How about a simple, when fighting Infantry/Calvery even with fixed saves, -1
to CAF for banshees, like Space wolves Blood Claws with there war howl. And
a -2 to Caf for the Striking Scorpions since they are supposed to be the
better of the 2.
----- Original Message -----
From: peter ramos <ramospeter_at_...>
To: <netepic_at_egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] banshee s and scorpions
>
> Hi!
>
> >Banshees
> >How about as an option they attack first in close combat, and any
opponents
> >killed don't get to attack back? That seems to match both 2nd and 3rd
> >Edition without resorting to addition or subtraction. Does not affect
> >opponents CAF at all (which could get cheesy) but they can wipe out foes
> >before they get to hit.
>
> The problem is how exactly do you represent this, I guess you fight close
> combat normally and if the banshees win the guy die and if they lose
nothing
> hapens, then fight a normal round of combat?
>
> This is even more die rolls, I think just making them CAF 0 if a CAF of +1
> or greater and -1 CAF if CAF zero, this would just be one line in the
> description, no extra rolls.
> >
> >Scorpions
> >The mandiblaster is already factored into their CAF I say - the less
rolls
> >made in the game the better. If NE4 has separate mandiblaster attacks I
> >vote
> >for removing them.
>
> Thats the problem though since they are factored into the CAF how do you
> handle units with saves? Should fixed units be immune (as already
> suggested), or what? Actually this extra roll is not too bad you already
do
> it for the many chaos cards that permit a similar attack before close
combat
> this would be no different, otherwise you need a long description of who
and
> who not does the scorpion get 3d6 against.
>
> Peter
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