Riders of the Rivermark

One unit that I never see, and believe me, I mean never, is rough riders. Why? I read up on them, and they are fantastic, simply throw a unit of them (only 55 points mind you) into a 5 man tac squad of Space Marines, and watch the carnage, statistically they should win the overall combat. Now the key to all this, is the hunting lance, which give you strength five, and initiative five, and counts as a power weapon, suck on that Space Marines. Now, it does have a flaw, in that, it only works one time, but by the end of that combat, they should be half dead anyway, but hey, 55 points taking out close to a hundred points, not bad, not bad at all. Now, one of the things that you rarely see, is the cavalry special rule, in that they can charge, 12 inches. That means that from 18 inches away they can deliver 11 strength five power weapon hits.

What's the downside to these badasses, well, after their first charge, they aren't much, and the fact they are WS3. Other than that, you can't ask for much more out of 55 points. But all that aside, why do we see none of them? the answer, is GW's fault. $12 a model, and it's not even cool looking? WTF! The need a plastic kit, and to make these guys look cool, ditch the damn Mongol hats already! Either do that, or I'm converting some Rohirim, to fight alongside my IG. Imagine that, Rohirim with lasguns and flamers, sounds purty cool to me.