Re: [Epic] Sm/TL, E40K

From: C.Sinclair <csi_at_...>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:12:03 +0000

At 08:14 AM 2/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Chris Miller wrote:
>
>[whack]
>
and whack again!
Given what Andy has said below, and this is off the top of my head with no
prior thought or consultation, could we not play E40K with SM/TL stats and
cards or SM/TL with E40K sequence of play or some such?
Probably not as both sides scream Heresy! but perhaps worthy of debate?


>
>>if they'd revised the existing system, people would have groused
>> but not quit. Froma gamer's point of view, many people would say they mad a
>> mistake.
>
>I wonder what they could have done. I like suppression being added to
>the
>game, and I like the parts that seem to play faster. Would adding those
>in
>to the old game work? (In other words, make them feel like a real part
>of
>the game, not a hack added in.) I like the chance to shoot midway
>through
>a charge. I'd have been happy for them to make detachments on Charge
>orders
>move one regular move in the movement phase and again in the close
>combat
>phase, allowing First Fire units to whack 'em in between. (Or even to
>move
>the close combat phase after Advanced fire, but that's because I'm not
>that partial to close combat.) I'm sure they could have added new army
>creation rules, but it isn't clear that they could have done that well
>and still have the old army cards come out with the right points. I
>think they needed to fix the problem with initiative, maybe alternating
>detachments during the movement phase.
>
>But the biggest question for me is could it have been made faster?
>Maybe
>abstracting out a bit the rules for declaring targets. To say "this
>detachment
>shoots at that detachment" only really works if the guns have similar
>effects
>(like FP), but I think something maybe could have worked out. With the
>variation
>in to-hit numbers and damage mods, it complicates it. Just one or the
>other,
>and maybe you could use different color dice for each kind of shot, and
>still
>rolled them all as one.
>
>andy
>
>--
>Andy Skinner
>askinner_at_...
>
>

Cheers,
Colin

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