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by me_in_japan » Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:00 am
IG have their orders, puppies have their berserkerness, and BA have DC and a plethora of special rules. tbh, most armies have some kind of special rule reflecting their fluff. The exception is CSM, who pretty much had every last vestige of fluff excised from their book when they took out the ability to field a halfway competitive single-power list. And power-specific daemons. And warbands. And...well, i could go on, but suffice to say that codex CSM is the most severely de-fluffed codex in the history of 40k. We should call it Baldy.
Tau are also a bit odd, as they are supposed to be a shooty, hi-tech army, yet are no better at shooting than any other army, and less hi-tech than crons or eldar. Yes, they have pulse rifles, but one feels that the Tau are an army with a pretty good gun made to look like a great gun because everything else in the list is so damn crap. They dont shoot as well as the IG, they dont assault as well as a sickly hamster, and they dont psyk at all. What makes em special? their mediocrity? If their codex was full of swanky hi-tech toys that were better than any other races (eldar included. Make eldar the psychic, fragile race) and theyd be onto something. As it stands, Tau are special cos theyre not-better-than-anyone-else-in-any-field. Where are the Tau transforming robots, hmmn? 40mm base robot thinger, can change into a fast skimmer (piranha sized) at end of turn. More than meets the eye, desho?
Anyway. I digress. You asked us to pick the army which had the most fluffy special rules, and for me I think that is the IG. You always know youre playing against IG, cos they play pretty much exactly as their fluff says they should. They line up, and bomb the sUGAR out of you. none of this funny charging malarky from the IG. It's Guns all the way. The orders and whatnot (and commisars) reflect and support this tactic well. Thats my two cents, anyway.
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