[Epic] Old Space Marine (was: Orks with Landraiders)

From: David Lado <lado_at_...>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:06:32 -0400 (EDT)

>>agree, the special rules for SM got out of hand. Making all the
>>different races follow the same rules was all that SM/TL needed
>>for a fix.
>
>You know, you really don't want to start this thread again.
>Actually, it wasn't really the special rules that were a problem,
>it was the fact that the interactions were sometimes ill-defined.
>Some of the special rules were simple (like ork deathrollers and
>eldar aspect warriors). Ohter were complex on confusing, unfortuanly
>they got rid of all of them, and changed the character of the game
>entirely. Oh well.

The whole rules system was ill defined, which lead to the special
rules causing problems. For example, there is the classic "do
wave serpents immoblize their targets?" debate (which is still a
contencious issue). There wasn't any rules interaction persay, it
was just a lack of clearly defined effect. Even relatively simple
rules, like the deathroller, were not immune. The dethroller rules
say that any enemy stand could be crushed, but it was unclear
whether that included cavalry, bikes and jetbikes, which come on
stands but aren't infantry. And of course, typical of SM/TL rules
questions, everyone has an answer that is "complete common sense
that any moron would understand", which is inevitably different
from everyone elses "perfectly obvious" answers.

David
Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 19:06:32 UTC