Re: [Epic] Things on tap, feedback wanted and some random rants

From: Sutherland <charles_at_...>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:59:54 -0500

At 08:08 AM 9/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
>At 09:59 PM 9/29/97 +0100, you wrote:
>>Scott Shupe <shupes_at_...> came forth and spoke thusly about [Epic]
>>Things on tap, feedback wanted and some random rants:
>>
>>>("Uh-oh, it's getting dark! We better stop fighting. HEY!
>>>Leave that Avatar alone - you can play with him again
>>>tomorrow!").
>>
>>The commander walked up to the Techmarine who was perusing the rulebook,
>>who looked up, aghast. "Sir, it says here we can't use our super-
>>enhanced, infra-red and ultra-violet spectrum capable eyes, because
>>they're going home! We can't even try and kill them as they run! This is
>>madness!!!" The commander patted him on the shoulder. "It's called
>>Warhammer 40K."
>>
>><emblem of Slaanesh>
>>
>>'Mad Dog' McAlister
>>
> <snip titles and honors>
>
> Actually, that part always made sense to me.
>
> As the fluff explains it, the reason a battle ends after four turns is
>because that is what the response time would be for local reinforcements,
>changing the face of the battle.
>
> Just goes to show: anything, no matter how inane, can be justified if you
>work hard enough...
>
 I always thought of 4 turns as the time it took to get the orbital
bombardment ship into place and leave enuff time for the participants to
get out of the blast radius. Hmmm... gotta love this futuristic war stuff.

                                                        That Chuk Guy
Received on Tue Sep 30 1997 - 16:59:54 UTC