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 Jidmah wrote:
Breton wrote:
 Adeptus Doritos wrote:


It never made sense to me that some guy standing in the dirt outside the tank would be waving his sword around so the gunner shoots better. Or more comically, making the aircraft that flies over his head more accurate because he pointed sternly at a bad guy.


More like giving the pilot coordinates etc.


That sounds like something a dedicated spotter should to, like infiltrators, incursors or eliminators.


Like maybe a unit that carries a type of light, (lasers perhaps) that mark targets?
ohh we could call them...

Marker lights!

I joke but I'd not mind seeing other armies with support things like that, not marines as it doesn't really fit them, but a new guard unit called "recon squad" with 18 inch assault 1 "Lascarbines" and "marker grenades" that allows them to throw smoke for more accurate artillery.

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 Gadzilla666 wrote:

Um, aren't you forgetting some legions? Like Black Legion, Alpha Legion, Iron Warriors, Word Bearers, and Night Lords? I don't think they fit into either of those categories.

And I'd like for Yukishiro to define "janky". If it means csm remaining team WOMBO COMBO, then no thanks.


Well yeah, night lords are basically renegades with low chaos usage, they just arent "fresh converts"
   
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BrianDavion wrote:
 Jidmah wrote:
Breton wrote:
 Adeptus Doritos wrote:


It never made sense to me that some guy standing in the dirt outside the tank would be waving his sword around so the gunner shoots better. Or more comically, making the aircraft that flies over his head more accurate because he pointed sternly at a bad guy.


More like giving the pilot coordinates etc.


That sounds like something a dedicated spotter should to, like infiltrators, incursors or eliminators.


Like maybe a unit that carries a type of light, (lasers perhaps) that mark targets?
ohh we could call them...

Marker lights!

I joke but I'd not mind seeing other armies with support things like that, not marines as it doesn't really fit them, but a new guard unit called "recon squad" with 18 inch assault 1 "Lascarbines" and "marker grenades" that allows them to throw smoke for more accurate artillery.


I don't mind either, heck I'd make it the Vox Caster model for guard - anyone who's seen We Were Soldiers can imagine a Colonel barking orders to a radioman giving drop coordinates after that. I was just pointing out the SM Captain probably wasn't waving a sword or pointing sternly for the aircraft but doing other Commander In The Field things.

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Dunno if restricting rerolls to Core units is a good thing. Universal Auras added something to the game, sad to see them being nerfed.

Here's why. I ran a Black Legion gunline most of 8th edition, 22+ lascannons on a variety of units. With Abaddon's reroll aura, they wounded about 66% of the time against most things. Sometimes I swapped in Scorpius Whirlwinds, the reroll aura made them lethal to units like Intercessors.

The trade off was board control. My army stayed on my edge of the table most of the time, relying on distance and firepower to win games. This meant I was not going to claim too many objectives before the 4th or 5th turn and things could go catastrophically wrong if opponents optimized around distance themselves.

That felt fair, there was always risk involved. If you really wanted to ranged shooting for Chaos, the only way to make it worth it was rerolls. Let's say CSM are now the only Core unit that can bring lascannons. Chaos loses a playstyle, the BS and range on Daemon Engines is poor and Predators / Land Raiders are inefficient points-wise compared to their Imperial counterparts.

A traditional Chaos army is geared for mid-range melee. The mechanics of 9th edition make this a little harder to run these kinds of lists, the new multicharge rules in particular. Still haven't played a game of 9th but I really don't know what kind of army I would even want to bring.

   
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the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc

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BrianDavion wrote:
the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc


Even moreso they don't want your troops standing back and shooting. They just really aren't very good at making the players move around the board when the players don't want to.

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Breton wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc


Even moreso they don't want your troops standing back and shooting. They just really aren't very good at making the players move around the board when the players don't want to.
give CSMs the ability to take chainswords AND boltguns back and I think you'd see CSM players being more agressive.

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BrianDavion wrote:
Breton wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc


Even moreso they don't want your troops standing back and shooting. They just really aren't very good at making the players move around the board when the players don't want to.
give CSMs the ability to take chainswords AND boltguns back and I think you'd see CSM players being more agressive.


erm, no.

It would make CSM more generalistic, but it certainly wouldn't make CSM players more aggresive, especially considering that CSM are still comparatively Overpriced, Not capable of outright wiping an enemy out or tieing an enemy successfully down.


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Not Online!!! wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
Breton wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc


Even moreso they don't want your troops standing back and shooting. They just really aren't very good at making the players move around the board when the players don't want to.
give CSMs the ability to take chainswords AND boltguns back and I think you'd see CSM players being more agressive.


erm, no.

