Battle for Planet OG V - Jan 2012

[Sascha1706]

I would really like to play in this, and do not have any preference about the format. The only thing is I can't play under the current comp because my army would be very much illegal.

How strict is the ban on special characters? I can see that they get banned in WFB because they are more than able to ruin peoples hobbys. In 40K however, they are not really all that overpowered, and what is more, they are simply essential for some builds/armies when their only "special" ability is to change the FOC.

So is there any chance to revoke the banning of special characters?   

[Meals]

I'm pretty sure we've been through this one before, Sascha. While I fully agree with you on SCs, I don't think the situation is gonna change anytime soon...

[Sascha1706]

It's just that I don't think the one fits all outright ban is good. Take Belial for example, who is about as useless as a SC can get. He doesn't even have an iron halo .

The only thing he does is allow you to play a Deathwing army, which is a fun and fluff list, especially since the codex is so old...

[shadownova24]

agreed, but some SC can be truly devastating, i ran Abaddon against seb and charged a venerable dreadnought at him which i was unable to kill tying him up the whole game becoming totally useless.

[Sascha1706]

I don't know, I have not seen many games where the SCs survived. They are a lot easier to kill than in WFB. There is no look out sir, no challenges, and if a pie plate lands on your head you better start praying to the dice gods.
And in 40K, you don't get armour plus ward, so even the most fearsome characters die fairly quickly.

That's just my experience tough.

[shadownova24]

indeed mate always picked out either in combat or via shooting, roll on 6th edition AS and invun saves taken like in WFB, pray and hope :)

[Sascha1706]

And given the amount of melta, fists and other stuff that can instant kill around, they are not really the uber monsters they are in WFB.

[Tom Loyn]

Some are, Draigo is awful. But I agree, I would fully support allowing the lesser special characters in the next OG. So I would ban Draigo, Coteaz and Mortarion from GK for example.

[maelzch]

I really want to try out a nid list with the parastie of mortrex too. Squillions of ripper swarms!

[Meals]

Combat characters aren't that bad, they are relatively avoidable, and may kill 1-2 units max... It's guys like njal, eldrad, vulkan etc that have table/army wide abilities for really cheap that are the real gamechangers and even then you can negate their abilities with certain items/ tactics