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This is actually quite a bad thing... it's not a "benefit"... as the formation will now be engaging with a Blast marker... instead of shooting, moving to take an objective, or clearing off Blast markers, etc.
True. I am perhaps overstating it. However, I'd say it'll work out OK a fair bit - often they'll be too far away to reach the enemy, or be closest to an enemy they wanted to assault anyway. Yeah, sometimes it'll bite you. But not that often, especially (I think) if the player in question is cautious.
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There are a lot of incredibly dumb things in 40k. Thunderwolf riders are hugely dumber than one group of marines having slightly better engines than the others, for example.
One makes sense internally to the universe. One does not.
If the wolf fetishist Chapter decides they want combat wolves, that makes a certain degree of sense. If one Chapter invents something awesome that makes almost all their vehicles massively more efficient and then refuses to share it with anyone else, that doesn't. Especially when it's the Blood Angels, who have generally been portrayed as fairly helpful and noble.
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might make sense if there were drawbacks to it, or if it were only really useful for short bursts into combat. But that's not how people seem to be interpreting it, or how it seems to be presented.
Furthermore, that doesn't deal with the fact that using the engines in a skirmish and using them in a battle may be very different kettles of fish. We know that the BA Rhinos are a lot faster in a 40K battle, but there doesn't seem to be much to demonstrate that they increase overland speed that much.
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Whether you like it or not, that's what the background now is, and as E&C says, he has no intention of making a list that represents 40k as it used to be.
So the BA list is going to be wholly revamped every five or six years? Seriously? And may completely change in character, shape and nature each time?
How is that a good idea?
