Post by treadiculous on Apr 17, 2010 17:31:29 GMT -5
okay, so the question is vanilla or the new 'dex.. well I've experienced GW's 'update and improve' approach to new 'dex's for years... but some come a cross better than others... I have heard the space wolves being grumbled about, but having looked through the BA codex it very definitely has a very very strong assault army appeal... if there are marine players who like to sit back and shoot then this won't be their kind of codex, but as I understand 40k models with good armour should fight close quarters thus jump packs, drop pods etc are the way to go... and therefore BA complement this approach so well that any other 'dex is just not so finely tuned at this role.. the additional scouting fast flamestorm and other odd bits (you'd think the other space marine chapters would have noticed that you can give melta guns to assault / jump pack troops... and likewise have mini-thunderhawks).. but hey, at least they've made a good effort with new models (except the ravenhawk thingy .. which doesn't even have concept art... ) I'm sue i've missed loads of stuff to do with combinations of really tough troops and special rules that most 'dex's have if you study them hard enough, but its the glaringly obvious fact that the BA army is far far better at close combat space marine stuff than anything else out there...
so will i be vanilla or BA.. I already had 7 dreads, and 35 jump packers so my army most favours the BA approach, though to be honest I just want to add a couple of melta guns to my jump packers and then ask nicely if I can field them and keep them vanilla... if not they can sit on the sidelines looking glum!!
the positive side of it is there may be evidence that GW are going to involve more aircraft in the game and thus more anti aircraft weaponry too... chosing to field valks is more fun when you know theres something out there which is designed to kill them (i'm talking flakk attakk guns here) - and it'd be great if each race gets AA weapons.
so will i be vanilla or BA.. I already had 7 dreads, and 35 jump packers so my army most favours the BA approach, though to be honest I just want to add a couple of melta guns to my jump packers and then ask nicely if I can field them and keep them vanilla... if not they can sit on the sidelines looking glum!!
the positive side of it is there may be evidence that GW are going to involve more aircraft in the game and thus more anti aircraft weaponry too... chosing to field valks is more fun when you know theres something out there which is designed to kill them (i'm talking flakk attakk guns here) - and it'd be great if each race gets AA weapons.