[v5.0] Marine Revision Part IV

From: <jyrki.saari_at_...>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 09:36:41 +0300

Now it's time to tackle the most interesting part: the special Chapters. Before taking on the possible addition of new chapters there's one question to resolve. Namely, why play a Codex chapter? By this I mean that the special chapters should be compared to codex chapter to see if their restrictions balance the special advantages they get in comparsion with codex chapters. Every special perk should be counterbalanced by a limitation.

Let's start:
Blood Angels
Perks:
-Death Company

Limitations:
-None at the moment. Since the black rage manifests just before battle during moripatris, I'd propose that one Blood Angel company must lose the number of stands in the death company if it is used. Furthermore, since the Blood Angels have little control over the black rage its use should be somewhat random: before a battle the Blood Angels player must roll a d6. On 5+ some models have succumbed to the black rage and the death company _must_ be purchased. Add +1 to the roll if the force is larger than 4 companies.

Dark Angels
Perks:
-Deathwing (Terminators immune to morale checks)
-Ravenwing (Special fast attack formation of 2 land speeder detachments and a bike detachment)

Limitations:
-May only use Deathwing and no other veteran formations.

As of now, there is no counterbalance for the Ravenwing. Any suggestions?

Space Wolves
Perks:
-Great Companies
-Blood Claw Bikes
-Blood Claw land speeders
-Blood Claws (Fear causing assault troops)
-Superior CAF

Limitations:
-No normal companies (Tactical, assault, devastator, scout, veteran, terminator)
-Shorter heavy weapon range.

At a glance no great imbalances. However, I confess of not playing with or against them.

Comments? There have been several sugestions for Blood Angels, Dark Angels and Space Wolves but these will be discussed along with the new chapters.

Jyrki Saari

-There is no such thing as free lunch because eating takes time and time is money.
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