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Originally Posted by hairyyahoo  really? huh. i heard that as long as the points limit for the game was high enough to meet the character's requirements then you could take them even if the final points added up to less than the total agreed.  |
well, if both you can your opponent agree, then you don't even need to actually meet the basic requirement! as long as both agree before hand, there's no reason why you can't take say brother captain stern in only a 1000pts game!
however, for any kind of 'offical' (re: tournament) play, then your list *must* be exactly 1500pts to take that character! (or at least however many pts the requirement demands...)
that's why all the new codicies are doing away with the mandetory pts requirments for special characters... people want to use those models because they are generally some of the best looking sculpts! so why can't someone go to any event and not be allowed to use their favourite model?!?
besides, special characters generally aren't the most 'uberfied things... sure there's the select few like abaddon or eldrad who are pretty damn nasty, but really, you can typically do the same thing any special character can do for less pts with just your basic HQ choice!
cheers!