A. Allen McCarley wrote:
>
> > Allen, I remember we had two suggestions for alternatives to the
> > Imperial Guard detachment. I don't remember who suggested either, or
> > what the first one was. The one I liked was allowing the IG detachment
> > to take infantry or Rough Riders as support. It isn't much of a change,
> > but it improves the point cost per unit for the infantry-heavy
> > detachment. Did you send either of these?
>
> I have the simple suggestion you list above. (Was this origianlly your
> suggestion Andy? I seem to recall that it was.)
The idea about putting infantry or RR (were there others?) into the
support list came from somebody who's name began with S, I think. (I
thought it was Sean.) I liked it, but purely from a theoretical point
of view--sorry, no playtesting. I heartily confess to a tendency to
adopt alternate rules because they sound good, rather than after
playtesting. I don't think you should feel bad about not having sent it
to Jervis until you've gotten some thoughts on how it works.
Unfortunately, I haven't had time to think about IG at all. I'm making
myself wait until I've got a lot more painting done for SM and Eldar.
I assume "playtesting" here would mean making lots of detachments and
seeing whether anything breaks what GW was trying to do--disallow lots
of cheap infantry plus tanks. (I think.) Plus whether these
detachments appear to be worth close to their point value.
andy
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Received on Wed Apr 08 1998 - 13:04:25 UTC