AnomanderRake wrote:

 nintura wrote:
The only problem I see with that is putting it on the battlefield. How does the building just show up? I think I'd prefer something that wouldn't act as terrain. Thanks for the suggestion though!

It was already there. The Farseers set up to have the battle at the spot where there happened to be a webway portal exactly where you'd need one to Deep Strike some Black Guardians on turn three.

(I'm not sure what portable webway generators actually look like; there were deployable ones at altitude in Aeronautica Imperialis but they didn't make models for them so you had to improvise, there's never been an official model for the Dark Eldar webway portal or for the portals attached to Black Guardians in various books, the only portable webway portal that's had an official model is the Storm Serpent in Epic and that one's built into a Cobra chassis.)

From the images in Dawn of War the 'portal' doesn't need to be entirely bounded within the vane, but it does get projected as an oval with one vertex at the bottom of the vane and the other at the point on the inside of the top, but the 3e Dark Eldar book's webway portals let you fly Raiders out of them and they're carried by individual models, so there's probably some sort of folding pocket-dimension apparatus involved; the issue with the Black Guardian rules is that you don't need someone to be in place at the portal position to place it.

A secondary point, though; there are buildings in Dawn of War that generate a large webway portal with multiple smaller vanes as opposed to a single vane, so you could place smaller portal-generator apparatuses around the perimeter of the actual portal rather than needing to describe the portal within one single big structure. So your Deep Striking units could be coming out of a portal described by two or three small portable generators that were placed ahead of time by Rangers sneaking around in the backfield, or teleported into place as a preliminary venture (on the assumption that you can make a bunch of these small portable generators and it doesn't matter if a couple of generators suffer Deep Strike mishaps so long as a few get in the right place so your Guardians don't).

So from that grand exercise in overthinking you could make a few little wraithbone vanes around some sort of clear plastic or heavily varnished disc to represent the portal itself. And placing it flat on the ground could provide a funny back-fitted explanation as to why you can't charge out of it, if you go from walking on the tunnel out the end gravity may be abruptly flipping 90 degrees so there's presumably some disorientation involved in taking the flying leap out the end (to clear it instead of falling right back in) and landing on the ground properly.

 nintura wrote:
...You mean first turn right?

Maybe the vanes wouldn't be too bad if they were smaller. I'll have to look into it. I'm not very good at creating things from scratch, mostly my skills allow me to improve something that already exists. i.e I can paint a model really well, but I suck with something on a canvas.

 nintura wrote:
...You mean first turn right? ...