It would make CSM more generalistic, but it certainly wouldn't make CSM players more aggresive, especially considering that CSM are still comparatively Overpriced, Not capable of outright wiping an enemy out or tieing an enemy successfully down.



Well, always giving CSM players worse rules than loyalist SM made them pretty aggressive, so that worked at least.

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Not Online!!! wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
Breton wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc


Even moreso they don't want your troops standing back and shooting. They just really aren't very good at making the players move around the board when the players don't want to.
give CSMs the ability to take chainswords AND boltguns back and I think you'd see CSM players being more agressive.


erm, no.

It would make CSM more generalistic, but it certainly wouldn't make CSM players more aggresive, especially considering that CSM are still comparatively Overpriced, Not capable of outright wiping an enemy out or tieing an enemy successfully down.



Combined with 2 Wounds it will actually help quite a bit, as long as the price doesn't change or doesn't change much. Giving up the Pistol with the changes to assault rules and a pistol shot into engagement is a moderate to large hit though. Being able to mob up to 20 isn't bad, but it gets expensive and they have to miss out on a couple special or heavy if I'm reading this right and it's accurate.

They should get rid of the Preferred Enemy-esque Death To the False Emperor though, and channel whatever value it has into something more universal. Once they hit 2 wounds, the problem isn't the CSM, its whatever is supporting them.

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Breton wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc


Even moreso they don't want your troops standing back and shooting. They just really aren't very good at making the players move around the board when the players don't want to.


Guess someone hasn’t tried playing a stationary castle in 9th... you lose, hard.

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Sgt. Cortez wrote:
Not Online!!! wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
Breton wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc


Even moreso they don't want your troops standing back and shooting. They just really aren't very good at making the players move around the board when the players don't want to.
give CSMs the ability to take chainswords AND boltguns back and I think you'd see CSM players being more agressive.


erm, no.

It would make CSM more generalistic, but it certainly wouldn't make CSM players more aggresive, especially considering that CSM are still comparatively Overpriced, Not capable of outright wiping an enemy out or tieing an enemy successfully down.



Well, always giving CSM players worse rules than loyalist SM made them pretty aggressive, so that worked at least.

Höhö.


No, they just turn into Iron warriors, bitter, and cold..

Now where did i put that danger stripe tape


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Breton wrote:

Combined with 2 Wounds it will actually help quite a bit, as long as the price doesn't change or doesn't change much. Giving up the Pistol with the changes to assault rules and a pistol shot into engagement is a moderate to large hit though. Being able to mob up to 20 isn't bad, but it gets expensive and they have to miss out on a couple special or heavy if I'm reading this right and it's accurate.

They should get rid of the Preferred Enemy-esque Death To the False Emperor though, and channel whatever value it has into something more universal. Once they hit 2 wounds, the problem isn't the CSM, its whatever is supporting them.


Considering , that Tacs hiked, to a degree which is pretty ludicrous, with ALOT more buffs to their name though, i am heavily sceptical.
And morale / blast rules will make anything over 10 man allready a bit iffy, not to mention that reserve stratagems to minimize this probably won't survive.

Granted, the fact that AP-1 chainswords will be a thing Might compensate somewhat the lackluster melee capability, but considering that tripointing is also pretty much dead, leaving only wipe out as a valid melee option (unless you can force a unit to not be able to fall back like night lords) , i seriously doubt that chainsword Bolter happens to be good enough.
Not to mention that the CSM box would contradict that anyways.

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 JohnnyHell wrote:
Breton wrote:
BrianDavion wrote:
the problem is, at least from a design POV, that's not entirely what GW wants. Abaddon standing back behind the battlefield and watching his people shoot isn't quite what they want, they want him moving forward with your troops etc


Even moreso they don't want your troops standing back and shooting. They just really aren't very good at making the players move around the board when the players don't want to.


Guess someone hasn’t tried playing a stationary castle in 9th... you lose, hard.


In the "tournament" Matched Play missions. Not Open Play, not necessarily Crusade.

And it still doesn't make people who dont want to move move. People frequently hyper focus on model removal. Until/unless movement results in more model removal a lot of people are going to focus on killing more than missions.


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Considering , that Tacs hiked, to a degree which is pretty ludicrous, with ALOT more buffs to their name though, i am heavily sceptical.
Isn't the only difference DTTFE vs ATSKNF for 1 point?

And morale / blast rules will make anything over 10 man allready a bit iffy, not to mention that reserve stratagems to minimize this probably won't survive.
Giving up the free Sgt, and extra Special/HEavy combo is potentially an even bigger issue with going to 20 instead of 10.

