This has always bugged me in Deathwatch. Just how, in the Emperor's name, does one's Fear Rating (Usually from Power Armor History) affect Hordes? I have found nothing about this in the main book, the Errata, or Rites of Battle.
My thoughts are that you gain a bonus in Magnitude damage when in melee but as I have no information on that, it would have to be a house rule.
Prospero_Cade said:
This has always bugged me in Deathwatch. Just how, in the Emperor's name, does one's Fear Rating (Usually from Power Armor History) affect Hordes? I have found nothing about this in the main book, the Errata, or Rites of Battle.
My thoughts are that you gain a bonus in Magnitude damage when in melee but as I have no information on that, it would have to be a house rule.
For simplicity I'd treat it like psychic area effect fear damage (+1d10 hits). In the case of the Terror be thy Friend history, I'd simply give the user +1d10 hits on the first round of melee with the horde. This would represent a handful of people cowering and going into shock. I would not allow the bonus after the first round with a given horde, to represent the rest of them not wetting their pants. To break them would require you to do enough mag damage, etc. As normal I'd make fearless/from beyond folks immune to that damage.
*points to page 6 of the errata which added rules for using Fear against Hordes*
MILLANDSON said:
*points to page 6 of the errata which added rules for using Fear against Hordes*
Then Fear is next to useless against Hordes as they gain a bonus to WP equal to its magnitude.
Charmander's idea is ace: Just do 1d10 Horde damage per level of fear in the opening round of combat, to represent the decreased efficiency of the foe due to fear.