Dawn of War Codex

I think it would be awsome to have the commissar hero equipped with a hellpistol instead of a laspistol, both to fit the fluff more and because it would look cooler. A hellpistol linked to a belt powerpack or backpack power pack similar to the Kasrkin models.
Also a cable linking the powersword to the belt or backpack powerpack would also be cool.

The only thing i want added is a holy yellow glow to the Commissar Lord's power sword. One, is because THAT (did it in my mod) looks cool. And two, to easier differentiate the default sword and the power sword.

OT: That would require quite a bit of work, I'm afraid. Another issue, albeit subjective, is that LC's ranged attack is just sorta there, not really that powerful. For something looking as dramatically as hellpistol, it would be underwhelming (except when used for blamming ).

Black Relic wrote:The only thing i want added is a holy yellow glow added the the Commissar Lord's power sword. One, is because THAT (did it in my mod) looks cool. And two, to easier differentiate the default sword and the power sword.

I, for one, agree that they need to be differentiated more. Although yellow glow sounds a bit radical, although we've seen something like that in both DoW1 (SoB swords) and DoW2 (some LG's sword from Last Stand IIRC).

LC has the strongest vanilla ranged attack from melee commanders (more ranged dps than for example a Tact sarge). Just thought to point that out.

Nurland wrote:LC has the strongest vanilla ranged attack from melee commanders (more ranged dps than for example a Tact sarge). Just thought to point that out.

Didn't know that. Although stil, I must say that for me it's gonna be weird to see huge-arse hellgun doing significantly less damage than, say something like Inq's crossbolter does.

Could be better if LC's had lower rate of fire and more powerful shots (and probably more pronounced visual), but I don't like the sound of gameplay changes made to conform with unnecessary visual tweaks.

We probably don't have a model anyways. And if someone makes it, I'd like to see where that cable is going to be attached on LC's model and hopefully it won't interlap with existing textures too much.

doofyoofy wrote:I think it would be awsome to have the commissar hero equipped with a hellpistol instead of a laspistol, both to fit the fluff more and because it would look cooler.

I know bluff isn't popular here, but according to background i think a Bolter Pistol would be more adequate. It is perfect for summary executions in one shot (bolter weapons are supposed to blow up a human in a shot) and even in the boardgame the commisars can equip a special relic bolter pistol.

Allways thought the Flak Jacket should replace the Las Pistol with a Bolt Pistol, would it make more plausible why he can execute enemy Space Marines all of a suddon.

Orkfaeller wrote:Allways thought the Flak Jacket should replace the Las Pistol with a Bolt Pistol, would it make more plausible why he can execute enemy Space Marines all of a suddon.

I have been saying this for so long!!!!

Maybe if the Techpriests of the Omnissiah take notice( ) then something will get done.
Just hope that Caeltos isn't against it, though I struggle to imagine why.

The problem with a boltpistol is the commissars attached to the ig squads already have boltpistols. I picked a hellpistol to diffirentiate the LC from the generic commissars. It allows the LC to look visually different and manifest his rank better as he has differing equipment than normal commissars.
Also a plasma pistol is already in use as the Inq. Standard, so need something different for each hero.

To the textures I dont think it would change the textures much, just have the cabling done similar to the Kasrkin or Forward observer where it jsut hangs down.