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Originally Posted by Dravenguild  See GW should have taken these things into consideration when building up that horrible codex of nastyness.
It's silly that you have to sacrifice a raptors' effectiveness to carry a crappy icon that looks blasphemous in the hands of a creature built for speed.
Just picture canonically how stupid that would look. I suppose a simple slaanesh mark and not icon would suffice on the model.
Who's going to argue? The dex' is so ambigious no one would question it. |
In-correct, and I would actually. I am that big of an ass, and most veterans would be a little perplexed too.
Just a mark of slaanesh on a raptor is NOT an icon. There are units who bear a mark of slaanesh in the codex. Those are Noise Marines, not raptors.
The 'dex isn't ambigious at all actually. It says the Raptors may carry an ICON and Noise Marines carry the MARK...
However, this is not to say the Icon
HAS to be a banner. That was never the case.
It could be as simple as some sort of weapon on of of the people (a particularly nasty weapon w/ the Mark of slaanesh, a book w/ it, etc..). A religious icon isn't always a banner, now is it?
However, an Icon as such as the codex is referring to it is MORE than a simple mark. IT is an ICON, a RELIC of the faith the traitors profess.
Put it this way.. the 'mark of catholicism' could be the ashes on the forehead at Ash Wednesday or the oil when you are confirmed/baptised.
But, the ICON(S) of Catholicism is a cross, or a bible or such.
Maybe that makes the reasoning a bit more clear?
In the end, the Codex states it clearly. They are ultimately your models to do with as you please, but if you make your 'icon' just a painted on mark, expect flak and criticism, and don't whine about it. It's what happens.