And fucking marry sue Scientology

>>5359618
God, I know, JC is giving them updates and then just pretending to care about the other factions. I play Jews, and let me tell you, playing with a BC codex? not fun.

>>5359618

You think being a Hindufag is hard?

Try being a Zoroastrianism player, Christianity took all the best parts of our army, and we haven't seen a new codex in millennia.

I'm still waiting for the Islam update. SOME SUPPORT WOULD BE NICE.

>>5359652
>Plays Jews
>Complains all the time
I hate to reinforce stereotypes, but...

>>5359632
You're mistaking them for a faction that's not a joke. They're not mary-sues, they're a parody of mary-sue religions like Rælism.

Now, an religion that needs to be brought back? The Heaven's Gate Cult. I know what people say about them being the squats of religion, b

dude i can't wait till the great old ones faction comes out.

Personally, I prefer being faction-less. It has higher INT and WIS requirements, but the payoffs are quite nice.

>>5359666

Islam is a one trick pony, all you can do is blow up your infantry.

rastafarian player here i have never had so much fun

You know, yeah, some armies might be more powerful, and get more updates, but I just love my fucking Discordians. Who cares if they don't get all that many updates?

>>5359666

Isn't that post number a little telling.

>>5359670

You should try People's Temple. They're pretty great, I just had this Kool Aid and I think I'm going to gr

>>5359659
I like the Zorastrianism fluff, but it's just not as competitive as the other factions.
Christianity is like fixd Zoroastrianism, just without the cool fluff

>>5359712
Five tons of flax.

i'm thinking of building a greek orthodox army. what units should i be purchasing???

what are you talking about. i'm an atheist fag and we havent had an update in a few milenia.

>>5359632

No, Jesus is Mary sue. Oh look at me - my daddy is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient, but we're actually the same person lol.

Everyone fucking loved him and the ones who didn't killed his ass. He dies quicker than any crusifiction, and fucking comes back to life. What the fuck? I raged at the end of the codex. Worst fluff ever.

>>5359732

You'll want to take plenty of Missionaries, and Saints Cyril is a god-tier HQ choice.

And don't underestimate the effects of Icon-bearers, the Moral bonus is totally worth the cost.

jesus is my DM

>>5359741
Fluff-schmuff, I can't tell you how often the resurrection rule turned the tide of battle in my favour.

Personally I like to convert my Jezus miniatures from old Greek Polytheism figures. Can be done with minimal effort.

>>5359736
Are you kidding? You got that jackass Dawkins. I mean, he may be the most worthless hero ever, but he's still there. You get new science units all the time. Obviously you don't know how to play.

>>5359761

You're talking about JCRP. In this thread, Jesus is my Warmaster.

what about the hare krishna faction?? they any good?

The only good army is christianity and all ya'll complaining need to shut the fuck up or convert.

Rollin' with my protestant bitches!

Agnosticfag here

I WRITE MY OWN CODEX

r u fkcin kiddin OP??? atheism got a codex last! ther lik cheese all over. I meen, look at ther darwan unit! fckin op as shit. L2P nub.

So I'm playing a Christfag, right. I'm a Pastafarian. My army is 3 giant Flying spaghetti monsters (which I had to proxy with bases, because they're invisible.) and a horde of pirates. Not those stupid new age African pirates, I'm talking old edition swords and cannons.

He has like 10 Conservative republicans. All in business suites, unarmed. So I'm like, this is going to be fucking easy. He goes first and tries to cast money on my pirates. But I'm all like the only good booty is dead booty, right? So in his turn he does nothing.

My turn. My pirates fire their cannons and approach the republicans. I wipe out all but 1 in my turn. Next turn I'm thinking total rape. My opponent seemed calm though, like he was going to win. I was all "give up man" and he replies "God has a plan, lol"

So his turn again. He tries the money shit and it does not cast. He then pulls out a baseball bat and whack all my models off the table. He then says "that counts" and runs out of the game store.

Fucking Christfags.

