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Jbz` wrote:

 Vector Strike wrote:

 niv-mizzet wrote:

-A lascannon or krak missile is actually a good weapon to use against a swarm of tiny things. You can apparently hit one so hard that 3-4 of the swarmlings die at once!

That's not how damage rules work...

Swarms are multiple creatures on a single base treated as a single multi-wound model
A Lascannon/Krak missile will kill multiple of the swarmlings, just only one "base" at a time.

OMG, didn't even notice the 'swarm' part of the OP did really meant the SWARM rule instead of just stuff like orks, termagants or conscripts. I offer my apologies!

Unless it got FAQ’d, then having an especially shouty tank commander makes his tank more explodey.

- Custodes choose to ride in Land Raiders despite all the doors being far to small for them to fit through without bending double.

- Custodian squads are only allowed to borrow one of the shield company's vexillas if at least one member of the unit takes a sentinel blade without also having a shield.

- You can only pick up a plasma blaster if you're wearing tartaros pattern armour. But then you can't pick up a storm bolter.

 ChargerIIC wrote:
A flamer can't hit a target more than 100ft away, but has a vertical range of up to 10 miles if there is an airborne target overhead.

Hey, don't you know - fire rises

Necron characters apparently forgot how to put themselves back together upon receiving critical damage. Like the lesser necrons could.


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 Vector Strike wrote:

Jbz` wrote:

 Vector Strike wrote:

 niv-mizzet wrote:

-A lascannon or krak missile is actually a good weapon to use against a swarm of tiny things. You can apparently hit one so hard that 3-4 of the swarmlings die at once!

That's not how damage rules work...

Swarms are multiple creatures on a single base treated as a single multi-wound model
A Lascannon/Krak missile will kill multiple of the swarmlings, just only one "base" at a time.

OMG, didn't even took notice of the 'swarm' part of the OP did really meant the SWARM rule instead of just stuff like orks, termagants or conscripts. I offer my apologies!

To be fair, in earlier editions it was pretty much the same thing due to the instant death rule. A single multilaser hit could instantly kill a 3w scarab base.

Swarms really need a Eternal Warrior equivalent sometimes.

-a unit told to ignore everything and run in a direction moves an extra d6. A unit moving, shooting, and charging into combat could have some guys in the unit move an extra 2d6, plus 3 pile in, plus 3 consolidate, plus another 6 if a fight twice ability is used. Combat is super-motivating for speed!

One hit from a volcano cannon, a gun used to take out titans, only kills one gretchin from a mob of 30. There is even a 16,7% chance that the gretchin survives, without any harm, not even a scratch.

AdmiralHalsey wrote:
An Imperial Guard Junior officer can order another unit to run really, really fast. Like, as fast as a tank fast.
He can also order himself to run really, really fast. However, if he's yelling at another unit to run really fast, he can't order himself to do so. [Clearly only capable of holding one thought in his head at a time.]

So, an accurate simulation of Junior Officers, then

AdmiralHalsey wrote:
Any Chimera can be a command tank. Salamanders can't, even Salamander command tanks! However, to balance this out, only one Chimera per battle, even an apocalypse battle, can be a command tank at any point, and then only some of the time.

Where is this Chimera Command tank? (Feel you on the Salamander Command Tank, though!)

Presumably strategem. There's command vehicle there. Not sure why salamanders can't use it. Never used that strategem before so memory hazy.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:


To be fair, in earlier editions it was pretty much the same thing due to the instant death rule. A single multilaser hit could instantly kill a 3w scarab base.

In 5th a blast strong enough to cause instant death would wipe out 2 swarm bases per hit as it also had a rule that blasts did double damage to swarms (I remember turbo-boosting Necron scarabs (back in the days before they forgot how to fly) through super heavy artillery fire - they could only be hit on a 6, but each hit destroyed 2 bases...)

Mark.

Apologies, some of these might have been done before (I flicked through the thread).

- Painboyz can somehow heal an Ork of a grievous injury who is half way across the map away from him as long as someone else in the unit is nearby. He must throw the urty syringe or something?
- If Orks advance they will always miss with every single shot an Alaitoc Wraithknight, or an Alpha Legion Dreadnought.
- There is more chance of a Kustom Mega Kannon hitting itself than the enemy when firing against Alaitoc, Alpha Legion etc
- Units have a magical forcefield that protects them against units trying to sneak/burrow/teleport/materialise near them.
- If a single Grot/Guardsman/Cultist/Nurgling so much as lays a finger on a tank it cannot fire any weapons, unless it can fly.
- Flying, winged Dreadnoughts.
- Space Wolves can temporarily remember how to fire their guns in melee.
- Guilliman can blend in with a Guardsman.
- Baneblades can sneak up on someone/deep strike. Dat camo paint job do.

Some of the most evil people and ruthless alien life forms in the galaxy still have very high ethical standards when it comes to things like not shooting or running over their own men - even if those men are just expendable minions and it would greatly help them win their battles if they did so...

I forgot the best one.

