Re: [Epic] Titans and upside down eagles

From: Keith Zanardi <xenofobe_at_...>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 02:30:12 -0500 (EST)

At 04:30 PM 2/20/97 +1000, you wrote:
>>>All the orientation of the Imperial Eagles means is that the game
>>>designers didn't communicate with the artists very well.
>>>
>>
>> Orientation of EAGLES? Give me a break. The whole titan bit is CLEARLY
>>meant to
>> go UNDER the Carapace. As for designers, which is easier, change the
>rule, or
>> retool and make the damn things right. GW's response, neither. YOU can
mount
>> your missles upside down but I and quite a few others (some of whom are
>>on this
>> list) think that the current titan missile variants look stupid upside
>>down on
>> the top of the carapace.
>>
>> Keith
>
>One of the problems with the eagles being upside down is that the rules have
>been changed a lot since the original misiles were originally designed. It
>has onlt been relatively recently that there have been much control on where
>you can place what titan weaponry. There were problems with people taking
>very little but misiles on their titans, and in an attempt to quell this
>problem, especially since 1) they are meant to be rare & 2) in a long term
>battle fully misiled tiatns are next to useless, GW said they were carapace
>only. Now yes they do look silly upside down on the carapace, but it is in
>the rules. I wouldn't have a problem with arm mounted misiles as long as
>there were no carapace misiles. I think the sheer numbers of misiles that
>was the problem.


   THANK YOU! I have been saying that for the last couple of years now. It is
  nice to here it come from someone else.

                                   keith
Received on Thu Feb 20 1997 - 07:30:12 UTC