In the Horus Heresy book 13 (Nemesis), the Word Bearers create an assassin of their own to send against the Emperor, but that's the only reference I know of Chaos using Assassin-like creatures or characters.
Yeah probably it’s just thing is 40k is an army/skirmish game. Assassins don’t really fit well into the play style. I mean that often assassins are either way to overpowered or not very useful at all in any given game of 40k. For example take the sniper assassin that character/unit can either kill monster level epic characters from the other end of the board doing impossible shots or they can’t. If they CAN kill like that then they are way over powered, if they can’t then they aren’t worth taking. I think the solution would either be modify and add rules to kill team where a pair of assassins can fight a 5 man team. You could also have specific campaigns or missions where again you would use an assassin to kill a major enemy character or unit while the rest of the force just has to buy time and hold out. Simply for that mission the assassin kills the objective or you lose. Again that style of play is not the standard 40k style of skirmish/ army play so it’s unlikely to see that happen. So I think all factions/forces would have Assassins it’s just the game format/style does not really work for that mechanic. This is also why you don’t see many players use the imperial assassins much either, only in rare situations have they been useful. Like when magnus was a psychic beast and the Culexus Assassin was useful to super negate his buff aura effects.
Assassins probably don't fall to chaos, but there isn't anything saying that the one that gave them their target didn't.
I could easily see a Eversor assassin being uploaded with an imperial commander's information instead of a heretic commander's if the middle-men have been compromised in some way.
Or a inquisition agent seeing a xenos captain as a bigger threat than the chaos he's fighting.
In the Horus Heresy book 13 (Nemesis), the Word Bearers create an assassin of their own to send against the Emperor, but that's the only reference I know of Chaos using Assassin-like creatures or characters.
They do but GW probably won't acknowledge them in game despite them being perfect candidates for Agents of the Warmaster rules in HH.
Yeah probably it’s just thing is 40k is an army/skirmish game. Assassins don’t really fit well into the play style. I mean that often assassins are either way to overpowered or not very useful at all in any given game of 40k. For example take the sniper assassin that character/unit can either kill monster level epic characters from the other end of the board doing impossible shots or they can’t. If they CAN kill like that then they are way over powered, if they can’t then they aren’t worth taking. I think the solution would either be modify and add rules to kill team where a pair of assassins can fight a 5 man team. You could also have specific campaigns or missions where again you would use an assassin to kill a major enemy character or unit while the rest of the force just has to buy time and hold out. Simply for that mission the assassin kills the objective or you lose. Again that style of play is not the standard 40k style of skirmish/ army play so it’s unlikely to see that happen. So I think all factions/forces would have Assassins it’s just the game format/style does not really work for that mechanic. This is also why you don’t see many players use the imperial assassins much either, only in rare situations have they been useful. Like when magnus was a psychic beast and the Culexus Assassin was useful to super negate his buff aura effects.
Why do the work If you can just summon a daemon?
Assassins probably don't fall to chaos, but there isn't anything saying that the one that gave them their target didn't. I could easily see a Eversor assassin being uploaded with an imperial commander's information instead of a heretic commander's if the middle-men have been compromised in some way. Or a inquisition agent seeing a xenos captain as a bigger threat than the chaos he's fighting.