killmaimburn wrote:Llundhammer- Its pretty darned funky, I like the way you've taken a unit that some people only use as a DSing disposable squad and made them into a prized possession\rarity. How usefull will recon be to a primarily guard army? That effects the points value alot (but I think the ball park area when you take models into account is solid). How many men does a herioc senior officer normally lead, isn't it near on a whole regiment, it rings a bit of schaeffer? I might make him a slightly lessor grade (after all if its the remnants of a whole regiment the blokes you salute are always the first to go down) but thats just me, I don't understand guard mentality.
You've at least realised the point - I'm sick of seeing the obligatory 3 DSing 5 man vet squads in all
IG armies nowadays (I'm not questioning the use & effectiveness - just the blandness).
THe HSO is your general
IG command squad (
IG hero & 4
IG with option to add advisors). The reason he is an HSO is because he is a battlehardened veteran of a thousand wars (TM games workshop), so his stats I feel should represent his skills. It also differentiates between the platoon leader of a normal platoon (which is a junior officer). I've also forced the upgrading of all his retinue to veterans - to keep the fluff & prevent boring plasma-spam (you can take plasma-pistols if you like though).
As to why they all infiltrate - well that is kind of the point - I really can't see it being that overpowered, but feel free to disagree & I'll change. The Recon ability is not useful to a SAoD
IG army - but if you are using one of those in Apocolypse then I expect you'll be having rather dull game! It's there to encourage people to *gasp* move their guard!
Any more comments? Is 150points too steep/leniant? I'll be breaking out a few molre of these over the next couple of weeks - mostly
IG, but some others too I expect...
Ohhhhh Freddy, Freddy
PS the Hellhound one is looking good.