Re: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Army balance

From: Weasel Fierce <weasel_fierce_at_...>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 09:12:32 +0000

>Planetary Defense Force:
>Good: cheap hordes of infantry, free fortifications & Objectives, may
>change terrain around
>Bad: poor quality infantry, lousy morale, Chain of Command, must completely
>set up before opponent
>
>Imperial Guard:
>Good: best well-rounded army in terms of support available - large groups
>of average infantry, excellent cavalry & artillery, pretty good choice of
>tanks
>Bad: Chain of Command

no outstanding assault troops, low morale.

>
>Space Marines:
>Good: armor save for basic infantry, highly mobile transports, 2+ morale
>Bad: no Super-Heavies,

Low firepower at long range. Lack of titan busting weapons
Good assault troops.

>
>Titan Legions:
>Good: Imperator Titan, Titans as Support Cards, Battle Groups (optional)
>Bad: Titans are expensive, poor choices of non-Titan support
>
>Eldar:
>Good: free cards, free Avatar, WRH vastly under-priced, Skimmer
>Super-Heavies that can do Pop-Up attacks
>Bad: small detachments, lousy artillery, Titans are fragile if the enemy
>has artillery
>

Very powerfull infantry if used right.

>Ork:
>Good: Mekboy Kustom Repair Cards, best tanks in the game, cheap hordes of
>infantry, funky stuff that can score instant kills on anything
>Bad: Nob command radius, funky stuff that sometimes kills you

Massive break points, massive victory point scores as well. Extremely
resilient gargants

>
>Chaos:
>Good: Chaos Cards, incredibly good core units (Greater Daemons)
>Bad: poor long-range troops, limited support selections
>
>Squats:
>Good: cheap Praetorians, high Break Points, longest-range artillery in the
>game
>Bad: more victory points awarded for breaking infantry (if you can)

Firepower, kinda slow. Tough cookies in melee

>
>Tyranid:
>Good: Hive Mind Cards, vicious bio-Titans, good core unit (Dominatrix)
>Bad: Hive Mind radius, poor troop choices other than infantry, infantry and
>more infantry
>
>Slaan:
>Good: No idea.
>Bad: No idea.





Weasel


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