>>5359820

I hate this. Every time someone starts a thread about competitive Hadjizilla list, the first reply is always PLAY CHRISTIANS. If I want to discuss my favorite faction, the Pythagoreans, and strategies for them I don't want to see PLAY CHRISTIANS.

Bitches don't know about my Dawkins lists.

You think the atheistfags have it bad? My Norse codex was just updated 30 years ago, and you know what it was full of? Fucking useless neopagans and hippies. What the fuck is that shit? Back in the day, my Thor HQ choice was pretty much unbeatable (except this one time where another Norsefag was fielding Jörmungandr. Fucking hax). Now I have to field 60+ year old hippies as my main troop choice. Fuck that shit.

>>5359736
They're lowering the point costs for our troops though. Kinda helps that in the updated codex they're merging Atheists, Agnostics, and Secular Humanists together. Not only that but a lot of troops are losing the "Blind with Fanaticism" rule that opponents were using to bait our smaller numbers into unfavorable wars of attrition.

>>5359736
I hate playing against atheists, they're the kids who decided that they can't figure out how to play the game so instead they just try to ruin it for everyone else.

>>5359899

Shit, yeah. You wanna talk useless lists? Try fucking Wicca. Nothing but middle-aged balding men with blunt ceremonial daggers and fucking sagtitted hags with cauldrons. You'd think a spellcasting army would be god tier, but all their curses are useless. Ok, I can cause the opponent's HQ unit to lose "a significant amount of money in the near future", or "fall victim to unrequited love". Shit. I tried switching to Satanists but their codex was even more useless, and every unit thinks it's an HQ unit. It's retarded.

>>5359925

Can't imagine anyone actually playing as the Satanists in a real tournament, though. I mean, that special rule where they instantly lose if they fight the Christians. Weak. Of course, that's only in the Christian codex, and there hasn't been an official ruling yet, either, but it's still pretty lame when you play a 12 year old Christfag and he pulls some Second Coming shit on you. How are you supposed to win? You don't. You lose. Sure, you can try to hang on with your Antichrist as long as possible, but he's going down eventually.

Bitches don't know 'bout my enlightenment.

>>5359976

go back to you're weeaboo faget

>>5359976

It's a bit like watching the last episode of Evangelion. The universe suddenly turns and says: "HURRDURR! I TROLL'ED YOU!"

And you are like: "Oh bitch, you've been fucking with me all this time. Well, lol and fuck you too."

lol op, Hinduism for weeaboos

>>5360035

Stop using that word. Hinduism isn't even slightly weeaboo. It's Shintoism that all the weeaboos are crazy about.

Meh, new catholicism sucks!
You used to be able to get crusaders 'n shit. Now your troop choices are fucking old ladies!

Why is it Buddhism is the only faction that gets really good close combat infantry these days? Christianity hasn't had any since they had that big storyline against the Muslims. It's like the whole game is about the shooting phase, now.

So I bust out my Xomian army: chaos knights, wanderers, and demonspawn against a Christianity player, and first turn, rolling for Xom's influence, all my weapons become animate and hostile, while my HQ demonspawn is surrounded by angry demons. 1st turn tabling, and without the other army even taking a turn.

Fuck you Xom...I love playing your armies, but you're such a dick.

>>5360035
Real weeaboo faction here.

>>5360056
I hear the metagame will go back to close combat after the "World War III" campaign though.

>>5360055

Hey, now you Catholicfags can equip the Popemobile on your HQ choice. Makes him practically invulnerable. You don't get to complain just because you lost some malnourished losers. Sure, the crusader elite choices were pretty badass, but the troops choices sucked back then.

>>5360056
Well, they said they wanted to differentiate the two factions. I mean, both were strong on melee.

Now the other one is a ranged army and the other one has that deep striking self destruction gimmick.

>>5360073

They've been saying that for the past 60 years, and I haven't seen an update yet.

So I heard the orthodox will be getting an update next.

