Special characters, yay or nay?

jus · Post by **jus** » Tue May 29, 2012 1:17 am

Do you think we should disallow special characters for the next 40k tourney

Spevna · Post by **Spevna** » Tue May 29, 2012 2:05 am

Wy do you care? Don't you hate 40K with a passion?

Primarch · Post by **Primarch** » Tue May 29, 2012 2:15 am

Ooh, is someone organising a 40K tournament? Awesome.

Whilst special characters can be good, most powergaming lists come from spamming cheap, well armed transports with very well armed troops in them.

Colonel Voss · Post by **Colonel Voss** » Tue May 29, 2012 3:14 am

My gripe with special characters isn't that they are power gaming, some of them are not. But that they are mandatory to get special abilities or organization changes and sometimes their point costing makes them so much better than a regular HQ (Kulgath and a Great Unlcean One come to mind). So instead of making them special, they become the regular pieces of the game.

jus · Post by **jus** » Tue May 29, 2012 3:47 am

Spevna wrote:Wy do you care? Don't you hate 40K with a passion?

Just so! Special characters are part of the multi faceted reason why.

Primarch · Post by **Primarch** » Tue May 29, 2012 4:00 am

jus wrote:
Spevna wrote:Wy do you care? Don't you hate 40K with a passion?
Just so! Special characters are part of the multi faceted reason why.

Like Count Manfred for example?

me_in_japan · Post by **me_in_japan** » Tue May 29, 2012 4:06 am

Defo shouldn't ban special chars. They're critical to certain builds (eg if you want to play hellions as troops in your dark eldar army, you have to take sathonyx to do so. Likewise a lot of SM chapters need em for flavoursome builds.)

I agree with Justin though that you shouldn't need to take a special char to customise your list. It's just clumsy rules writing on the part of GW.

Colonel Voss · Post by **Colonel Voss** » Tue May 29, 2012 4:51 am

No it is just GW finding a way to sell more of said special characters

jus · Post by **jus** » Tue May 29, 2012 5:22 am

Primarch wrote:
jus wrote:
Spevna wrote:Wy do you care? Don't you hate 40K with a passion?
Just so! Special characters are part of the multi faceted reason why.
Like Count Manfred for example?

Just so!
We arent using characters for the fantasy campaign.

Primarch · Post by **Primarch** » Tue May 29, 2012 6:36 am

jus wrote:
Primarch wrote:
jus wrote: Just so! Special characters are part of the multi faceted reason why.
Like Count Manfred for example?
Just so!
We arent using characters for the fantasy campaign.

Oh!!! You mean like Dante and Mephiston then?

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