Well, okay, so it was also the Necron/fluff intersection which got my goat - the only two Codices published post 2000 which I own are Necrons and Tau...
With the Tau, it was a combination of the horribly inflexible rules for the alternate O'Shovah oriented list (what, so Commander Farsight turns up to every single battle that his side fights? Really?), the (as I remember) decreased usefulness of Shield-drones with a ruling from GW on the interpretation of the rules, and the horribly out-of-character new special rules for Tau Railrifles (which garnered complaints from a lot of Tau players, not just me).
Plus, I was starting to get annoyed with GW's revisionist history take - Orkoids now being a construct race (removing the Brainboyz theory which I liked from Early 40K), the tacked-on-looking Lovecraftianness of the Necron C'Tan and so on. (Oh, and, of course, that emphasizes my issue with scale in 40K - C'tan are Huge Alien Star God Vampire Things Beyond Our Ken... surely they only fit into the Epic ruleset? It's like trying to field a Titan for the Imperium in normal 40K rules...)
Yeah, special units and army types that require a unique character to be present are a little dodgy. So what happens when that unique character is killed, captured, or whatever? Does that army/unit/whatever just fall apart? Okay, in some cases yes, but still...
Would you be talking about the rail rifles that had a chance of killing the user? I think they've actually fixed that, but it WAS a bit weird that they ever saw the field in that form.
The Brainboyz theory was at least presented as a theory rather than fact, so it's not quite revisionism... and apart from the "brainboyz => Snotlings" part, it may not actually be that far off. It's even possible that that the Old Ones did end up as Snotlings - reading the Necron backstory implies that Slann=Old Ones, but that's not what the Lizardmen think... it may be that everyone else thinks that because the Old Ones used Slann as intermediaries. Allowing the Old Ones to have actually been greenskins, and the Krork projec tthe result of some desperate Old One breaking an injunction against manipulating their own genetic material.
It's reaching, I know, but conspiracy theories like this are part of the fun ;)
I agree about the C'tan being... just a leetle underpowered and underpointed for what they're described as. It might be seen as them being limited by the amount of power they can put through the living metal bodies, but... really. Better to have kept them in the background and let favoured servants fill the role of special characters instead. However cool "You can have a GOD in a 2000 point army!" may sound.
With the Tau, it was a combination of the horribly inflexible rules for the alternate O'Shovah oriented list (what, so Commander Farsight turns up to every single battle that his side fights? Really?), the (as I remember) decreased usefulness of Shield-drones with a ruling from GW on the interpretation of the rules, and the horribly out-of-character new special rules for Tau Railrifles (which garnered complaints from a lot of Tau players, not just me).
Plus, I was starting to get annoyed with GW's revisionist history take - Orkoids now being a construct race (removing the Brainboyz theory which I liked from Early 40K), the tacked-on-looking Lovecraftianness of the Necron C'Tan and so on. (Oh, and, of course, that emphasizes my issue with scale in 40K - C'tan are Huge Alien Star God Vampire Things Beyond Our Ken... surely they only fit into the Epic ruleset? It's like trying to field a Titan for the Imperium in normal 40K rules...)
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Would you be talking about the rail rifles that had a chance of killing the user? I think they've actually fixed that, but it WAS a bit weird that they ever saw the field in that form.
The Brainboyz theory was at least presented as a theory rather than fact, so it's not quite revisionism... and apart from the "brainboyz => Snotlings" part, it may not actually be that far off. It's even possible that that the Old Ones did end up as Snotlings - reading the Necron backstory implies that Slann=Old Ones, but that's not what the Lizardmen think... it may be that everyone else thinks that because the Old Ones used Slann as intermediaries. Allowing the Old Ones to have actually been greenskins, and the Krork projec tthe result of some desperate Old One breaking an injunction against manipulating their own genetic material.
It's reaching, I know, but conspiracy theories like this are part of the fun ;)
I agree about the C'tan being... just a leetle underpowered and underpointed for what they're described as. It might be seen as them being limited by the amount of power they can put through the living metal bodies, but... really. Better to have kept them in the background and let favoured servants fill the role of special characters instead. However cool "You can have a GOD in a 2000 point army!" may sound.
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