Ghost Ark working?

[Azihar]

I built a three ghost arks to support my infantry for 84 rounds. But they have never build any new infantry units. There is no new infantry in the cargo holds after so many rounds of following my infantry. I've destroyed the space marine faction and lost plenty of infantry units. This is rather disappointing, as I wanted to see the ghost ark in action.

[herr_dechse]

The ghost ark does not build infantry units, it transports and heals them.

[IDDQD]

Thank the Chaos Gods the ark doesn't build infantry.

[Azihar]

I see, I guess reading the lore was useless...

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Azihar:

I guess reading the lore was useless...

Just like pretty much every game, be it table-top or digital, you should read the lore for fun only, and read the rules for actual game mechanics. ;)

[IDDQD]

Originally posted by Azihar:

I see, I guess reading the lore was useless...

You were learning how to play the game from lore books?

[Azihar]

Originally posted by IDDQD:

Originally posted by Azihar:

I see, I guess reading the lore was useless...

You were learning how to play the game from lore books?

In game lore, if you mouse over the ghost ark unit, you get it's lore. Which is wrong in my opinion, any lore a unit has should fit in the game. Any book lore should be modified to fit the game, not just added for flavor. For instance, they should have deleted the sentence about recovering bodies and placing them in stasis until a full complement is created.

In game terms, I would have let the ghost ark get one pip every time it healed a unit. Ten pips and out pops a basic necron warrior unit. But, that just me if I wanted the lore to work. Maybe, someone could mod a ghost ark to work?

[Cursed Hawkins]

And people say Necrons are OP as is already... OP wants to make them MORE powerful by having a unit you have to PAY TO ACCESS in their roster just passively build units when placing other units inside it.

[Cursed Hawkins]

And this is the lore for the Ghost Ark OP.
"As it glides ponderously across the battlefield, a Ghost Ark stops for each downed Necron, a veritable tide of minuscule repair Scarabs swarming over the dismembered soldier and carrying its components aboard the Ghost Ark. As the Ghost Ark continues its mission of dark mercy, so the scarabs continue their work with near-silent efficiency, rebuilding all but the most thoroughly demolished Necrons in short order, returning them to full function.

Once its contingent of passengers is full and safely locked in stasis, the Ghost Ark will either return its salvaged cargo to their Tomb World, or travel to wherever reinforcements are most needed to disgorge its payload, much to the dismay of the Necrons’ foes.

Ghost Arks are often pressed into service as conventional transport vehicles, conveying Necron reinforcements to some vital area of the battlefield, or allowing Necron forces to attack from an unexpected quarter. The enemy’s predicament is made all the worse by the fact that Necrons deployed in this fashion are, to all intents and purposes, accompanied by their own mobile repair station. Only by destroying the Ghost Ark can the foe have any hope of victory.

While Ghost Arks seldom pose a direct threat, they often prove to be one of the greatest weapons in the Necron arsenal. Even when a foe begins to thin the ranks of the Necrons, a Ghost Ark has the potential to undo all of their hard-won progress. For this reason, enemies of the Necrons who have previously encountered these high-technology hearses tend to make them a priority target, even focusing fire on them before turning weapons on the advancing Necron infantry."
Why would the scarabs DECONSTRUCT a salvageable Necron body that's only missing an arm or both of its legs just to RECONSTRUCT the entire body? Better time used to build replacements of those parts than recycle the entire thing.

[Falaris]

The problem with a lot of fluff text is the word 'may' or 'can'. It's described that ceramite armor CAN stop tank rounds.

Which gives the impression that it's something they do on a regular basis. The same way that bolters CAN penetrate tank armor. It makes it sound like a space marine can butcher tanks easily.

Unfortunately, in the fluff, 'can' should often be replaced by 'once in a blue moon'. Or 'barely theoretical chance'. It's why a lot of the fluff texts can be very misleading.

It's also why space marines in one book can singlehandedly take out a guard regiment, and in another, they die by the hundreds against the same.

Units are often described in a way to sound super cool and powerful with a veritable superlative soup. But, when you look at the actual numbers... they are not all that and a bag of chips. Or, I guess, everything is so 'powerful', a powerful unit is just meh.

And the goast ark is just a glorified transport with a healing ability.
Which actually IS quite useful.

(Note: I refer to warhammer fluff in general, not specifically the game text.).

[archelonian]

Totally agree that unit and research descriptions should match their actual role in game. Sure it is okay to exaggerate a bit but the flavor text should not suggest the units can do things they cannot. Another unit whose the description really bothers me is the AM Devil Dog which is not a big game hunter as described and acts closer to a Hellhound.

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by archelonian:

Totally agree that unit and research descriptions should match their actual role in game. Sure it is okay to exaggerate a bit but the flavor text should not suggest the units can do things they cannot. Another unit whose the description really bothers me is the AM Devil Dog which is not a big game hunter as described and acts closer to a Hellhound.

Pretty sure the Devil Dog technically is a Hellhound in fact it is technically a Hellhound more specifically a variant of the Hellhound which is why it felt to similar to one to you. The only difference that's separating the two variants is the Hellhound's still capable of being a transport vehicle like the Chimera while the Devil Dog sacrifices being a transport vehicle in favor of some additional armor plating to protect the additional fuel tanks for its Melta Cannon.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by archelonian:

Totally agree that unit and research descriptions should match their actual role in game.

Good thing that's what the Ghost Ark's description does, then. ;)

The description says that the Ghost Ark swarms with nanites that repair even the most critically damaged Necron units. Functionally, the Ghost Ark heals wounded Necron units. I don't see a contradiction, here.