Old-timer alert!
So, back in the shift from 5th to 6th
GW gave with one hand and took with the other. No surprises there [/cynicism]
Gave: Chariots got combined profiles
Took: Started doing stupid things with characters mounted on what are now called Monstrous Beasts, whereby you could sacrifice some heroic grunts to unhorse Tyrion/Archon/generic character of killy death so they just wondered about the battlefield begging people to come fight them until their ward save failed to prevent war-machine-to-the-face.
But I'm rambling now.....
So I was drafting my homebrew 8th Ed HE book last night and I started wondering: should Fantasy handle all mounted characters the same ie as a hybrid single model profile like cavalry, chariots, monstrous cavalry etc?
That's basically how the new monster units are being handled, like the War Sphinx and the Arachna..... Big Spider thing
and how
40k deals with mounting characters.
It solves:
- How many hits does a template cause?
- Lack of correct model when mount dies
- Lack of interest in mounting characters that can't pack a decent ward save (because at least they'd get a T, W and maybe Sv boost)
- Lack of interest in mounting non-fighty characters (yeah, it was the Dragon Mage that kicked off this train of thought, but also criticisms of Azhag in the new O&G book)
- Lack of balance (IMO) of war machines vs monsters in 8th Ed
I'm ok with ward saves protecting the whole model, the only real issue I see is how magic armour interacts with the whole model (and indeed armour in general). Oh, and what if the model carries the Banner of Rage.......
Thoughts?
(IIRC when TK appeared as a
WD list for the very first time, chariot-mounted Princes and Kings had single profiles).