Hi!
I wouldn't worry about weakening them. The point is that a standard 40k army
of the same points value as an OGRE army should consistently lose. You need
a lot more standard 40k troops to beat top level dark age of technology
armies.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl Lonnon" <dlonnon_at_...>
To: <netepic_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] Re: Netepic Background
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >From: ext Peter Ramos [mailto:primarch_at_...]
> > > >Hi!
> > > >
> > > >The Ogre stuff was meant to be "peak" age of technology
> > > units, of course
> > > they are very >powerful, standard 40k units are only a shadow
> > > of those.
> > >
> > > Yep. However, it probably needs some tweaking and
> > > playtesting. IIRC the
> > > Ogres were hideously hard to hit.
> > >
> > Of course i meant hard to _damage_. I really shouldn't write anything in
the
> > morning until after at least two cups of coffee.
> >
> > Jyrki Saari
>
> The first pass they were. The second pass saw a change to the damage
> tables so that they weren't quite so bad (if you got through their
> armor you damaged/destroyed a weapon).
>
> Also keep in mind that they lack any type of shields. So unlike
> Titans, where the first x number of shots are spent taking down
> the shields, your first shots are immediately hitting the Ogre
> (possibly stripping away guns and the like).
>
> I also listed the table that I used to construct the armor values.
> I gave Ogres an addition -1 to their armor values. This could be
> removed (although if it was ... I'd remove the flash back potential
> from the secondary batteries, so that any joe-blow with a Bolter
> wasn't able to kill an Ogre). This would mean that only the primary's
> were immune to infantry fire (so enough Infantry could get a mission
> kill on an Ogre (which is not true with a Titan with remaining
> void shields)).
>
> Hopefully this would weaken them to a more acceptable level.
>
> DarylL
>
> p.s. For those of you that care, the second pass is at
>
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/netepic/files/Non-image%20folder/New%20units%2
0and%20rules/Heathen.zip
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