RE: [NetEpic ML] NetEpic Campaign System

From: <jyrki.saari_at_...>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:45:58 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext tom.webb_at_... [mailto:tom.webb@...]
> Sent: 08. March 2002 13:26
> To: Netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [NetEpic ML] NetEpic Campaign System
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been working on the Empire of the Stars (EOTS)
> campaign system
> for a while now, and have got it all working and it has been
> beta tested
> successfully. There are a few tweaks that I would like to
> make though, and
> I was wondering if you had any opinions on it.
>
> For those who are not aware of EOTS, here is a quick overview:
>
> It is based on the 'Mighty Empires' engine and features
> combat within
> an unexplored sector or cluster, players begin with a highly populated
> homeworld and some surrounding territories and then expand using their
> fleets (using BFG), and then taking over enemy world with
> Regiments (using
> either NetEpic or Heresy).
>
> The problem I have is with the Exterminatus ships. I
> want Exterminatus
> to be a last resort and undesireable. At the moment it
> reduces a habitable
> world to an Asteroid Belt along with all the regiments and
> upgrades on it.
> (There is no hex tile known as an inhabitable world). As
> habitable worlds
> are rare this is very undesirable.
>
> In the BFG rules you can choose before the battle which
> ships should
> have the Exterminatus weapon to replace there prow weapons,
> in EOTS fleets
> are built during the economic phase and cannot be changed
> unless new ships
> are built.
>
> My question is, should the Exterminatus weapon be fitted
> during the
> economic phase when fleets and regiments are recruited/built
> or should the
> player be allowed to refit them pre-battle.
>

This is all fluff, but anyway, the Imperial Exterminatus weapons are the cyclone torpedoes. These are loaded in torpedo tubes like normal torpedoes, but cannot be used against ships so a ship carrying cyclone torpedoes can't make normal torpedo attacks.

This means there is no need to alter the ship. However, in Imperium only Inquisitors can declare Exterminatus, so it shouldn't be allowed to be done just at the drop of the hat. As for the other races, even Chaos needs slaves and materials as do Orks. Eldar loathe a waste of lives so I don't think they practice Exterminatus with any regularity. Only tyranids do Exterminatus to all worlds they encounter.

My point? Permission for Exterminatus should be very hard to get.

> Tom.
>


Jyrki Saari

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Received on Mon Mar 11 2002 - 06:45:58 UTC