RE: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Blood Angels proposal; forgot something

From: <jyrki.saari_at_...>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:17:57 +0300

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From: ext Albert Farr� Benet [mailto:cibernyam_at_...]
Sent: 14. June 2002 14:09
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Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] [v5.0] Blood Angels proposal; forgot something


I specially dislike this kind of rules of super-mega-hiper charged-engines/plasma-cannon/shield-battery. Let's have a little of common sense and stay away from so many heretic thoughts. A Rhino is a Rhino. A Land Raider is a Land Raider. And if we want to use faster vehicles, then let's create them. This is a typical GW improving army rule which is absolutely innecessary.

->A 10cm increase in move on charge orders with 1 in 6 chance of breaking down is hardly a "super" anything.

If a SM unit needs a fast deployment, Drop pods or Gunships are used. Using experimental devices is an ork matter an even orks use them in a very restricted way. Acussations of heresy have been thrown for less than modifying an original AM design without their permission.

->Yet it is being done all the time. The Marines don't exactly revere Machine God, you know.

Also allowing a 16% chance of being stopped and forcing your detachment buddies to wait for you is never a SM tactic.

->Blood Angels aren't exactly rational in this sense. They want to get up close and personal.

I repeat, if a faster land deployment unit is needed make a new one, but don't make variations of standardized designs at low scale. This is an orkish approach, not an imperial approach.

-> That is _exactly_ the Imperial approach. To modify existing designs rather than to make completely new ones, that is.

That's one of the points I have against LR Crusaders. Marines, Squats, Slann and Eldar (and provided unharmed chain of command or under hive control, IG and Tyranids also) should be reliable forces, not based on much random effects. These are for Chaos and orks.

-> Blood Angels reliable? We are not talking about hyper-disciplined units like Dark Angels and Imperial Fists but a bunch of semi-savages who become bloodthirsty psychopaths in battle. Besides, there's no such thing as totally reliable troops. And even if there were, they wouldn't be called Blood Angels.

This approach to NetEpic revision is very Dangerous, I don't like it even for optional units. It's the same as in the new E:A special CC effects. Does not make sense with the general feeling of an army.

-> What is E:A? Like I said before, IMO it is easier not to use something which exists rather than use something which doesn't exist. For example, I don't like the 4.1 aircraft rules so I don't use them even though they were voted core rules.

Albert



Jyrki Saari

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