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CP and Stratagems need to change. I'd love to see CP set to game size, and to see some of the most powerful stratagems get a CP reduction, but changes to single use per game.
The Castellan never was the problem. People not able to understand that pouring countless CP though it when it was decked out with what might be the best relic in the game, and the one of the strongest Warlord Traits, that it could be the problem.
And then to further exacerbate the problem, you have a bunch of slow lemmings still insisting that its still really good.
Backspacehacker wrote: How about they un-nerf the castellen, and make it so you can only use CP on the army that's brings it to the table
IE if you bring a guard battalion, the cp from that can ONLY be used on guard.
I got a pretty hardcore suggestion.
Remove the command re-roll stratagem entirely.
No thanks. I deal with perils enough to not want to have that go away, because of the Castellan.
Yeah, but those risks are what makes things so much more dramatic. If you don't have to deal with perils much anymore, why even have that mechanic?
I'd rather more bombastic gak going wrong, and you having to adjust to it, than the trend we have now where we try and control as many outcomes as possible. Ya'll hate randomness, I get that.
But the test of skill isn't reducing randomness by pinpoint list building before even tossing a single die - its overcoming the random element in the heat of the moment.
Get rid of the command re-roll and let the dice decide your fate more often - you'll start thinking about how to handle things when the worst outcome hits. To each their own, but that sounds much more fun to me.
There is plenty of drama. Ever rerolled a dice and it came up as the exact same result? A reroll isn't a guarantee of success nor are they limitless.
You don't "overcome" your lead psyker exploding himself to bits - you just manage with what you have left.
Except having that reroll always available is also responsible for a number of balance issues, those events that are supposed to be rare but serious downsides or large bonuses have their probability altered dramatically by the auto reroll.
GW never seems to take these into consideration for the most part.
A single reroll per phase is not typically upsetting any balance issues like you suggest. If that were the case then Salamanders of Deathskulls would be the most broken of armies.
It's what gets rerolled that matters.
Salamanders and deathsculls can reroll the perills that kills a warlord or that 3++ against a flat damage weapon.
You meant can't, right?
And that exactly illustrates my point. Rerolls are more or less valuable depending on the scenario. I don't believe you can provide me any objective data that a reroll on perils breaks the game in any sense like a Castellan 3++ did.
It would be nice if all invo saves had the shadow field (can't be rerolled for any reason) stipulation.
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Xenomancers wrote: It would be nice if all invo saves had the shadow field (can't be rerolled for any reason) stipulation.
Because that's totally needed-sure, Terminators can reroll their 2+ armor against bolters, but god forbid a Wych reroll their 6+ invuln against them!
Yes but vs a volcano lance that 2+ becomes a 7+. Armor saves have innate vulnerability so a reroll on an armor save(while annoying) is not the same as a reroll on an invo. Invo is pretty close to automatic damage reduction.
If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
- Fox Mulder
Backspacehacker wrote: How about they un-nerf the castellen, and make it so you can only use CP on the army that's brings it to the table
IE if you bring a guard battalion, the cp from that can ONLY be used on guard.
I got a pretty hardcore suggestion.
Remove the command re-roll stratagem entirely.
No thanks. I deal with perils enough to not want to have that go away, because of the Castellan.
Yeah, but those risks are what makes things so much more dramatic. If you don't have to deal with perils much anymore, why even have that mechanic?
I'd rather more bombastic gak going wrong, and you having to adjust to it, than the trend we have now where we try and control as many outcomes as possible. Ya'll hate randomness, I get that.
But the test of skill isn't reducing randomness by pinpoint list building before even tossing a single die - its overcoming the random element in the heat of the moment.
Get rid of the command re-roll and let the dice decide your fate more often - you'll start thinking about how to handle things when the worst outcome hits. To each their own, but that sounds much more fun to me.
There is plenty of drama. Ever rerolled a dice and it came up as the exact same result? A reroll isn't a guarantee of success nor are they limitless.
You don't "overcome" your lead psyker exploding himself to bits - you just manage with what you have left.
Except having that reroll always available is also responsible for a number of balance issues, those events that are supposed to be rare but serious downsides or large bonuses have their probability altered dramatically by the auto reroll.
GW never seems to take these into consideration for the most part.
A single reroll per phase is not typically upsetting any balance issues like you suggest. If that were the case then Salamanders of Deathskulls would be the most broken of armies.
