I basically agree with keeping it close to reasonable. Such as using the orks for orks and so on. But if the guy has a squad of orks and says, btw, these guys are power armored nobs. Well, I write it down and had best keep track of it. And then, go ahead. However I agree with coming close to what it is. Such as not using an eraser for a dreadnought. But i am especially with it if the player has made a background story and paid the points for the models. Again, as long as you remind the opposing player of what they are, then everyone can have fun. And honestly, Sanguinary guard or grey knight terminators charging at you is cause for concern either way. I'm sure they will warrant justifiable incoming fire.Primarch wrote:Whilst I agree that aesthetics are important when choosing an army, I also believe that WYSIWYG is important to gamer etiquette. When facing an army for the first time, it can be hard remembering what everything does at the best of times. Expecting your opponent to go one step further and remember that what they are seeing and it's performance by the rules are different is something it is only polite to ask about first. When you look at the table you should be able to understand what everything can do. If you underestimate or overestimate the ability of a unit it can cost you the game. Now to some degree that depends on you knowing the rules and what different units do. But when your opponent deliberately misrepresents a unit, whose fault is it if you do so?me_in_japan wrote:It would depend on your reasons. If you're subbing out one set of models for another for aesthetic reasons, I say go for it. If you're trying to fudge rules then its obviously a different story. I reckon if artificer armour can have a 2+ save I don't see why you can't use Sanguinary Guard as termies, especially if you're going to the bother of removing all BA iconography and whatnot. They're all just mahveens by another name anyway.
Would you be cool with me proxying my Tyranids as Eldar? They are all just Xenos by another name.
At the end of the day it is all just playing with toy soldiers, so it doesn't really matter in the grand scale of things, but personally I would expect anyone who has put the time and effort into making and converting their army to have made some kind of effort to make the models fit the rules and to have considered WYSIWYG when they were doing so.
And yeah, all blood angel parts have been cut off. Even the banner has been modified. I just really like cool models and don't want to be just a blood angel player to use them. If someone pushes that line on you, ask to check their Gw sales manager card.
It's all good in the hood as long as everyone has fun.
Come on, thumb! Heal faster, damn you!