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Shas'Vre
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Hello!
I would just like to point out that GW has unfairly given Crisis Battlesuits 3 Hard Points when you are supposed to have 4. Look at this: You have a Crisis Battlesuit. It has 2 Arm Hard Points. (2 Weapons allowed) It has 2 Shoulder Hard Points (1 Weapon allowed?) This seems silly to me. You have 4 Hard Points and you cannot use 1! Any ideas? |
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Maybe too many systems overload the suit, making it malfunction.
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You might argue that the Jump pack is taking up one of those hardpoints. Or perhaps you could get a 4th but the weight would prevent the use of the jump pack...
Broadsides don't have a jump pack and they carry 4 hardpoints worth of weapons! |
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Shas'Vre
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So what would be the point of 4 Slots on the Battlesuit? :
![]() Really, theyve made a huge mistake. |
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Or perhaps there are four possible hard points in case a given Shas'O wishes to have his missile pods on both shoulders - or weapons on the arms and a HW drone controller represented alongside his Multitracker - or possibly they just couldn't decide which shoulder to favour and face pissing off the United Left Shoulder Hardpoint Coalition.
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What are they supposed to do, give battesuits only one shoulder? :
![]() Seriously though, a battlesuit can only pump out so much power. You need ammo feeds, power sources, coolant, and all those nice things to power a gun, and a battlesuit isn't that big. I'd imagine more than 3 weapons would compromise effeicency. (Even twin - linked isn't as strong as two and that's essentially what it is)
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I really don't see the point of this thread... The models were made to be pretty much symmetrical (if you only had three hard points, where would they be? over/on the head? that would look stupid..) - and only having 3 hardpoints is obviously for balance reasons. Having 4 Possible Places to mount weapons though, means that you have some flexibility in how you model your crisis suits, and so that they can be different to a certain degree, rather than all of them being gun toting ownage-suits (like broadsides - they all look the same.. in terms of modelling poses.. there isn't as much you can do with them)
From a fluff point of view, they would probably need a bit more power, but that's just what we can deduce from the rules that are what they are..
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Good Point mace. The only dilemma I have now is why mount 4 slots instead of 3? Cant they just decide? Would shoulder make much difference?
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Crisis suits may have room for 4, but they only have the strength for 3.
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this does seem like an odd question. I guess I can simplify things a bit:
Thats about all I can get out of the reasons for the slots being the way they are. Personally, I wouldnt want it any other way! I like the fact I can Pin a huge variety of suit configs with the slots the way they are. There are dozens if not hundreds of 'looks' out there! Look at the FireKnife and variants(plas/missile/multi): it could be plas right arm, missile left arm, multi right shoulder(FireKnife), or plasma right arm, missile pod on a shoulder, shield on left arm, multi (hw but mounted) on other shoulder (FireKnife7), or weird stuff like plasma left shoulder, fusion right shoulder, missile right arm, hw invisible multitracker (FireKnife8/Helios7). The point of the rambling above is that you could have a team of 3 crisis, all FireKnife... but no two would look the same. THATs why there are 4 weapon slots! ![]()
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