OP, get a real army like Christianity. They get the most attention becuase they're the best army.

everyone else is just butthurt

I'm playing the Unitarian Universalist dex. I can just pick units from everybody else's lists, as long as I don't have any special characters... but the new edition special characters all kinda suck. I mean, really, Dawkins? Cruise? Khomeini? Bring back the god-tier characters, plox

So I was playing with my animist aztecs against my enemy's christians. I had a huge numbers advantage and thought I was gonna win when suddenly HURR DURR PLAGUE!
I'm telling you, christianity is fucking overpowered!

Lol atheistfags, enjoy being bricks in wall of souls and no afterdeath gameplay.
+5 to cool kid is just not worth it.

>>5360176
I bet he still had points to give his units imunity too didn't he?

>>5360186
Lots of Atheist players are in it for the modeling. Their wargear looks all grimdark and "cool," so they just hop on board and fuck the fluff and gameplay. Fucking pseudo-intellectual gothfags.

>>5360207

What wargear do they have, other than Webcam and Internet, for their angrynerd units to tie up others in endless pointless arguments?

>It's Shintoism

>weeaboo

You mean...the religion that has a sect that's all about slappin' demons, gods and ghosts with your gigantic invisible penis? And impregnating comely wenches so that the rice might grow this year too?

>>5360191
Of course I didn't give my units immunity! It goes against the fluff. Besides, you already need to give your units obsidian clubs and shields, immunity ups unit cost even more. You can't have a horde army without sacrificing at least a few things.

>>5360218
Well, their heavy support choices (specifically Fat Chicks and Tall Scrawny Pale Motherfuckers) can select wargear from the special Hot Topic list. It's not actually that good, but they seem to think it looks really awesome, so they play it without any regard for good story or gameplay.

>>5360229
No I mean the christfag bought plague and still had enough points for immunity.

>>5360250
>Good Story
>Atheist Fluff

I c wut u did thar

>>5360055

I keep fucking telling you guys. Just pick up the new Episcopalian codex! Fuck, sure you miss out on that bad ass Pope HQ unit, but between the Bishop council, the Power of Money, and that whole gay bishops thing being cleared up in the new FAQ, Christians are BACK baby.

Of course, we're never getting a new model line. Seriously, all metal? I get, what, four different poses for the WHOLE ARMY?! I'm SICK of converting all of my HQ's from the old, discontinued Roman Catholic line!

>>5360267
IDONGEDDIT!

>>5360250
I heard the updated atheist codex has zombie survivalist preps, they cost a lot of points and have the same stats as normal people but they get a bunch of bonuses against undead and mutant

>>5360276

Atheists have some of the worst fluff in the game, second only to Satanists, since theirs is just a rehash of Christianity, but with more spikes and devil horns strapped on.

>>5360263
Maybe that's why he had so few guys.
You know what I'm sick of? Those campaign that are going to CHANGE EVERYTHING GUISE but end up doing jack squat. Like the crusades campaign: hey the christians are gonna attack the middle east! Oh nvm they got pushed back. Oh look they're gonna try again! Oh nvm, they attacked the orthodox instead (which was seriously unfluffy)

>>5359732

I'm a greek orthodox player myself, and I roll with St. George.

>>5360296
Yeah the immunity and plague combo is a big gamble since your opponet might have immunity too

>>5360293
I wouldn't mind atheist fluff if it were more consistent, but it keeps getting retconned. Even simple things like, I dunno, THE SHAPE OF THE GODDAMN PLANET.

>>5360293
Yep, crying shame too. Remember back in the day when they used to get communists? Damn those were awesome.

>>5360296

Seriously. Wasn't the whole Second Coming thing suppose to play out at the end of the Rogue Missionary storyline? Like, in FIRST FUCKING EDTION?!

And here we are, some FOUR editions later, and guess what? Nothing's happened!

>>5360186
Someone hasn't seen the latest Armageddon rulebook's section for Aetheists. If they've got Dawkins still standing at the end of the first phase, that's it - there is no after-death phase, that's what makes the Aetheists deadly. They don't have shitall for Divine Powers, but science power creep is catching up - and if they can hang in there and knock out your own HQ, it's all over.

