Commanders

[Doctor-Warlock]

Why only one?

Yes I know its in the rules, but what is the 'Logic' to it?

Why can't we field detachments - each under a seperate Commander (yes I know it makes for a bigger game, but its a viable question).

Another option would be to field the second Commander as an Independant, losing the Command points but still paying the full points cost as a premium.

Just some thoughts, as our players are reaching the point with their collections now where we want to field bigger forces - you know, for games that last an entire evening!

Has anyone else had similar thoughts?

[lapiaz]

 the base of a company is  200 points  for tournaments and campaings there is an extra detachment  of 60 points  wich allow you to swap  models  between  games ...  those 60 points could be  fill with an extra officer... 

but  the only one officer per company make a lot of sense.  As everything  is base arround the  management of  comand points ,having to many (two officers)   the  whole  dinamic of the game  is compromise  IMHO .

 

[Bork]

2 officers would seriously unbalance things. its a skirmish game with 8-12 models on average your officer is normally an incredibly influencial model on the table, as lapiaz said the extra command points would put your CMD score into double digits in some cases which would remove the whole point of CMD in the first place as you would have more than enough to use every turn more or less. removing a vital tactical part of the game. the orders most officers use are often very powerful and if two or more could be used per game would just make having regular troopers/independants close to redundant.

if you wanted to play say 400 AP games 2 officers would be fine in my eyes. 1 every 200 points. i think then at a larger scale it wouldnt unbalance things so much.

[Doctor-Warlock]

if you wanted to play say 400 AP games 2 officers would be fine in my eyes. 1 every 200 points. i think then at a larger scale it wouldnt unbalance things so much.

Thats what I was after, as we have enough models each to do that now!

Mind you, I think each Commander should only be able to issue orders to his 'part' of the list (sort of like Warmachine/Hordes) to keep balance.

[lapiaz]

  well if the thing is to play with all the models you have ,at once, and have a blast  do it ...

split your miniatures into  2 or 3 companies  respecting the normal  composition rules   and don't share the comand points  or the models between companies meaning  that  the comand poitn of an  officer will be used only on those models under his comand .

to use quijote and rossinante will be tricky  as they are only one miniature ... two profiles ...   get a proxy  horse for  Rossinante ... that may help