It's a good backip plan but let's wait until we confirm it before we start thinking up other ideas
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It's a good backip plan but let's wait until we confirm it before we start thinking up other ideas
1. Is 1st going to be regular battle company or some heavy attack force? Can't have it both ways.
2. True, we are going to grow stronger. But same goes for our enemies. Tyranids proper are incoming and so is Badab War. In the aftermath of the latter Maelstrom is going to be a massive headache and while we are not quite next to it I still anticipate Red Corsair being a problem.
3. Orks I'll grant you, heretic militarum are a maybe but the rest? Tyranids do suffer from synaptic web being disrupted but generally it is not a one and done deal. You would have to chew through a lot of Synaptic creatures begore their loss take effect. Grnstealer cults suffer a lot from the loss of tbeir Patriarch... which is why tat bastard stays hidden as long as possible and it takes a lot of effort to find him. And a lot of firepower to kill him. Heretic Astartes meanwhile are a problem from 2 separate angles: 1 they are capable of maintaning chains of command, see Word bearers retreating from us in good order. 2 theiylr leaders tend to be badasses to match our best so I am dubious about our ability to just casually assassinate them.
4. Why are you so sure TA is Milan only?
[X] Plan: Elite Scouts, Filling out the Companies, and Paying back the Deathwatch
[X] Plan: Elite Scouts, Filling out the Companies, and Paying back the Deathwatch
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Also, we didn't get Land Raiders from Smilnay, but we found it on Lezo's "scrapyard" (which caused Karark Zel "heresy-caused convulsions")
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We can still do this, and give him terminator armor he just would t be leading a company of pure veterans and terminators. We can still give him terminator armor just there is nothing stopping us from doing that.
I think he is actually bigger than tyberos if our first meeting with the angel's crusader is anything to go by.
Is not exactly the same the idea of thrax leading the vet comp does tickle my pickle
That was more a general set of questions to the audience, and I addressed it to you because you were the most recent. As for the skill vs gear compensation; you're right, you can't do a straight 1-for-1 translation. There are hard limits to both.
Which is why we did this;
-Weapon Skill: 5 14/600
-Ballistic Skill: 4 228/500
-Strength: 4
-Toughness: 5 120/600
-Perception: 5 90/600
-Agility: 6 121/700
-Intelligence: 5 84/600
-Willpower: 5 397/600
-Fellowship: 4 360/500
That WS and BS used to be 2. That toughness was 4. Almost all the other stats were lower back during those high-casualty fights. We have more Techmarines, more Chaplains, more Apothecaries for the post-battle rolls than we did before. And even then, bad dice rolls were responsible for a portion of it.
We already took corrective actions against everything, except gear, that caused those casualties people are promoting as proof of a need for one or the other. Almost all the big campaigns you're quoting were a long time ago, both in game and IRL, and back then our skill was such shit that no quantity of equipment would have given us significantly better results.
But we fixed that.
And when the time comes to roll the dice, every single Veteran Squad we have is going to be better than that, because that's how the quest mechanics work. You want Veterans with more Weapon Skill and Agility for assaults? You're getting that regardless of 1st or 10th because 1st Company is split between Vanguard and Sternguard, while 10th is split between Sharpshooters and Vanguard.
A presence or lack of skill in any capacity is not what's being changed with this decision, because the organization of skill between melee or ranged in the elite company is the same.
So if skill is something that is addressed elsewhere outside this decision (which it is), then the difference between the two is gear, tactical preference, and numbers. The former is something neither 1st nor 10th is going to fix, the latter is changed by reassigning squads to theatres as desired, and the middle is just a question of which dice rolls the QM chooses to make when planning the campaigns in the background.
Since gear and numbers is something we fix outside of this decision, it comes down to which numbers do we want the QM rolling against most often. Those numbers should be our best numbers.
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He's not he is only just a little bigger then a terminator, Tyberos' power armor is modified with dreadnaught armor to give you a sense of scale, Tyberos would be about 2 to 4 feet taller then your standard terminator
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Tactical Dreadnought Armour, "commonly" called Terminator Armour
No his Terminator Armor is modified with Dreadnought armor just so it can fit him
To give you a sense of scale
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No his Terminator Armor is modified with Dreadnought armor just so it can fit him
To give you a sense of scale
Like only thing this picture shows, is "Terminators are bigger than Tactical Marines", which is obviousness
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[X] Plan: Conventional Veteran Company, Filling out the Companies, and Paying back the Deathwatch
That assumes that the only thing deciding which numbers are used is our choice. As opposed to the mission profile and enemy action being equally important. Quite frankly, my fear with elite scouts idea is that it flat out leaves with nothing that can contest enemy elites (like, say a terminator chaos lord with terminator retinue) in open combat. And yes, we absolutely would try and deal with such foes without having to engage them directly. That goes without saying. The problem is,the enemy has a say as well. We can not rely on steath always working,doubly so against the enemy's best.
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That fact that people are for a sharper scalpel when we already have plenty is killing me. What's we're lacking right now is a hammer when the scalpel isn't enough.
We have a hammer it's called Logos
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Outer DarkNo his Terminator Armor is modified with Dreadnought armor just so it can fit him
To give you a sense of scale
Terminator Armour - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
There no actual quote that said he has Dreadnought armor in it only about how it modified because he's freakishly tall.
Question. Gonna work on another omake related to some IT nerds and our favorite depressed box boy ex-sword champion. Can the grav cannon be mounted to the top of the dreadnought, then replace the arm sloth with another dreadnought scaled thunderclaw?
Edit: Checking stuff. Do we only have the one active dreadnought? Do we have any spares for people who fall in battle?
Edit: Checking stuff. Do we only have the one active dreadnought? Do we have any spares for people who fall in battle?
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We have an empty Castaferrum pattern dread
It's completely possible that people don't find the incessant repetition of the "scalpel and hammer" metaphor to be all that convincing.