It's what gets rerolled that matters.
Salamanders and deathsculls can reroll the perills that kills a warlord or that 3++ against a flat damage weapon.
You meant can't, right?
And that exactly illustrates my point. Rerolls are more or less valuable depending on the scenario. I don't believe you can provide me any objective data that a reroll on perils breaks the game in any sense like a Castellan 3++ did.
Except guess what Knights don't have free re-roll warlord traits guard do, knights lists with a 3++ castellen doesn't have CP for rerolls.
Getting cheap CP and Free rerolls on top super broken warlord trait to hand out to the kings of stupid CP generation.
Xenomancers wrote: It would be nice if all invo saves had the shadow field (can't be rerolled for any reason) stipulation.
Because that's totally needed-sure, Terminators can reroll their 2+ armor against bolters, but god forbid a Wych reroll their 6+ invuln against them!
Yes but vs a volcano lance that 2+ becomes a 7+. Armor saves have innate vulnerability so a reroll on an armor save(while annoying) is not the same as a reroll on an invo. Invo is pretty close to automatic damage reduction.
Who shoots a volcano lance at Terminators?
And in cover, they get a 6+. The same as a Wych.
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I'd honestly be fine with CP and Strategems going away entirely. I think it just added another difficult to balance mechanic to an already difficult to balance game.
Some armies have absolutely terrible strategems, and others have great ones. Some armies can easily get a lot of CPs and others can't.
Just remove the whole thing for 9th please. It was a cool idea that didn't really work well.
Reemule wrote: How would a Knight army deal with Unchargeable models then Argonak?
Drop the assumption that Codex: Knights should be fielding standalone all-LOW armies, maybe? There's no Codex: Baneblades, no Codex: Stompas, why does there need to be Codex: Knights?
argonak wrote: II'd honestly be fine with CP and Strategems going away entirely. I think it just added another difficult to balance mechanic to an already difficult to balance game.
Some armies have absolutely terrible strategems, and others have great ones. Some armies can easily get a lot of CPs and others can't.
I like stratagems - they add another dimension to the game.
AnomanderRake wrote: Drop the assumption that Codex: Knights should be fielding standalone all-LOW armies, maybe? There's no Codex: Baneblades, no Codex: Stompas, why does there need to be Codex: Knights?
I think that ship has sailed.
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argonak wrote: I'd honestly be fine with CP and Strategems going away entirely. I think it just added another difficult to balance mechanic to an already difficult to balance game.
Some armies have absolutely terrible strategems, and others have great ones. Some armies can easily get a lot of CPs and others can't.
Just remove the whole thing for 9th please. It was a cool idea that didn't really work well.
Reemule wrote: How would a Knight army deal with Unchargeable models then Argonak?
Drop the assumption that Codex: Knights should be fielding standalone all-LOW armies, maybe? There's no Codex: Baneblades, no Codex: Stompas, why does there need to be Codex: Knights?
You do realise that there is also nothing stopping someone from building a guard army that is nothing but LOW, or being even cheeser and using scions and a stormlord to create a technically not all LOW list that only allows you to interact with LOW.
Reemule wrote: How would a Knight army deal with Unchargeable models then Argonak?
1.) Um. Shoot them? You have guns. . .
2.) Buuuuuut, also fix GW's terrain rules. They're just. . . not good.
a) Classify terrain into structures, woods, or broken terrain.
b) All structures have wounds and toughness based on their size and # of floors, and are destructable down to broken terrain.
c) Woods have a nonstacking -1 to hit if your LOS to target crosses through them.
d) broken terrain provide +1 cover bonus, but no -1 to hit.
e) structures provide -1 to hit, and +1 cover bonus, and block LOS past themselves. But you take mortal wounds when they get destroyed if you're inside.
Lol this topic has been one hilarious roller-coaster.
I think I understand why there are so many ridiculous hyperbolic opnions. A lot of you don't actually play the game often and recycle 2nd hand subjective information that gets more and more overblown each time.
I laughed when someone suggested that 3+ invuls shouldn't exist. Yeah, that's smart. I guess Terminators are way too powerful in this game?
Let's all calm down and stop dealing in absolutes. A wise individual knows nuance.
Reemule wrote: How would a Knight army deal with Unchargeable models then Argonak?
