Canīt you just skip commenting then, Rufus? Itīs not like we donīt know your reactionary view on special character. Come back when you changed your mind maybe... Or just put it in your sig or something.
Honestly Rufus, facts are that today many alternatives that where once customisable via items or in some other ways you where able to get them, now are tied up to special Characters.
You say people whose style of army now need a special character are lame because they donīt do as you command and play the same Rufus vanilla list?
For Imperial guard, this is quite profound. If you really want to make a nifty light infantry army that donīt just look the part but can act the part, you will need to take Al-Rahem as himself or rename him.
And for that matter, GW, including Jervis Johnson in what must have been a preparatory article for the change in WD wrote and clearly said that you sdhould NOT see the special characters as only a fixed character. They are archetypes!
It is not just the Ultramarines that got a badass sniper Scout sergeant, nor is Al-Rahem the only dashing light infantry commander in the Imperial guard!
GW decided to do this since the old systems with traits and skil&Drills where missused.
It was easier to balance things if some special stuff was tied to special characters and then encourage the gamers to use the SC less rigidly and treat them like archetypical heroes.
Theo nly way to get Catachan devils are to field gunnery sergeant harken andwhy should players in your vincity be ridiculed for taking Harken to field the most badass Cartachans there are?
Or if I want to field Try Again Bragg, Harken is possibly the best bet. Still he shotys better tyhan Bragg.