A bolter fires and a Necron succumbs. His corpse rises up as a poxwalker much to the horror of his comrades. Then, to everyone's surprise his corpse rises again as a fully functionality necron. The necron and the poxwalker stare at each other, both wondering which of them is the clone.

 An Actual Englishman wrote:
Apologies, some of these might have been done before (I flicked through the thread).

- Painboyz can somehow heal an Ork of a grievous injury who is half way across the map away from him as long as someone else in the unit is nearby. He must throw the urty syringe or something?

That boy got hurt, and someone reminded him that the dok's near the back and he can fix 'im right up. Turns out that gaping chestwounds not as bad as the idea of going back there.

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:

 An Actual Englishman wrote:
Apologies, some of these might have been done before (I flicked through the thread).

- Painboyz can somehow heal an Ork of a grievous injury who is half way across the map away from him as long as someone else in the unit is nearby. He must throw the urty syringe or something?

That boy got hurt, and someone reminded him that the dok's near the back and he can fix 'im right up. Turns out that gaping chestwounds not as bad as the idea of going back there.

Da powa of positive finkin!

A Brimstone Horror can wound an Imperial Knight just as easily as it can a Space Marine.

Titans inspire awe and terror as they stride across the battlefield - stepping over the top of ant-like infantry in their path. However, the idea of stepping on them makes the Princeps a bit squeamish.

Also, puppy-sized rippers stop them dead in their tracks. At that height, it's easy to mistake a ripper for a puppy and nobody wants to step on a puppy.

Hoodwink wrote:
A Brimstone Horror can wound an Imperial Knight just as easily as it can a Space Marine.

It has small hands that allow it to melt the vunerable stuff inside of the ankle joints?

Vindicators can't advance and fire their main cannon, but they can use Linebreaker and fire a hypothetical cannon that's way more powerful.

The mechanics give catachans more explosive ammo than anyone else because they're basically rambo.

Ice_can wrote:
The mechanics give catachans more explosive ammo than anyone else because they're basically rambo.

Supposibly they all have the same amount of ammo, the Catachan just reload faster because they're all Rambo.

Jungle Fighters from a planet with no tanks can reload tanks better than soldiers trained in usage of said tanks since childhood.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

Ice_can wrote:
The mechanics give catachans more explosive ammo than anyone else because they're basically rambo.

Supposibly they all have the same amount of ammo, the Catachan just reload faster because they're all Rambo.

Jungle Fighters from a planet with no tanks can reload tanks better than soldiers trained in usage of said tanks since childhood.

If only they hadn't abandoned unique lists for unique regiments...

Yeah what is actually the fluff-reason for Catachan Tanks being able to outgun all other Tanks, even Cadian Tanks?

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Blood Angels retain their psychic powers when installed in Dreadnaughts, yet the Thousand Sons do not.

To be fair, Thousand Sons Helbrutes aren't piloted by Thousand Sons; they lure other unsuspecting Chaos Space Marines in and trap them in the sarcophagi instead...

Thousand Sons Sorcerers aren't immortal/invincible, sometimes they get seriously injured. And you can't tell me that literally every single Dreadnaught chassis from 30k in every configuration is still up and running in good order, except for the Osirion.

(Though I do suspect that's more a matter of "Forge World hasn't gotten around to it yet" than anything else.)

Within the Deathwatch armory there are Guardian Spears of the Adeptus Custodes, powerful and ancient Leviathan Dreadnaughts, along with tanks and aircraft that saw combat during the Horus Heresy, but not a single man-portable Lascannon.

Likewise, despite having access to the most advanced technology in the Imperium, the Corvus Blackstar somehow has inferior targeting systems to just about every Astartes flier in existence.

With near-unlimited reach and resources in the imperium, no inquisitor is allowed to bestow carapace or power armor on his acolytes for the tough jobs, and they can only take relatively common weapons.....

I think Inquisitors are just supposed to get hold of some Space Marines or Grey Knights if they want soldiers for "tough jobs"...

 MinscS2 wrote:
Yeah what is actually the fluff-reason for Catachan Tanks being able to outgun all other Tanks, even Cadian Tanks?

Catachan's like big boom.

niv-mizzet would be good at CinemaSins.

From 7th edition:

Certain Psychic Powers (Treason of Tzeentch, Shroud of Deceit, and Mind Control) could let a player select an enemy model/unit to shoot with as though it were their own. Since these were immediate effects that expired, given enough Warp Charge and Psykers to cast Mind Control, you could theoretically have infinite dakka coming from one model; maybe controlling the enemy also has an innate timestop effect?

In 5th-7th, you had Tank Shock versus Ram. Tank Shock displaced non-vehicle models regardless of size, while Ram didn't. (4th had "tank shock vs vehicles" which was functionally almost like ramming). Thus, while a humble Tetra could stop a Land Raider in its tracks, a single Rhino could push a Riptide around (or force it to flee if it failed its morale check).

There was a lot of skub over what happened should a Rhino manage to reach an anchored Stormsurge and it failed Death or Glory. In theory (read: In theory) you could also one-shot a Wraithknight if you were able to surround it first.