Drop the assumption that Codex: Knights should be fielding standalone all-LOW armies, maybe? There's no Codex: Baneblades, no Codex: Stompas, why does there need to be Codex: Knights?
You do realise that there is also nothing stopping someone from building a guard army that is nothing but LOW, or being even cheeser and using scions and a stormlord to create a technically not all LOW list that only allows you to interact with LOW.
Yup. And I think normal-size games would be in a better place if the Lords of War slot was a thing you got one of in a Brigade rather than something you can take as many of as you like without regard to anything else; the fact that armies have to be prepared to kill multiple Knights is really screwing up the meta on a lot of levels. You can't take any vehicle that doesn't have to-hit penalties/Invulnerable saves/a ludicrously spammable pricepoint because all the armies you play against have to be prepared to fight multiple Knights, you can't build one-Codex armies out of Codexes that don't have an efficient answer to Knights (Deathwatch, for instance), you can't play armies without cheap screens lest something expensive get top-of-one ganked by a suicide Gallant...
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You know thinking about it, I think another big problem here is the removal of April facings.
Now since all vehicles don't really have a weakness you don't need to be mindful of your units anymore, before you could deal with knight by dropping behind them with melta at watching them vanish. Now there is no punishment for being a lazy player.
I really think facings need to make a return in some way, maybe not hul points but like shooting a tank or knight from behind gives you a bonus AP, or if you are shooting them with a gun with str equal or greater then their toughness from.behind you can reroll wound rolls or get mortal wounds.
Reemule wrote: How would a Knight army deal with Unchargeable models then Argonak?
1.) Um. Shoot them? You have guns. . .
2.) Buuuuuut, also fix GW's terrain rules. They're just. . . not good.
a) Classify terrain into structures, woods, or broken terrain.
b) All structures have wounds and toughness based on their size and # of floors, and are destructable down to broken terrain.
c) Woods have a nonstacking -1 to hit if your LOS to target crosses through them.
d) broken terrain provide +1 cover bonus, but no -1 to hit.
e) structures provide -1 to hit, and +1 cover bonus, and block LOS past themselves. But you take mortal wounds when they get destroyed if you're inside.
And you prove the point I was trying to make. You moved the goal. It was remove CP, now to remove CP you need to redo terrain. Maybe think that through before posting?
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Ishagu wrote: Lol this topic has been one hilarious roller-coaster.
I think I understand why there are so many ridiculous hyperbolic opnions. A lot of you don't actually play the game often and recycle 2nd hand subjective information that gets more and more overblown each time.
I laughed when someone suggested that 3+ invuls shouldn't exist. Yeah, that's smart. I guess Terminators are way too powerful in this game?
Let's all calm down and stop dealing in absolutes. A wise individual knows nuance.
Well if Grey knight termintors have to deal with +5 inv, then other termintors should not have +3.
If you have to kill, then kill in the best manner. If you slaughter, then slaughter in the best manner. Let one of you sharpen his knife so his animal feels no pain.
Ishagu wrote: Lol this topic has been one hilarious roller-coaster.
I think I understand why there are so many ridiculous hyperbolic opnions. A lot of you don't actually play the game often and recycle 2nd hand subjective information that gets more and more overblown each time.
I laughed when someone suggested that 3+ invuls shouldn't exist. Yeah, that's smart. I guess Terminators are way too powerful in this game?
Let's all calm down and stop dealing in absolutes. A wise individual knows nuance.
Well if Grey knight termintors have to deal with +5 inv, then other termintors should not have +3.
Those other terminators a, pay for the upgrade (though a pittance now, I agree); and b, lose out on an arm that could wield a weapon to do so.
So there is both a cost, and an opportunity cost, to getting that 3++.
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Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Xenomancers wrote: It would be nice if all invo saves had the shadow field (can't be rerolled for any reason) stipulation.
Because that's totally needed-sure, Terminators can reroll their 2+ armor against bolters, but god forbid a Wych reroll their 6+ invuln against them!
Yes but vs a volcano lance that 2+ becomes a 7+. Armor saves have innate vulnerability so a reroll on an armor save(while annoying) is not the same as a reroll on an invo. Invo is pretty close to automatic damage reduction.
Who shoots a volcano lance at Terminators?
And in cover, they get a 6+. The same as a Wych.
