It failed it's resurrection protocol too (I did make the roll), but a little glue did the trick.

Excellent!

Drop pods have no business being opened on a table.

It just makes everything complicated for no reason.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 total0 wrote:
Wow, you have access to pods through ally shanagins. Pitty chaos! We should have them yet as we're not the poster boy we don't get them.

Anyway you were playing dredknights! Need I say more?

Why do you think that Chaos should have Drop Pods?

Dreadclaws, sure, but Drop Pods? Not really.

Why should they not? Lots of chaos has turned relativey recently and would still have drop pods from when they were loyal. Also, drop pods were around in the Heresy so even Chaos marines from then would have drop pods.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 total0 wrote:
Wow, you have access to pods through ally shanagins. Pitty chaos! We should have them yet as we're not the poster boy we don't get them.

Anyway you were playing dredknights! Need I say more?

Why do you think that Chaos should have Drop Pods?

Dreadclaws, sure, but Drop Pods? Not really.

Why should they not? Lots of chaos has turned relativey recently and would still have drop pods from when they were loyal. Also, drop pods were around in the Heresy so even Chaos marines from then would have drop pods.

You don't think they'd've used them sometime in the last 10,000 years? As far as we know, drop-pods are irrecoverable once they slam into the ground.

So what about the recent converts then...

Also, surely the Dark Mechanicus still have the means to build drop pods.

 ImAGeek wrote:
So what about the recent converts then...

Also, surely the Dark Mechanicus still have the means to build drop pods.

Recent converts might have them, certainly, though from what I see it's rare that anything company-sized turns traitor as a whole. So you get piecemeal renegades, with piecemeal equipment - not a regular supply of pods, to be sure.

As far as the Dark Mechanicus, they may have the means, but not the sanity.

I for one am in favor of chaos having drop pods. If they have battle barge, strike cruisers, thunder-hawks...they should have drop pods...

I don't think they should get them.

 Xenomancers wrote:
I for one am in favor of chaos having drop pods. If they have battle barge, strike cruisers, thunder-hawks...they should have drop pods...

Except that they don't - they have Battleships, Grand-Cruisers, and Stormbirds.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:

 Xenomancers wrote:
I for one am in favor of chaos having drop pods. If they have battle barge, strike cruisers, thunder-hawks...they should have drop pods...

Except that they don't - they have Battleships, Grand-Cruisers, and Stormbirds.

Except for the renegades that have turned more recently in the last few thousand years.

 Blacksails wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:

 Xenomancers wrote:
I for one am in favor of chaos having drop pods. If they have battle barge, strike cruisers, thunder-hawks...they should have drop pods...

Except that they don't - they have Battleships, Grand-Cruisers, and Stormbirds.

Except for the renegades that have turned more recently in the last few thousand years.

Who rarely turn in even Company strength, so I guess Chaos might have some strike cruisers. Maybe.

Whole Chapters have turned to chaos on more than one occasion.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:


Who rarely turn in even Company strength, so I guess Chaos might have some strike cruisers. Maybe.

Over the course of 10k years, I'm 100% positive there have been several instances of entire chapters going renegade, even more where several companies go, and I imagine hundred, if not thousands, of instances where more than a single company fall to chaos.

There's sufficient numbers turning for it to be perfectly reasonable to say that some chaos warbands have access to more 'modern' battle-barges, strike cruisers, and thunderhawks.

To that extent, it would therefore make sense to include drop pods in the roster of chaos marines.