I've been trying to decide which lucky Space Marine special character would get to lead my Novamarines army. After hours of pouring over the Space Marine Codex, I've whittled the short list down to two serious contenders. Shadow Captain Kayvaan Shrike or Forgefather Vulkan He'stan.
Both are seriously tough cookies when it comes to assault, but its what they bring to the table in terms of Chapter Tactics that interests me the most. Basically, Shrike allows your entire army to use the Fleet universal rule, and He'stan allows you to treat all Flamer and Melta weapons as twin linked, as well as treating all Thunder Hammers as master crafted. Hmmm...
Obviously, whichever I use will be a 'Count As', namely my own version of the charater. Also, whichever I use dictates what sort of army I'm going to field. I'll go into the actual army list in a forthcoming post. Thats a whole posts worth of ramblings in itself!
Shrike favours lots of assault type troops, and He'stan lots of burny goodness in the form of Melta weapons and Flamers.
As its going to be one or the other, and I have enough models to do both lists, I've gone ahead and made my 'Counts As' miniatures. Here they are:
Shrike
He'stan:
I think both are cool models, but I'm going to have to decide in which direction to take my army...
Cheers,
WW
My opinion, Shrike, because he don't really alter the rest of the army, where as he'stan dictates to get the usefulness of loosing combat tactics you need to purchase melta's, flamers and thunder hammers, where as having rank and file marines have fleet is a really nice touch. or you could just drop the debate and take Calgar. You know you want to.
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