Re: [Epic] SHW's & BlastMarkers - kinda long

From: Thane Morgan <thane_at_...>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 18:55:42 -0700

A. Allen McCarley wrote:
>
> > But a war engine would have the best targeting systems and the most
> > stable weapon mounts around.
>
> In a sensible world, perhaps. However, according to the fluff they seem
> to have the least sophisticated targetting systems. Some melodramitic
> nonsense about, even on huge war machines, once you cram in all those
> big guns and meters thick armor there simply isn't any room left
> for sophisticated targetting systems. Judging from the CJ rules
> for targetting towers I rather got the impression that this lack of
> sophistication is why WE's can't get rerolls.
>
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I got the feeling that the reason the removed titan overwatch was the
fear of 16 dice plus rerolls, or 12 AT shots with rerolls, from one
point on the field. I'm sure they justified it with fluff afterwards.

Thane
Received on Sat Feb 07 1998 - 01:55:42 UTC

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