Re: [Epic] [EPIC] - Veterans

From: Scott Shupe <shupes_at_...>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:15:47 -0400

Miller, Chris wrote:
>
>-----> The only time veterans are tougher and harder to kill is when
> they're wearing terminator armor. The proposed "always in cover"
> rule does not make a whole lot of sense.
> Remember that E40K is supposed to base off of WH40K now. We
> already have terminators for E40K and the only difference from
> normal marines is the "save" ability. That's it. There are no
> differences based on the stats, and termies have the same 40K stats
> as veteran marines (they ARE veteran marines, they just won the
> weekly poker game to decide who wears the suits) So veteran marines
> get no bonuses over normal marines.
> I think what people are looking for here are special rules ala
> "space wolves" or "deathwing" from that last WD article. Go ahead,
> add all you want, but this is the kind of thing that killed the
> last version, and it's always going to be hard to play with anyone
> but your normal group/friends/buds/self. I'm not all that enthralled
> with it myself, but maybe we could try basing some stuff on 40K units
> which don't seem quite right, or aren't officially released yet...

        What 40k units aren't in E40k? Aside from the Imperial
assasians (who don't really fit into a detachment-oriented game),
and most of the Chaos Daemon World army list, (and the whole Squat
list) nothing comes to mind.

> Anybody tried adapting Ghazgull / Comissar Yarrick yet...?

        Sure. Ghazgull -> take an Ork supreme commander, paint
it in Goff (?) colors, mount/upgrade to taste. Yarrick -> take
a Commisar-General supreme commander, mount/upgrade as desired.
IMHO, these two + the space wolf characters were a big part of
what 'killed' the last version. Giving underpriced single stands
of infantry special powers that affect an entire army is too much.

Scott
shupes_at_...
Received on Thu Aug 14 1997 - 17:15:47 UTC