MagnusIlluminus wrote:
Something I noticed as I was going through the Tau book was that it specified that most of their Transports ARE able to carry their Walker class models (or more specifically, their Battlesuits) and the way it was phrased made it seem like this was an odd thing. Which it isn't in 2nd or NetEpic. (This may have been a strong motivator for me to make an option for "carries Walker".) This reference makes more sense if the source material (IE fairly recent 40K) does not generally allow Walkers in Transports.
Yeah, just read that, very odd. Though I am not sure why they were classed as walkers in the first place, all the Battlesuits are Infantry of varying bulkiness, like what a Centurian and a Terminator are to a normal power armour marine. In fact Tau don't have access to any sort of walkers, the Battlesuits are all Infantry, and the new Riptide is of Knight size, they completely skip walkers
MagnusIlluminus wrote:
Revising Transport. That could be a good idea. So we are back to the first version of Transport then, flat cost per stand and modified by various things. Right, I'll have to poke at that a bit, juggle some numbers, and see what I can get to work. It may be a while though, I'm not going to have a lot of spare time for about a month or so here.
I'm guessing that your sample modifiers list was just for example. I'm asking, as I am not aware of any model that can specifically carry Cavalry models, aside from things that can carry a Company formation.
Sounds good. Yeah the sample modifiers were just for example, though I would have the Cavalry carrying option there for completeness.
Checking back over things, it seems the Thunderhawk can carry bikes and land speeders to
, so we have a cavalry carrying unit.
In all the Thunderhawk can carry the following things:
30 Power Armour Marines (6 Stands)
15 Terminators or Assault Marines (3 Stands)
10 Centurions (3 Stands approx, I am assuming 3 models to a stand since they usually come in 3 men squads)
10 Bikes, 2 Bikes = 1 Attack Bike as well (6 Stands)
6 Dreadnoughts (6 Stands, a Dreadnought seems to take up the space of 5 men)
6 Land Speeders (6 Stands)
Although they don't give rules for it, the fluff mentions Thunderfire Cannons being dropped by Thunderhawks or Drop Pods (one per pod), so I would say they take up the same space as a Dreadnought.
Nothing else that I can see in the marine list smaller than a Thunderhawk can carry Walkers, Cavalry and Support Weapons.
MagnusIlluminus wrote:
Actually, no, the Chimera would not be carrying 4 stands if IG were considered Light. It's Transport would be less expensive than that of a Rhino, as the Chimera is only carrying 2 Light stands or 1 Medium compared to the Rhino being able to carry 4 Light or 2 Medium stands.
Right okay.
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