RE: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0]White Scars

From: <jyrki.saari_at_...>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:51:43 +0300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Sam Dale [mailto:epic_at_lostmarbles.org.uk]
> Sent: 07. June 2002 1:10
> To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0]White Scars
>
>
> > > Sure. Myself, I'm working on Rainbow Warriors, Flesh Tearers,
> > > Flesh Eaters,
> > > Crimson Suns and Winter Lions at the moment. The two last
> > > ones are of my
> > > own creation. Stay tuned, even though it's going to take a while.
>
> Flesh Eaters and Flesh Tearers, you just use Blood Angels lists with a
> different paint job. No need for anything more.
>

Not really. For one thing, Flesh Tearers only have less than five companies' of troops and are even more psychopatic than BA. Flesh Eaters have been dropped by GW and I have not set them as BA successors in my history.

> Do we need this many chapters that vary so wildly from the
> index astartes
> that they deserve their own lists? The chaos legions get a
> paragraph, a card
> and a troop type, and they're supposed to be the deviants!

The Chaos legions have mostly degenerated into small warbands and don't have as much or varied support as a whole SM chapter. However, I don't know what a Chaos revision will bring so there may well be more traitor legions to choose from.


> More than half a
> dozen variant chapters is too many. Blood Angels, Dark
> Angels, White Scars,
> Space Wolves, Black Templars, Legion of the Damned. Maybe
> it'd be worth
> doing something with the Mentor Legion, but stuff like
> Salamanders doesn't
> need a new list for Epic scale. You want to use Salamanders?
> You chip in
> more flamer units than you'd normally use. Theme the army,
> not the list.
>

A matter of preference. I'd rather have more stuff than less. It's easier not to use something which exists than to use something which doesn't exist.

> Sam.
>


Jyrki Saari

-There is no such thing as free lunch because eating takes time and time is money.
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