Re: [Epic] WW2 analogies to Epic

From: Mark A Shieh <SHODAN+_at_...>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:22:18 -0400 (EDT)

Bill Provick <bprovick_at_...> writes:
> > Personally, I feel eldar are the weakest race inE40K. Short range
> >firepower and small detachments do not go well with a race that should try
> >not to take causulties. The high movement does not help, since you have to
> >get within 15cm to shoot anything. I havn't yet found a way to make a good
> >force without restorting to things like titans and engines of vaul. The
> >troops themselves just stink.

        The troops may be poor on their own, but that's because
they're geared towards CC and Firefights. I'd think that most races
would have trouble without support from Titans and War Engines.
Marines might get away without it because their infantry is so tough
and their vehicles provide enough heavy firepower that the Titans
aren't as vital to provide massive firepower and/or some staying
power. Most of the other armies are missing one of these without some
larger units.

> Anyway, the nature of the Eldar is that it is easier to use the souls of
> their dead piloting war engines then it is to make more Eldar. So in Epic
> 40K, I think Eldar are sorta designed to have a lot of war machines, as well
> as warwalkers, and dreadnaughts. It is the way they are.

        In Epic and in E40k, it seemed that the Eldar aren't
particularly weak, but take longer to get the hang of. In Epic, I
found them so gimmicky that you had to sit down and work out how they
interact with each other, and with the various defenses (void shields,
etc). After that, you could start making plans on how to use the
units. In E40k, they just seem to function non-intuitively. I'm
still trying to figure out how the heck a Guardian with a 15cm gun is
going to be useful, but that's mainly because I haven't had opponents
to play against. For a race that's supposed to be dying, the best
tactic seems to be get there quick, and slug it out at point blank.
Odd.
        But the problem is that the humanoid war machines are supposed
to be somewhat rare, though sometimes not as rare as an actual Eldar,
and are very valuable. There's a limited supply of spirit stones that
they have to pilot the things, and they're collecting them to build
infinity circuits primarily, not to fight battles.

Mark
Received on Mon Aug 18 1997 - 16:22:18 UTC