Granted, the fact that AP-1 chainswords will be a thing Might compensate somewhat the lackluster melee capability, but considering that tripointing is also pretty much dead, leaving only wipe out as a valid melee option (unless you can force a unit to not be able to fall back like night lords) , i seriously doubt that chainsword Bolter happens to be good enough.
Not to mention that the CSM box would contradict that anyways.
I agree giving up the pistol will hurt. The Chainsword +1A is to offset BP+CCW lost rule, but when they're closer to Assault Intercessor or Intercessor value especially if they're cheaper than Intercessor cost it's hard to say they're not very good.

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Breton, are you aware that you are arguing that point costs in crusade and open play missions aren't balanced for competitive play?


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Static gunline play is still a really bad way to play in Crusade anyway as the missions follow the same template as matched play ones.

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 Jidmah wrote:
Breton, are you aware that you are arguing that point costs in crusade and open play missions aren't balanced for competitive play?



If you switch your arguments around enough who knows what you’ll end up arguing against!

And Breton, you still have it wrong. It’s not just the Tournament pack that rewards mobility. If you just focus on killing you’d better be damn good at it as otherwise you can get outscored. I don’t think you’re grasping how the missions play out. You gotta go get stuff in Matched Play. Other modes, sure, bets are off, that’s the whole point... you can construct games how you want to. You know as well as I that most on here play and refer to Matched Play.


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 Bosskelot wrote:
Static gunline play is still a really bad way to play in Crusade anyway as the missions follow the same template as matched play ones.


And there you have it. Even in that mode mobility is key.

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 Stormonu wrote:
For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
 
   
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 Jidmah wrote:
Breton, are you aware that you are arguing that point costs in crusade and open play missions aren't balanced for competitive play?



No, I'm arguing their rules to make/encourage people move don't work all that well for open play and Crusade where they don't necessarily have the Matched Play missions that involve more movement for objective secured - And that even when Matched Play missions are involved some people still won't play the mission because of "Buck Fever" all as part of the "GW isn't very good at encouraging the type of games they think they want us to play"


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 JohnnyHell wrote:


And Breton, you still have it wrong. It’s not just the Tournament pack that rewards mobility. If you just focus on killing you’d better be damn good at it as otherwise you can get outscored. I don’t think you’re grasping how the missions play out. You gotta go get stuff in Matched Play. Other modes, sure, bets are off, that’s the whole point...


JohnnyHell wrote:If you switch your arguments around enough who knows what you’ll end up arguing against!


Especially if you switch it around in the very next sentence.

Breton wrote:In the "tournament" Matched Play missions. Not Open Play, not necessarily Crusade.


I added the underlines to help you read a little better. You seem to have skipped a few words of what I said.

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Breton wrote:
Not Online!!! wrote:
Considering , that Tacs hiked, to a degree which is pretty ludicrous, with ALOT (sic) more buffs to their name though, i am heavily sceptical.
Isn't the only difference DTTFE vs ATSKNF for 1 point?


Last I checked there are currently these little things called Doctrines, and even some mono-faction Super Doctrines - in capes - as well.

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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...

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You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
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 Bosskelot wrote:
Static gunline play is still a really bad way to play in Crusade anyway as the missions follow the same template as matched play ones.


SOME of the missions follow the same template. Some of them are strictly kill based. Some of them start out on that template, but don't maintain it.

Sweep and Clear starts out that way, but doesn't require camping on it, so one unit can go claim anohter
Supply Drop is even nastier than Matched Play
Assasinate not so much.

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Breton wrote:
 Jidmah wrote:
Breton, are you aware that you are arguing that point costs in crusade and open play missions aren't balanced for competitive play?



No, I'm arguing their rules to make/encourage people move don't work all that well for open play and Crusade where they don't necessarily have the Matched Play missions that involve more movement for objective secured - And that even when Matched Play missions are involved some people still won't play the mission because of "Buck Fever" all as part of the "GW isn't very good at encouraging the type of games they think they want us to play"

What makes crusade missions so different from matched play missions in your opinion?

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Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
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 Jidmah wrote:
Breton wrote:
 Jidmah wrote:
Breton, are you aware that you are arguing that point costs in crusade and open play missions aren't balanced for competitive play?



No, I'm arguing their rules to make/encourage people move don't work all that well for open play and Crusade where they don't necessarily have the Matched Play missions that involve more movement for objective secured - And that even when Matched Play missions are involved some people still won't play the mission because of "Buck Fever" all as part of the "GW isn't very good at encouraging the type of games they think they want us to play"

What makes crusade missions so different from matched play missions in your opinion?


