Re: [Epic] Psychic Phase [was: Re: Titan Legions]

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:07:31 GMT

At 10:14 AM 21/1/97 -0600, you wrote:
>At 01:50 01/18/1997 -0800, you wrote:
>>Another major imbalance was the cost/performance for weirdboy battletowers.
>>For 100pts you can get more firepower than a plasma destructor, can move
>>and still shoot before anything other than snap fire weapons, and can
>>destroy greater demons in a flash (which I learned the hard way :( ).
>>The drawback being that there is a 1 in 6 chance of an explosion. Sure,
>>the saving throw is crap, but who has ever seen one that was not under
>>a dragsta field?
>
>I don't think the weirdboy tower counts as a psychic attack for the psychic
>phase. Otherwise it is entirely too powerful.


Unfortunately a QA from AC states that this IS the case, and I agree that
they ARE entirely too powerfull.


>It effectively makes the
>weirdboy tower a command unit, which I don't think was ever intended.


Neither do I, but we know which army AC loves to play, don't we?



> The tower bolts work like a relatively normal weapon in every other
>circumstance, so why wouldn't they do so here?
>
>Temp


Damn fine question...

Agro
Received on Tue Jan 21 1997 - 22:07:31 UTC