Zahr-Tann has that army because it's what they had before the Fall when they cared about military readiness, though. In other words, what we're seeing is what they considered an appropriate army for peacetime, purchased not with their industry but with whatever postscarcity currency the empire used for reality-warping manufacturing time. There hasn't been much opportunity to retool and ramp up since, and we can reasonably guess that the wartime military they want is larger and better-equipped but also that they can't build their current equipment set at a very fast rate let alone whatever their expansion ambitions are.
the question is, how do power mauls compare to implosion hammers?
It is a bit early to start celebrating about neutering Biel-Tan for a few centuries when we have yet to talk to a single representative. Seriously, this is just asking for a bad enough set of rolls for us and a good set of rolls for them or Tzeentch to completely fuck us over and make it so we have a coalition of craft-worlds actively hunting for our head with the open blessing of most of the moot.
Properly label it as an Elite troop and it's fine. Add conversion fields, we made the cheap ones so there's no reason not to. Maybe grenades.
Much better, if also more expensive. For troops you're putting in Ithilmar...
I was thinking of replacing the mauls with grav-blades and the needler/flamer weapons with sheer/vibration weapons.
Don't worry. The chaos gods have fallen to infighting according to Mechanis. Tzeench will turn his attention to the happening here much to late to effect the out come. It's one of the reasons we can do this at all and not immediately worry about some manner of chaos retaliation.
As long as they're moved out of the troops category. 50 Ep is way too much for a troop
I don't know what the latter is since it's not in our list of war gear, but current discussion favors building a VGW Foundry turn 5. People really need to remember it's a Warsuit rather than just Armor.
I don't think the Bladedancers can use Ithilmar. Call it a long-term research project to get them something more than conversion fields.
Force staves are standard equipment for psykers though?
Pretty certain producing armour meant to work with the Bladedancers style of psy powers is a Seer action.
Hmm. Apparently it is possible to counter fateweapons if you have the right tech. Maybe we can develop an inversion of the tech ourselves and combine it with some kind of anti grav tech for hyper agile auto dodge armor.
I'm pretty sure putting them in light power armor with 3x power assist will work for them.
... That'd be pretty sweet. And spending exotics to make our Special units an utter pain to kill sounds like a good plan.
I just checked and I'm fairly certain that it's going to need to be something a bit more finicky then just slapping some light power armour on them.
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Yea, at the time that was written, we had wraithbone trauma plates and hardsuits.
Do we have an actual quote available from Mechanis about this or is it something said in a DM?
We could just go for squads in some multiple of four (4, 8, 12 etc)? It's not like we can only have two squad sizes.
I feel like we're going to need to have our army split in two: our standing army for most of our fighting, which we use predominantly elsewhere, and then a militia formed of everyone else who pick up arms if the Craftworld itself gets imvaded. With the latter just having a shitton of Brigandine and Needlers. We'd probably keep a portion of the former back home at any given time as well just in case.
Ithilmar has x2 power assist.
