Scott wrote :
>Francois Bruntz wrote:
>>
>> Salutations,
>>
>> I fought against Chaos last friday night and during (and after) the
>> battle we found some problems about the Chaos strategy rating.
>> If my memory is good, the value is :
>> 5 : only Chaos Space Marines
>> 3 : Chaos Space Marines + Cultits/Daemons
>> 2 : only Cultists/Daemons
>>
>> These are my questions :
>> - Are daemon engines considered as Daemons? ie Space Marines
>> detachments with daemon engines as support have a strategy rating of
3
>> or of 5?
>
> An all chaos marine army would consist of only 3
>detachment types: chaos marine infantry, chaos marine armor,
>and a chaos marine supreme commander. Anything else is not
>chaos marine equipment, and an army using chaos engine or
>chaos flyer detachments is going to have a SR of 3 at best.
>
> The same would go for Chaos Marine infantry
>detachments with daemon engine units taken as support.
>"Only chaos space marine" means what it says - it is meant
>to represent Chaos armies composed of nothing but traitor
>marines (& their marine vehicles) that have only tenous
>links to Chaos and the Warp.
>
>> - What is the strategy rating of a Chaos Space Marines +
standard
>> imperial titans (warhounds, reavers, warlords) army?
>>
>> - What is the strategy rating of a Chaos Space Marines +
Chaos titans
>> or WE (Lord of Battles...)?
>
> Considering that boring, er I mean normal marines
>lose their SR of 5 when they take titans, it seems only fair
>that an army of chaos marines + titans would have a SR of 3.
>Also, the once-imperial titans are not and were not marine
>vehicles, they were a seperate branch of the Imperial army.
>Taking imperial titans in a chaos marine army is really no
>different from taking renegade guardsmen (cultists). And
>the chaos titans/WEs (like the LoB) are basically just big
>daemon engines.
>
>Scott
>shupes_at_...
Thanks for your answers, Scott, they'll be very helpful...
Francois Bruntz
Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
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Received on Mon Jul 28 1997 - 14:58:09 UTC