Also, am I the only one seeing more Muslim tourney lists since their last update? Just the other day, I watched a full group of Catholic Bible Beaters with Angry Mob Rule and Tongues go down hard to a charge from a small unit of Black Panthers (Black Power upgrade) and Malcom X, craziest rolling I've ever seen. I know the Al Queda suicide-bomber cheese lists are pretty big right now, but you can't underestimate the classics. Too bad that rumor about Obama being in the new codex turned out to be a fake, would have made an nice change from the standard Ayatollah you see in diplomacy lists.

>>5360305
Yep. I did give some of my units syphilis (and immunity to it), though. But my dice rolls sucked and only a few guys got killed.

>>5360321

Oh, I haven't tried out Armageddon rules yet, only small scale skirmishes with my horde of Mall Rats and Internet Tough Guys.

>>5360321
Science powers are getting handed out to other factions though. It doesn't matter much, because it's one of the faction traits taken from some of the older edition Christian books and put into another faction.

>>5360321

Armageddon is so broken, Christfags can take pretty much any unit from the Western World and the only Communist units Atheists can still take are Chinese and African Rebels.

Anyone wanna help me make an african animist list? It's mostly for dueling with my mate who plays african muslim and occasionally secular humanist U.N. (though those have really shitty leadership)

>>5360347
Pretty much anyone can take Chinese at the moment, who in fluff are the most common unit for any faction technically. The units are really varied too, with loads of undercosted ones too.

I picked up the Aussie Aboriginal codex, and you know what? They barely even get a fucking army. It's shit. Same deal with all the indigenous religions. Either they have no fucking army, or their units are shit. Religion really jumped the shark when they decided to only do updates on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and those Chinese religions. They really ought to bring back support for Judaism, because there are a few tournament-level players who can do some crazy shit with a jew army.

The African codices were pretty awesome, though. I knew this one guy who could use his army to totally fuck up a christfag army, even though he was insanely overpowered.
Now they pull some bullshit "lol now they're all christian or muslim." Fuck that shit.

>>5360325
I forgot which but one of the factions gets a Genetically altered disease or something like that, it kills everyone in the second phase who doesn't use "Develope Cure" ability which only Elite tier Scientist can get points into

Hey guys! I just found this old copy of 2nd Ed. Alchemist Codex! It's pretty sweet, and you even get Newton as an HQ!

I'm so excited, I don't know what to do.

You know what's strange? When you do the rape special action you lower enemy's morale, right? And when your have the syphylis ability you kill enemies who use rape (unless they have immunity or protection), right? So if you reduce an enemy's regiment to less then a quarter of its number with syphylis, do they have to take a break test?

>>5360350

oh god I so hope this a troll, no one could really be stupid enough to try that.

>>5360377
Why? They got better units then most shamanist factions. Hell, you ever tried playing inuits against, say, Lord's resistance army?

>>5360374
Leibniz is probably a better character though, but I guess he's not available for that army.

>>5360375
Yeah but the rape action decreases ability to convert for some factions

>>5360350

I'd consider the Children Soldiers. Sure, they have crap for stats, but their cheap and their guns hit just as hard as anyone else.

>>5359618
Christianity's kinda been sucking as of late. No more Crusaders (Don't care what you say, Holy Rollers and a Preachah are nowhere near as good) sucks ass, and the new Pope just doesn't fit as well with the traditional Cardinal retinue as Benedict did.

I think the main problem is that there's not a lot of "average" faith units that are any good - to win, you gotta field either godless heathens or zealots. The low faith scores of the average unit means that, unless you got Jesus hovering over their shoulder, they're gonna break and run at the first sign of trouble, so he's gotta play babysitter or there'll be failed Sin checks across the board.

At least they'll always have Conservative and Pro-Lifers, I guess, so it's not like they got gutted.

>>5360374

The Alchemist codex was awesome. Too bad when 3e came out they were declared illegal. I mean, the Natural Philosopher codices and later the Science abilities were pretty much the same thing, but the fluff was completely different.

>>5360377

Not if they were using the Colonialism expansion. Shamans are awesome in it becuase their spells get effect bonuses vs Western Armies.

>>5360411
Children soldiers never hit anything worthwile. They're mostly for clearing mines 'n shit.