They're frequently not nearly as focused on VP based on Objective Securing
Unit XP can provide an alternative primary goal other than necessarily "winning" the match
Even the ones that ARE objective Secured style missions, frequently allow more forgiving objective placement - i.e. in you get to put them in your own deployment zone at the feet of your gun line. At that point they're just the same old missions they've always been.

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 Jidmah wrote:

What makes crusade missions so different from matched play missions in your opinion?


They're (currently at least, we'll see how the ones in the new book shake out) mostly re-hashes of 8th edition missions, which stand in pretty stark contrast to the 9th edition paradigm of "hold X, hold X+1, hold more, plus Secondaries". Victory conditions are a lot narrower, much more army dependent, and far less concerned about every army composition being viable to complete them. The decision to replace Secondaries with Agendas (which for the record I goddamn adore in a narrative setting because it allows players to genuinely focus on narrative force development over short term victory) makes a very big difference when it comes to how Crusade games play mechanically.
   
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Sterling191 wrote:
 Jidmah wrote:

What makes crusade missions so different from matched play missions in your opinion?


They're (currently at least, we'll see how the ones in the new book shake out) mostly re-hashes of 8th edition missions, which stand in pretty stark contrast to the 9th edition paradigm of "hold X, hold X+1, hold more, plus Secondaries". Victory conditions are a lot narrower, much more army dependent, and far less concerned about every army composition being viable to complete them. The decision to replace Secondaries with Agendas (which for the record I goddamn adore in a narrative setting because it allows players to genuinely focus on narrative force development over short term victory) makes a very big difference when it comes to how Crusade games play mechanically.


Even more so - 9th Matched Play dictate where the objectives are placed, and rarely are any, let alone all of them, in anybody's/split into everybody's deployment zone - without Infiltrate/Scout/Whatever-the-hell-they-change-the-name-of-the-same-basic-concept-to-this-edition, you have to move onto them, and even with it, you still have to move more units onto them for saturation.

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VladimirHerzog wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:

Um, aren't you forgetting some legions? Like Black Legion, Alpha Legion, Iron Warriors, Word Bearers, and Night Lords? I don't think they fit into either of those categories.

And I'd like for Yukishiro to define "janky". If it means csm remaining team WOMBO COMBO, then no thanks.


Well yeah, night lords are basically renegades with low chaos usage, they just arent "fresh converts"

Yes, but they don't fight like loyalists. Loyalists are primarily a "special forces" type of army. They specialize in fast, hard hitting targeted attacks in support of conventional forces. Night Lords, and the other legions I mentioned, fight as Legionnaires: they fight as they did in the Crusade and Heresy, as an actual standing army, with a combined arms approach using their own forces, with or without the support of other factions. Loyalists would shy away from things like heavy armour, artillery, and super heavys, while the Legions would make full use of them to varying degrees depending on the Legions preferred methods of war. The Legions, even those that don't fully embrace Chaos, wouldn't behave like common renegades.

Breton wrote:

Granted, the fact that AP-1 chainswords will be a thing Might compensate somewhat the lackluster melee capability, but considering that tripointing is also pretty much dead, leaving only wipe out as a valid melee option (unless you can force a unit to not be able to fall back like night lords) , i seriously doubt that chainsword Bolter happens to be good enough.
Not to mention that the CSM box would contradict that anyways.
I agree giving up the pistol will hurt. The Chainsword +1A is to offset BP+CCW lost rule, but when they're closer to Assault Intercessor or Intercessor value especially if they're cheaper than Intercessor cost it's hard to say they're not very good.

You're missing his point about the new csm models themselves. The new models do not support bolters + chainswords. All the bolters in the kit have both hands molded onto them, thus forcing a two handed grip. All the chainswords are molded onto hands/arms, with none being scabbarded. I doubt gw will be producing another csm kit anytime soon. If we get a csm infantry kit anytime soon that incorporates long arms and melee weapons into the same loadout it will most likely have to be an actual kit for Chosen. Which I would personally love.
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:

You're missing his point about the new csm models themselves. The new models do not support bolters + chainswords. All the bolters in the kit have both hands molded onto them, thus forcing a two handed grip. All the chainswords are molded onto hands/arms, with none being scabbarded. I doubt gw will be producing another csm kit anytime soon. If we get a csm infantry kit anytime soon that incorporates long arms and melee weapons into the same loadout it will most likely have to be an actual kit for Chosen. Which I would personally love.


I was going to say I wouldn't be shocked to see a BP/Chainsword kit for CSM in Assault Intercessor style. Especially with the current ruleset pushing Fight Phase. Not like they wouldn't sell.

