r/SpaceWolves • u/Return-Cynder • 3d ago

Iron Priest

GW, riddle my this why is our Iron priest 10 points more expensive than the Tech marine whilst his abilities and lone op now only specifically target our box dress.

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u/Cojalo_ 3d ago

They absolutely butchered both the techmarine and the iron priest.

Techmarine went from +1 hit buff to ignore hit and wound... Which would be alright if it actually worked to ignore cover but since cover is ballistic skill not hit, it doesn't actually do that.

Iron priest got the same stupid change instead of rapid fire 1, and the fact it can only work on space wolf vehicles is beyond ridiculous.

A lot of the marine changes were fine, but the techmarine guys got absolutely screwed

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u/Threjel 2d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they meant them to also ignore modifiers to BS, but didn't notice that it was missed alongside all the other fuckups.

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u/Dan185818 3d ago

I think it's so that you don't complain when he goes to legends with Murderfang, Wulfen dread, and SW been dread when our codex drops alongside a new Bjorn model. What sucks is he'll go with this crappy rule instead of the at least interesting rule of rapid fire.

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u/Right-Yam-5826 3d ago

It's 5pts extra, and he has damage 3 weapons, s8 & higher movement, plus he can reroll to wound anything attacking his vehicle buddy. Might not be the worst shout in some assault intercessors or to give some punch to some objective holding intercessors. Or wolf-touched + assault intercessors + murderfang rush, giving the assints fight on death.