>>5360400

Yes, but, the army itself offers plenty of Science-based special rules, and a dabbling into Spirituality. Win/win, if I do say so myself, a take-all-comers army.

>>5360422

Wait, illegal? I thought there was errata for it.

Oh well. That is disappointing, to say the least.

>Buddhism

Take Japanese Zen then. It's a bit of a mixed bag though. If you're using the 1940's AD codex, they get some awesome infantry with a free rape move every game that is immune to moral tests. Best army for small, heavy terrain games. They ain't got no support though. Tanks are shitty, expensive and only armed with machine guns and you can't take planes as support options for your infantry either, like most christian capitalist armies.
They've got the edge in biological warfare in that codex too, but that means little as biowar's only slightly more powerful than it had been in the last 3970 editions.

One of the problems with african armies fighting each other is that it pretty much dissolves in both armie trying to rape the other one's units so that their morale lowers enough for their army to break. However, rape also heightens growth rate, which means the other guy will get more units and thus get a numbers morale bonus. This leads to a rape war that can go on for a LONG time.

Dude, I don't know why everyone is bashing Atheists. My army lowered like every Christfags faith points with my "common-fucking-sense" Ability. Well, all the one's that weren't in Jesus's 6" in range.

Man, being a Muslimfag sucks. The other day a dude tried to fucking decapitate me for "misunderstanding" the codex. And this is after he tried to shank a dude for playing Christians-I had to physically hold him back.

>Children soldiers never hit anything worthwile.

They are cheap and you don't have to roll moral test every time you attempt a terror move. That's what sucks about american units. I hope they'll fix that in the next edition as you absolutely can't play the game without terror moves these days.

>>5360445

Originally it was going to be errata'd, but they decided to just nix the whole thing and re-publish the parts they wanted to keep. Then they used it as a pretext to apply the overpowered Science abilities to whatever armies they wanted to keep around so that those armies would wipe the floor with the indigenous religions so nobody would want to play them. Then they'd quietly discontinue support of the indigenous religions. To get the Science powers to work, they had to basically rape the fluff of all the religions and declare that divine power didn't fucking work. That shit was a big part of the game since way back in 1e, and they just replaced it with overpowered fluff-raping bullshit.
And I bought every science codex before I even found out about the earlier edition fluff.

>>5360486
Yep, plus you can't really defend against rape with africans cause anything better then rickety huts and wooden walls costs a fortune.

>>5360350
Kind of a tall order there, but your best shot is to either do a Tinpot Dictator w/AK-47 & Feel No Hunger and some Diehard Generals. Go gunning for any UN Aid guys before they reach your troops, which will prevent them from running off the board or worse, defecting.

I'd normally recommend a Tribal Leader with some Trackers and an Elephant, but those will only do you much good against the Muslim's Fantatics - the suicide bombers you see everywhere nowadays will negate your auto-cover saves and blow your Spearmen to hell.

I heard Maya is getting a new update in 3 years, suppose to give them a cool new epic ability. Might be only rumors though

>>5360501
The Common sense ability doesn't work like that. You didn't read the rulebook properly, I'm afraid.

>>5360526
They've been saying that for the last 300 years or more. Too bad they'll never get a new codex.

>>5360544

Yes, but this rumor sounds legit. I heard it from a friend of a friend of an avid follower of Maya who heard it from a website who says they had a leak from the publisher.

>>5360501
The common sense ability only helps your guys against conversion checks, units already converted can use the ignore ability

>>5360536

Actually, it does work like that, but only on units with a really low faith score. For christian armies, there are almost no such units, so it's really a moot point.

>>5360503
I once saw a Muslim player grab another Muslim player's female models and try to drip acid onto their faces because they weren't wearing scarves or some shit. I

Anyone remember that Wiccan wannabe faction?

>>5360429

I like taking gangs of them and marching them into the gun lines. You either shoot them, or they get into range and chew you up through numbers. And you've got enough of them to bog down almost any Elite or Fast Attack unit in the game.

Sure, you've got to paint a million of them, but quantity has it's own quality, I say.

