Matthew J. Silvernail wrote:
> These look pretty good, and alot of fun. My only objection is
> that when properly stacked up, these may lead to serious cheese.
> Imagine if you will a battlewagon with Wheeled, Large Engine,
> Big Wheels, and No Gun. It costs 14+3+2-1 = 18 points, and has
> a move of 45, charge 90, and march of 135. Stick 3 nobz on it,
> charge it at the enemy, put the nobz on assault.... well, you
> get the picture. Since the nobz are hitching a lift and not
> transported, the fact that the battlewagon will blow up easy
> on march doesn't matter, since the nobz aren't inside when the
> battlewagon blows up, and are still ready to charge the last
> 10 cm to engage pretty much anyone they want on the board in
> the assault phase. Maybe Large Engine should reduce transport
> (hitch a lift) by 1 or 2? The 'Wheeled' improvement is good,
> since there's a tradeoff, but Big Wheels and especially
> Large Engine can be a problem.
Hmm... In my first draft I made "No Guns = a REAL transport of 2, plus
the "Hitch a lift" value of 1. I may look into changing that to
Transport (3) with no "Hitch a Lift" option.
Let me contemplate my navel on that for a while
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Received on Mon Nov 10 1997 - 15:48:31 UTC