Re: Test rules of your own evil devising

Posted by General Biakal on Dec 15, 2008; 10:59am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Re-Test-rules-of-your-own-evil-devising-tp1449333p1657702.html

hmmm this is getting complicated now.  i imagined the handler and dog to basicly be a single unit as if the handler is killed the dog cheeses it and if the dg is killed the handler turns back into a normal trooper. thats why i thought about having 2W as the first one would be the dog. (the dog is a much less valuable asset). and cos iv decided the provost troop would be not an assault squad but able to at least have a stab at holding and thinning out enemy assault squads iv kept them basicly as Hardened Veterans but with WS4 BS3 not the other way round (this fits in with the fluff too- breaking up bar fights day after day tend to sharpen your fighting edge)

so the k-9 team i think should have a profile that covers the handler and animal as one "model" however that squig hound profile really does make sense. That means problems for me because as obviously the handler can only have a pistol and the leash in the other hand the dog and him only have 2A between them. Which he would have with a pistol and CCW. so somehow iv got to make the unit an advantage as well as a nice fluffy unit that looks too cool for skool. But can a dog be as good as a Super Duper Space Marine at fighting? well i could try and model some bionics or implants on the dog to make it look like it has been made extra aggressive and hightend responses or similar but that seems a bit of a copout.

so

WS4 BS3 S4 T3 W1 I4 A3 Ld8 as a single unit

or

WS4 BS3 S3 T3 W1 I3 A1 Ld8
for the handler and

WS3 BS0 S3 T3 W1 I2 A2 ld2 SV-
for the hound

and treat them both individually

on a more positive note i have made a brilliant truncheon or baton arm (pics soon) using the left hand for the flamer and grenade launcher  and the aerial from the vox caster. it looks very good. very good indeed.