Re: Squat Army WAS Re: [Epic] Knights(Lil' bit off topic)

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 00:52:10 +0100 (MET)

At 11:27 AM 5/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Excerpts from Epic: 4-Feb-98 Squat Army WAS Re: [Epic] K.. by "Sean A.
>Upchurch"_at_alumn
>> Umm, 'cause everyone's complaining. It also helps with the variety and
>> keeps the army from being a bit stale. Sure you'll win every time if you
>> always have solid lines of Overlords backed by Goliaths, but where did the
>> fun go?
>[snip]
>> As someone who has built the EPIC group from myself and 2 buddies to a height
>> of 9 and am currently watching it dwindle down to probably 2 [we have 5 now
>> -- one never shows, one will graduate, one is the Squat] I'm passing this
>> along as a warning/caution. It is *very* easy for the Squat player to get
>> bored and move on to other things. Partly, it the fault of their restrictive
>> lists [in both games] and partly it's the fault of arty heavy armies since
>> they work best when holding ground and rolling dice as much and as fast as
>> possible.
>
>All in all, this story makes me very glad that, when I was playing more,
>I always took at least one infantry company, sometimes two. (And once
>three, come to think of it.) Similarly, once I got the Termites painted
>up, I usually fielded them, and they actually did all right... well,
>pretty much. Still, I tried to field a mixed force instead of
>concentrating on heavy arty and the Guild Bikers, despite what people
>kept telling me to do. And, in spite of a 50/50 record, it was a heck
>of a lot of fun, in all cases.
>
>So, basically, I'm encouraging people -- not just Squats -- to get out &
>try the lesser-used units in your army lists.


We've played over a dozen games where your entire army was chosen randomly.
(We made up a table of all of the Company cards and all of the support cards
and just rolled...)
These games were great!
It is amazing what you can do with a "useless" unit if you haven't any other
choice.

(Of course, this won't work with the 40K heresy 'cause you haven't got the
god old card system, but stuff happens...)


Agro
Received on Fri Feb 06 1998 - 23:52:10 UTC