Who say they have to be weak? Are apothecaries weak? Absolutely no! As i said before they can have interesting combat abilities due to cool ranged weapons and servo arms. I only said that is better to "limitate" their repair capabilities (with stamina sistem, or coldown based sistem) just to avoid "repair spam", like, for example, an indestructible predator supported by techmarines: If they have stamina based or coldown based repair ability they could repair the predator when out of enemy fire, or even support it on the field, but for a limited time (that can be useful anyway!). Instead if they can spam repair, and the repair value is uge, we would see indestructible predators until someone kills the techmarine! (and that time can be enough for the tank to bring a lot of devastation). I don't think that make them heroes is a cool idea, since their help can be needed almost in every squad. We already have apothecaries as common classes, so why don't wait for them being another common class after launch, since all the factions lack tech classes?
The idea of striding across the battlefield with a boltgun and servo arm appeals to me. Having a choice of upgrades like swapping the servo-arm for a servo harness, taking a power weapon or Thunder Hammer, and getting on a bike really appeals to me! And I get to fix tanks and fortifications! Sold. I might even be tempted to be a Blood Angel just so I can swap the servo-arm for a Jump Pack.
techmarines are confirmed however i would like to see their skill sets expanded on ships with the maintance of the chapter armouries ect. Perhaps blessings on wargear? and the machine spirt? Same could go for chaos dark mechanicus and ect for ork
apothecaries should be elite too imo... or they just do it how it is, and techmarines are far more useful than apothecaries, being able to use a servo harness and build fortifications, repair vehicles and walls, etc.
Iron Warriors have Warpsmith's as well. If you are talking about Warsmiths then there is no way any player could be one because then other races would also get their leaders (Chaos Lords, Chapter Masters, Farseers, etc)
eh, a warsmith is more in line with a captain generally. and we DO get those. we also are going to be getting autarchs and farseers. hero classes, remember?
