Scott Shupe wrote:
>
> Aaron P Teske wrote:
> >
> > Excerpts from Epic: 11-Mar-98 Re: [Epic] Re: trivia quiz .. by Scott
> > Shupe_at_...
> > > > For worst army choice I think the award goes to the
> > > > Imperial commander facing the tyranids in their "showcase" report - I
> > > > mean, you know you're going to lose, but did you have to make it _that_
> > > > easy?
> > >
> > > I think I laughed out loud when I saw what the IG player
> > > selected. Never has there been an army more designed to lose to
> > > the nids... (well, aside from the tac company, but tread-head
> > > never did anything with them so they don't count)
> >
> [snip]
> > Though you're right, taking Knight *detachments* against 'nids (I think
> > he did, anyway) is a good way to cough up VPs. Even the companies won't
> > do so well, though they have a chance of pinning a Dom... maybe....
>
> Oh, Pickstock's foolishness did not end there... his army
> included (IIRC) a Lancer det, a Paladin household, a Baron, a
> REAVER battlegroup ("What are Doms great at killing, kids?" "TITANS
> WITH LITTLE OR NO SHIELDS!" "What do the bugs gets lots of VPs
> for?" "KILLING TITANS!"), and Leman Russ company (Lemans being a
> waste of points in SM/TL), an IG tac company and an Inquisitor.
> Talk about a sham battle.
>
> Scott Shupe
> shupes_at_... shupes@... http://www.rpi.edu/~shupes
> ***********************************************************************> "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!"
My favorite flop was a marines/ork battle where the ork player first
expounded about the virtues of keeping orks in one or two big groups,
then deployed in a thin line across his edge (and lost.)
Thane
Received on Thu Mar 12 1998 - 01:10:48 UTC