RE: [Epic] Uncheesy detachments

From: Miller, Chris <CMiller_at_...>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:10:28 -0600

> > here I just didn't see them as much. Maybe it was the way things
> were
> > grouped - I really think having to buy a company card controlled a
> lot
> > of this abuse as if I had a spare 300 points I couldn't just add in
> 5
> > more deathstrikes - I had to find a slot for them and buy them in
> groups
> > of 3.
>
> True. OTOH, there is no detriment to taking companies
> (just the opposite really), and the folks around me at least
> would take armies that 80-100% of which were companies... so
> fitting in lots of powerful support units was never a problem.
> So in my experience anyway, you'd be right but people never
> took a lot of support units anyway and so had plenty of room
> for the powerful or underpriced ones.
>
        ---------> Yeah, I was hoping for some expanded company types
like an "Ogryn company" or the 'Force Surfers" (all wave-serpent
transported) or the "Mechanized" orks other than Evil sunz but other
than a few items in CJ there wasn't much. You could always make up your
own, but it makes it hard to use with strangers- easier if you can pull
out a book/magazine and point to a page. Lacking those, we took all
kinds of support cards just to work in the cooler units. Usually we'd
end up with just one company with an empty slot or two, depending on
points.
> Also, there are cheesy companies, upon which there are
> zero restrictions... the titan BGs come to mind here. It's
> pretty damn silly when a single warlord costs you 900 points
> and a special slot while THREE warlords costs you 1500 points
> and GIVES you a special slot (and 5 more support slots). Some
> would stick the Wind Rider Host in this category as well, but
> ever since TL allowed you to shoot at them in CC I think their
> value plummeted tremendously.
>
        ----> BG's are great when everyone has them, but if you only
have 1 titan, you're going to get screwed. Get 'em in threes. Wind
riders dropped considerably in everyone's eyes once we figured that out.
Eldar was still hell on Chaos, but not the way they once were. A unit
which had been considered a little underpriced was suddenly seen as
maybe overpriced...
> > > > I like the flexibilty of the new
> > > > system but it's certainly open to abuse.
> > >
> > > As was the old system.
> > >
> > --------> Still don't think it's as "twistable" as the old one...
>
> Ah, I didn't realize we were talking degrees... =)
>
> Scott Shupe
>
---------Hey with GW products, ain't we always talkin' degrees...like
"how many house rules you use", or "how compatible are older mini's and
newer rulesets", or "cheese", or "number of broken units", or "how bad
is the battle report this month..."?

Chris Miller
Received on Mon Feb 09 1998 - 18:10:28 UTC