AM and Mortal Wounds

[Signet-Powers]

Use Tanks. Solves many problems.

[Salamand3rs4Lyfe]

I can understand the whole not using special characters arguement because i use a custom chaos warband so i don't field them personally but flat out refusing to play someone if they use them? That is beyond unreasonable and honestly quite silly.

[Koonitz]

I can understand the whole not using special characters arguement because i use a custom chaos warband so i don't field them personally but flat out refusing to play someone if they use them? That is beyond unreasonable and honestly quite silly.

I don't completely agree. In pick-up games, I do agree with you. That's the purpose of pick-up games. You get a random person.

I, however, banned all named characters in my narrative campaign. Frankly, it's a backwater world. Guilliman isn't gonna show up to rock Freiza World #459. He's got FAR more important things to do.

[Salamand3rs4Lyfe]

Ok, i can understand in narrative campaigns that you set the rules up for. However i believe he is talking about in pick up games

[Signet-Powers]

I certainly feel like making these characters nigh-invicible removes all sense of tactics out of the game.

Granted I think the new rend system has contributed more to the loss of strategy in general (as have a few other things), but with a massive character like Guilleman taking up a quarter/third of someones list and blanket buffing the rest of the army to such an extreme extent (and stacking atop other buffs as well) the entire game has to revolve around that one character. No close calls, no maneuvring or cat and mouse, no random guardsman pulling off an insane MVP stunt, just 2 hours of trying to take out a single model. Even if it wasn't OP it's just boring.

But to say all characters are bad is hyperbole. My friend plays Lucius the Eternal, we've had a lot of fun moments with his abilities that affect small moments, not overshadow the entire game. Even Pask last edition who was very OP, had and still has limitations and could be taken out by a single squad.

[Ronin]

I can understand the whole not using special characters arguement because i use a custom chaos warband so i don't field them personally but flat out refusing to play someone if they use them? That is beyond unreasonable and honestly quite silly.

I don't completely agree. In pick-up games, I do agree with you. That's the purpose of pick-up games. You get a random person.

I, however, banned all named characters in my narrative campaign. Frankly, it's a backwater world. Guilliman isn't gonna show up to rock Freiza World #459. He's got FAR more important things to do.

Unless the world has an artefact that can doom the entire galaxy like my campaigns! I do understand that, but what about characters that aren't so crazy like Captain Sicarius? I mean if I brought 2nd company ultramarines to the fight it would be reasonable to have him lead it.

I certainly feel like making these characters nigh-invicible removes all sense of tactics out of the game.

Granted I think the new rend system has contributed more to the loss of strategy in general (as have a few other things), but with a massive character like Guilleman taking up a quarter/third of someones list and blanket buffing the rest of the army to such an extreme extent (and stacking atop other buffs as well) the entire game has to revolve around that one character. No close calls, no maneuvring or cat and mouse, no random guardsman pulling off an insane MVP stunt, just 2 hours of trying to take out a single model. Even if it wasn't OP it's just boring.

But to say all characters are bad is hyperbole. My friend plays Lucius the Eternal, we've had a lot of fun moments with his abilities that affect small moments, not overshadow the entire game. Even Pask last edition who was very OP, had and still has limitations and could be taken out by a single squad.

The downside to that bubble though is it restricts you to playing gunline and if you play on a table with a decent amount of line of sight blocking, you could use that to your advantage and just find blind spots so his gun blob doesn't get you. Gunline means less board control and that means you can grab objectives more. I do agree he should have cost 400 points, though. However, it's not all that different from me running a Captain and spending 3 CP to make him a chapter master to reroll hits and running a lieutenant with reroll 1's to wound. That's just the space marine gimmick to have rerolls in a bubble like how you can take 6 company commanders and give everyone rerolls and whatnot.