40k Theory Hammer – New Unit Challenge
A guest piece by BoLS Lounge Mod: Duke
I was thinking, last night on one of my long drives that I do from week to week about Theory hammer. Mostly I was thinking about how cool it is that we have one of the few hobbies that you can actually see how your theories pan out in practice.
For example, I love soccer (football for you non-yankees) and I have several fantasy teams for the EPL and Champions league, but no matter how hard I try, I will never get to see Steven Gerrard give a great through ball to Arjen Robben who sets up Lionel Messi for a perfect header… Well, I won’t see it without a lot of luck and a ton of transfer money. However, I still love chatting about my teams and who could use a striker and who’s goalie sucks.
This is where 40k and Theory hammer gets awesome… I can talk to my friends about how cool it would be to run a 2000 pt army consisting of 2 Death Company units and then build and run that army. Not only can I do that, but I have the added bonus of getting to tell my friends how I was so right (or they tell me how right they are) about that unit/ army/ whatever theory.
Once we start including Apoc. into the mix the possibilities are endless. We can really see what a Primarch Daemon Prince would be like on the battle field. Great soccer matches always end the same way when you watch them again, but in 40k you can recreate great battles and have them go differently. You can also build super friends units or even go way overboard and make rules for that old toy AT-AT you have collecting dust
So long story short, get out there and try something new. Get up right now, walk on over to your army codex and whip up a cool unit you think would be awesome to try on the tabletop. Whether its just plain cool and fluffy or min-maxed and scary, spend the next ten minutes inventing something cool that is all yours,that you’ve never tried before, and not something you copy and pasted from the web. I’m currently working on this theory hammer unit and it has been awesome so far:
“Blood Angels Thunder-Bat-Cavalry”
Librarian:
-Bike, Unleash Rage, Sword of Sanguinius.
Reclusiarch:
– Bike, infernus pistol
Chaplain
– Bike, Infernus pistol
Chaplain
– Bike, Infernus pistol
Sanguinary priest
– Bike, Infernus pistol power weapon.
