Re: [Epic] Epic 30,000 Space Marine Army List Part I (LONG)

From: Chris White <chris_at_...>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 14:27:36 -0700

At 12:00 PM 10/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, J. Michael Looney wrote:
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>> 1) SM-0 was published in WD-110. The original rules for Space Marine
>> were to add infantry into the Titan game, not the other way around.2) To
>> me, at any rate, a "rule" out ranks "fluff". In all versions of Space
>> Marine (the WD 110 issue plus later "add on" in WD), the published SM-1
>> game, in SM/TL plus all add-ons and in Epic 40,000 they have NEVER said
>> that termies eat 2 transport slots. Given the MASSIVE detail over load
>> that SM-1 hit you with, and the MASSIVE amount of "Special Rules" that
>> SM/TL hit you with, they could have said this if they wanted.
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>Yep, thats GW for you, give you plenty of useless rules, but still manage
>to leave important stuff out. Agree, epic rules said "2 stands of troops"
>WH40k says "5 termies"
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        As someone who first started out playing WH40K 2nd ed., this always made
perfect sense to me. Termies are _much_ bigger than normal marines. If a LR
can carry ten Termies, then it should fit at least fifteen marines. (1:1.5)

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>> Sillyness is the last refuse of the doomed. P. Opus
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Nickles
Received on Tue Oct 07 1997 - 21:27:36 UTC