>>5360501
The problem is the majority of Atheist troops don't have that ability and are subject to the "Arrogant" special rule unless they're accompanied by a Lecturer or Liberal Democrat that add to their overall cost, and they still could fail their CS check against Preachers and (god forbid) Neoconservatives. It's generally a better idea to take the higher point units with auto CS, or you'll be watching your groups try to butt heads with Zealots all game long, which can only lead to disaster.

Speaking of Neoconservatives, haven't seen a lot of them around lately, although they used to be pretty big in Christfag lists.

>>5360552

Everyone's saying this so-called "leak" was completely made-up. It's just something one of the fans came up with when he thought he came across something in the fluff that supposedly said something about a major update, but it turns out he got the fluff wrong. It was just a forum troll.

Anyone ever played against an Asatru player? Thor is so gamebreaking it's not even funny, and don't even get me started on Odin Allfather.

>Anyone wanna help me make an african animist list?

Take at least three witch doctors, a christian, a muslim and a animistic one and pick the "Charismatic leader" and the "New Religion" feat for your leader. Yeah, I know that that command unit's a point sink with shitty morals and zero combat abilites, but the witch doctor's charms will grant all of your infantry a reroll on the wounds they recieve from muslims, christians and animist infantry and that's worth something. Plus the witch doctors curse can stop them from fleeing quiet often too.

>>5360486
Yeah, that's the biggest problem with all african factions actually. It's like playing a really boring game of FATAL.

If you want to go against muslim bombers, go hindu. Some of their units have an attack bonus against muslim units.

/tg/ seriously needs to get some rules for this game! Let's get shit done, guys!

>>5360553

It's not my fault the other player for got about his ignore ability. But who could blame him, I used the incantation in pic related. Long story short, my army doubled and we took down Jesus. But I got no victory points because he fucking comes back to life. God damn Jewish zombies.

One thing that gets to me-all of the various subfactions of Christianity all insist that only their subfaction actually gets to use Jesus.

Remember all that Christian/greek Fluff about Dragons, and Giants and shit, but we never saw them on the field?

Yeah, after that I never gave those codex so much as a passing glance.

Anyone ever play against scientologists? God, they're annoying! Their lawyers are so damn overpowered! Sued me so hard I had to get rid of half my forces.

>If you want to go against muslim bombers, go hindu.

You could play russian too. They're about as good as american units, get boni against muslims and can perform terror moves. The problem is that you've got to roll for rape vs your own unit at the beginning of every turn from turn tree onwards, wich is sort of annoying.

Or chinese, but there you're either stuck with units with the base-line stats of africans or the fucking expensive new units, which makes them very much play like an XBOX HUGE euro army with cheap support options.

>>5360604
I remember, way back in the Second Ed, I played a guy who claimed his Thor list was unbeatable. I'd never run into a list my Greek Pantheon (Who were pretty outdated even then) hadn't been able to stand against, so I took him up on it.

Even though his list was a textbook cheese one (He had Loki all kitted out and infiltrated for start, and an Epic Bard with every squad of Bearded Raiders that would've flattened conversion lists at the time), they still dropped like flies to Zeus' Bolts of Wrath, and made the terrible mistake of letting my Mortal Legends squad (Hercules, Achilles, Odysseus) chariot drive right up to cut down his Saga-keeper to eke out a win. Never before have I seen such neckbeard disbelief. I think he still plays though, despite the lack of new codex in forever.

Good times, good times. Shame they discontinued the Pantheon after that (Though I will admit they were broken as hell, and probably deserved it).

>>5360350
Don't try to overdo it on the child soldiers: you need to have normal soldiers nearby for the child soldiers to be able to work properly. Also, african infantry (except child soldiers) has killer movement speed.

>>5360676

What are you talking about? There are already rules. What do you think we're playing?

>I picked up the Aussie Aboriginal codex, and you know what? They barely even get a fucking army. It's shit.

