It's definitely a home-game unit, as there really isn't anything in the current codex for which I feel it would make a suitable proxy model. The Adeptus Mechanicus army list by the fine folks over at Tempus Fugitives include rules for it however, and those will be what I'll use for home games:
0-1 Rapier.............................95 points
Crew: 2 Guardsmen
Range: 48"
Strength: 10
AP: 1
Type: Heavy 1, Twin Linked
The Ad-mech Codex includes a Techpriest in the unit's points cost, but when I use it for the Mordian 7th it'll just have the two guardsmen crew. This will be a multi-army unit used in both the 7th and the Ad-Mech army I'm slowly putting together...
0-1 Rapier.............................95 points
Crew: 2 Guardsmen
Range: 48"
Strength: 10
AP: 1
Type: Heavy 1, Twin Linked
The Ad-mech Codex includes a Techpriest in the unit's points cost, but when I use it for the Mordian 7th it'll just have the two guardsmen crew. This will be a multi-army unit used in both the 7th and the Ad-Mech army I'm slowly putting together...
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Great old models - but jeez, that's a generous Tempus Fugitives statline!
ReplyDeletePoints/nastiness aside, surely that statline's intended for the twin-barrelled version of the rapier rather than the quad-barrelled one?
I figured it makes sense for the four-barreled version m'self. I'd envision their thought process was the two barreled would be the standard Str9 AP2 of a lascannon with the benefit of twin-linking - The second pair bumps the strength up to 10 and the AP down to 1. At 95 points it's about on par with the non-mechanized Medusa emplacement (whose Str and AP match), though it gives up the large blast template in favor of the twin-linked single target... Mostly I'm adding it because the original list had one. :)
ReplyDeleteEither way, it's great to see, and I love how you've modelled it, too!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll dig mine out...