Re: [Epic] [EPIC] Cheese and diversity

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:56:09 GMT

At 12:06 PM 1/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Eric Larsen wrote:
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>> - Eric (we all dip a little fondue, sometimes) Larsen
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>> p.s. Just so you know, I tend to play fairly large battles - 9,000pt +, and
>> our group (specifically, our chaos players) treat LOBs as command units
>> (because of the rule ambiguities)... in my last big game, it was me
>> (Marine/T.G.) vs. 3 chaos players and I faced 6 of them (command LOB
>> units)!! It wasn't pretty...
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>What ambiquity? The rules say that:
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>"In addition, the Lord of Battles has special rules of its own which
>reflect the fury of its advance. The Lord of Battle must always be given
>charge or advance orders, and must always attempt to move towards the
>enemy."
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>Renegades, page 59
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>The LOB may be a Greater Daemon of Khorne, but it is in no way a Command
>unit. Wish it was, I play Chaos. The only unclear part of the rule for
>me is "must always attempt to move towards the enemy". Just what exactly
>does that mean? Do I have to move my full move (depending on orders)
>towards the nearest enemy, any enemy? Do I have to make "some" amount of
>movement (a cm or two will do) towards the enemy? Is that just fluff
>explaining why the LOB gets Advance or Charge orders instead of being a
>Command unit? Any ideas? I love my two LOB, but they are surely not
>Command units (it seems nothing I have gets to FF, God I hate playing
>the squats).
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>Chad Taylor
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Yeah, I love Chaos and hate Squats too (Well, DER...) but it's too clear to
be ambiguous - although the LOB is a Greater Daemon, he is lesser than the
others in the fact that he alone (until the Plague Tower) requires orders...

Agro
Received on Tue Feb 11 1997 - 11:56:09 UTC