>People who never played SM/TL basically have
a choice between marines & or=
ks, and since the orks don't really
appeal to that many people, of course t=
hey're going to go with the
marines.<
*Sounds of greenskins jumping up and=
down hooting excitedly in outrage*
What! and miss out on all the fun that =
Orks have....shame on them <g>.
Seriously though you have a good point, th=
e SM's offer a good balance of infantry and armour and can be very rewardin=
g. My Howling Griffons army is still one of my favourites. The orks however=
take a little working at but offer far more potential for a fun game (win =
or lose). It is still early days in E40K and it will be a while before all =
of the armies are available to choose from for new players. I believe the T=
yranids are next (around September) followed by the Eldar in December.
Car=
l Woodrow
Gryphonne IV - Geneseed
http://freespace.virgin.net/carl.woodrow/=
epic/
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Shupe [SMTP:shupes_at_...=
g]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 1997 02:44
To: space-marine_at_...
Subject: =
Re: [Epic] Epic 40k Armies
Andy Skinner wrote:
>
> I like Space Marines, =
but I'm almost turned off because everyone
> else does too, now. (I know i=
t is as silly to turn off from something
> because everyone else likes it a=
s it is to like something because
> everyone else likes it.) Seems to me t=
hat before Epic 40K, the list
> was full of players of everything but Space=
Marines. I'm sure there
> were some, but we had tons of everyone else. I=
heard a couple of
> groups say they didn't have a Space Marine player. An=
d that even
> with Space Marines being heavily represented in the main box =
(titled,
> appropriately, "Space Marine"). Seems like that's on everyone's=
list
> now. Still, I like 'em, and they're easy to paint. I'm trying to
=
> encourage my wife to paint the Eldar, but those infantry look tough.
We=
ll, the space marines (with the exception of the Space
Wolves) were fairly =
bland - you got infantry & land raider companies,
and that was pretty much =
it. No special rules or neat-o units
(aside from the aforementioned Space=
Puppies). Compared to everyone
else, they just looked... boring. People =
would take them in their
IG armies, but very few were willing to use them b=
y themselves.
Now, you get the best all-around infantry & tanks in the
g=
ame. AND they're the only army with a fairly complete selection of
minis o=
n the shelves.
Scott
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