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Store Event: Hero Arena

Last night I checked the local GW store facebook page and they have put out an even in 2 weeks (Jan 19) called Hero Arena.  The event is as such: Participants bring a  single model, no named characters, with keywords INFANTRY and CHARACTER and roll on the custom character charts found in Chapter Approved 2018 (pg14-16) to create mighty arena champions and engage in a grimdark version of Super Smash Bros. Having night to sleep on it, and pretty much all of my walk with my dog this morning, I have come up with a few ideas on how to proceed. Initial thoughts: 1) Needs a good Invuln save and/or save after save.  This is pretty straight forward.  Most weapons on characters practically ignore most if not all armor with -3 AP being a common range/melee attribute.  This pretty much means I need to have a 4++ minimum, preferably a 3++ and I can probably forget about regular armor saves unless we are talking about a natural 2+ (terminator armor, artificer armor) ...