Re: [Epic] skimmers and avoiding getting shot

From: Tyler Provick <bprovick_at_...>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:05:51 -0500

Neil R. Thomason wrote:

> >Just picture a group of tanks who have been ordered to
> >wait and return fire if any falcons pop-up from behind "that building."
> >If the Falcons don't pop up, the tanks don't fire.
>
> Okay. As an Eldar player, I actually like that idea: "If the Falcons don't
> pop up, the tanks don't fire."
>
> Assume that in a shooting phase of a Marine vs. Eldar battle, the Marines
> get to shoot first. Alternating fire detachment by detachment, a group of
> Land Raiders keeps passing until the very end of the phase; all the Marine
> detachments have fired or elected to pass, and the Eldar player only has a
> single group of Falcons left to pop-up. Since the Eldar is going second,
> once he's finished firing, the phase ends (apart from war engines). Suppose
> the Eldar elects not to fire with the Falcons AT ALL. Phase over; the Land
> Raiders can't fire. They're not war engines, so they can't fire in that
> part of the phase - but the Scorpion Engines hiding behind the next hill
> certainly can!

Sorry, you misunderstand. When you have the initiative they can elect to wait.
You still get to fire, even if the Falcons don't. Now, if you have the
initiative, you can wait with your detachments until he fires. You cannot wait
on empty turns (Someone has to shoot 1 detachment, one player cannot shoot a
detachment while the other guy saves up his detachments for the end. A guy could
take an all skimmer army and decimate people if they could do that)

It's like, you can shoot with whatever detachment you want, so you shoot with
the guardian/ exarch detachment. He shoots with his land raiders (Because he
doesn't see the skimmers waiting behind the hill) and then you start over. Now,
because the people the skimmers are ambushing the LR's, and the LR's have shot,
then it is safe for the skimmers to shoot, even though there is a bunch of
pred's and razorbacks left. Why? Because the only other detachment you have is
another group of skimmers, and they have to wait for the pred's and razors to
shoot.

If you want to wait, then make a leadership test, if you pass, you skip your
shot and add it to the end of the turn. If you fail, you shoot then (or maybe
run away)

Tyler
Received on Fri Nov 14 1997 - 14:05:51 UTC