GW Logic

What are the odds Cruddance or Ward make a balance book for something not Human faction-ed

Stretching this analogy...

T5 are beings that can survive being imploded.
T6 are things as big as houses.
T7 are things as big as mansions and tougher than concrete bunkers.
T8 can survive tactical nuclear weapons and still smile with all of their teeth.

The base rulebooks do not have anything higher but the expansions and Forge World (I assume) do and so, by extrapolation:
T9 must be Arcological structural toughness - enough to house millions of people.
T10 could survive a poor attempt at Exterminatus.

I figure that everything doubles in toughness with each point value.

For comparison, the Strength values in the game are also intriguing.
Lasguns, the humble S3 weapon, can amputate arms.
The ubiquitous Boltgun, S4, are essentially rocket propelled grenades launched at high velocity. People carrying such weapons, also S4, also tend to be able to lift cars when necessary.
S5 tear apart trees.
S6 can damage to fortified structures.
S7 vapourises things.
S8 destroys fortified structures.
S9 cuts through all but shielded structures.
S10 is probably matter-antimatter reaction in force.

Strength starts higher than Toughness, but scales slower.

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Not all blast weapons are created equal.
Some are fired in a straight line but divert around corners, such as Plasma weapons and those that use shells.
Others, like the Shokk Attack Gun, are not aimed but will land in roughly the same place.

Toughness is actually logaritmic...

Didnt see that comming, but it does make sense.

Although i cant agree with your S10, the energy released in anhialation is some serious ****

Strength D.

wait, I'm confused:

xxx Target squad
yyy intervening enemy squad

FFF Firing squad

in this case, the Y squad has bullets ricochet off armor or they dive for cover. sometimes the F squad will not shoot, waiting for a better target... this is where X squad's cover save comes from.

or..

yyy enemy squad
xxx intervening Target squad

FFF Firing squad

in this case, the bullets go into X squad, into the ground, into cover, into the air.

the point is that rolling 2 shots worth of rapid fire doesn't represent each soldier squeezing off 2 rounds from their guns - it assumes that they're firing a few rounds, taking cover, popping off a few more shots, (or in the case of space marines) standing boldly in the open rattling off a few shots whenever a target presents itself. rolling 2 dice represents an average opportunity for the squad to shoot the enemy.


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I FINALLY HAVE ONE!!

Taking Shrike as part of your marine force grants the "fleet" rule to your space marine units - this includes terminators.

So the Terminators have had sufficient training and practice to ignore the dangers of the battlefield and are able to rush across short distances to gain the assault, but STILL can't ignore the crushed and broken enemy well enough to perform a sweeping advance??

This of course, leads to a comical situation:

5 assault terminators prance and leap across the battlefield, pirouetting until they finally crash into a horde of orks. Thundering strikes smash down, ork skulls shattering on impact, the force released sending still more flying. As the Nob realizes there is no way to defeat the terminators, he orders the remaining boyz to fall back (to get more boyz), the terminator sergeant yells,
"We have them now! Quick! Crush them!!"
The other terminators shake their heads - "no sir, we just aren't that nimble."

Jaghatai Khan, the only Space Marine who had the idea of telling his force:
'Why don't we just go round the side when they're not looking?'

That's in-part due to us "Gods" moving the mortals around knowing where everything is. Can you honestly say Orks are intelligent enough to know to fire at something this has they have no LOS to? Goes for everyone else. Basilisks! How do they know to fire in that ruined building when no one is even near it and there is no LOS of the enemy! US GODS CHEAT THATS HOW!