13F Spotter solo. Yes/No?

[AaronB13F]

Alrighty so i'm a 13F in the Army, which is a Spotter for Artillery and with the JFO Identifier i can spot for Airstrikes as well.

I'm thinking how much i love the dwarves and how i just love all their models, and i want to play them so badly when i'm home. I love the Mortar Team sculpt (except for the female..no offense), and i keep thinking how badly i want to play it! but that viably it just really isn't all that great, but would be alot of fun to field! So i'm like, why dosen't warmachine have spotters? First off Artillery for all time has always been huge, Very powerful on the battlefield and what cooler way to lay into the enemy with long ranged but inaccurate (not when we call for it ) fires. Well a Spotter Solo, would be super badass! Especially if it was not a character, and more like a Sergeant or an Officer for the Dwarves specifically!

What could it do? simple, Allow the Artillery Pieces (as well as future Big Berthas i hope the Dwarves get *crosses fingers*) to gain the Fire for Effect ability, just like in real life. And of course it would also be great if they were stealthed (sneaky sneaky OP) or had the ability to at least dig in. Anddddd Provide an accuracy bonus if they only shoot one round instead of the special action? Whilllleeee Also increasing the range by 4 inches? Eh? That's only if the Mortar forefits it's activation to fire during the spotters activation .

Hey don't knock me for dreaming, but i just totally see it! I see the Dwarves having something like a solo trained to Dial in their fires accurately and precisely. Timely and Accurate Fires. 'Cause i would so love to run a 50 point themed force, with 3 Mortars in it .

And NO, Master Gunner Dougal MacNaile does not count! Aside from that i can't stand his model, it's just not the same, but still good.

Ideas, suggestions, If we all hope really hard perhaps PP will make it ! Maybe they make it to support the troops! Lol ok that's just shameless.

[Harvester]

The first thought I had after reading this was that that would be too much for one unit

[AaronB13F]

Well that's why it's ideas :\. Different ones! But really? There are a LOT of solos STACKED with abilities. You know what i'd honestly like to see, Pathfinder, A Rifle 12 inch range, pow 12 or 10. MAybe a bit higher power because of no shield? Crappy sword or dagger. The ability to use a Combat Action to do a Call For Fire. and the ability to measure a range from an artillery piece to a target for free. That's really nothing all that crazy in a model! That would be badass. and i think as a 2 or 3 point model it would perfectly compliment the artillery pieces. It just seems weird to me to have artillery and no spotters! I mean we have had spotters since world war 2. Now i know it's not real life, but it would be really really cool. And that dosen't seem to op at all, maybe he has prowl, like how when we set up OPs, we make ourselves as invisible as we can.

[bouncymischa]

Sounds a lot like the Rangers to me. Or Dougal Macnaile...

[perilsensitive]

How about a veteran leader-like ability: cmd range artillerist for horgenhold artillery or something?

[baronvonchaos]

The Cygnaran Rangers do sort of that. I like the +4 Rng thing. As a Weapons crew UA. That would be really cool. Makes them able to fire without LOS or something. The only problems is that there are no comms systems in warmahordes. LOS to the UA would work though.

I like the thought. I would like to have something that boosts the damage of the artillery crews. If they're going to be simple things, make them glass cannons. One good shot and they're toast, but have them at least be pow 15's if not 16's. Just a thought.

[Eredhiel]

the closest thing to a spotter might be the "target flare" ability of the khador spriggan. a stealth solo with that would be really cool

[jandrese]

Maybe a rule like:

Spotter: This model is attached to one friendly faction light artillery unit at the start of the game. The attached Light Artillery unit may use this model's LOS when making attacks.

It's not so great on models with arcing fire, but pretty cool for other guys.

[Bittersashes]

Well a Spotter Solo, would be super badass! Especially if it was not a character, and more like a Sergeant or an Officer for the Dwarves specifically!

I think the Trencher Master Gunner over in Cygnar already has that theme sewn up.

[MagnustheJust]

I think the Trencher Master Gunner over in Cygnar already has that theme sewn up.

That may be true, but nobody cares about the electric chicken...

[AaronB13F]

Ok first off! NO it's NOT like the Rangers at all, and i said MacNaile does not cover that spot, The ide of combined LOS from the gun to the spotter and to the target does make sense But no model does what i'm saying it'd be neat if they had. Though the one good point i've heard so far is, that they don't have Radios lol, that's kind of a big deal xD So that makes sense, oh well, i just thought having a model that was decent say 3 point or 2 point solo, that could take the place of the 3rd cannon, and add the ability to lay down some good Fire for Effects, would really be very cool.

I guess i just want to have more Dwarve models They are so neat