Tu as �crit :
>Are you pulling my leg or do you really not know? There's an
>'official'
>miniatures battles game (25mm scale) with a full line of figures. >The
>rules are very similar to the RPG with some streamlining for battles.
>It's a lot of fun! My jawas captured that AT-ST during an imperial
>raid
>on Jabba the Hutt's palace. Anyway...
WHAT?????!!!!!!! This game has never been seriously marketed in
France!!!! This is really a shame! This means war, destruction, death
for the company which hasn't edited it in France!!! Arg! I don't feel
very well, now... ;o)
>> En effet, I would have seen AT-ST as dreadnought class units,
>> like this :
>> Mvt : 20cm
>> CAF : 4 or 5
>> Armor : 6+
>> Weapons : 1 AT shot
>> Value : 40 or 50 points?
>
>Hm. If it's going to be non-war engine, it should probably have FP
>rather than the AT shot. It is much more effective at close range >vs.
>infantry thanks to the concussion grenades and the medium blasters. >I
>would be tempted to give it 5 or 6FP at 30cm.
You're perfectly right : giving it FPs is closer to the SW unit than an
AT shot.
>Given its size, though
>(about twice the height of a space marine dreadnough) I am still
>leaning
>towards 'small war engine'.
Well, why not after all. It would be a little Warhound then.
>> For infantry, you already gave the stats for the stormtroopers but
>> forget that the main force of the Empire comes from standard
>>imperial
>> soldiers (same stats as the Imperial Guards)... Well, we've got an
>> force supported by a very big cannon fodder army, now I know where
>>GW
>> found its ideas for the W40k Imperium forces. ;o)
>
><grin> Yeah, quite a stretch there... I figure the normal imperials
>are
>exactly the same as 40k Imperial Guard but they would have different
>vehicles. Armored repulsorlift carriers, tracked ground assault
>carriers, floating fortresses, hoverscouts, speeder bikes, etc. The
>Imperial Sourcebook has a full range listed that I may well go to the
>effort of converting. I'm really starting to warm to the crossover
>idea, though I might be boring the heck out of most list members.. >:-)
I don't think it's boring : if the majority of the members find this
off-topic, we can go on off line, but I don't think that this is
off-topic, we are speaking about new units for Epic 40k not about Nazis
or Americans in UK.
>Perhaps the most interesting difference is that overall Star Wars
>shielding technology is much better, but doesn't seem prevalent on
>ground units. Cities and planets have shields and so do ships and
>fighters (except for the standard TIEs). You think Thunderhawks are
>tough? Try shooting down an X-Wing with a Save ability!
SW shields must require lot of energy so it is difficult to adapt them
to ground units which are far less powerfull than the space ones.
>> Do you think that the micro-machine figs could represent imperial
>> such as AT-AT?
>
>From what I've seen - ABSOLUTELY! The Jawa Sand Crawler is the
>PERFECT
>scale, so I imagine others in the range would work fine too. Krass'
>report of that Epic scale Airfix kit has me excited.
All this is REALLY very interesting in fact! ;o)
Francois Bruntz
Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
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