Regarding the thunderfires, I would love to know with what would like me to tow them! Rhinos seem out. Leviathans? I'm at a loss. On the 4+ CC, I see the argument for and against the change. I'm on the fence.

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Engage Old Man mode,

Rhinos used to be able to tow Rapiers and Thudd guns in the very early days of Rogue Trader.

Old man mode off

Although I prefer emplacements for the Thunderfires

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Hey guys,
I am relatively new to squats, but is there any reason why the exo armour-troops dropped out of the list?

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good evenig gentllemen !

Like most of you i like the changes. Transferring overlords into the support formation section and the levitian into the transport section is fine for me.

Land train; we hardly ever use roads in our games . Beside that i like the idea of the train getting faster the further it moves
Still vote for land train car with aa option .

Thunderfire; range of 60 and price back to 100 is fine for me. Question; may i take a third gun and warriors (but 4 for 100 points is quiet pricey according to the upgrade 5 warriors and transport for 100) to bolster the unit ?
Gunemplacements for immobile AA is something to think about.

cc4 for the war engines i like that. According to their size there is no need to jump. Rolling straight forward they plllpfff everyone and everything that is in their way.

So , draft 1.5 you are welcome

kind regards

Stefan

"Rhinos used to be able to tow Rapiers and Thudd guns in the very early days of Rogue Trader."

This is what I was thinking. But emplacements sounds fine as well. The drop from 125 to 100pts is better

The fact that WE's can always use FF against larger assault formations(Where they can't all reach BtB) makes their CC value less important -Its only really CC units like warbikes/Striking scorpions i.e CC troops who are lightly armed and have small numbers who should be majorly affected by whether its 4+ or not. I'd expect dedicated CC WE or Terminators to beat Overlords/Colossus regardless.

Would 5+ CC be a good compromise?

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I had them at 5+ and had folks grumbling, so I don't think it is unreasonable at all, Mark.

Gun emplacements = new unit

Stat suggestions?

OR... They could be guarded by Tarantulas...

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Attached tarantulas, now that is a good idea...

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anyone else?

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I'm afraid I haven't played thurgrim for over a year, but I'll give my thoughts.


I like the warrior upgrade idea, but agree with nafets 100 pts seems pricey. 75 pts would feel more fair.


Concerning 4+ CC stat of Warengines, I think a CC stat of 4+ is fine. It can be argued from the old rules/fluff. The warengines were bristling with defensive bolters (the colossus had 16 15cm bolters attacks, the leviathan 12). These point defense bolters could be used to justify the higher CC. I know they're already represented on the profile giving extra FF attacks, but still think anyone getting close would get a lot of point defense fire which could be represented by a higher CC stat.


What's the point of the Siege mortar car? I can't see any reason to ever take it over the bomb car.

Hello !

What about handeling the Thunderfire like the siege masters AA. Two options, transport or emplacement ..just a thought
I like the idea to support the thunderfire with tarantulas (both of them tend to stay stationary). This would be a possibility to bring the tarantulas (beeing a stationary unit as well) into the game .

Here we go

The cyclops one shot antitank 2+ indirect fire; I Would love to see them converted into something like At2+ slow firing (loosing the indirect fire ability) because of their size....(or the two options to choose
1) slow firing At2+
2) 6x AT2+ indirect fire, one shot

One more thing is that if you have a look twoards the war engines with transport capacities , required space for robots, tarantulas etc is mentioned.
According to the rules just warriors and berserker formations are allowed to chose transport?

Regards Stefan

I honestly don't like seeing the WE with CC 5+. They are already quite hard as they are. The defense bolters are applied to FF and not CC usually i believe.
The thunderfires lower price seems to compensate for their vulnerability. They don't have to be harder. Just use more of them and protect them with other formations.
The we as transports and overlord in support are very nnice changes. Still have to try them.


I had the chance of playing a tournament here in Portugal along with Rastamann and used the Squats.
The list (1.4) was:
- Warrior brotherhood with Warlord (supreme commander) and Rhinos
- Warrior brotherhood
- Thudd Guns
- 2 mixed Iron Hawk/Eagle formations (one formation with 2 of each, another with 3 Eagles)
- Guild Bikers (with 4 Guld Trikes)
- Robots
- Thunderfires
- 2 Overlords (in separate formations)
- 1 Colossus

3 Games against an ork horde and two space marines (one with air assault troops)

The colossus got a lot of attention but has hard to killl being fearless. However, I failed to protect using nearby units. The warriors died a lot but i managed to keep them mostly in good cover that helped but they are mostly useless except as cannon fodder in support of other units.
The guild trikes being now free are great. I used 4 because i didn´t had any more. The MW really made a difference in threat potential.
The thunderfires were always avoided being protected against air assault and teleporters by a surrounding warrior formation. But I still think they are quite weak. Nothing wrong with that.
The gyros are still my favourite toys. The mixed formations make them cheaper and usefull for spotting and pop up long range sniping.

That's somewhat what I suggested when i wanted Thunderfires to be an upgrade to support weapons.
The opposite works equally good for me. Thunderfire gettinging support weapons as upgrades.

(the only problem there is how do you count the allotted superheavy points, do the tarantulas count towards those aswell?

I meant 4+ the opposite

I am sorry for asking that perhaps unnecessary question again, but there are a couple of changes I got a bit confused with and I am not sure wether they are typos or serious changes:

1. Where are the exo armour troops - totally gone?
2. Why are squats armed worse, compared to the compendium (6+ over all here, 5+ in the compendium) Is there another list and I don´t get it?

Again my apologies for that

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Hmm, i have some Questions:

my english is not the best but



It is like the Imperial Guard Guyz?

why not:



It make the Rule more clear for new Players like me.


Good Question. They are a typical Squat Unit.

Termite: what is: Unit is longer part of the formation? Maybe Unit is longer not part of the formation?

Hellbore: why have the Hellbore not Thick Rear Armour. Most of the Squat War Engines have it. It would make the Hellbore make more resistent to save the Units inside the Hellbore.

Stubborn.

Ähmmm.....i think Stubborn is a big disadvantage for all Squats.

First, they are slow...very slow.. they can not get out of the 30 cm away of enemy Formation. For Rally after a Engage Action, they get a +3 modifier.

Second, with 15 cm its hard to escape any Enemy Fire.

Yes, Squats are brave and Stubborn but every Grot shot them with hackdown into pieces... They are sitting Ducks.

If they are so disciplined:

- only one move with max. 15 cm.
- Ignore the Rally modifier +1 for Enemy Units within 30cm. (Or halve it to 15 cm) and/or
- halve the Casaulties for Blastmarker if the Unit ist broken (rounding down)

Or should the Rule Stubborn be a disadvantage?