Small (but great) buff idea for dark lances

Basically change the damage on dark Lance's from d6 to 2d3. This stops only getting one damage and not one shotting a terminator or some other two wound model. Also may help take a vechicle down a wounds teir. Just my thoughts on something that would not be game breaking but a nice way to differentiate us from other Lance's and generic weapons.

I personally think that Darklight weapons, which are infamous for burning retinas out of those who look at the blast unprotected, should have a debuff effect on the target unit. -1 to hit for one turn, maybe?

Back in the end of 7th, there was a rumour that every darklight weapon would gain "Blind", and that Dark Eldar units would have a special rule that would give Shred against blinded units.

ohh, I like that one. Like some sort of offensive markerlight almost ? I'd like that, alot.

Mppqlmd wrote:

Back in the end of 7th, there was a rumour that every darklight weapon would gain "Blind", and that Dark Eldar units would have a special rule that would give Shred against blinded units.

I remember a lot of wishlisting for Blind but no rumours. Never did understand why, Blind dropped your opponent to I1 and on an army that was almost universally I5/6 we were faster than most of our opponents to begin with.

Would have been nice for Incubi from time to time.

Dark lances don't need to change. They are a fantastic weapon already.

Soooo many more things in our army needs a buff!! LOL.

@Silverglade true that. Just some fun ideas for dark Lance's though...

I think the randomness is just something that has to be accepted and/or embraced about this game. It's part of Warhammer's identity and Dark Lances really have no excuse for having 2D3 damage (which I see as a clear buff due to consistency and statistics).

Most of all, if our codex writers would give our Lances 2D3 damage, you can bet that all other codices will change their profile of their main AT to 2D3 as well.

Much more, I'm hoping for useful Heat Lances and Haywire Blasters.

What exactly is Darklight again? Is it compressed energy stolen from a sun or am I thinking of a different weapon/story?

Barrywise wrote:

What exactly is Darklight again? Is it compressed energy stolen from a sun or am I thinking of a different weapon/story?

That's Disintegrators.
Darklight is beams of Dark Matter.

Ah, that's right. Thank you.

One would think that Disintegrators would be stronger. Maybe as strong as low tier plasma weapons. But no.

Imateria wrote:

Mppqlmd wrote:

Back in the end of 7th, there was a rumour that every darklight weapon would gain "Blind", and that Dark Eldar units would have a special rule that would give Shred against blinded units.

I remember a lot of wishlisting for Blind but no rumours. Never did understand why, Blind dropped your opponent to I1 and on an army that was almost universally I5/6 we were faster than most of our opponents to begin with.  

Wasn't that "Concussive" ? Blind was debuffing BS, i think.

+, that modification was meant to work with the special rule "Shred against blinded enemies". You know, to create synergy within the army.

Mppqlmd wrote:

Imateria wrote:

Mppqlmd wrote:

Back in the end of 7th, there was a rumour that every darklight weapon would gain "Blind", and that Dark Eldar units would have a special rule that would give Shred against blinded units.

I remember a lot of wishlisting for Blind but no rumours. Never did understand why, Blind dropped your opponent to I1 and on an army that was almost universally I5/6 we were faster than most of our opponents to begin with.  

Wasn't that "Concussive" ? Blind was debuffing BS, i think.

+, that modification was meant to work with the special rule "Shred against blinded enemies". You know, to create synergy within the army.

Blind was WS 1 BS 1.

Synergy in a Dark Eldar Army? We're edgy, so we had Anti-Synergy! Someone wrote a compelling argument about it!

I thought that there was a rumor about the blind effect form DL weaponry and not just wishlisting. I mean the rumor also said Hellions could H&R at initiative, and they can do that now, so to speak.

Check this out from the IA - Xenos in 8th, off the CW Phoenix bomber:

Nightfiremissile array 48" Heavy 2D6 4 -1 1
If a unit suffers any unsaved wounds from this weapon,
your opponent must subtract 1 from their hit rolls until
the end of the turn.

Sounds like perfect Darklight material to me

Sounds like a perfect Haywire blaster material for me

Sounds like neither of you have tried playing with it, it's crap.

Imateria wrote:

Sounds like neither of you have tried playing with it, it's crap.

Noone said it was good.

"Material" means that this type of rule could be used to forge a new Darklance/HWB profile.

That rule on all dark light weapons would be awesome.

Imateria wrote:

Sounds like neither of you have tried playing with it, it's crap.

Why is it crap? It's definitely within character.