Shadow War: Armageddon Lone Operatives

[Brother Memeus]

Since I don't play guard this might be a model built with various bits from a variety of guard sets, but Sly Marbo seems to have a new model in the free rules for adding special characters to Shadow War:Armageddon.

 

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And with the release of the datasheet for Sly Marbo in normal Warhammer 40,000, we can see that this is an "official" Games Workshop conversion. More important is the fact that the rules linked below, if official, indicate a new type of fighter for Shadow War: Armageddon called a "lone operative." So the topic has been re-opened and the focus shifted from Sly Marbo to the new lone operatives (those of us familiar with Necromunda, Legends of the Old West, and Legends of the High Seas will recall the hired guns and legends characters.

[Sete]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS

[No Foes Remain]

Source here.

 

Would say that he's back, but we all know he never left.

[Sete]

Might be a conversion tho

[Ishagu]

That's pretty awesome!

Can anyone confirm it's not a conversion?

[Sete]

I want him on 8th edition.

[Joe]

That's a conversion; with the exception of the head, those pieces are from the Catachan Command Squad.

 

Neat that he's getting updated rules, though.

[Ishagu]

Ah that's disappointing :-/

[Brother Memeus]

That's a conversion; with the exception of the head, those pieces are from the Catachan Command Squad.

 

Neat that he's getting updated rules, though.

 

Warhammer 40,000 Check out the awesome conversion in the PDF - done with the Catachan Command set.

 

So it's confirmed as a conversion. Could the mods please close the thread?

[Doghouse]

Change the title of the thread to SW:A one man kill teams. :)

 

Using a Vindicare in SW:A would be fun! :D

[Sete]

Marbo addition was great. I hope he makes an appearance in 8th edition.

[sockwithaticket]

It's cool and well painted but he's either got a very short torso or trousers pulled up higher than een my grandad would dare!

[Joe]

To be fair, the Catachan sprues were an eyesore even when they first released.

[WarriorFish]

As it's a conversion we can close this off, but we all know that when Marbo arrives nobody will see him coming

[Brother Tyler]

With the release of the normal Warhammer 40,000 datasheet rules for Sly Marbo, this looks like an official product. The topic is re-opened and focus shifted from Sly Marbo to the new "lone operatives" concept.

[Seahawk]

It's an official conversion as stated by GW. ;)

 

I like that you can use some of the most powerful loners in the game in SWA now, even if it's only for a specific mission.

[Brother Tyler]

And now I am led to wonder if each of the factions (focusing on the three with rules in the rulebook that game in the boxed version) will have their own lone operative. I could see that sneaky Orky character (I forget his name ... Snikrot or something like that), but the Blood Angels don't [currently] have a similar Scout character. Perhaps the assassins fill that role, saving GW the hassle of having to create a new character model (though I guess, as the Sly Marbo conversion shows, they could always just convert one using existing bits).

[NTaW]

It would be pretty funny if the BA lone operative was a DC member on a rampage totally cut off from the battle they were deployed for.

[CommodusXIII]

I'd like to see Tycho going insane in the bowels of Hive Tempersora.

[N1SB]

And now I am led to wonder if each of the factions (focusing on the three with rules in the rulebook that game in the boxed version) will have their own lone operative. I could see that sneaky Orky character (I forget his name ... Snikrot or something like that), but the Blood Angels don't [currently] have a similar Scout character. Perhaps the assassins fill that role, saving GW the hassle of having to create a new character model (though I guess, as the Sly Marbo conversion shows, they could always just convert one using existing bits).

 

I'd like to see Tycho going insane in the bowels of Hive Tempersora.

 

1st, Black Rage Tycho is an awesome, awesome idea.

 

There is, imho, a similar Blood Angels Scout that is absolutely the quintessential Lone Operative: Scout Novice Lysander, from the Bloodquest comic.  He even had a miniature:

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/PHS/ltd/bloodquest.jpg

 

Image courtesy of Brother PHS here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/119231-the-blood-angels-showcase/?p=1504217

[FlamingDeth]

And DA can get Namaan back! Maybe, he might be super dead.

[Chaplain Raeven]

The assassins look like fun, but I doubt the usefullness of single models against a whole squad. 

[Brother Valor]

I don't know. A hidden Vindicare Assassin could be pretty terrorizing to a small squad.

[Battybattybats]

I like what they've done from the look of things so far, but besides the solitaire which started the trend there needs to be more non-imperial lone operatives both chaos and xenos.

Such as a Lictor, because who wouldn't like to see Marbo Vs Lictor happen on a tabletop bedecked in awesome terrain?

[Glomshark]

Change the title of the thread to SW:A one man kill teams.

Using a Vindicare in SW:A would be fun!

Just imagine a homebrew stealth ruleset where you have to get the sniper to an optimum position to take out a character/unit without getting caught.