Impact Grenades and stacking keywords.

[Undeadguy 5,749]

2 hours ago, Versch said:

Served Intensifyingly Hot straight from the aft kitchens of your favorite ISD!

It is a fleshy ISD? That's the only one I care about.

[Chili-52 198]

I think this answers the question quite unequivocally......

 

[Caimheul1313 2,990]

@Chili-52 Pardon my ignorance, but who are those people in the photo? I'm assuming the person on the left is part of BoLS, but I do not recognize by sight the person on the right.

[steveisbig 152]

9 minutes ago, Caimheul1313 said:

@Chili-52 Pardon my ignorance, but who are those people in the photo? I'm assuming the person on the left is part of BoLS, but I do not recognize by sight the person on the right.

That's the designer, Alex. 

[Caimheul1313 2,990]

1 minute ago, steveisbig said:

That's the designer, Alex. 

AH! Thank you! That makes sense then.

[Amanal 2,557]

I think they are excited as the person on the right has discovered a colour other than black.

 

[kingblingtx 0]

Okay.  If the impact stacks, here is another question relating to them.  Can a unit of troopers use these against a T-47 Airspeeder?  It certainly doesn't make sense for a range 1 weapon to be thrown at speeder whizzing by at height of 2-3.  The concussion grenades have keyword blast and speeders are immune to them, which makes sense because infantry don't throw grenades at aircraft.  That's what rocket launchers are for. :-)

IMO- having a unit of 5 stoomtroopers get an impact of 5 for 16 upgrade points (11 for extra trooper + 5 for grenades) is way under-costed/unbalanced.   Total cost of the upgrade stormtrooper unit is 60 pts.  They are rolling 5 black dice (and can even use precise 1 if aimed). If you compare a unit that is more specifically designed to be anti-armor such as the aforementioned speeder (175 pts =impact 3 on 3 red + 3 black) or an AT-RT equipped w/ laser cannon (90 pts= impact 3 on 1 red + 3 black)  the cost difference is huge.  For a fraction of the cost, the troopers are a much more effective anti-armor unit.  If you add the DLT-19, you now get to add 2 red dice into the Impact 5 pool!  I know the "it's only range 1" argument, but one can also argue that the other anti-tank units have a fixed front gun.