IG Beastmen

From: Maksim-Smelchak <max200_at_...>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:21:21 -0700

>>> 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.

On the other hand, Beastmen are a little like Squats in that they were one
of the units that got "rooked" by the change to Epic-40k. I really liked
them and felt that they put a lot of character into the SM-2 universe. Their
"beastliness" also left a campaign manager a lot of fun choices (i.e. maybe
Beastmen won't be availible after a certain point in the campaign). They
were also a wonderful cheap unit useful as fodder in much the same way that
Snotlings / Grots served for the Ork army. I used them to clean up mines
(the hard way like the Soviet penal units in WWII) and other "undesirable"
tasks. I feel that Beastmen are one of the things that keep NetEpic a cool
game that doesn't abandon its' players. Of course, I could also be a
Beastman proponent because I've built some and plan to build some more (I
don't play Chaos so my Beastmen are IG).

Cheers,
Maksim-Smelchak.

-----Original Message-----
From: antichrist666it [mailto:seimejote_at_...]
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 6:58 AM
To: netepic_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [NetEpic ML] Re: [v5.0] IG part 1
--- In netepic_at_y..., "Millett, George" <George.Millett_at_b...> wrote:
> > 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:
> > 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 - 15:21:21 UTC