Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
>
> > Given that, on the first turn, a brood with eight
> > Biovores and three Warriors (about 211 pts) can stop, then drive off
> > ANY other non-bug detachment, making your 650 point Marine company
> > effectively useless.
>
> Biovore range is 60cm. On turn 1, the SM company marches 85cm in its
> Rhinos to within 12cm of your bugs, then FireFights you (at half effect)
Half effect?
> to tiny little pieces. Or alternately, assuming there's assault marines
> with Jump Packs, they go on assault orders, move 30cm, you fire at them,
> they then move another 25cm, disembark and move a further 25cm into
> contact.
Yesssss.... come clossser to the hive mind.... Ssss...
Really. Charging into the bug's deployment zone is
exactly what the Tyranids would love. Also, you assuming that
there aren't any other enemy detachments between the marines
and the biovores... This kind of tactic might work once (and
you'd lose whatever marines you used to execute it), but that's
about it.
--
Scott Shupe
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Received on Tue Oct 21 1997 - 13:03:32 UTC