Sauron1 writes; Mathew;
I for one would appreciate a list of your available
Epic Pictures.
sauron1_at_...
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Although the new movement rates are high they were designed (GW?) to be that
way. It was meant for assault troops to be able to cover the board in one
turn.
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> From: Scott Shupe[SMTP:shupes_at_...]
> Sent: 29 January 1998 19:42
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> Subject: Re: [Epic] Q&A suggestion: (was] Cheddar & Edam)
>
> Miller, Chris wrote:
> >
> [transports in seperate marching detachment]
>
> > --------> I think we could almost all agree that this is rules-lawyering
> > bigtime, but the problem is that by the letter of the rules it's legal.
> > All it would take to fix it is a statement like "a unit leaving a
> > transport has movement remaining which is proprotional to the amount of
> > movement used by the transport. Example: If you move the transport half
> > of its move #, troops inside can move a max of half their movement
> > allowed by their orders, even in the assault phase." Ok, that's a little
> > cumbersome to explain, but anyone who's played SM/TL knows what I'm
> > trying to say. That way, even if the transports are on march, the
> > assault troops aren't gaining this sudden movement burst.
>
> Yeah, the old SM/TL transport rules were much better and
> more intuitive than the E40k rules... but adopting the TL rules
> wholesale doesn't completely fix the problem since there are 2
> movement phases in E40k, not just 1. To use the Swooping Hawk
> example: (I'm not sure how fast falcons are, I'm assuming 20cm
> here)
>
> E40k transport rules:
>
> (60cm - 5cm (transport on march, disembarking troops)) +
> (30cm - 5cm (Hawks in movement phase, disembarking)) +
> (45cm (Hawks charging into CC in assault phase)) = 125cm total.
>
> Proportional movement:
>
> (58cm (transport on march, 1/30th of movement left over)) +
> (1cm (Hawks disembarking)) + (45cm (Hawks charging)) = 104cm total
>
> Not a whole lot of difference.
>
> I guess the solution to that is to carry over the
> percentage of movement left to the disembarking unit into the
> assault phase... i.e. in the example above, the Hawks have 1/30th
> of their movement left in the movement phase, so they would only
> be able to use 1/30th of their movement in the assault phase.
> But now things are getting kinda complicated, especially since
> infantry has a variable movement in the assault phase (depending
> on whether a stand can get into CC or not), as well as a minimum
> movement requirement (the 5cm thing).
>
> Scott Shupe
> shupes_at_... shupes@... http://www.rpi.edu/~shupes
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