Theres no Commissar special rule as opposed to no commissars!
Following on from what was said in several different thread about free stuff I'm experimenting with a different way of including Commissars, this time as upgrades. The list doesn't have roughriders and stuff that needs commissars outside the companies. So they will be there as a 50 point upgrade (too much? The standard mech company is 375 in this list to compensate somewhat), or maybe you choose either a Salamander Command or a commissar to add for 50 points. Though of course still thinking it over as to what to do exactly.
As a side note what do people think the value of stormtroopers, valkries and a commissar would be?
Tank riders
I was going to just ignore problems with AP (they should be able to be shot at) and AT (why is it affecting infantry?). But it could be an easy to say as they are still on the board or somesuch they can still be shot at, only problem is do they count as being in cover for touching a vehicle
. They gain the indirect vulnerability to AT (through the tank being hit) as a weakness of riding a tank and the typical infantry defese of spreading out can't be done.(J0k3r @ May 07 2008,14:29)
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This is a rule I have also been fiddling around with for a while for a Valhallan list.
Yes its come up before for Valhallens
- how many troops per vehicle? ?1 per DP would seem sensible (ie a fire team on each battle tank). ?
I was going to just say one, but I guess this way more can hang onto a baneblade? Or stick to AV's for simplicity and assume no-one defiles the sacred warengines that way?
- You may also want to stipulate only land vehicles (or does armoured vehicle cover that? Thinking valkyrie here).
Damn I thought they were LV's!
Option one - Ignore it. Stormtroopers don't have tank rider in the army list so it doesn't come up.
Option two - Add something saying no skimmers so it clarifies for non tourney games.
- How are you going to introduce this? ?A new formation of, say 6 tanks plus 6 inf or use upgrades to give infantry to tank formations and vice versa? In the latter case I imagine teh inf coy size will need to some down so you can buy enough tank ugrades.
Just use the infantry upgrade. 6 stands and away you go. I see it as more useful for mech troops as now they are less vulnerable to losing transports.
Alternatively, have you considered making them an exception to the usual transport rules, instead you declare the formations intermingled and, ala the commander rule, make a combined activation.
I was going to leave all that for scenarios by only having them ride in their formation for the GT list (scenario players can work it out themselves).
As it won't be part of the core rule a valhallen list could have a different GT transport rule.
The other oddity is close combat, they would need a note about sliding off into cc and not being pinned 'inside'?