well 40k 3rd stinks and was made around the Dark Eldar, everything in the
rules makes them the best army to have. HHUUMM most common for GW to do
this, Take good units and make them suck, make crap units better, force you
to have vehicals or units one might not normally take just to push sales. As
it stood the Wraithguards were supposed to be kind of like Necron, a living
robot controled by a undead, with armor as tuff as a Tank. Thus normal hand
gun fire would just bounce off, plus it has 2 wounds. Making them stronger
then a Terminator, so with this respect a +4 is not out of wack. The slow
move is in good line, sence it is controled by a living dead Eldar, and
don't forget that they need to be around living Eldar or they can not
function.
----- Original Message -----
From: Weasel Fierce <septimus__at_...>
To: <netepic_at_egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] Re: wraithguards
>
>
> >
> > >what? they have a 5 ws to a MS 4 and a MS standerd weapons will only
> > get through their aromr on a roll of 6 on a D6 and that will give
> >them a wound 1/3 of the time, bump them off their feet 1/3 of the time
> >or suck them into the worp 1/3 of the time with a 1 in 6 chance of
> >taking each mini in 2in. with them
> >and there not Dangerous in Melee
>
> Uhhh, actually (I assume you talk 40K second edition) the marine would get
> to add the close combat bonus to armor penetration when using the bolt
> pistol in CC.
>
> Check out the book, thats how it works, thats why meltaguns are so dead
hard
> against tanks.
>
> >LOL
> >the +4 was to take this all in their hard to kill
> >and in RT way back when, they were 300 PT combat gods
>
> Well, I always interpreted epic close combat as close quarter fighting
with
> flamers, pistols etc.
>
> The wraithguard do not carry any assault weapons of this type and no
> grenades.
> Besides they are mentioned (at least in 40K3) as being slow due to them
> viewing this world as a kind of spirit world.
>
> For these reasons I wouldnt bumb them up to over a standard marine unit.
>
> But I agree that +1 is too low
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