Wait for the "Age of Aquarius" update. That'll grant the Abbos Dreamtime Move, which basically means that you can move terrain pieces every turn. It'll also make the other esoteric armies and even the green anarchists playable. Of course everyone will call us "cheesy", but look at our fucking infantry! And we only get infantry, nothing else!

>>5360598
Thats why Atheists suck. Can't get in melee with any of the other armies.

Sure it's nice being immune to like 1/2 the enemy attacks and having lots of shooty guys but fucking Christianity can either just A. field tons of rednecks /w custom shotgun wargear or B. bring in Soldiers, attach a Chaplain to them, and just say "lol well they got a chaplain and anything /w chaplain i can field so there"

Broke as hell.

This thread wins!
Flawless victory!
Also, archive this.

Already put the archive request on suptg

>>5360764
Don't even get me started on Apologists. Their WS is so shit right now that nobody'll bother, but if they ever reinstate the generational rebellion rules, the creep will be staggering. Christian units with Common Sense AND Moralism? Bullshit. Their faith is pretty low but that just means that everyone'll stick a Latter Day Saint in the unit and have an invincible conversion machine running around the board. Put a nun with catechism and a ruler, and you've got them running an extra 6".

>>5360655
Oh man, Hindus can be brutal, especially those who play Smartha. Saguma Brahman is a beast - he mows down just about any non-Deity unit with the variety he brings to the table (even more than Jehova!). May whatever deity you worship have mercy on your troops if he rolls Shiva for his "Form of God" at the start of the turn, because there's not a thing in the game that can slow him down - you just gotta run and hope he rolls worse at the start of the next phase. I guess the only drawback is he costs a huge amount of points, and his function is wholly dependant on a roll of the die to determine his form, but a lucky throw at the right time can undo the work of a whole game in moments.

Variety is the spice (no pun intended) of the Hindu army, but while their Deities might kick ass, a lot of their Mortals, while strong of faith, generally lack charisma and strength to compete with Zealots and other units with "Blind Faith".

>>5360860
Which Indian side got the Gandhara Stronghold? I think it was Buddhist though.

That Monkey was serious business when he was legal.

>>5360860
All I can say is thank goodness they wised up and moved MahaKala and Bhairava to Armageddon-only, those were just too much.

I think they ought to just recompile all the old editions, and release them online for cheap. Codex "Obscure and Ancient Faiths", maybe? It'd add a lot more variety to the game, which is mostly dominated by the longtime favorites.

>>5360860

Aw, fuck cunt. Try and play anicent Hindu without godly special characters and they're still rape. HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR UNIT UPGRADES?! They can make whole units pick off your officers/special characters for very little point costs simply by declaring them "Jumpers" and having a noble nearby. No other army can do that. And let's not forget that they can just fucking swarm you with irregular axemen too.
And in a later update they got fucking flying rocket swords as an artillery unit. I mean, yeah, they could not hit shit most of the time but when they did...nobody was using armour in that edition...it was absolutely brutal.

>>5360916
There's a lot you can do with a Hindu force, a shame you only see them in two flavors nowadays in tourneys. You've either got your God army of death machines with some Technicians or Reincarnated hiding in back, or Peacemaker lists with Ghandi.

I've only ever seen ONE guy pass a faith check against him - he's got nothing offensively, but with his huge amount of meatshields and ability to ignore all faith modifiers with Pacifism (including blind faith(!)) when forcing a diplomacy check, he can turn your army against itself, great HQ for his points if you only have a few elite units to convert that would otherwise never falter.

>>5360968

Then use Nazis, Communists, Nationalism or any other secular faith from the 1920-1930 edition. And take points in German or Austrian too. That'll make them pretty much immune to pacifist special characters like Ghandi. He's still gonna convert some of them, but it's outright dangerous to him as the rest of your troops get a hefty bonus per the "kill the traitor" rules and a 50% chance to fall into bloodlust for two turns afterwards, which'll make them cut through the meatshield like a hot knife through butter.
That's at least with germans. If you don't like that, use Austrian Officers. They can shoot their own troops and move normal afterwards.

I play Hinduism, the units are all extremely powerful but cost a shit ton of points. You can field at most like 10-12 units in a normal thousand point game.