I just chose an AP -5 weapon - there are plenty in the game. Where as there are almost no ignore invo weapons. Mortal wounds ofc ignore them but mortal wounds are rarely targetable in any huge quantity. Plus there are lots of units with 2+ armor the volcano lance doesn't mind shooting at. A good example would be centurions. 2+ save with no invo.
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Ishagu wrote: Lol this topic has been one hilarious roller-coaster.
I think I understand why there are so many ridiculous hyperbolic opnions. A lot of you don't actually play the game often and recycle 2nd hand subjective information that gets more and more overblown each time.
I laughed when someone suggested that 3+ invuls shouldn't exist. Yeah, that's smart. I guess Terminators are way too powerful in this game?
Let's all calm down and stop dealing in absolutes. A wise individual knows nuance.
Weak agreement - 3+ invo terms that all had assault cannons would be a top teir unit without question. Units can be bad for more than one reason. 3++ is so highly desirable it is clear if a unit has one and it isn't being used it is because the unit is bad for another reason. 3++ is bad for the game because it makes AP almost useless and most good guns rely on AP to do damage. blanket damage mitigation is unfun and unbalanced because not all armies have equal access to it.
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If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
- Fox Mulder
Xenomancers wrote: It would be nice if all invo saves had the shadow field (can't be rerolled for any reason) stipulation.
Because that's totally needed-sure, Terminators can reroll their 2+ armor against bolters, but god forbid a Wych reroll their 6+ invuln against them!
Yes but vs a volcano lance that 2+ becomes a 7+. Armor saves have innate vulnerability so a reroll on an armor save(while annoying) is not the same as a reroll on an invo. Invo is pretty close to automatic damage reduction.
Who shoots a volcano lance at Terminators?
And in cover, they get a 6+. The same as a Wych.
I just chose an AP -5 weapon - there are plenty in the game. Where as there are almost no ignore invo weapons. Mortal wounds ofc ignore them but mortal wounds are rarely targetable in any huge quantity. Plus there are lots of units with 2+ armor the volcano lance doesn't mind shooting at. A good example would be centurions. 2+ save with no invo.
List the AP-5 weapons, please. There's the Volcano series (two weapons), and I believe the Culexus' ranged weapon and Disintegrators. That's 4 weapons-only one of which actually WANTS to shoot Terminators. And there are, to my knowledge, NO AP-6 weapons, meaning Terminators in Cover will never lose their entire save unless it's an AP-5 AND Ignores Cover weapon.
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I'd love to see the Super Heavy Auxiliary detachment folded into the regular Auxiliary detachment, -1CP and all. Also, just delete the Supreme Command Detachment already. It just smacks of "Danger, danger, cheese approaching!" whenever I'm told a list has one in it.
Reemule wrote: How would a Knight army deal with Unchargeable models then Argonak?
1.) Um. Shoot them? You have guns. . .
2.) Buuuuuut, also fix GW's terrain rules. They're just. . . not good.
a) Classify terrain into structures, woods, or broken terrain.
b) All structures have wounds and toughness based on their size and # of floors, and are destructable down to broken terrain.
c) Woods have a nonstacking -1 to hit if your LOS to target crosses through them.
d) broken terrain provide +1 cover bonus, but no -1 to hit.
e) structures provide -1 to hit, and +1 cover bonus, and block LOS past themselves. But you take mortal wounds when they get destroyed if you're inside.
And you prove the point I was trying to make. You moved the goal. It was remove CP, now to remove CP you need to redo terrain. Maybe think that through before posting?
Ok. Shoot them then. Same way Tyranids deal with unchargable models.
So, really, what are these plethora of AP-5 weapons you're talking about, Xeno?
While not native -4 AP weapons, T'au Fusion Blasters or Heavy Rail Rifles on platform with access to ATS (XV25 stealth, XV8 Crsis, XV88 Broadside) can reach -5 AP. However, nobody is playing that setup because the combination isn't very sensible; unless your specifically hunting centurions and land raiders which don't seem to make it into many lists.
So, really, what are these plethora of AP-5 weapons you're talking about, Xeno?
While not native -4 AP weapons, T'au Fusion Blasters or Heavy Rail Rifles on platform with access to ATS (XV25 stealth, XV8 Crsis, XV88 Broadside) can reach -5 AP. However, nobody is playing that setup because the combination isn't very sensible; unless your specifically hunting centurions and land raiders which don't seem to make it into many lists.