I think people have a really good point when they say a Ratling Sniper class is a tough sell for their height alone, because a character whose main purpose is hitting long-range shots is gonna have a tough time if they can’t see over all the waist-high cover – to say nothing of tallfolk getting in t…

[image] IshanDeston: And then it can be an entirely new Archetype instead of just a subclass Then it need to increase the work load by a huge margin: New VA, either 3 or 6 (Depending on whether they do 1 or 2 genders, or even something else) New cosmetic line (Not Penance related as that wo…

I maintain that Ratling could merely be a body type for Veteran Sharpshooter.

In the same way that the Ogryn could have been a Zealot Class

I mean, yes actually. But ratling is literally just an astra militarum soldier in flavor with a chamelioline cloak and a longlas or stubrifle. Deadshot The bigger they are Camo Etc. He’s just a short vet. In fact in most of the imperial guard tabletop books you could take Snipers and Ratling S…

I mean yeah, he is a shorter Vet and doesn’t introduce anything exclusive/new (Which is why I’m against it being included) But choosing it for a Vet class would not work

[image] Heretical_Cactus: But choosing it for a Vet class would not work Why?

Cause they don’t share the same body type. It’s the same way that if they did the same thing in VT3 (Or another Fantasy game) and they made a Halfling class that is part of the Imperial Human Archetype. Like none of the cosmetics would work properly, and voice lines wouldn’t either

Now that’s literally not a real problem. Not sharing cosmetics isn’t a negative its a positive. new cosmetics to sell head cosmetics should work just fine Voicelines literally just need to be tweaked most of them are highly generic voicepacks could just be recorded Fatshark could sell rat…

But at that point, why not just take the plunge and make it a different archetype

Because new class feats and special abilities and unique grenades are a lot of programming work and what we described is mostly art. I don’t care either way tbh but i’m just advocating for the shortest path.

Ratling... trailblazer class?

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I think Ratlings would be an amazing archetype.

I previously made a thread about my ideas:

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Ratling... trailblazer class?

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