RE: [Epic] Stormblades

From: Miller, Chris <CMiller_at_...>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 16:56:15 -0600

-----> Stormblades are a bit of a pet of mine, so comments follow:
>Stormblade______________
>
> Speed: 10cm before fireing missiles 15cm after
-----> OK, their speed didn't change in SM/TL so why change it now?
(adds complication without justification)

> Armour: 6
> Damage Capacity : 4
> Assault: 3 (This is rather obviously a SUPPORT tank, so one less
>would help represent this)
-----> Was pretty much the same as a shadowsword here so why change?
>
>Main Weapons: PlasmaBlast Gun (as in the book)
> Fire Arc: Front
> Range: 60cm
> FirePower: (1) Deathray. (blah blah)
>
>Secondary Weapons: Sponson Turrent- Left Fir Arc- 2FP Range
>30cm (Lowering it to one would make it virtually
>useless)
> Side Missile Rack- Multiple Rocket Launcher- same
>as Titans-but only useable once.
----> This is ok, though in SM/TL it was 4 seperate missile you could
target
independently, they just had to fire at the same time. I think this part
works...

> Hellion Missile- Vortex missile. One shot.
-----> The larger missile was not this powerful - it just had a damage
bonus aganist
titans . This may be a little much. Something like a one-shot AT is
closer to what
it was.
>
> Points cost :130 pts. To reflect the extra weapon

Not too bad. The problem with all the E40K translations is that the
plasma blastgun was quite different (and not neccessarily superior) from
the Volcano Cannon, and they both translate into Death Rays. Volcano
cannons had the 75cm range, The PB had only 50cm but could usually fire
twice. Considering the life expectancy of superheavies in SM/TL, this
was a trade I was often willing to make, but there's really not a way to
make this distinction in E40K, not to mention adding the missiles..

Chris Miller

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Received on Thu Nov 06 1997 - 22:56:15 UTC