From Zero to Hero!

[Asher]

The 6th edition brought some fundamental changes to special characters. Previously shuned characters are now amongst the greatest heroes of their kind:

Mogul Kamir - Previously the worst SC in the codex now comes with some serious buffs: Instead of being uncontrolable he now grants RR +2 attacks on the charge and delivers 3+D3 attacks himself.

Typhus - A previously medicore character who suffered from being easy to kill gained cockroach like survivability: T5 means he can't be insta-killed by anything below S10 and his FNP works against pretty much every attack. With 4 wounds it will take a while to down him.


Any more notable zeroes that became heroes?

[yarrickson]

Space Pope. I mean Aun'va. Now his whole units toughness 5 for instant death and when he does die the buffed preferred enemy kicks in letting your fire warriors and suits re-roll their shooting 1s.

[Rick Blaine]

Typhus also went to Initiative 1 which doesn't do him any favours.

[Carlosophy]

Ezekiel is much better now No Retreat has gone and he can change his powers. All friendly models within 12" regardless of codex are now Fearless.

[Walls]

Does Kamir give the unit rage or does just he have it?

[RanaldLoec]

Does Kamir give the unit rage or does just he have it?

He gives rage and furious charge to his unit.

A full unit of rough riders with lances now puts out 30 st5 in5 ap3 attacks.

Not counting Kamir's

Sadly furious charge still has zero effect on lance armed rough riders.

[Radium]

All of the phoenix lords. Getting their armour saves pretty much all the time is pretty awesome, they're still pretty expensive, but at least they can put their money where their mouth is now.

[superdupermatt]

Who the freak is Kamir???

[matt_17]

Kamir is an IG special character. He follows an Mongolian horse warrior type theme.

[khaosmarines]

I wasn't very happy with the typhus changes, but i suppose it's an overall buff

[ehlijen]

Masters of the Forge are better now. They've always suffered for coming with artificer armour but not having access to any invul save. Now he will get to strike use his armour against most things striking before him, have a flamer for overwatch and a plasma pistol + your choice if hand held weapon for (hopefully) precision shooting.

[ReveredChaplainDrake]

I tried out Death Company Tycho earlier today. On the charge he has 6 Str5 I5 attacks that ignore armor, re-roll one failed wound, all while he hides behind a 2+ save, 4++ IV and 5+ FNP. Okay, so he wasn't entirely worthless before, but I'd like to think he makes up for Mephiston going from Hero to Zero. (I don't care what his statline looks like, I'm not sinking a Land Raider's points cost into an AP3 Force Weapon with the intent of assassinating enemy characters, thank you very much.)

[Hawkkf]

He gives rage and furious charge to his unit.

A full unit of rough riders with lances now puts out 30 st5 in5 ap3 attacks.

Not counting Kamir's

Sadly furious charge still has zero effect on lance armed rough riders.

In total a full Rough Rider squad of ten with Mogul Kamir on the charge has 10 I10 S3 AP- Hammer of Wrath attacks followed by 32+d3 I5 S5 AP3 attacks.
In short I finaly get to use my converted RR model on mechanical steed!

[Hashulaman]

Epidemius, he was meh. Giving buffs to the nurgle daemons was good, But you could make them but so good. Now, ally him with Tyhpus and a Death Guard army, Dear God you have the Dynamic duo from Hell, I hope your opponent has a lot of Railguns or demolisher cannons. I played such a combo yesterday, Even when Epidemius was taken out, Typhus, by himself when his Terminator unit was wiped out, held off Wyches with a Homunulus, and a Talos all by himself for several comat rounds, finally dying at the 5th turn I think, I never thought I would see Tyhpus of all people be ranked up in the top tier of CSM IC's. I have not tried Ahriman, but I think with the new powers and his special rules about using multiple shooting powers, I think he also got better.

[Xandros]

Luscious Lucius got a small buff. Note that he specifically has a power sword, but his riposte attacks flat out ignore armour saves. Snikt!

Huron on the other hand, is really weird. Axe and power fist isn't a good combo. Abaddon also, having the awesomest weapons in the Galaxy and just AP3.

[Sami]

The DE Klaivex, or in particular a Klaivex armed with Demiklaives, as the weapon has a mode which allows him to strike at +2S and AP2 without losing his initiative.

[Chem-Dog]

Mogul Kamir does suddenly shine quite a bit, which leads one to wonder if he was written with 6th in mind.

Not that he was a true Zero, I'll have to vote for the Humble Primaris Psyker, with a Force Stave and Iron Arm Biomancy Power racks up an impressive Maximum S8. Failing that I'll settle for Endurance and stick him with an attendant squad of Ogryn

[Walls]

I tried him the other night. He was absolutely insane. 15 wounds with a unit of 8. He's super, super good now.

Death Company takes the cake for me. I am thinking an all DC army is viable now minus the not being able to get objectives.

[Hawkkf]

I believe the guard codex was the testing ground for rough ideas when they started looking toward 6th. It had the first true flyer model, usable tank squadrons, and a means of the HQ/chracters interacting directly with other units. I dont think Kamir was a testing ground though. I think Cruddace believed that hunting lances would interact with furious charge and used rage as a balancing tool.

[DietDolphin]

Are we talking about just characters or are we talking about units that have gone from bad to great too?

If so, I was going to say the Punisher tank is a bit better now (though I'm no expert on guard). With the change to vehicles it can reliably take out light tanks like rhinos, razorbacks and raiders as well as infantry, so its not so much of a one trick pony.