RE: [Epic] Orks with LandRaiders

From: Tyler Provick <bprovick_at_...>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:01:30 -0400

At 10:42 AM 8/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Tyler Provick wrote:
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>> >E40k less rules, less flavor.
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>> Flavour in Wargames is mostly up to the players. Some backgrounds make it
>> easier to add flavour, while some make it hard. Either way there will be
>> people who will play without flavour on say a flavourful game like Old Epic,
>> and some might have more flavour with Epic 40K, because that's the way they
>> play. I still don't see the connection between powerfull troops, and lots of
>> different ones and flavour
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>somehow 75% of all ork vehicles = battlewagons says to me
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>"less flavor"
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>I miss madboyz as much as I miss kustom kannon speedstas, or squats,
>or the knight worlds even.
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>again, "less flavor"
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>but my main point is that the TL rulebook gave a much better impression
>of GWs game of future warfare than the little books of E40k to a newbie.
>again, more fluff, more flavor.
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>even 40k players gain insight by reading the fluff sections with
>the ork gods rising from their slumber, start of the waa-ork
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>mike

You can't add flavour? I wrote a full description for a renegade Space
Marine chapter, but didn't change the rules. You can have any type of thing
in your ork army, and call it a battle wagon, but because it has the same
stats, it has less flavour?

Complicated rules are not the keys to flavour (Try paprika)

Tyler
Received on Wed Aug 27 1997 - 14:01:30 UTC