Re: [Epic] Blast Markers and WD216

From: TheOgre <roofekiz_at_...>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:34:04 -0000

Yes IMHO it seems to mean that U require 3 BP's upon each weapon to shut it
down...

Ouch!!

Laterz

Jules
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From: Chris Pinson <chrisp_at_...>
To: 'space-marine_at_...' <space-marine@...>
Date: 25 November 1997 01:52
Subject: [Epic] Blast Markers and WD216


>Hiya,
>
>I read it as follows ...
>
>consider a battery of 3 Heavy artillery(Imperial Guard)
>
>If they fire and can fit 3 models under the blast template then they can
>make a 9 FP attack.
>
>Now then, If there is a blast marker on the detachment they can only fire
>with 2 of the weapons hence giving a 6 FP attack. If there are 2 blast
>markers then the attack is 3 FP and so on.
>
>What I got from that paragraph follows.
>
>Each Blast Marker on a detachment will neutralise one Super Heavy weapon
>REGARDLESS of what that weapon's effect is. For example a Warlord titan
>armed with 2 weapon batteries, a mega cannon and a vortex missle. If this
>titans closest target is 75 cm away and has a blast marker on it then it
>may not fire it's vortex missile since it counts as a super heavy weapon.
>
>Any of the weapons listed as super heavy weapons in the rulebook (can't
>remember the page number) are shut down by a single blast marker. The
>Pulsar counts as a single super heavy weapon.
>
>Interestingly enough, the Imperator has it's main weapons listed as ..
>Hellstorm Cannon (3x Mega Cannon) and Plasma Anihillator (3x Death Ray). To
>me, this suggests that these require 3 blast markers each to shut them
>down.
>
>Any thoughts ????
>
>Cheers, Chris.
>
>
>
>> "ARTILLERY AND BLAST MARKERS
>> BM's affect Artillery in the same way that they affect SHW's.
>>Barrage Weapons are still SHW's, even if they are artillery. This means
>>that artillery lose a shot for each BM on the det, not just a point of
>>FP from the total- so a few BM's are going to cut down your artillery's
>>effectiveness very quickly."
>
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 25 1997 - 16:34:04 UTC