How Do You Want Named Characters Handled?

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**Breton**

Insectum7 wrote:
Named characters should be buildable. As mentioned above the real problem is GW stripping units of options. Making super special named characters seems to be mostly a business decision of wanting to sell models, or a sort of comic-bookification of the lore to create an in universe superhero pantheon.

Re: Phoenix Lords. I don't quite remember if the 2nd ed Phoenix Lords were much more powerful than the Exarchs you could build at the time. You could make very dangerous custom Exarchs, and I think the special abilities of the Phoenix Lords were just combos of Wargear and generic Exarch Powers.

2nd ed also had a set of custom Chapter Master rules too, which included a few "generic" skills you could amp them up with, iirc.

Not second, one of the mid editions let you customize your chapter, and 8th let you promote a Captain to a Chapter Master using CP.