Re: [Epic] Q&A (&Tactics) pages updates

From: Chris White <chris_at_...>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 13:04:52 -0700

At 01:34 PM 9/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Sean,
>
>Great post, great ideas! I presume this is the 'ablative grey line'
>you mention in your battle reports?
>
>I love the detachments and the strategy. I will try it in my next game
>as Imperial Guard (I have a small but growing IG army, including a
>Leviathan I converted from a Micro Machines Jawa Sandcrawler).
>
>> add Hellhound (2MF) +12 <-- still only 2 morale!
>
>Why would you want it to still be 2 morale? I don't try to design
>detachments for the morale, BUT I do feel that being slightly over the
>next morale level is better. I used to think differently, here's my
>current logic:
>
>Detachment with 2 morale:
>Contributes 2 to army morale for purposes of sustaining morale loss.
>When you lose it, you lose 1 morale, giving you a net 1 morale gain for
>having the detachment (if you haven't lost the morale to blast markers)
>
>Detachment with 3 morale:
>Contributes 3 to army morale for purposes of sustaining morale loss.
>When you lose it, you lose 2 morale, giving you a net 1 morale gain,
>etc....
>

        <snip>

        I'm pretty sure you're incorrect here. My understanding is: when a
detachment is reduced to half strength (in terms of number of units) the
entire army loses that detachment's morale value. I.e., if a detach. is
worth 3 Morale, taking it to half strength costs it's army 3 Morale.


Nickles
Received on Fri Sep 05 1997 - 20:04:52 UTC