Re: [NetEpic ML] Heathen Army List (aka Ogre!)

From: Peter Ramos <primarch_at_...>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:26:57 -0500

Hi!

Daryl Lonnon wrote:

>> Hi!
>>
>> Daryl, great work! Very balanced as far as I can tell. Do you have the
>> time to do this as a word document?
>
>
> I'd planned on wordify'ing it sooner or later. So the answer is yes.

Thanks!

>
>
> Random thoughts/concerns about it that I have:
>
> o Powered Infantry, should they have a higher CAF (I was thinking +2).

+2 like marines.

> o Should I dump the -1 TSM to the Powered Infantry Weapons (they'd
> be like Standard Space Marines but with Termie Armor and bad morale).

Depends termies have a -1 weapons modifier, if they are that good leave
the -1 in.

> o Lasers, I can't find my GEV book ... so some of the stuff was from
> memory. I'm pretty sure Lasers didn't come out like I wanted.

Any different from "GW" lasers?

> o Advanced Targeting Computers. That was added to make Combine vs
> Pan-European forces more Ogre like. But I'm not 100% sure that's
> necessary.

GW forces have targetters built in to the to hit roll. It depends how
good the targeter is.

> o Ogres. Probably need alot of playtesting/thinking to balance right.
> I switch between thinking they are about right, to thinking
> they might be too tough to kill. They have no sheilds, but
> no real critical hit locations either. Infantry can strip off their
> AP's and their treads from a distance (and with it's AP's gone,
> an Ogre can be overwhelmed with Infantry ... esspecially by
> jump pack equipped troops, who can destroy it's difficult to
> destroy weapons in CC).

They can and should be tough, the tricky part is a good cost scheme. If
they are better than titans by a lot they should be priced accordingly.

> I'll probably start putting it into Word in the next week (don't know
> how long it'll take though).

Thanks again!

Peter
Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 04:26:57 UTC