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I mostly agree with Commandant, although I can see where the appeal of 2 attacks comes from. There are just so many elites with 2 attacks nowadays that kills seem important. The truth is, though, that greatswords are not designed to be killy. That is why they have full plate and stubborn instead of extra attacks and WS, or other such attack power increases. Our killy units are our shooting, our knights, and occasionally our characters.
Greatswords are doing very little that can't be done by a unit of swordsmen for less points and they shouldn't be cutting into the number of inner circle knights we can take by being a special choice.
If you can't convince the voters to accept your view, and you take to the gun, you are by definition anti-American.
So how about making them a core choice?If we can't get two attacks for them, how about making them strength 4 base (precedent IC knights) I4 (precedent Swordsmen) and have their greatswords count as halberds?They'd be the same total strength (5) but they wouldn't automatically strike last and there's a possibility (however slight) that they might actually kill something before dying.
Is unbreakable when a GoTE is in the unit too OP?
I can see that you are not easily dissuaded. I still feel that greatswords with killy faces, or any infantry besides possibly flagellants with killy faces, is not really in the Empire fluff.
Only because they hold and can strike at s5. But think of it this way, greatswordsmen are the best fighters we have. . .against ourselves. And possibly orcs.
Greatswordsmen are the best fighters that we have against anything, they just need a slightly more skillful general to ensure the charge