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BA might have lost a lot as of now but hey, their Sanguinary Guard are hilariously broken now.

 Void__Dragon wrote:
BA might have lost a lot as of now but hey, their Sanguinary Guard are hilariously broken now.

The Sanguinor is the one that makes me laugh, just imagining faces when it's Gotcha! time.

Personally I think BA are getting a big rework, and they just ripped out the Strats to hide whatever that rework is going to be. Free Epic Deed Strat. No Epic Deed Strat to be free... Its only going to be a month or two, they should have just put in some generic strats including an epic deed that fits but aint it

If, when the BA drops before the end of the year, and there are no new BA-specific models accompanying it, and most of the rules from this PDF are replicated in the book with a few gaps filled (like the psychic discipline), will you admit to being wrong about all this, Breton?

 Dysartes wrote:
If, when the BA drops before the end of the year, and there are no new BA-specific models accompanying it, and most of the rules from this PDF are replicated in the book with a few gaps filled (like the psychic discipline), will you admit to being wrong about all this, Breton?

Why wouldn't I? But I don't think I am. The missing discipline makes sense because nobody got their own discipline. Sure GW is stupid - like when they talk about Space Wolf Successor Chapters, then forget/decline to give the Wolves a Successor Chapter Relic Strat - but they're not THIS stupid. Free Epic Deed Strat, no special snowflake Epic Deed? DA and SW get 7 strats, BA are going to be stuck with 4? UM have 16 in their supplement plus the ones in the book, and I think 9 or so are still valid 3 or 4 might even still be useful. DA in their last Stand-Alone book had 16 Strats. Imperial Fists have a grid with 16 Strats (No Epic Deed and the UM Epic Deed isn't very Deed'ish but while being fairly epic), IH have 16, I'm just going to assume they all have 16 at this point. I'm also going to assume the new supplements probably expand to 16 from 7. or 4. If GW knows what's good for them. Which makes it even stranger they couldn't find or patch together 7 basic generic bandaid BA stratagems for two months.

Do Upgrade Kits count as BA specific models? I mean as an example if they make a DC upgrade kit for Intercessors, but you still buy the Intercessor kit to use them on seperately as opposed to a BA DC Intercessor specific kit, does that count? There's no shortage of things BA need, plus they're trying to shrink shelf space so that could be the way of the future. Generic Kit + Upgrade sprue sold seperately. I'm also hoping they replace/add to Tycho soon. The man died before the first Primaris inhaled non-martian air. Its either time to give BA a named captain who was alive during the time of Primaris, or miraculously dig him out of some rubble on Armageddon barely clinging to life after being fed on little more than his now even hotter burning hatred for Orks. Probably the second one. A Death Company Captain is kind of cool. And making a new one with the same schtick would be decidedly less so. So dig Tycho out of the rubble. Celebrate the miracle, and refluff him so his black rage comes and goes - this still allows playing both versions, and doesn't step on Mephy being the only one to conquer it. Of course if/when GW figures this out they probably just make a new Cap, and shuffle Tycho (I keep wanting to type Dante - so if you see an odd Dante in here somewhere I missed.... I probably meant Tycho) off to Legends

I really think it's strange that the Sanguinary Priest's Blood Chalice cannot be used when the model arrives from reserves. Really makes my converted JP Priest a lot less useful now.