Thursday 4 September 2014

Assault Vehicle fluff

"Its so fluffy I'm gonna die"
-Roboute Guilliman
Assault Vehicle fluff
So still havent had a game in a while, but did manage to catch up with some of my old warhammer buddies to have some warhammer related chats including whether or not new space wolves are just marines with +1 strength on their power weapons for 5 extra points, and whether or not grey knights moving to a more shootier army is a refreshing change or not. Personally I think heavy 6 bolters with force are amazing, even with AP - due to their ability to just slaughter Greater Daemons (who wont always roll 3+) and Tyrannid monsters after getting only a single wound. Also Heavy flamers which get +1 strength for free is nice.

Anyway another comment that came up was the landraider as the only assault transport for chaos marines. Which is always a favourite amongst heretics, and never gets old by the way, and how terminators can charge from the side doors of a LR yet cultists cant charge from a rhino.

Well we put it down to this, imagine that your rhino is built like your mothers Volkswagen. You squeeze in the backseat and when you reach your destination you all pile out all stiff and unable to do much as you help the middle person out of that dreaded middle seat. The thing is even if you were to ride in a Limo, you are still piling out one at a time, from seated and really its still a pain in the ass. Heck even the bat-mobile woulnt be an assault vehicle according to these rules.

Well I can imagine that a landraider is more like the back of a van, or even a bus, where you are already standing before you disembark. Its easier to charge off a bus that it would be to charge out of a car. Regardless on the number of lascannons on said bus.

Now open topped would be like a convertable. You can just leap out the side, over the boot, across the bonnet if you have to. And although you are sitting while it moves, you are standing before you disembark. Which is why these vehicles allow charging in the same turn as you disembark and a rhino makes you help your buddy out of the middle seatbelt which doesnt unclick unless you jiggle it at the perfect angle.

If you dont believe me, next time you are in the car, try leaping out of it and jumping into the fray. Make sure your friend videos it too, so you can have a nice youtube clip of you either smashing your head on the ceiling of the car, or getting your foot caught in the seat belt and doing an epic faceplant while your sister unbuckles your baby brothers carseat, before you pick up your teeth for that assault phase.

Though it would be nice to have some form of dukes of hazard units who could charge out of non assault transports, maybe if you go to the effort of modeling Kharn the Betrayer into Bo Duke your opponent may be a little more lenient.  


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