Posted by: Micco40
« on: June 17, 2020, 10:58:26 AM »
I kinda wish that it did stack but additively. So at max tech level (45 atk, 45 arm) with improved + advanced you would have 45 + 45 + 27 = 117 HP infantry for example. The costs should still stack multiplicatively so that infantry would get very expensive very fast. I think combined with heavy armor and all the gene mods you might end up with what is basically a light vehicle with less evasion though. But I suppose it would take up much less tonnage so there is some benefit to it. I think it would be the perfect abstraction for infantry combat mechs.
...or a detachment of Imperial Space Marines enforcing the will of the Emperor on Xenos and the Forces of Chaos .
I for one wouldn't mind paying a buttload of production for the narrative element of a heavily modified version of whatever race I choose to play that could sustain more damage than a regular infantry unit or even some armored units.
Obviously they wouldn't be everywhere as they would be just prohibitively expensive, but they could be "shock troops" to defend key production worlds under attack or as the forces that I send in to lay the hammer down on some Xenos.