Quote: (Malakai @ 23 Dec. 2008, 05:16 )
So the mighty WE berzerkers are less berserk than the Black Legion variety? Somehow that just seems wrong.
Was my suggestion to reduce the number of Berzerker units per formation while changing the AV units to Stubborn a bad idea?
Which is a not unreasonable position. However, if you think about it, perhaps they
are less bezerk than the Black Legion varieties?
Bezerkers represent a minority in the Black Legion and don't tend to form any given warband's command structure - while their commanders are often Khorne worshippers, that doesn't always equal bezerker. So if worst came to worse they could chain up the bezerkers until they were needed to be released on the enemy - and are free to run screaming at the enemy carrying nothing but pistols and chain-axes as the rest of the Black Legion can cover them.
A World Eater warband really would be made up of nothing but "bezerkers" - but they can't just spend all their time running around screaming and chopping heads off - how exactly would they get anything done? Or even just travel to appropriate warzones? They can't persecute any kind of reasonable offensive if the
entire legion runs forward to dismember the enemy in combat. Equally, they can't afford to be quite as fanatically mental as the BL counterparts. Perhaps Kharn the Betrayer has managed to survive since the Heresy running around like a nutter and chopping every head he sees, but for the majority of the Legion, at least some degree of sense of self-preservation remains. Indeed, if you recall the tale of how Kharn earned his title, he burned and murdered his bretheren
for taking cover and not fighting the Emperor's Children with no regard for their own lives.
I also agree that the vehicles shouldn't be Fearless or even Stubborn. If you want to justify it, just consider that the vehicle crews abandon their crippled vehicles when under heavy fire in order to charge the enemy in hand to hand and die as a true Khorne worshipper should!