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Breton wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:

You're missing his point about the new csm models themselves. The new models do not support bolters + chainswords. All the bolters in the kit have both hands molded onto them, thus forcing a two handed grip. All the chainswords are molded onto hands/arms, with none being scabbarded. I doubt gw will be producing another csm kit anytime soon. If we get a csm infantry kit anytime soon that incorporates long arms and melee weapons into the same loadout it will most likely have to be an actual kit for Chosen. Which I would personally love.


I was going to say I wouldn't be shocked to see a BP/Chainsword kit for CSM in Assault Intercessor style. Especially with the current ruleset pushing Fight Phase. Not like they wouldn't sell.

The current kit does support bolt pistols + chainswords (though it doesn't include enough of either for the full squad). I still think an actual Chosen kit would be excellent. Long arms + melee weapons would be different from what loyalists have. We don't want csm to just be "spiky loyalists" now do we?
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Breton wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:

You're missing his point about the new csm models themselves. The new models do not support bolters + chainswords. All the bolters in the kit have both hands molded onto them, thus forcing a two handed grip. All the chainswords are molded onto hands/arms, with none being scabbarded. I doubt gw will be producing another csm kit anytime soon. If we get a csm infantry kit anytime soon that incorporates long arms and melee weapons into the same loadout it will most likely have to be an actual kit for Chosen. Which I would personally love.


I was going to say I wouldn't be shocked to see a BP/Chainsword kit for CSM in Assault Intercessor style. Especially with the current ruleset pushing Fight Phase. Not like they wouldn't sell.

The current kit does support bolt pistols + chainswords (though it doesn't include enough of either for the full squad). I still think an actual Chosen kit would be excellent. Long arms + melee weapons would be different from what loyalists have. We don't want csm to just be "spiky loyalists" now do we?

Tell that to GW who can't better differentiate armies and the white Knights that be all "ThEy Should Be A mIrRoR".

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If Tyberos falls and needs to catch himself it's because the ground needed killing.

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BTW, I can't wait to run Double-D-thirsters! Man, just thinking about it gets me Khorney.

 vipoid wrote:
Indeed - what sort of bastard would want to use their codex?

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ITT: SoB players upset that they're receiving the same condescending treatment that they've doled out in every CSM thread ever.
 
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:

The current kit does support bolt pistols + chainswords (though it doesn't include enough of either for the full squad). I still think an actual Chosen kit would be excellent. Long arms + melee weapons would be different from what loyalists have. We don't want csm to just be "spiky loyalists" now do we?


At a certain level they're all comparable. Storm Guardians, BP/CS CSM, Assault Intercessors, Grey Hunters, Sword Brothers, Choppa Boys, etc. and they're going to make kits for the meta that sells. So far they've worked pretty hard at keeping (rifle type) + pistol + CCW off of troops. Bolter + CS is just a spiky shoota boy at that basic level.


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Breton wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:

The current kit does support bolt pistols + chainswords (though it doesn't include enough of either for the full squad). I still think an actual Chosen kit would be excellent. Long arms + melee weapons would be different from what loyalists have. We don't want csm to just be "spiky loyalists" now do we?


At a certain level they're all comparable. Storm Guardians, BP/CS CSM, Assault Intercessors, Grey Hunters, Sword Brothers, Choppa Boys, etc. and they're going to make kits for the meta that sells. So far they've worked pretty hard at keeping (rifle type) + pistol + CCW off of troops. Bolter + CS is just a spiky shoota boy at that basic level.


Yes, but we don't need a new kit when the one we already have supports the loadout you're talking about. We do, however, need a kit for Chosen, as one doesn't currently exist.

Chosen, BTW, aren't troops. Though they should be, for the Legions, but that's another conversation....
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Breton wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:

The current kit does support bolt pistols + chainswords (though it doesn't include enough of either for the full squad). I still think an actual Chosen kit would be excellent. Long arms + melee weapons would be different from what loyalists have. We don't want csm to just be "spiky loyalists" now do we?


At a certain level they're all comparable. Storm Guardians, BP/CS CSM, Assault Intercessors, Grey Hunters, Sword Brothers, Choppa Boys, etc. and they're going to make kits for the meta that sells. So far they've worked pretty hard at keeping (rifle type) + pistol + CCW off of troops. Bolter + CS is just a spiky shoota boy at that basic level.


Yes, but we don't need a new kit when the one we already have supports the loadout you're talking about. We do, however, need a kit for Chosen, as one doesn't currently exist.

Chosen, BTW, aren't troops. Though they should be, for the Legions, but that's another conversation....


Doesn’t include enough of either...

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