[NetEpic ML] Re: [v5.0] IG part 1

From: antichrist666it <seimejote_at_...>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:58:18 -0000

--- In netepic_at_y..., "Millett, George" <George.Millett_at_b...> wrote:
> Comments below
> <snip>...
>
>
> > Assault
> > Assault troops possess jump packs and are the close combat
> specialists.
> > Models: Jump-packed Infantry models from the GW Imperial Guard
> Sprue.
> >
> > Move: 15 cm
> > Save: None
> > CAF: +1
> > Weapons: Laspistols/swords
> > Range: 25 cm
> > Attack Dice: 1
> > To-hit: 5+
> > Save mod: 0
> > Notes: Jump Packs
>
> IMHO they are slightly "out of flavor" for an IG force. Considering
> that some people may actually enjoy using them, I propose to cut
them
> from the main codex and leave for some special IG regiment (Elysian
> Drop Troops? Catachans? Cadians? We will see later...)
>
> >These have been in there since Armies of the Imeprium box + how can
> anything be out of flavour for an army that includes units from
every human
> world that doesn't raise a SM chapter and then has to fight in
every form of
> terrain and climatic condition. I say leave them in there.
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > Beastmen
> > Mutated beasts that have not succumbed to the taint of Chaos
still
> serve the Imperium. These are mainly close combat troops.
> > Models: Beastmen models from the GW Imperial Guard or Chaos
Sprues.
> Any 1/300 figures of normal- sized non-human figures from fantasy
or
> SF ranges could be substitutes.
> >
> > Move: 10 cm
> > Save: None
> > CAF: +3
> > Weapons: Laspistols/swords
> > Range: 25 cm
> > Attack Dice: 1
> > To-hit: 5+
> > Save mod: 0
> > Notes:
>
> These are CHAOS. Remove from the IG army (Heresy! Heresy!).
>
>
> > AS above Beastmen have been in there since Armies of the Imperium
and each
> planet has its own method of dealing with its mutant population the
beastman
> company is a easy way of representing the various groups of abhuman
that
> have not completely settled into a true species.
>

Being there from the 1st edition isn't automatically good, and IMHO
Beastmen are bad. Saying "how can anything be out of flavour for an
army that includes units from every human world that doesn't raise a
SM chapter and then has to fight in every form of terrain and
climatic condition" potentially justifies any kind of weird/cheesy
unit I could imagine.
Received on Fri Aug 16 2002 - 13:58:18 UTC