Re: [Epic] Hero of the Day

From: Bill Provick <bprovick_at_...>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 14:11:59 -0400

At 11:50 AM 8/5/97 +0100, you wrote:
>At 14:52 04/08/97 +0100, you wrote:
>>Inquisitor Dario Malthus atached to 3rd Battle Company Ultramarines (back in
>>th good old days of SM/TL): This heroic defender of the Imperium placed
>>himself in a building overlooking one of a pair of Eldar Revenant Scout
>>Titans (who it has to be said were heroes of the day in their own right with
>>Battle Honours brimming out of their Wraithbone). Malthus fires his bolt
>>pistol at the nearest Scout Titan hitting it in the head pentrating both
>>Holofield and armour and scoring max. damage). The stricken Scout Titan
>>keels over into it's hunting partner breaking a leg and knocking it over.
>>Heroic enough, I think and legendary in these parts.
>
>My hero is my Librarians Rhino. Here's what happened,
>
>Phantom Titan is advancing down one flank towards the few Marine Scout stands,
>Robots and the command Land Raider. The Phantom has already lost his
>holo-fields to a Vortex Missile hit. I've now pretty much run out of
things to
>kill it with, so I decide to let my Librarian try to Mind Blast it.
>
>He parks his Rhino next to the Titans feet and runs into a building
overlooking
>the Phantom. I figured that I may as well let the Rhino fire even though the
>chance of it doing any damage is pretty miniscule. I rolled a 6 and no
>deviation on the aim dice, then he failed a 2+ save and rolled a 6 for
damage!
>Titan topples over crushing a Warlock, how I laughed.
>
>My other Rhinos seem to be doing pretty well at the moment, in the next battle
>against Squats this time, three Rhinos from my Devastator Company were
attacked
>in close combat by four Squat bikers, the Rhinos killed three bikers for the
>loss of only one Rhino, thus holding an objective and giving me enough VP's to
>win.
>
> DSK
>

Speaking of Rhinos, I noticed that they have bulldozer type spikes, but
cannot assault. This is for Epic 40K. So much for GW's "All models are
representative" motto, translated to "If in Necromunda you buy a new gun,
it's time to buy a new model" I pity the fool who follows that in Necro,
"Gee, I'm fighting Orlocks, so I want this guy to have this weapon, so I'll
chop off his left arm for the 15th time this month and oops, he's mangled so
badly that he's worthless, and all I have is 15 extra guys and they don't
have the weapon, aaaghh."


Anyway, I think I'll let Rhinos use 1/2 assault. I think it's stupid that
they can't run over people. If I was in one I wouldn't sit around while the
Marines do all the fighting. Every two rhino's get 1 assault, for those that
are confused and think that rhinos can intercept.Or that intercepters have
assault fractions (Which I did for a short while, like 5 minutes)

Tyler
Received on Tue Aug 05 1997 - 18:11:59 UTC