Simulated Knave wrote:
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It's not a case of disallowing a unit cause it doesn't look enough like the thing it's representing; I don't know anyone who has a problem with that as long as it's gone over beforehand (5 min warmup period!). the problem comes if someone has say 2 beetleback warlords, one representing a warlord and one representing a reaver (to use Tim's example above). It might be perfectly obvious to you which is which (I totally stuck an Apocalypse rocket launcher on that warlord, obviously that's the Reaver!) but, half way through turn two, in a tournament game and so time constrained, it's not really fair to ask your opponent remember the differentiation.
And smacking down one of the new Warlords and saying "that's a Reaver" is still going to be less fair to your opponent than an old Warlord with fewer weapons than it would normally have. It's a question of degree. The closer the thing is to the thing you're saying it is, the better.
Well, I suppose you're not
technically wrong, but I don't think it's unfair to point out during the 5 min wwarmup period that you don't have a Reaver and you're instead using this Warlord figure to represent it (assuning it's the only titan you're fielding, which is a farily safe assumption). I mean, I wouldn't have any problem or anything.
The problem would come more with a situation like using chimeras to represent both actual Chimeras and Leman Russ. Even if you've painted some of them different, it's probably still unfair of you to expect your opponant to remember the probably subtle difference.
