8th Ed. Temple Guard Question

[Rokanos]

First of all, Hello everyone! my first post here, though I've been perusing these forums for a few weeks. New to the game as well.

Just a question about temple guard before I end up ripping the arms off my musician and standard bearer...are they worth it in the TG formation with Slann?

I thought I saw somewhere that they were next to worthless but I just wanted to be sure.

Thanks

 

[Caneghem]

Musicians are always worth it now, it gives your units some opportunities to reform. You might as well take a standard bearer as well, as you can throw a magic banner on temple guard, and you want to win combats anyway right?

Most people take Full Command on TG.

 

[Rokanos]

ah. sweet, no ripping off of arms then! Thanks for the quick reply!

Haven't had a chance to read through all the rules yet, just got my book yesterday.

 

[Sun Drinker]

Even champions, which are normally not worth their points in my opinion, are very important in a temple guard unit. They can accept challenges targeted at the slaan, which makes them priceless.

 

[strewart]

Just a quick point, it is almost never worth ripping musician and standard bits off to replace with normal. The game changes for each army approximately every 3-4 years between a new edition and a new book and thats not really a long time. You can always put the command models in the back rank and remove them first as casualties, treating them as just rank and file guys.

@Sun Drinker, I am 99% sure that since the Slann is in the second rank he can't actually be issued a challenge or accept one so he is safe until most of the unit is destroyed. The champ is still useful to throw out his own challenge to hopefully stop a combat character destroying half your unit.

 

[logalog]

Plus if you trick your champion out right he is your best chance of taking down a character and getting some underdog challenge victory points. That would be an interesting topic to explore later.

 

[Rokanos]

Good points, thanks!

 

[n810]

In my opinion the Temple Guard are best with a full command.
they also have the best champ as he can actualy take
a couple of points worrth of magic items,
helping him actualy rival some of the
characters who might issue a challange.

 

[Arli]

How many points of magic items can a unit champion take? Does that apply to saurus? And skinks (unit champions, that is)?

Just wondering.

 

[logalog]

Nope only the Temple guard champion can have magical items 25 points of them.

 

[Dumbledore]

The champ can take only a single magic item, up to a limit of 25 points. (Not more than 1 item)