Re: [NetEpic ML] Night Lords Chaos Legion

From: Peter Ramos <netepic_at_...>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:03:07 -0400

Hi!

What would you suggest?

At this point nothing is written in stone (nothing ever is in netepic
anyways...), so give it a shot. :-)

Peter

oztenaka wrote:
>
> When I read this legion I was enjoying the Flavour text. However the
> actual rules set behind them troubles me.
>
> The flavour text describes them as "masters of stealth, able to
> infiltrate a position quickly and silently", they do not gain any
> special access to infiltrating units over any other legion.
>
> This fact pales into insignifigance compared to the fact they get a
> bonus 2 vps for wiping out units without any negative to balance it out.
>
> Compare this to the Tyranids which get double VPs but can't earn pts
> for holding objectives.
>
> I am not suggesting that the Night Lords bonus is anything like the
> Tyranids however it far surpasses any other army especially as the
> Night lords have far greater mobility than the Tyranids.
>
> They have cheap landspeeders, as well as they have access to quicker
> transports being Marines (Rhinos ,Drop pods etc), that mean they can
> hold many objectives quickly and also target vulnerable units.
>
> Perhaps a negative that uses their ruthlessness against them i.e.
> saying that they must target a broken unit if closer to them.
>
> I just think that having an army that gains extra vps on the others
> for probably doing what a lot of players will try and do to units
> anyway is a bit odd.
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 07 2007 - 02:03:07 UTC