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These vehicles have roughly the same armor as a Leman Russ (1 less on the front), but two structure points each (the Minotaur may have 3, I'll have to check on that again), which would make them much hardier than the standard Leman Russ, plus more expensive.
Could you share your thoughts on why you stat'd them the way you did?
It came down to a number of reasons, really.
- Having Companies of Malcadors seems to make sense, but having to then check LoF for every single Malcador (WE's block LoF!) in a tank company would be very time consuming.
- Physically, they're smaller than Land Raiders.
- Their armour was notably poor for a WE.
- It seems pretty certain that FW gave them Structure Points in 40k just so as to allow them to fire multiple weapons at different targets, rather than because they're very large.
With all the above in mind, we had the choice between giving them 2DC and poor armour, or making them AV with good armour. We went with the KISS option.
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3. Do you intend to keep the Harbinger in the list? The reason I ask is that it seems from the story that Hellblades and Helltalons were quite prevalent in the middle period of the war, but primarily as interdictors and that an organized bombing campaign did not materialize for the Traitors. I didn't see the Harbinger mentioned anywhere, though it may have been discussed in Aeronautical Imperialis.
Harbingers didn't technically turn up on Vraks, and nor did Warlord Titans for that matter.
The inclusion of each is a bit of a "What If?".
