Goleph

By Khouri, in Dark Heresy Rules Questions

The Goleph [RH p. 196] is a rather neat piece of dark age technology. However, there is one aspect to their profile that doesn't really seem to mechanically fit. While it makes a certain amount of sense for an armoured killing machine with power blades for limbs to have the blades listed under the Natural Weapons Trait this also implies that they are primative and cannot be used to parry.

Agile as they are dodging will perhaps be the main mode of avoiding incoming hostilites but the sundering quality of a power field would surely come in handy on occasion and something with a power field cannot, by definition, be counted as a Primitive weapon?

Lastly, while it has been common in NPC profiles to include the Strength Bonus of the character within melee weapon profiles (usually confirmed with a small footnote) this doesn't seem to be the case for the Goleph and some of the other profiles in the RH. Does this mean that a Goleph's ancient power blade deals 5 more points of damage than a power blade of the current age (but presumably still Energy rather than Rending damage) and still requires the addition of the Goleph's strength? If so, would the final result seem a bit overpowered to put up against PCs (although thankfully this 'varient' doesn't have additional talents such as Swift attack and Step Aside)?

Seems to me that that was put in for the purpose of disarm attacks and other things like that, I think that should be all it effects anyway.

OP'd???
LOL, not in the site of my massively overconfident Assasin PC (**** him and his almost getting the rest of my PC's killed more than once).

That guy would take his assasin into any situation and expect him to win.

Sorry I dont have RH yet so cant comment on it.