After the new rules i only used the mean machine once. A game vs Vampires. Let it loose on a unit of skeletons, 18 shots no misfire, great start. 3 hits after rolling to hit, 2 wounds on skeletons! 2 WOUNDS ON BONY VERSION OF EMPIRE WARRIORS!!! Gotta say, that i will never use it again! I see it this way, cannons dont need BS, all because they can misfire. Boltthrowers can't misfire, but need BS to hit. You can't do both! Simply can't!
New edt of empire is a mix match of goods and REALLY bads! my volley gun now can't put a stick in a shit, without ruining both! Why is my engineer at BS 4, when a capt. and gen. is at 5? The man trained his whole life using a gun, and even an outrider champion outshoots him? WHY!? What happened to the T4 Flagellants, now they just, sort of die like... normal, nonsave T3 units with a WS of 2. Empire is slowly crumbling away, while highelves gets always strike first, and dark elves gets eternal hatred!
We were fine, before GW intervened our crusade of blackpowder mass destruction!!!