Re: [Epic] Plague Towers and Thunderhawks

From: Mark A Shieh <SHODAN+_at_...>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:58:31 -0500 (EST)

Aaron P Teske <Mithramuse+_at_...> writes:
> Caveat: for both questions I'm assuming you're asking aboutEpic (SM/TL),
> not E40K. Since I'm pretty sure that's what the prevoius posters were
> talking about....
>
> > And am I the only person who found Plague Towers to be worhtless heaps
> > of s**t? They had an excellent carrying capacity, but only went as fat
> > as the infantry they carried; if you wanted to get anywhere, you had to
> > go on Charge orders all the time, which meant that the Gunz wouldn't be
> > used. Comments?
>
> Ignore the guns. Put a Great Unclean One in there with a warband
> (Plaguebearers, I faced, usually) and let 'er rip. It'll get the GUO
> into previously unknown territory for the blob, i.e. the other side of
> the map, and actually make his, ah, puke attack useful. Just plop him
> down on an objective, and watch people try to take it away... especially
> useful if it's a forest objective.

        It helped that I was deliberately avoiding the demons with my
warp-based weapons. It seems kind of hard to gauge it's strength in a
normal battle if I just opened up on it with my anti-demon attacks.
However, "Ignore the guns" is a fine tactic with lots of transports.

Mark
Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 22:58:31 UTC