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Caluin · April 9th, 2006, 19:20

Something occured to me recently.

I have to wonder how people justify special characters appearing more than once in a battle? What I mean is, two players both have Raven Guard armies, and both use Captain Shrike. Since he's obviously a unique individual, one has to be a fake, right? Yet he uses the same rules and what not, so it's not too far off to say maybe he's a clone, or a pupil gone bad, or some other silly fluff reason for why he appears twice in the same battle. Nobody really thinks twice about it.

I bet right now you're wondering why this is in Rules Help and not Fluff, huh? Well, here's why.

What's to stop someone from taking a Special Character twice in the same army?

Say I want to use Tigerius twice in my army list. I can come up with plenty of fluff reasons for why this could happen - one is the real, the other is his pupil. Or maybe they're not Tigerius at all, and just Alpha Level Psykers that have gone rogue with a band of Space Marines. People rename Special Characters all the time.

But what I'm interested in is what hard, fast rule stops me from taking a Special Character option twice? Where does it say each Special Character is a 0-1 choice?

April 9th, 2006, 19:20	#1 (permalink)
Caluin Gone fishin'. Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 28 Posts: 5,876 Rep Power: 105	Duplicate Characters Something occured to me recently. I have to wonder how people justify special characters appearing more than once in a battle? What I mean is, two players both have Raven Guard armies, and both use Captain Shrike. Since he's obviously a unique individual, one has to be a fake, right? Yet he uses the same rules and what not, so it's not too far off to say maybe he's a clone, or a pupil gone bad, or some other silly fluff reason for why he appears twice in the same battle. Nobody really thinks twice about it. I bet right now you're wondering why this is in Rules Help and not Fluff, huh? Well, here's why. What's to stop someone from taking a Special Character twice in the same army? Say I want to use Tigerius twice in my army list. I can come up with plenty of fluff reasons for why this could happen - one is the real, the other is his pupil. Or maybe they're not Tigerius at all, and just Alpha Level Psykers that have gone rogue with a band of Space Marines. People rename Special Characters all the time. But what I'm interested in is what hard, fast rule stops me from taking a Special Character option twice? Where does it say each Special Character is a 0-1 choice?