@jbregg, @Oveur Question for you guys, is there a way of giving some of the weapons available for other subfactions to others within the same faction? Namely something like the Crozius Arcanum, which is available for the Space Wolf Priest, however it isnt available for the other factions, such as Dark Angel Jump Assault or Ground Assault. Being able to play the game in a RP way is the reason a fair few of us stay around, and this includes playing Chaplains within our Guilds. Or for that matter the Blood Angel Sanguinary Priest (Apothecary) who should, Lore wise at least, have a Jump Assault pack. The Wolf-Priest isn't the only person in the 40k universe that carries the Crozius, and with it already being in the game, would it be that difficult to give it to the other subfactions?
Only chaplains carry crozius, which yiff priest is, anyone else wilding it would be lore breaking. Apo should never have jump pack for balance reasons, doesn't matter that BAs use it as in games chapter specific rules do not apply.
You know the Crozius is the badge of office of the Chaplaincy, but without the other trappings of the office (black armor, skull helm) its lore-breaking. "Almost" every Chapter's Chaplains wear that scheme as standard, so until all of that gets handled, lets save the Crozius talk for later. Besides, its a reskinned Power Maul so once Workshop goes live we can always cosmetically reskin GA/JPA to be Chaplain. As for Jump Apos... Lots of units get Jump. My favorite BA model is a BA Jump with a meltagun, which I can already think of three people whose skin just crawled and two people who just started bouncing in their chairs at the idea. They work great for cosmetic purposes and on tabletop, but in an FPS environment that makes them too strong in my opinion, especially when the Apo can also run bolter (so now instead of Tac-Apo we now have to worry about Jump-Tac-Apo. You'd see nothing but Apos and Tacs would become Dire Avengers (supposedly the largest unit type but barely represented in EC.
Rather than reskinning GA/JPA cosmetically, the Chaplain should be a base class and have their own cosmetics (and also Chapter Spesific Cosmetics) and class spesific powers (like, 10+ toughness buff (like the warlocks enhance but with shorter duration since the average marine is already tanky enough, wouldn't want to imbalance the game with that.)for 10 seconds or increased melee damage for 10 seconds, etc.). But that'll probably won't happen, unfortunately.
Testing, testing... is this thing on? Ok... ready annnnnd ADADADADAD... ESCAPE JUMP! Heal Self! RETURN JUMP! ADADADADADAD. Yep test complete, all sat... nothing to see here, move along.
gun and shield vet vet that can switch sword to bolter (hello mag lock) chaplain that add moral to troops +attack +def
